At the bottom, the telecommunications vertical still scores relatively well at 17 percent improvement in sales per employee.

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Conine believes there still is no vertical brand like a Zappos or Diapers.com, particularly online sales of home goods.

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The 3-axis Photo Image Stabilization mechanically compensates for rotary shift as well as horizontal and vertical angular shift to further enhance still images and eliminate blur.

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She added that Yahoo is still working to standardize reporting among vertical content areas, like sports and shopping.

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Though the process of expansion is still in the earliest stages, they envision each vertical residing in one app.

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Britain's previous (Conservative) government stopped him from doing so because it was worried about vertical integration, and Stephen Littlechild, the electricity regulator, is still concerned about a lack of competition.

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Cutting out the sometimes distracting glare of glossy displays, the matte screen is still sufficiently bright and horizontal viewing angles continue to be better than vertical ones.

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While it's still not possible to walk into your local Chevy dealer and fly out with a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Camaro that drives through all three dimensions, there are engineers across the world dedicating their lives to making the dream possible.

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The Bush Administration has a sluggish, low-key missile defense effort under way: a limited ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California, which won't be much of a deterrent in today's world, and a still underdeveloped sea-based system modeled on the U.S. Navy's Aegis vertical launch system.

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