While Sylvie appreciated the sofa's wirelessness no dogs tripping over cables it wasn't enough of a selling point.
"Wealth preservation management", as it's now called, has even become a selling point for investment bankers.
RiceHadleyGates also adds a selling point as Khosla competes with other venture firms for top startups.
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The paper's imperfection is a selling point: "People can understand how this was once poo, " says Flancman.
The Cell chip was a selling point for the PlayStation 3, which went on sale in 2006.
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What was less of a selling point at Oracle OpenWorld this week: cost.
Mr Hassan says state ownership does Petronas no harm abroad, and its experience as a regulator is a selling point.
Skype detection has becom a selling point for UTMs and firewalls that go beyond stateful connections and look into actual traffic.
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In drugs that have serious side effects, this can be a problem, but for many antibiotics it can be a selling point.
This could cut into Christie's winning margin, which he hopes will be large enough to use as a selling point in a 2016 presidential run.
But in the long term, she says, Chiquita could actually benefit by making its tightly controlled supply chain a selling point to consumers.
In fact, some Mississippians see it as a selling point: they think that Mr Barbour's connections give their state a seat at the table.
City officials are working to seize on the preparations for the games as a selling point for its tourism and meeting business in advance.
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But the technology behind it has become so sophisticated that it is now becoming a selling point as smartphone makers take on Apple's iPhone.
The moves allow carmakers to make online entertainment a selling point.
People believed it was good for the body, and its presence became a selling point for spas and hot springs in Arkansas, New York and Massachusetts.
Boeing says the aircraft is 20% more fuel-efficient than similar sized airliners, a selling point for airlines for whom fuel costs are their biggest operational expense.
Some of the French will go it alone: Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris sees small size as a selling point in a world of giants.
For a sports car, the appeal of the sound of engine power is clearly a selling point so Caterham had to work hard to get it right.
Though the 6620's video capabilities may be a selling point for some users, others may discount them as a mere novelty and focus on the handset's business applications.
Still, watching a product like this make the transformation from idea to real world object is about as good a selling point for the technology as we've seen.
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Besides the views, the setting is also a selling point.
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Political stability has always been a selling point for Malaysia.
That Dieter Rams-inspired look is still considered iconic in some circles, and Apple has often touted the steel outside antenna band as a selling point that it's unlikely to drop all that quickly.
That was a selling point for photographers Heather Waraksa and Jonathan Mehring, who arrived at Apple's new Grand Central store in New York and, as such, found themselves leaning against a wall, eating bagels in line a half hour later.
Beer naturally contains a shot of B vitamins. (Not coincidentally, vegans get excited about brewer's yeast.) This entrepreneur isn't the first to see nutrition as a selling point for booze: During World War II Anheuser-Busch advertised Budweiser as a natural source of B vitamins.
Beer naturally contains a shot of B vitamins. (Not coincidentally, vegans get excited about brewer's yeast.) This entrepreneur isn't the first to see nutrition as a selling point for booze: During World War II Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) advertised Budweiser as a natural source of B vitamins.
This ability to perform small tasks during bits of downtime is a major selling point in the concept of a mobile workforce.
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