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The reality is that all but a very select group of cities are struggling to figure out how to create jobs in a time when companies are less dependent on human beings and traditional industries face technology - and trade - driven disruption.

The disruption of its filing had a huge impact on Mattel and slightly less so on Hasbro.

But robo advisors focus on building an ETF portfolio because it is more diversified and easier with less disruption.

These economic disruptions and changing freight patterns will spur the trucking industry to lean more heavily on less - than - truckload hauls, medium - duty straight trucks and vans, shorter routes and final - mile delivery, Albrecht says.

In this context, I am seeing less emphasis on packaging disruptions, meaning being different for difference sake, and much more emphasis being placed on packaging solutions — those which consumers see as being different, but more importantly, they understand what that difference means to making their life easier, better, safer, healthier.

Arsenal refused to sell them both in the summer for around a total of # 100 million, so it would make zero sense to then cash in on them for a lot less only six months later, whilst also causing huge disruption to the starting XI, especially with Alexis's departure.

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

Also, more advantaged peers may be less likely to create classroom disruptions and better able to help their classmates with homework and so on.

Programme times are reduced by up to 50 per cent and buildings are delivered with much less disruption to teaching than if construction was to take place on site.

Among the explanations for small class effects are improved teacher morale, more time spent by teachers on individual instruction and less on classroom management, along with fewer disruptions and fewer discipline problems.

While their list of editors includes professionals who've worked on major bestselling titles, the offer is less of a disruption to the model than the aforementioned shift.

If it weren't for the considerable heft of the iPad, she would strongly consider using one to replace her Kindle for reading in bed at night, citing less chance for disruption of her spouse and less eyestrain than using a Mighty Brite or similar LED clip lamp with the Vizplex display on the Kindle.

On the business side, you feel the press of digital expansion — the energy of which is distribution — right alongside the less happy moments in the disruption.

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Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

I personally favour longer periods between hardware refreshes as it permits developers to establish stable workflows, without disruption, to minimise their costs and in the long term focus their efforts more on creative game design and less on adapting to new technology.»

Examples of these disruptions and exceptions are, for instance, optical phenomena such as prisms, rayées on a screen or window but also digital glitches in computer programs and on a less visual note even the philosophical train of thought behind quantum mechanical concepts.

Cheaper natural gas has pushed out older, less - efficient coal and oil generation; however, the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility or supply disruption.

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Shifts towards water - lean renewables and energy efficiency in recent years have helped to decouple the dependence of the state's power sector on water sources, making us less vulnerable to the drought - induced disruptions that are plaguing power systems around the world.

We aren't willing to spend 5 % of GDP on a 1 in a million chance of that, and even less willing to spend that kind of money on an unlikely event that is adaptable to without major loss of life, just major economic (and social disruption and ecosystem) cost, should it strike.

Ultimately, the issue in this case turned on the «necessity» limb of proportionality, and specifically the argument that taxation could achieve the same level of health protection but with less disruption to trade.

When I say causing a disruption, I mean things like trashing a store, or spitting on passerby, or being aggressive, or even less important rules, like cheating at an arcade game, such as skeeball?

At this time, the Osgoode senate executive has officially decided on «a short class disruption,» which is a suspension that is less than seven days.

Fact:» [T] the absence of a male role model following divorce is much less significant than the economic, emotional, and psychosocial consequences of family disruption in explaining the negative effects of divorce on children.»