Then there are those, the enlightened few, who have held onto their older devices until they become retro-cool.
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One, the enlightened world we inhabit is a result of 200-plus years of growth, starting with the Industrial Revolution.
Downsizing and corporate restructuring hit hard at the enlightened benevolence of weak firms.
In Kenya the government took the enlightened approach of allowing M-PESA to go ahead, rather than tying Safaricom in red tape.
But that does not fully discharge the enlightened company's debt to society.
General counsels, at least the enlightened ones, are fed up.
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"Some other countries do not have the enlightened, bold leadership to take them in this direction, " says Henry Azzam, the CEO of Jordinvest, a regional bank based in Jordan.
Sadly, the enlightened aspects of hip hop are overlooked by critics who are out to satisfy a grudge against black youth culture and are too angry or self-righteous to listen and learn.
But as a conservative Republican, and as a non-leftist woman, Bachmann - like the Sarah Palin - has no right to expect tolerance for her family's privacy from the enlightened, feminist, liberal media.
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Diminishing social mobility, the cult of the celebrity society, the decline in serious learning, the increasing disregard for empiricism and social attitudes verging on valuephobia threaten to cast a shadow on the enlightened western liberalism which has taken us so far.
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"It is paradoxical that Europeans see themselves as the most enlightened policy makers in the world, " he added.
Some of the more enlightened ones are addressing the challenge of reaching out to the growing share of the electorate that's made up of minorities.
In fact, penal reformers point to the Woolf Report of 1991 as the most enlightened blueprint for improving the prison system presented to any post-war government.
Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.
Any serious peace effort will confront Sri Lanka's leaders with questions that would stump even the most enlightened statesman.
Well, it seems someone at the IRS has become enlightened and the long awaited simplifications to the various rules which govern home office deductibles have now been released.
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The separation of church and state is one of the most enlightened aspects of our constitutional principles and has a duel purpose, both of which are extremely important.
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On October 18, 2005, Geithner provided the standard, enlightened view on alternative investment funds, while serving as President of the Federal reserve Bank of New York.
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The phrase "enlightened self-interest" has been used repeatedly by administration officials this week in describing the role of business.
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Unease on this score can only be intensified by the behavior of the preferred candidates for such enlightened control, namely the fearmongering and hints of "nuclear blackmail" by Mikhail Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.
But with costs under pressure in most companies, the most able and enlightened professionals aren't just looking at the number on the paycheck or the model of company car.
Contrary to the view of prison as a deterrent and a way of keeping criminals off the streets, almost all enlightened opinion now concurs in the following.
The finance ministry has been less enlightened about deregulation than the health and welfare ministry.
Even in the kinder, enlightened Britain of Mr Brown, some things will remain unforgiven.
But it's a different story in the otherwise more enlightened world of pop, says All About Eve bass guitarist and lead singer Julianne Regan, where gender stereotyping still holds sway.
It exemplifies the core of enlightened sustainability, long-term self-interest.
It is disappointing to see The Economist confusing possible enlightened despotism, which we in Pakistan might not mind at all, with the more-of-the-same despotic self-interest that we know all too well.
According to these scholars, the deathlike grip guilds had held on innovation ended once enlightened individuals of the period educated society about the marvels of technology, and with this realisation, human history was changed forever.
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