Irving Mann has been in business long enough to be skeptical of out-of-the-blue offers that seem too good to be true.
Thus, the common idea that the Web is crammed full of videos that become serendipitously popular out of the blue turns out to be something of a fairy tale.
Yet, on the other hand, they must also be ready for the mayhem that could ensue if, out of the blue, some radical (disruptive) technology were suddenly to rewrite the rules and render their company irrelevant.
"The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn't expect anything out of it, " he added.
This was to be the first of many times, whether they be Independence Days, Memorial Days, or just random occasions where, out of the blue, the visions of the war would come rushing back.
What we were interested in doing back in those early days of human molecular genetics was just trying to find out some basic information about inherited variation in our DNA. And it was purely by accident in those studies that we generated, totally out of the blue, what proved to be the very first DNA fingerprint.
"It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, " he recalls: A franchise system would be a way to maintain standards and improve the supply chain.
But it turned out to be deeper than we knew or most of the econometric models showed, most of the blue chip estimates.
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And we believe, and so does most of the blue chip consensus reports out there, that this growth is going to be sustained at that 3 percent-plus range for the indefinite future.
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"We could be talking about a team not making the playoffs and missing out on millions of dollars in playoff gates, " Howson, the Blue Jackets' general manager, wrote on his blog on Feb. 2.
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