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Excuse me? Microsoft's history is largely about developing (or buying) and then aggressively marketing sometimes-improved variants of other people's ideas. As long as there's competition, Microsoft makes products that are just good enough or cheap enough to stifle it. Then it rests on its laurels and moves on to rework other ideas it didn't originate.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

The military campaign is perceived by most people to be unsuccessful, largely because the only stories we hear these days are about civilians getting killed,

The inventory problems that plagued the first half of the year have been largely erased and we expect the market to perform better in the next six months with improved demand for low-cost and portable PCs.

The insurance industry's profitability and healthy surplus in the wake of record catastrophe losses through nine months may turn out to be good news for insurance buyers who have been bracing for possible rate increases. With the price of insurance being determined by the law of supply and demand, and supply being determined by profitability and capacity, countrywide results through nine months may mean that rate increases could be largely limited to those lines and states directly affected by this year's hurricanes.

The Fed rate hike and statement has largely been digested by the market.

The consumer market is largely a fourth-quarter market nowadays, and this will severely damage the market. There is no way around it.

The core nationwide CPI emerged largely in line with market consensus forecast, so market's initial reaction appeared to be generally limited. There's no fundamental reason to actively sell shares below the 15,700 mark.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

Inflation totaled about 4% over the two months, which was largely due to the Artic temperatures, and surge in consumer demand for salt.

Informing property owners whether a proposed use of their land is legal shouldn't be controversial, though this is abhorrent to elitists within the environmental community. For over thirty years they've used the ESA to destroy small landowners, largely at their whim. Meanwhile, their stated goal of recovering endangered species never materialized.

Information assurance, as it's practiced today, is not a science. It remains largely ad hoc,

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

In 1955, the nation was still largely industrialized, and South Dakota was an agricultural state. A high-school education was a good level of attainment. Now, to be a player in an information economy, people need more education.

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

I have no specific documentation that I can give you. This is largely organized crime activity, and it would not surprise me to find links to terrorism.

I'm U.S. dollar bullish over the next three months, largely because the Fed will go to 4.75 percent and they'll leave the door open to 5 percent.

In a soft economy, Disney's overall performance continues to be solid, ... Our studio has added yet another quarter to a year of strong growth. At our parks, effective expense-management measures have largely compensated for the weaker attendance that we had anticipated.

In the spring of 2003, many travelers delayed vacation plans due to the Iraq war. This year, travelers have largely ignored some higher costs in their desire to return to their traveling ways.

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.

Intel's costs are largely fixed, and we believe pricing cuts will eat away at margins.

Instead of trying to contain a putative bubble by drastic actions with largely unpredictable consequences, we chose, as we noted in our mid-1999 congressional testimony, to focus on policies to mitigate the fallout when it occurs and, hopefully, ease the transition to the next expansion.

Innovation will drive the future of our economy. What happens in your community will largely be determined by you. The communities that position themselves to take advantage of the entrepreneurial sector and companies, businesses and individuals that have the education, background and ability to generate innovation are going to drive the economy in the future. They're going to create the jobs and the opportunities for our young folks.

In our view, the risk of negative ruling was largely factored into market expectations with the timing of a generic launch being the main issue.

I look at my own consultants' body, and largely men have children when their wives are in their 20s and early 30s, and largely women have children in their 30s and 40s.

I have to give Hundt credit for recognizing the changed competitive landscape since 1997. Long-distance has largely been cannibalized by the rise of rigorous wireless competition and flat-rate nationwide calling plans. The Internet is everywhere, which means IP-enabled calling is a new threat to the old players. And the old Bell copper empire has now become a copper cage they are fighting their way out of.

Inventories are going to be largely neutral for economic growth in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, as businesses ramp up production to rebuild inventories, that will mean more hiring, more production and a stronger economic environment.

In the roughly six hours that the counting of the votes took place, a very large amount of progress was made. If the count had continued yesterday afternoon and this morning, that count would be largely completed, with possibly the exception of one or two counties that were outside of the Tallahassee area,

In terms of screen time, about 50 per cent of the film is reconstruction, based largely on those phone calls. There are some dialogue scenes on the plane, and 90 per cent of these are based on tape evidence and the memories of people who spoke to passengers on the flight. There are a very few occasions where we have invented dialogue and it was based on consultation with people who knew the passengers.

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

Iraq was a huge country, and when you have people largely saying now, 'He may have been a dictator, but we were better under Saddam,' this Administration needs to take notice. And at some point you have to say, 'Stop the train, because it's completely derailed. How do we fix it?' But in an effort to do that, you have to admit that you made a few mistakes, and this Administration is not willing to admit any mistakes whatsoever.

Clearly, there are some overtones for the industry, but I think largely Wal-Mart has some of its own issues. I think they are still very sloppy with store-level execution.

Clear Skies delivers dramatic health benefits across the nation without raising energy costs and does it with certainty and simplicity, instead of regulation and litigation. Because of our commitment to see this become a reality, EPA went above and beyond to provide the most comprehensive legislative analysis of air ever prepared by the agency, so it does a real disservice to this discussion to have a report that largely ignores and misinterprets our analysis.

Clients remain largely bearish of U.S. indices on the whole but a good start to the week by Asian and European stocks means the U.S. futures point to a positive start.

Calderon largely is going to sink or swim on Fox's record. The more (President) Bush makes Fox look like he got nothing from this stronger relationship he wanted with the U.S., the harder it will be for Calderon.

But if they were intended to drive down the sugar price, it is misleading and will be largely in vain.

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.

Housing activity, which has contributed significantly to economic growth over the past 2-1/2 years, has now passed its peak and will be largely neutral to negative over the next several quarters, ... This slowdown will be welcomed at the Federal Reserve.

Households are maintaining relatively optimistic assessments of economic conditions, largely in defiance of actual events.

Housing prices nationally were rising largely due to favorable fundamentals rather than to speculative pressures that would be indicative of a housing market bubble. However, the situation seems to have changed recently. Affordability has deteriorated significantly in the second and third quarters of 2005 as housing price increases have spiked higher. As a result, affordability is quickly closing the gap relative to this measure's long-run historical average.

How Chinese exports perform is largely driven by external demand rather than the exchange rate,

Before the crisis broke, there was little reason to question the three decades of phenomenally solid East Asian economic growth, largely financed through the banking system, so long as the rapidly expanding economies and bank credit kept the ratio of non-performing loans to total bank assets low,

Gateway's positive glimmers of stabilization were largely reversed.

GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.

Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

Good will has real value and needs to be nurtured. The city uses water largely to process the crops that are grown on farms. Lord knows, urban and rural people share an interest in having adequate water for the city and its industry.

I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.

I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the politicizing of economics that makes that possible. I am not interested in a body politic of the largely uninformed who attempt to politically designate certain people as deserving of wider recognition.

However, it is not all bad news as the slide was largely driven by a strong 27.3% rise in imports. While this reflects oil prices, to some extent, underlying imports are rising, which bodes well for the economy.

However, the question of addressability remains a central one in Taiwan's future cable development. There are virtually no set-top boxes in the home, and cable systems remain largely one-way analog.

(Collinsworth) was the difference in the game. That lead was largely because Chris decided to play.

He campaigned hard in the states that he largely won two years ago. He had some coattails,

He actually believed in his heart that he would better them by his conviction and his beliefs and his skills, and I think largely succeeded. What he leaves behind is a tremendous challenge for the rest of us and a guiding force.

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -- adapting one-self to circumstances -- and a sense of humor.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

For the most part, bar codes are better at collecting data in highly structured and engineered processes, such as warehouses, and this will likely continue for the next five to seven years. However, RFID tags will be used for data collection of mobile assets and in largely chaotic or unstructured business processes, ranging from retail environments to hospitals, enabling these environments that lack sophisticated process engineering or controls to be systematically managed.

For the past two decades, the Economic Development Commission has waged a largely futile campaign to lure companies here, ... Both Accomack and Northampton counties have poured millions of dollars into industrial parks that sit unfilled or are up for sale.

For the first time a major sports property has largely migrated from network to cable, where the dual revenue streams of subscriber fees and advertising can support the escalating costs of broadcast sports rights, ... In the future, it will become almost impossible for broadcast television sports to match the power of those 'sub' fees, which are unique to the cable world.

These are invaluable treasures to this nation and to the city. That's what drew all these tourists here over all these years.... The French Quarter clearly has a lot of damage to it from wind and some from water, but it may be that it is largely intact at least in terms of the structures.

These are healthy figures - the real question is sustainability, given that it has been largely based on the equity market. I don't think anyone is extrapolating out these first-quarter numbers.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

The focus has largely been on building single-family homes here. It's becoming less affordable to buy here. It's not necessarily becoming less affordable to live here. Apartment rates won't necessarily go up.

The FOMC is smiling, as their preferred scenario is largely unfolding.

the focus will be very largely on Japan and the urgent importance of Japan implementing effective measures to lead to a sustained, domestic, demand-led growth, which is critical not only for the Japanese people but for the people of Asia and, indeed, for recovery in the rest of the world.

The entire market in the Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but China is extremely strong, largely because of the Beijing Olympics build-up.

The EU largely ignored human rights abuses by its friends in Africa. It was very good about speaking out against the pariah Zimbabwe. But when it came to Angola, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, there was little if anything said.

The health system in general has largely ignored paying for weight-loss interventions up to this point. This is going to help them reconsider that.

The high interest margin was largely because of the retail nature of our business. But we also wanted to increase the fee-based income of the bank.

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.

The growth we've seen this year is largely due to measured planning and active reinvestment. When asked about their investment approach over the past year, 61 percent of millionaires said their approach has changed very little, indicating they have a strategy and they are sticking to it.

The growth in that trade area is robust, and we're looking to provide services and opportunities to that area, which is largely underserved.

The industry is largely unregulated. As far as soft drinks are concerned, there's no process for getting them tested and approved.

The industry is largely satisfied with the way the TRIA extension has taken shape although there is some consternation over the increase in trigger. But six months ago, even the possibility of extending TRIA was looking grim.

The increase is due largely to the decline in consumer confidence during 2005 as a result of concerns over growing levels of consumer debt and the slowing housing market, and because U.K. economic growth has halved.

The inbound virus and spam plight has been largely addressed, yet management of outbound e-mail and IM still lack effective controls. It is too easy to send confidential information to inappropriate or unintended recipients -- and with today's need for IT to demonstrate compliance and risk management, that's simply no longer acceptable. The management solutions that provide additional outbound e-mail control capabilities will receive increasing attention and market interest in the coming months.

The difference represents the inability of the industry to provide moderately priced housing for the first-time homebuyer, largely due to the continuing constraints in the developable land supply in the coastal urban cores of the state and the burgeoning extractions demanded by local government.

The GDP data emerged largely in line with market expectations, so they moved to liquidate their short positions to pocket profits.

The dollar rallied a bit in Asia, which was largely due to Rita, but there doesn't seem to be much follow-up,

The dollar is largely unchanged. In these holiday markets, I think releases like tomorrow's personal income data are going to be more critical than the backward-looking GDP report.

The dollar is largely consolidating after being pummeled the last day and a half and as the market continues to digest the FOMC statement.

The dollar has shown not a great deal of reaction largely because the retail sales headline data looked pretty bad but the revisions to the prior data pretty much offset that.

The effect of the handover has been largely debated and talked about for a long period of time.

The earnings continue to be positive and analysts continue to upgrade their forecasts on both earnings and gross domestic product growth, but the expectations are largely built into the market.

The futures have always opened negatively, but the market in New York has largely ended positively, and Europe is probably still lagging the U.S. to some extent.

The former party chief's health had until recently been largely adequate for a man of his age, but he has had lung problems since the late 1990s,

The free homeland is largely the fruit of his teachings,

The freedoms being offered in the white paper are largely an illusion. What schools need is more freedom from government interference and incessant education reform.

The foundation's work is very largely focused on the Houston metropolitan area, ... It will be important for me to engage with that community in a substantial way, and I think it's important for us to live there.

The country's better growth prospects are largely a result of significant and sustained improvement in domestic security that has, in turn, led to renewed domestic confidence and double-digit growth in private investment.

The current lack of oil refinery capacity is largely the result of a conscious decision by the oil industry in the 1990s to limit supply to increase profitability. In the 1990s, approximately 50 refineries were closed, and since 1995, over 20 refineries have been shut down.

The classic pollution problems of the past are largely gone. Now, we are talking land-use issues. It's a trickier nut to crack.

The change in medicine over the last 50 years, since our last hospital was built, has largely been change from predominantly in-patient medicine to an emphasis on out-patient.

the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

The findings in the report have been largely discredited because he was not an impartial party and because so much more information has come out.

The figures were a bit stronger than expected but largely in line. This supports the view that BOJ may shift its policy around April.