Typically, these are motivated by a conspicuous success, a development program that was driven by the strength of beautiful molecular data, and the canonical example these days is PCSK9, a target which seems to feature an almost unprecedented alignment of human genetics, biomarker, and animal model data.
The fiscal and economic challenges are conspicuous: a substantial and intractable gap between public spending and tax revenues in the US at a time of anaemic economic growth.
The problem with these and other proposals has been a conspicuous lack of evidence regarding which, if any of them is a good description of reality.
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You will be required to post a notice for 10 business days in a conspicuous place at the job site listing the offered wage and your intention to hire a H-1B worker.
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George Clooney's entire collection of suits may be less expensive than Lil Jon's chain, but the latter certainly comes with its perks--it's safe to say that a 5-pound "Crunk Ain't Dead" pendant is a bit too conspicuous to be lost at a coat check.
Mr Major, who preaches the equal opportunities for which his own life is a conspicuous advertisement, has far to go if ever he is to impose that vision on a deeply conservative country.
There is even a correction going on in conspicuous consumption: Net-a-porter, a pricey website, offers to deliver designer outfits to its customers in brown paper bags.
But the stake was a conspicuous, and at times volatile, item in Goldman's quarterly results.
In fact, they have remained surprisingly conspicuous, becoming a kind of secular scripture for the aid fraternity.
Luck will be young and vibrant and Indianapolis will shower him with a conspicuous amount of money.
One former executive, onetime NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, has been a conspicuous embarrassment.
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People are looking for bargains and appear to be less interested in conspicuous consumption as a source for personal gratification.
At the same meeting, he said a conspicuous lack of participation by Hasidic residents in the district made their preference clear.
With the conspicuous lack of a dying format to explain, this has got to be more optimistic than last year's HD DVD funeral, right?
When they are together, he displays a conspicuous affection for her.
Last month, it published a consultation document on devolving corporation tax to Holyrood, but with a conspicuous lack of any reckoning on its likely or possible impact.
It's the WGR614, and it bears the same metallic silver casing of many other Netgear products, but there's also a conspicuous black antenna rising from the back.
Yet the very enormity of this contention underscores a conspicuous omission in the communications strategies pursued by both Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1), on its end, and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) on theirs.
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For one, she had a real reason to fear that she could be indicted: Starr had made a conspicuous point of building his case without her, collecting evidence piece by piece from her friends, fellow interns, her mother, now even the Secret Service, that could turn her denials to powder.
Maria, it was not a thrilling match it was played at roughly three-quarters speed, sometimes far less than that. (Exhibition tennis is a little like airline food: sufficient when trapped with limited options, but no comparison to an authentic meal.) Roddick won 7-5, 7-6, a meaningless but still conspicuous result, as Federer owns a 21-2 lifetime record when the stakes are real.
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The draft however, is not a merit badge handed out for conspicuous college performance, it is a projection as to how a player will perform over the next ten years.
He had exchanged words and a very conspicuous looking envelope with the head inspector.
At a deeper level, though, the ad-hoc targeting of a few conspicuous culprits makes no noticeable difference to the way the country works.
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Next year Harrah's will play a more conspicuous role, moving the event to the Rio, which has conference rooms big enough to handle three times as many spectators and players.
Branded badges as virtual symbols of conspicuous consumption can be a strong check-in incentive in the short term among the early adopters, but they will probably have about the same shelf life and the breadth of appeal as a corporate island in Second Life.
"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
Way back in 1899, influential Norwegian-American sociologist Thorsten Veblen dismissed fashion as part of a trend of conspicuous consumption.
As Acpo's roads chief, Hughes had argued in favour of "less conspicuous" speed cameras as a way of slowing down traffic.
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