With the state of California wracked by long-standing budget issues, there is wide acceptance that the death penalty system needs reform.

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U.S. Bank is finding wide acceptance across several demographics, said Benjamin.

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Nonetheless, the idea that carbon dioxide spewed by the world's industries is causing more heat to be trapped in the atmosphere (the "greenhouse effect") has found wide acceptance.

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The difficulty, of course, is industry-wide acceptance and adoption.

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The company will also put Googles glasses, a new form factor for computing devices, in the hands of consumers but those devices will be seen as overly geeky and fail to gain wide acceptance outside tech circles.

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Should RDRAM never gain the wide acceptance the company had hoped for, Rambus' patent claims are an attempt to ensure the company gets a piece of the action through royalty payments, no matter what type of memory takes hold, whether SDRAM, DDR or its preferred RDRAM.

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There is still a wide public acceptance of allowing NHL players the ability to continue to tee off on each other during games.

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Both companies support industry-wide adoption of the high-speed specification, which would facilitate faster acceptance of toggle DDR memory with hardware engineers and application designers.

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