"There would be no way to launch and ramp in any way other than open and viral, " Negroponte says in an e-mail exchange from Taiwan, where he is dealing with manufacturing.

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The AP poll offers an old-school exit ramp, a way not to undermine the BCS but complement it.

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It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.

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The White House budget proposal is structured in a way that would ramp up spending sharply in the next few years, which administration officials said would spur job growth, while locking in future spending cuts to lower the deficit.

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While the CPMs on mobile are significantly higher (you have to stare at the ads which are quite large relative to the screen size), we struggle to believe Facebook can continue to ramp the ad load on mobile the way they did in Q4 2012.

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Unless this extra domestic currency is mopped up in some way, the money supply rises, banks ramp up their lending, and inflation can take off (which would increase the real exchange rate ie, taking inflation into account and reduce competitiveness).

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Government spending had to ramp up, as you all suggested and we believed, had to ramp up to offset the contraction of the private sector spending as well as demand -- which, by the way, was a difficult concept to translate and transmit to the American people.

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