Hong Kong, for its part, has stepped up efforts to germinate an infotech industry.

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This allows seedlings from other species, not susceptible to the pathogens, to germinate without competition.

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Innovation that will only germinate when we embrace a shift in perspective towards the power of allowing ourselves to be vulnerable.

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Deep chewing of plant roots, paired with the repeated soil chipping of hooves, caused dormant seeds to germinate and water to penetrate below the surface.

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By allowing engineers to devote 20 percent of their paid work time to the pursuit of personal projects, Google continues to germinate additional seeds that keep its harvest growing.

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This requires that the skin's integrity be breached, in other words, there has to be a cut, a scratch or a lesion on the skin for these spores to germinate.

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And he roams the badlands of the central Australian bush, where the red gums wait for the river to flood before releasing their seeds to be carried away and germinate downstream.

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Bottom-line: This environment is crucial for cultivating an ecosystem to create infrastructural support for startups and aspiring treps and small businesses so that serious business ideas germinate into value-producing engines of growth.

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's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).

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