Their work is influenced by politics and patrons, regional assumptions and religious beliefs, all of which jostles with the science in determining what a map looks like and what it is used for.
Investors lock in their money for ten years, and do not hear much about what it is being used for or how it is performing until the fruits are harvested.
In general, it can probably be said that the conservative does not object to coercion or arbitrary power so long as it is used for what he regards as the right purposes.
Whether that money -- you know, whether that money is used for bonuses, whether that money is used to recoup what the taxpayers lent, it's all that same group of money, and I think what you see people that want to defend big banks say just certainly doesn't make any sense.
But our ability to almost unilaterally determine what course of action we follow, whether it's for a financial problem or for a military problem, is not what it used to be.
It will be watched in the coming months and compared with the RPI, but it is not clear what the RPIJ will be used for, if anything.
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And although the court said that firms will not be held responsible if they discover only after launching a product that it is being used for illegitimate ends, there is considerable scope for interpretation over what may constitute encouraging copyright piracy.
What is more likely at play here is EA is not making the returns it desires for the resources being used.
Clearly, brand leadership at the highest levels and for the leading brands is not what it used to be.
Turning to the content of common sense further exposes what it is and weakens the case that it can be used as ground for policy prescriptions.
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Helping CIOs to manage devices is what it used to do but now it offers device management for Apple and Android devices as well as its own.
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There has to be a reason for what colour is where and why it's used.
The amount of feed used for growing salmon is 44% of what it was in 1972.
An interesting viewpoint from Sergey Brin over on The Guardian today on the changing internet and what it means for the free flow of information and how it is used online.
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The decision to use one or the other will depend on the amount of the valuation difference, for what purpose it will be used, and how willing the client is to fight if necessary.
But even for those who have been around longer, launching Facebook games is not what it used to be.
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Sentiment analysis is a commonly used tool for measuring what people are saying about a particular company or brand, but it has issues.
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