Longer hours work to the advantage of the most efficient shops, normally the larger ones, drawing sales away from smaller stores.
Also joining this band of worthwhile purchases are newcomers such as digital radios and shredders, where the cost and usage work out to the advantage of the buyer.
Once we turn that corner, the energy-environment trade-off will start to work to our advantage, and possibly to the advantage of the whole world if we can develop low- or no-carbon energy technologies that can compete with cheap fossil fuels.
Just as consumers are driving the demand, employees are choosing to work in the field, leaving companies with little choice but to take advantage of every opportunity in the marketplace, said Bill Peppler with staffing firm Kavaliro.
The real lesson to be drawn from Xerox PARC is that large corporations should aggressively pursue breakthrough invention and work to improve their ability to take advantage of the fruits of those efforts.
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Some 94, 000 Koreans, mostly descendants of those taken forcibly to Japan during the second world war to work in mines and factories, also took advantage of the scheme.
For many, the best solutions are those that enable workers to blend their work lives and their home lives and to take advantage of both the home and office (or other places) as settings for different kinds of work at different times of the day and the week.
The pint-sized Welsh winger still had a lot of work to do, but he again took advantage of poor tackling to weave himself through the Worcester defence to cross for his side's third converted try of the half.
The work was originally planned for January but had to be brought forward to take advantage of the current feed-in tariffs.
Paradoxically, however, companies' loss of control of the news can work to their advantage because the investing and consuming publics seem to move on faster than traditional media.
United were now carving out a succession of chances, with Ronaldo failing to take advantage of good work by Tevez and the Argentine shooting wide after cutting in from the left.
He took only three minutes to settle the nerves around a noisy Stamford Bridge, taking advantage of good work by Valencia old boy Juan Mata to roll a left-foot finish beyond Diego Alves.
If it delays action for too long, it runs the even-greater risk of being left behind by competitors that have succeeded in making the technology work to their advantage.
The simple use of typography and colors can work to your advantage.
Flexible Spending Accounts: If you have this benefit at work, make sure you take advantage of the pretax benefits to use to pay medical deductibles or other qualifying expenses.
Mayer says the reservoir of goodwill Gibson has amassed will also work to his advantage.
In particular, hospital doctors took advantage of the option to stay on in work after they reached 65, or at least that was their stated wish.
Personnel using Windows Phone 7 devices are able to take advantage of Office Mobile to work with Office documents right out of the box, but an official Microsoft Office application is notably missing for other widely adopted platforms such as the iPad.
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And not all implants allow several sites to be stimulated at once, so if the technique does work, many people will need to replace their implants to take advantage of it.
So sustaining the recovery means taking advantage of better conditions to do some urgent repair work.
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Hayter took advantage of good work from Billy Sharp just before the quarter-hour to break the deadlock by side-footing home past Luke Steele.
Verizon Wireless has opened an innovation lab to work with software developers so there will be many new applications that take advantage of the new broadband capabilities at system launch.
My most successful clients at Stratus Prep are those who start early and take advantage of this time to work closely with their counselor and me long before the MBA deadlines are looming in the fall.
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Some confused parents erroneously file for benefits they are not entitled to, while others, overwhelmed by the complexity, may fail to take advantage of tax incentives designed to encourage work or schooling.
Just outside on Fifth Avenue, friends Jason Campbell, 25, Jamel Pearson, 23, and Darnell Barclift, 22, came together to take advantage of the limited time offers, but to also visit friends who work in the retail shops that line the way.
We've got a quick-hit list of titles that have been updated to take advantage of the tall display and new OS that go beyond Apple's own work.
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This has the added advantage of making it impossible for bosses or colleagues to leave you verbal instructions about work assignments.
Employers happily took advantage of the assumption that female college graduates would work for only a few years before retiring to domesticity.
Yet until we lift the stigma and penalty attached to flexible work arrangements, we can anticipate that workers will be wary of taking advantage of them.
Our objective is to use technology to take advantage of the fact that distance between learners sometimes provides opportunities for learning that would never work as well in a traditional classroom.
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