Market leaders invest the time to find local partners that are strategically aligned and transparent about their operations, with specific market advantages.

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Allowing doctors and lawyers to look after their own, albeit with some oversight, has advantages.

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Yet even with their present limitations, flexible screens have some important advantages over LCDs.

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Far from being inflexible, he was quick to change his mind about issues such as code-sharing and even deregulation (both of which he initially denounced with a torrent of expletives) once he saw their advantages.

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As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard.

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Faced with such pressures, more doctors may conclude that the advantages of charges outweigh their undoubted drawbacks.

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They have, he points out, many advantages over fixed-line operators with stronger brands and a closer relationship with their customers.

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If your personal life choices happen to line up with the interests of the beltway power brokers and their well-connected friends, you get the unfair advantages.

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More commonly, new approaches have advantages and disadvantages compared with the current standard of care and provide more options to patients and their physicians.

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