And because they have zero expected return, they are inferior to the rate of risk-free return.
The Apple maps app in iOS6 has been widely derided as inferior to Google Maps.
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Back in the 1970s, some in Congress argued foreign doctors were inferior to U.S.-educated physicians.
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Along with slower revenue growth, Office Depot earns profit margins that are inferior to Staples.
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The connection quality was wildly inferior to their traditional long distance, and frequently calls were completely dropped!
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In her early years, apparently, her interpersonal skills were inferior to her user focus and technical prowess.
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Bristol-Myers' own study, commissioned to show that Pravachol was not inferior to Lipitor, demonstrated just the opposite.
It funded a two-year, 4, 160-patient clinical trial to try to prove that Pravachol is not inferior to Lipitor.
In my opinion, the Windows 8 experience on a tablet is inferior to both iPads and Android devices.
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But while disruptive technologies often start out looking dramatically inferior to incumbent technologies, this tends to change rapidly.
Even Thomas Edison bet badly, as in his development of direct-current electricity that proved inferior to alternating current.
And Bitcoin looks inferior to the conventional banking system in other ways too.
Narayan's chipset, made by Toshiba, is inferior to that of set-tops or PCs.
It added that pensions were also inferior to those previously offered and some workers had switched pensions six times.
The problem is that it was distinctly inferior to Google Maps for Android.
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There are two basic alternatives to bankruptcy for insolvent banks, each morally and practically inferior to bankruptcy: bail-ins and bailouts.
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The map on ESRI's Web site, showing driving directions to its headquarters, is inferior to Google's version of the same.
HUNTER-GAULT: Women are considered inferior to men in many parts of Africa and this is expressed in a variety of ways.
But they will also point to two debatable United goals, although in reality they were massively inferior to their English counterparts.
Further, the PC experience with Windows 8 is inferior to Windows 7.
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European forces are so inferior to its own that they are sometimes a burden, useful only for peacekeeping after the shooting stops.
Its virtual keyboard is inferior to the real keyboard on my BlackBerry.
"FICO allowed finance to scale but it is inferior to lending based on reputation and your standing in the community, " said Mr. Stewart.
Lee is seen by Sir John as peerless, though not as a general, where he rates him inferior to his Unionist counterpart, Ulysses Grant.
Amazon's model of low gross margins and high marketing expense is inferior to Ebay's and Yahoo's--and that's not a problem that time will solve.
Many countries still pursue bilateral and regional trade deals, even though these are clearly inferior to global agreements, often diverting more trade than they create.
Even worse, at the high-priced supposedly luxurious end of the market, I have found that British toilet paper is quite inferior to top-shelf American brands.
They aren't much inferior to the electronic gadgets now used by the top 1% of American income earners, and often they are exactly the same.
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They're digital, all right, but because they compress incoming signals and spit them out with missing data, the result is generally inferior to plain old TV.
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