Are they rendering valuable services or are they soaking up precious time and resources?
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These decisions will provide businesses with a unique competitive advantage while providing their customers with new and valuable services.
Often they do sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs.
But to stay relevant, the pay phone of the future needs to offer valuable services at all times, not just during emergencies.
But suppose the government made these valuable services available only to prospective plaintiffs that paid a small fee when the contract was signed?
Similarly flawed is the notion of exemption from all taxes simply because charitable organizations provide some measure of valuable services to the public.
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Smaller banks will either lose customer accounts to larger banks or lose revenue that is used to support free checking and other valuable services.
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Shutterfly offers the amateur photog valuable services, chief among them the ability to store an unlimited number of images in full resolution for free.
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They are making an effort to perform valuable services to society.
You have easy visibility and access, with very, very little capital, to even the most powerful technological platforms on the planet, where you can assemble very inexpensive but very powerful information tools to create extraordinarily valuable services.
While many of these sites provide taxpayers with valuable services and information, this proliferation of separate websites creates unnecessary confusion and inefficiency, wastes taxpayer dollars, and makes it difficult for the public to find important government information and resources.
By listing some of Wal-Mart's ever-multiplying faults, you have at least performed two valuable services: reminding those of us with a conscience why we never shop there and reminding your non-American readers that America's growing discontent with Wal-Mart indicates that they are not quite the ravenous consumer zombies of popular belief.
Last winter Congress approved auctions to encourage over-the-air TV broadcasters to transfer underused spectrum to more valuable modern services, such as mobile data networks.
Watson suggested in a brief conversation that their first use may be in providing highly valuable regulation services (requiring near instantaneous ramp up and ramp down that balance the grid within short timeframes).
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Normally the success of a company hinges on its ability to provide valuable products or services to consumers.
These schemes reduce the amount of valuable goods and services available for society.
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While Americans are struggling to make ends meet during these tough economic times, a return to reasonably priced gasoline would certainly help Americans reduce their monthly expenses without sacrificing valuable goods and services.
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The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus.
In the rambunctious popular press, however, he is portrayed as a nuisance whose presence in Britain will burden the taxpayer and waste the security services' valuable time in surveillance.
The term refers to goods and services becoming more valuable as more people use them.
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Simply put, Monitor thought its services were more valuable than most customers did.
The SBA would continue to provide its valuable loan programs and other services to small businesses that are likely to remain so.
Whereas in the 1990s, Web companies shelled out tens of millions of dollars on advertising to find users, today's social media leaders like LinkedIn acquire new users through network effects -- their services become more valuable to users when their friends sign up.
Remember, unsolicited donated goods such as used clothing, miscellaneous household items, and mixed or perishable foodstuffs require helping agencies to redirect valuable resources away from providing services to sort, package, transport, warehouse, and distribute items that may not meet the needs of disaster survivors.
This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.
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Should local authorities or government bodies be obliged to assess in a more rigorous way the financial strength of care home operators and other providers off essential services, before placing valuable contracts with them?
The plan would transition Medicare from a defined-benefit system, in which the government is on the hook for whatever services seniors desire, to a defined-contribution system, in which the government pays out a dollar amount for health services, growing with inflation, incentivizing all participants in the system to prioritize health spending to those services that are most valuable.
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As search evolves from links into answers, services like Siri become highly valuable.
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Bidders consider the swath of spectrum, which could be used for mobile television or advanced data services for cellphones, so valuable that some have assembled war rooms to plot their strategy.
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