It is mundane stuff--yet it has let HP double its stock price in 23 months.
Christmas is the most popular of English festivals, and yet it has produced astonishingly little literature.
Yet it has always insisted, rightly, that the two should settle their differences peacefully.
Yet it has not attracted the excitement among investors and the media that its rallies usually generate.
The strategy does not pull the tax code up by its roots, yet it has profound implications.
Yet it has proved utterly incapable of protecting the tea estates or the people who work on them.
Yet it has taken the government more than a decade to come up with a policy on care.
Yet it has been involved in most American military actions, and its staff are subject to military law.
Ericsson, yet it has struggled to establish a presence in the U.S. market.
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Worshipping deities would seem to be an irrational and wasteful habit, yet it has been found in all cultures.
Yet it has grown slowly but steadily over the years, gaining market share.
Yet it has nurtured relatively few big tech companies and no huge ones.
It appears that ServiceMagic is trying to bring more contractors into its system, yet it has proven detrimental to margins.
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Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, may be of noble extraction--yet it has a complicated parentage.
The island of Gaua, part of Vanuatu in the Pacific, is just 13 miles across, yet it has five distinct native languages.
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Yet it has proved a perennial source of acrimony, and not just because so much of it is misspent (see article).
Yet it has offered no original ideas nor taken any public initiative.
And yet it has attracted criticism from every point of the spectrum.
Yet it has not given up its claim to vast tracts of ocean there and the resources that are presumed to lie under them.
Yet it has always been with the city's mayor, not the chief of the county's board of supervisors, that presidents come to talk.
Yet it has stood by Kobe Bryant (rape allegations), Manny Pacquiao (gay slurring), Ben Roethlisberger (allegations of sexual misconduct) and, of course, Tiger Woods for personal stupidity.
The FDA, meanwhile, would have to prove that a supplement is unsafe before yanking it off the market, yet it has no authority to test nutritional supplements.
It provides quite a poor service to financial analysts and journalists, yet it has put a good deal of effort into its public-facing YouTube and Twitter channels.
Yet it has been London's landmark traffic congestion scheme which has garnered most headlines and which is now being watched closely by other cities around the world.
The government argues that it needs to raise tax rates, yet it has done little to nothing to rein in spending, waste and fraud in its own ranks.
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The company changed its fiscal year end from December to November, yet it has actually expanded revenue 7% in the five month period compared to the six-month period a year ago.
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Yet it has one incontestably beneficial attribute: It requires the physician to study the true cost and benefits of a course of action, and then to present that data to the patient.
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