According to research provided by Bloomberg and IDC, Waterloo's Canadian prospects are dimming, as that chunk of revenue, which amounts to about seven percent of its total earnings, has begun to wither, putting the company in second place behind Apple.

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Moving from a world with one such system to a world with none a world with no major market where new medical drugs and devices can be priced to return large investments in research and development, for example will fundamentally change the prospects for future medical progress.

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The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.

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"We see the surprise change of leadership as unhelpful to Premier's stability and organic growth prospects, " said Martin Deboo, an analyst at Investec, in a research note.

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Three of them, in a paper last December for the International Food Policy Research Institute, looked specifically at the prospects for genetically modified rice in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

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