Put simply, a lack of innovative thinking is the precursor to a brand in decline.
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The slide of 1994 was a precursor of nothing -- just momentarily higher interest rates.
And 1998 is a precursor of nothing other than an acceptance of a moderate slowdown.
As a precursor to privatisation, both banks felt they had to start paying dividends again.
Patent litigation has become a necessary, and expensive, precursor to the release of new generic drugs.
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The League of Nations, precursor to the UN, was created after World War I.
In the 1970s many people wrote off the precursor to the World Trade Organisation.
The extreme weather the world is seeing now is a precursor to more, he said.
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One of his first successes: IBM's Model B electric typewriter (a precursor to the Selectric).
Its precursor, molecules of lactic acid, exists in two forms, so-called left-handed and right-handed versions.
Few anywhere felt the document to be the precursor to a more democratic Europe.
This is a precursor to the jacked-up Ebay pricing that will come November 18.
The treaty lists the agents and precursor chemicals that will be subject to control.
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Wealth here has always come as a consequence of survival, never as a precursor to it.
They were the precursor for the rest of the real estate derivatives developed to date.
SCID, for example, bone-marrow precursor cells can be removed, treated and then injected back into place.
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That was just the precursor to an even greater year of unprecedented success for this little-known school.
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The intellectual precursor of Dr Kleinberg's method is the citation index, long used in the academic world.
The team proposed that a precursor to that cellular pump evolved in the membranes of the proto-cells.
This suggests that the individual satellites are pieces of a few precursor bodies that have been shattered.
For over 30 years, levodopa, the chemical precursor of dopamine, has been the primary medication for PD patients.
This would be a difficult time consuming, contentious and potentially expensive precursor to the main event, the referendum.
The Mars Science Laboratory is a precursor mission to sharper technology that could do life detection, Grotzinger said.
Last year, MOMA presented an Andy Warhol exhibition, which felt like a natural precursor to the Kraftwerk shows.
Scott Cleland tracks the technology and telecom sectors as CEO of an independent investment research firm called Precursor.
Supplements of beta-carotene, which is a precursor of the antioxidant vitamin A, should be used with caution, however.
Hence, these stock market gains may be a precursor to a rebound in economic growth in early-mid 2013.
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Myanmar acceded to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, usually a precursor to full ASEAN membership.
The market also offers mento music, the mostly acoustic precursor to reggae that was practically invented in Port Antonio.
And Australia and South Africa had even started building precursor facilities which they hoped would enhance their bids' attractiveness.
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