Word: particular
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...worked only with that provider. An example is Apple’s iPhone: If a customer wishes to purchase an iPhone, he or she must use AT&T as a service provider. If another company has a more desireable contract or better service, tough. Currently, some consumers choose one particular phone, Internet, or cable company based on prices of contracts or the wireless options available. Others choose their provider based on whether that provider is paired with the device they favor. With consumer loyalties guaranteed through specific devices, providers have little incentive to constantly improve their plans. Similarly, companies with...
...We’d like to see how firms in one particular region or industry affect how their competitors disclose,” Tice said...
...face the issue of how the conversation about the Israel-Palestine issue in particular has been shut down, the principle of “free speech” will remain an empty, abstract principle. With my motion, I did not ask my colleagues to agree with me about Israel or even about the disadvantages of the dearth of high-ranking minorities on the Faculty Council and in the University administration—another major obstacle to dialogue among a necessary range of perspectives about University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth...
...HUAM events, Paris A. Spies-Gans ‘09, President of OUR HUAM, says the themed aspect of this event makes it unique. “We’ve never really had a theme before, and this time we do because we wanted to focus on a particular part of the museum,” he says. “But we also wanted to expand the boundaries of how you can interact with a museum, and it’s so exciting because each event is unique, and each tour has never been given before...
...where does this “itch” come from? One particular bout broke out in the early 20th century, when many graduates—often from Oxbridge—found themselves with the means to travel more cheaply and safely than before. Somewhat averse to joining the London set, banking and lawyering their way through the gilded age (sound familiar?), and terrified of being domesticated by modern life, they left England to become romantic heroes in their own right. Along the way they mutated into state spies, aviators, and colonial rebels...