In many ways this is why Relativity is looking to television to extend the value of its movies.

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This is beneficial for both consumers and commercial users who want to extend the value of their TecTile tags while retaining the secure option to lock a TecTile.

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More importantly, I think mods are an important, inexpensive way developers and publishers can extend the life and value of their games for users.

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The line must be drawn also between innovations that add value and extend life from technologies that are ecologically more expensive to produce than their actual added values to human living.

UNESCO: THEMES

Jagdish Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia University, wants developing countries everywhere to extend their powers to tax their expatriates, in order to reclaim some of the value created abroad by highly skilled emigrants.

ECONOMIST: Emigration

In a boom, rising property prices increase the value of the collateral held by banks, which makes them more willing to extend credit.

ECONOMIST: Bricks and slaughter

"We extend an open invitation to all post-secondary institutions that care about sharing knowledge as a core value of education to join us in planning these sustainable learning futures, " said Dr Robin Day, Chair of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The Federal Reserve Bank will extend its Operation Twist program, a bond buying program that forces interest rates to historic lows and weakens the value of the dollar.

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