In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.
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Barry Bonds at his best was a kind of walking thought experiment.
That process requires a very different kind of thought process and one which I developed as a child when I discovered puzzle boxes in Chinatown in San Francisco.
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Weather of a slightly more familiar kind is thought to exist on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system to have a thick atmosphere.
But after all, the match was merely a demonstration, albeit a first-of-its-kind demonstration, of a computer's ability to simulate human thought and reason.
You needed a certain kind of desperation, she thought, to wander into the type of trap Lidochka had entered.
What if there really is no digital economy for the kind of reporting generally thought vital to the functioning of a democracy?
This week's abandonment of the fuel-tax escalator did not represent a shift to a fully thought-through new approach to transport taxation of the kind advocated by Mr Begg.
And people thought it was a kind of institution-wide problem.
Social media can now allow us to measure that kind of thought leadership in a more quantitative way, whether the candidate is going to be in marketing or engineering or in one of the C-Level offices.
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My wife, yesterday, told me that it was a shock because once my brigade combat team had redeployed from Iraq, she thought we were kind of done with losses for a while and then losing Sattar was like losing a member of my brigade.
She had thought that she was attending a kind of boot camp for new Sea Org members, and was surprised to see veterans like Davis.
As one of his crew later wrote, Turner didn't have a storm jib (a kind of sail) on board and at one point thought his mast had snapped.
Magazines have traditionally thought of themselves as kind of a locked book, of a complete, discreet object.
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Memories are not held in their entirety in the brain like old movie clips, but are maintained as a kind of chemical residue of the original perception, which could be thought of as a hash value or remainder, but not a one-way algorithm at all.
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That amplifier puts out some very clean sound when paired with non-powered speakers, but this is the kind of setup intended for audiophiles looking for a simple secondary system -- exactly the kind of listener who cringes at the thought of lossy, compressed streaming audio.
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The mass suspension, thought to be the largest of its kind, follows a grand jury report issued last month by the Philadelphia district attorney's office.
Over this - you know, I thought that, you know, unlike a lot of horses who kind of had hyped in recent years that Barbaro was the real thing and that we were really about to see something extraordinary happen at Pimlico.
Asked whether he thought some bankers would use Davos only as a lobbying tool against the kind of banking regulation favored by Sarkozy, Schwab remained positive.
Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.
So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.
Many in the firm wanted to slither out of the agreement, but Mr Weinberg thought that would send the worst kind of signal: that Goldman might let a client down.
Ms. MURRAY: When my husband I went out to dinner, I had the thought that we were supposed to adopt from Russia, and kind of having a conversation with myself, saying, no, you know, it's expensive, I--you know, we want a baby and what have you.
The US has been kind of sluggish and Europe has their issues, but I thought that the companies might be a little bit more upbeat, just in terms of their own prospects for growth.
The butcher had been a good man, friendly to her mother, always offering a kind word and picking out the best cuts for her, but his wife had been mean and silent as she took the money, and sometimes she had kept it a little longer in her hand, staring at it, as if she thought it might be some kind of foreign currency.
When she married Larry Fortensky in 1991 after meeting him at the Betty Ford Clinic, I thought, yes, she's the kind of woman who doesn't give a damn what people think.
Ho decided to move FiveStars from Mountain View to San Francisco because he thought the City by the Bay was going to be a better place to be for the kind of talent he wants to hire.
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But the Information Age, which had all the makings of a soulless IQ Age, has turned out differently than expected -- call it a Network Age, which commoditizes IQ and pushes value to speed, creativity and the kind of derring-do once thought reckless.
Since 1999, when Cirrus began selling FAA-certified airplanes, the company has attracted a different kind of owner-pilot. (Disclosure: I own and fly a Cirrus.) Many of us never thought of flying a small airplane until we saw a Cirrus.
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