Against the general, undifferentiated threat to our humanity, our humanity is becoming general, and undifferentiated.
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Against the general, undifferentiated threat to our humanity, our humanity is becoming general, and undifferentiated.
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Almost every phone on the market is an undifferentiated slab.
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The sheer horror stands out from a largely undifferentiated slog.
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There are also small-cell lung cancers and undifferentiated lung cancers.
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Endless, seemingly undifferentiated ice, a cap of glaciers covering the entire island.
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These relatively commoditized, undifferentiated services are supplementing income, not generating middle-class lifestyles.
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"We don't have plans to develop an nth undifferentiated skinny bundle," Sievert continued.
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People are asked to choose among sometimes bafflingly large fields of largely undifferentiated candidates.
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Viewed from afar, Saudi kings may look like one long, undifferentiated line of autocrats.
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In other words, Congress isn't just an undifferentiated mass ignoring what the public thinks.
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She did not see as much as sip, taking in an undifferentiated stream of content.
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The app itself seems to be fairly undifferentiated from the services available from other streamers.
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Instead, he used chemistry to explain how undifferentiated balls of cells generated form in organisms.
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This USA-labeled Mexican beef remains undifferentiated from genuine USA beef when sold to consumers.
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While fixing driveways, he listened to NPR, the language flowing by in an undifferentiated stream.
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As a theory of the times we are in, the simplistic, undifferentiated "global Trumpism" narrative sucks.
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In fact, recent medical school graduates are trained as undifferentiated physicians -- general practitioners, if you will.
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But where there is cell division and undifferentiated cell types, there is cancer, and this includes mollusks.
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You are consuming content the way you always wanted to consume content — in a constant, undifferentiated stream.
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Like the venerable Treebeard, Yahoo will put down roots, grow leaves, and become part of the undifferentiated forest.
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Also, my default mood in life is "undifferentiated scorn" with just a pinch of unending, bone-deep sadness.
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A vast majority of undifferentiated app development vendors will face issues with growing their top and bottom lines.
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"The only way to win with an undifferentiated product is having a superior cost structure and scale," said Thompson.
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Metal fiends, for instance, find an infinite array of subtle shades in what seems like undifferentiated monotony to non-initiates.
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The evolving startup stack In recent times venture capital has become near-homogeneous, or as Brad Feld argues often undifferentiated.
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Instead, economists' general practice was to treat labour as an undifferentiated mass of workers, lumping the skilled and unskilled together.
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"Term insurance is somewhat a commodity and very much undifferentiated, so the price is the primary focal point," Cosgriff said.
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Stem cells, by definition, are undifferentiated cells that can be transformed into specialized cells to produce more of their kind.
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"I think there is going to be margin pressure on those transactions so long as they&aposre undifferentiated," he said.
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The shoes are not artfully arranged; they are piled high on the floor, shoe upon shoe in an undifferentiated mass.
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But years ago, when you were in the womb, it began as little more than a scattering of undifferentiated stem cells.
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They began dating in June 2017 — one month after Marino was diagnosed with undifferentiated sarcoma which quickly spread to her lungs.
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In a group show, they stand out like brilliant individual lines of poetry amid the undifferentiated prose of much larger pictures.
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One crucial insight was that Afscme members want to be treated as individuals, not part of some undifferentiated mass of workers.
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The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear: If you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.
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Zombie-like passive consumption of static video is both unhealthy for viewers and undifferentiated for the tech giants that power it.
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What you end up with is a ton of undifferentiated products hyped by overzealous marketers, which leads to confusion among shoppers.
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At other shops, Adé's records were tossed into the undifferentiated mass known as Rock/Pop, where they were overshadowed by ABBA .
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These shots tend either to render people invisible (when inside the machines they operate) or to turn them into undifferentiated specks.
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It continued in the same vein as the earlier entries—a litany of undifferentiated sex acts and accounts of people squabbling.
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In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus.
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The assumption is that women's work is autobiographical, and that autobiographical work is confessional, messy, and selfish, an undifferentiated spilling of guts.
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But as Glasser said, in an undifferentiated chaos of news, even good journalists and good journalism have trouble rising above the din.
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The focus may be on them, but they are undifferentiated still, and as a result, hardly less anonymous than they were before.
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Undifferentiated companies with wide gaps between the narrative of what their tech does and the reality of the value that that tech provides.
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Miles told NuVasive that pursuing the deal would be "a waste of time" because Alphatec had an "aged, undifferentiated portfolio," the lawsuit said.
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He determined I have undifferentiated spondyloarthritis, an auto-inflammatory disease that affects the spine, joints, and where tendons and ligaments attach to bone.
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A tighter compartment for a laptop or tablet would be great in here rather than having it swim in a big undifferentiated section.
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Meanwhile, Rippling develops its own in-house versions of undifferentiated parts of the HR and IT stacks, like PTO management or commuter benefits.
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Rather, the deaths were a product of the portrayal of black men as an undifferentiated mass who had to be terrorized into submission.
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It's easy to imagine them as cells mutated into self-destructive monsters, but they are mostly just behaving as undifferentiated, immature cells do.
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"The offerings there aren't that differentiated and charging 25 bps for an undifferentiated service when brokers fees have gone to zero," Johnson said.
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Our office days may include newborn care, lifestyle approaches to diabetes, managing hypertension medications, diagnosing an undifferentiated set of symptoms, or sports physicals.
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After chemotherapy failed to get rid of her Undifferentiated High Grade Spindle Cell Sarcoma, the surgery was necessary to stop the cancer from spreading.
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Nike's brand president, Trevor Edwards, then chimed in to say the shoe maker will move away from "undifferentiated" retail channels in the coming years.
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Rather, it's that her description of Uagadou consistently fails to acknowledge Africa's complicated reality in favor of treating it as a largely undifferentiated mass.
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Some people have dismissed "Pure Comedy" as an undifferentiated trudge of mid- and slow-tempo piano ballads in the mode of early Elton John.
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But what happens when "public" conversations are so numerous, and so undifferentiated, that they start to seem, to the people in them, almost private?
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Some of the voices are undifferentiated; for the first half of the book Naciim sounds more like his grandfather than a 12-year-old boy.
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At first he thought he had a sinus infection, but it turned out to be a rare and aggressive form of cancer, sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma.
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"In a school uniform, stateless children can appear and feel undifferentiated to Thai citizen students," said Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul at the Victoria University of Wellington.
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Some of the 16-person crew are more memorable than others, but for the most part they're just a large, undifferentiated mass of oblivious humanity.
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Instead, we categorize things in terms of a more basic, undifferentiated notion of normality, which blends together these two importantly different facets of human life.
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Why should it resurrect the failed Fire Phone when plenty of undifferentiated phone brands will be more than willing to add Alexa to their flagship devices?
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This is just a header for an undifferentiated list of news clips, press releases, fact sheets, and transcripts of speeches that are related to the category.
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Chait has been less successful at interpreting the left, which in his analysis becomes an undifferentiated mass of rabid Marxists, politically correct ideologues, and postmodern academics.
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Most online brokerages are somewhat undifferentiated beyond differences in pricing, while their clunky, unstylized products don't generate the same brand affinity as people have for Robinhood.
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Because the Mexican supply chain is undifferentiated from the U.S. supply chain, the meatpacker does not have to share the increased export profits with American ranchers.
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But there's a final, perhaps definitive reason to downplay Trumpian exceptionalism and treat all corruption as an undifferentiated "swamp": Voters may not believe any other story.
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This season, there are more creatures, a horde of undifferentiated things climbing cavern walls and haunting corridors, always threatening to kill only the characters you barely care about.
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Further, Apple's upcoming cookie control software in Safari should make those omnipresent ads disappear, forcing the advertiser to sell to an undifferentiated mob rather than a single person.
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I like weekends better when I'm working because then they truly feel like I'm regenerating energy, whereas when I'm not working, time blends into one continuous, undifferentiated stream.
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This also includes doing "some of the undifferentiated heavy lifting so customers can summit their cloud architecture mountain as opposed to carrying their own bags along the journey."
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We built AWS Elemental Media Services to let customers focus on delivering top-quality video reliably to any device, everywhere, without the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing infrastructure.
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Real entrepreneurs, he writes, refuse to build an "undifferentiated commodity business" — that is, they refuse to compete in a market where they will have to compete on price.
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There is a numbing effect that occurs when each day is the same, when our schedules are subsumed by what feels like an endless gulf of undifferentiated time.
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This is certainly how it works in politics, where "community" magically converts huge groups of people — what we'd maybe once have called a constituency — into neat, undifferentiated units.
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The illustration is lighthearted, but this gesture of reduction—of complex peoples and histories to empty and headless outfits, interchangeable and undifferentiated—makes the joke feel clumsy and shallow.
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Later he turned to ornery lecture-performances, as well as cabinets of curiosities that placed antiquities, machines, consumer goods and art by others into an undifferentiated stream of stuff.
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One classic example of the phenomenon is the $5-a-day wage introduced by Henry Ford, which at the time was well above the market rate for an undifferentiated labourer.
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If that special sauce becomes less special — if someone else has that information — then Netflix runs the risk of becoming an undifferentiated catalog of TV shows (and a few movies).
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And I think that part of it also is, well, literally not just imagining the conservatives or liberals or whoever as an undifferentiated mass, but who did you just hire?
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Over all, Sanofi's portfolio of marketed cancer drugs is "weak and populated by undifferentiated also-rans," Timothy Anderson, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a note on Thursday.
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By the time the book enters the 20th century, stories about creative and heroic individuals such as Jackson tend to give way to chronicles of undifferentiated sprawl at the federal level.
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J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa said in a note that 280M's "premium valuation is unjustified by undifferentiated fundamentals," with growth excluding mergers and acquisitions likely decelerating and benefits to margins fading.
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But what we talk about less is how our behavior, our individual nuanced desires and actions, becomes part of the undifferentiated mass of "the public," which, in turn, shapes their behavior.
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Scarlette was diagnosed with undifferentiated high grade spindle cell sarcoma, a type of tissue cancer, and as a result, her left arm was amputated when she was just 10 months old.
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If nothing else, it says that the world of mid-century is sufficiently far from our lived reality that it is now part of the undifferentiated past, an inevitably foreign country.
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Either that, or that their country — relatively calm despite the war next door — was perceived as a place where carnage is the norm, an undifferentiated corner of a basket-case region.
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Americans often like to pretend that Iran doesn't have a political system and is instead an undifferentiated mass of anti-American religious zealots bent on building a bomb to challenge America.
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Insisting that Austen's work has always been misread as "an undifferentiated procession of witty, ironical stories about romance and drawing rooms," Kelly promises to reveal a hitherto unknown and unrecognized Jane Austen.
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Transcription factors have allowed researchers to program both progenitor cells to become certain specific types of functional cells—and also to do the opposite, programming functional cells to behave as undifferentiated cells.
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But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.
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After disappointing first-quarter earnings for the $99 million market value company in April, Tusa said 3M's "premium valuation is unjustified by undifferentiated fundamentals," with growth likely decelerating and tailwinds to margins fading.
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Undifferentiated merchandise, heightened competition and waning consumer spending led to the department store's loss of relevancy, and it started to lose market share to Target (previously Dayton Hudson Corp), its former parent company.
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Hinkie did not construct a functional basketball team that made incremental annual progress, but that was never his intent; he was nourishing a dish of undifferentiated cells that could sprout in any direction.
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Today the state has more than 100 distilleries — which is good news for craft spirits fans and the farmers who supply ingredients, but worrisome for a distiller looking at all that undifferentiated competition.
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These are the sorts of apps that a small business or local event might have a service create and submit to the App Store for them — they're often low quality, undifferentiated, and poorly maintained.
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He will be the next president of the United States and those who want to change our system into an undifferentiated national popularity contest will have to redouble their efforts to amend the Constitution.
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Trump attorneys have argued that profits from individual real estate sales would route through a maze of Trump subsidiaries and eventually become mixed in a larger pool of undifferentiated money in the president's trust.
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In a 2001 review in Art in America, Eleanor Heartney took issue with Piper's treatment of whiteness as "an undifferentiated state of being" and went on to ask if the artist considered Asians white.
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Ms. Ukeles describes it as "a 50-year-old social sculpture we have all produced" from "undifferentiated, unnamed, no-value garbage," and a public asset that we can, with loving care, repair and preserve.
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There is a long, infamous tradition in Western writing about "Africa" to treat it as an undifferentiated mass: a single country, full of woe, with no major differences in religion, culture, politics, or geography.
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Many of the products that the United States sells to China are undifferentiated commodities, like agricultural goods, but China sends many specialized consumer goods like silk embroidery, laptops and smartphones to the United States.
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This difficulty in isolating specific people — really seeing them as sovereign beings rather than as an undifferentiated mass — is crucial to the meaning of the documentary, which charts the global refugee and migrant crisis.
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"In Neeson's mind, all black men were of a piece with one another, an undifferentiated group that was uniformly menacing and collectively responsible for what happened to his friend," Moira Donegan wrote for the Guardian.
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" It is, he wrote, "a small self-contained unit of high performance in relation to its size and cost, whose function is to transform some undifferentiated set of circumstances to a condition nearer human desires.
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And since the other girls in "Every Exquisite Thing" are vapid, undifferentiated, peach-schnapps-swilling sexpots, no wonder Nanette is a singular creation who'd rather hang with dudes who tell her to read dude authors.
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In parallel, C5 has taken minority investment stakes in five state-of-the-art cyber technology providers to develop its own intellectual property, rather than rolling up undifferentiated managed services to gain scale, Freeman said.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, the White House put out a statement that commemorated "the victims, survivors, and heroes" in a vague and undifferentiated way, but didn't specifically mention the 6 million Jews killed.
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With new shares being continuously authorized by ETFs, resold on the secondary markets and held in fungible, undifferentiated buckets at depository trust companies, it's virtually impossible to trace the history of any particular ETF share.
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The question posed here is whether or not those feedback systems extend beyond plant cores of undifferentiated stem cells—a region more properly known as the meristem—and out into their differentiated progeny cells, e.g.
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"Most companies in fintech today are launching undifferentiated debit cards as a feature or extension to their product for an additional engagement and monetization stream," says Rick Yang, partner at NEA, as to why he invested.
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You cannot listen to a succession of poets and musicians and others in an undifferentiated way: each individual or ensemble makes his, her, or their own demands, and you either accept the challenge or you don't.
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In fact, Trump attorneys have argued that same point, saying profits from individual real-estate sales route through a maze of subsidiaries and eventually become mixed in a large pool of undifferentiated money in the trust.
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But by the mid-2000s his approach had grown more omnivorous, and his art began to recycle and reconstitute fine art, popular culture and his own past as elements of a single, undifferentiated stream of content.
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In this version, the undifferentiated "swamp" matters more than the gradations along the wide scale from the new member of Congress desperate for campaign funds to the raw plunder of Mr. Trump, his family and allies.
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People might sometimes be able to separate out the average from the ideal, but they more often make use of a kind of reasoning that blends the two together into a single undifferentiated judgment of normality.
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In the early 1970s, Italian distillers, which had long made virtually indistinguishable grappas from mounds of undifferentiated grape pomace — the freshly crushed skins, seeds and pulp — began using the carefully selected pomace of single grape varieties.
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"That there is such substantial variation in prices for plausibly undifferentiated procedures such as lower limb MRIs within hospitals suggests that the relative bargaining power of insurers with hospitals can strongly influence price levels," the paper argues.
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That divergence is a reminder that for all the talk about an undifferentiated gender gap, a key political dynamic of the Trump era has been a widening "class gap" between white women with and without college degrees.
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Image: Takashi Tsuji, RIKENTo create the artificial skin, the researchers took cells from mice and used chemicals to transform them into induced pluripotent stem cells (undifferentiated cells that can turn into any type of cell in the body).
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Though Jews often refer to themselves as "people of the book," the canonical books they studied and prayed from into the 1970s were often dense with undifferentiated Hebrew and Aramaic typeface and translated in inflated or turgid English.
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As a pure-play AVOD, Xumo is a minor player among minor and largely undifferentiated players, which could limit its direct appeal to advertisers:Xumo attracts a relatively small audience among the broader field of pure-play AVOD services.
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I know it in snow, those rare days of undifferentiated grey when the turnstones face into the white whip of thin flakes thrown down from the Baltic, when each pebble wears a rind of snow, locked together by ice.
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Before we talk, like we have to, about what the attacks on abortion access mean for this anxious, awful political era, let's establish as a ground rule that women are not vessels, or incubators, or an undifferentiated natural resource.
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At times, light seems to thicken, to encase the viewer in a turbid substance, and also to erase the contours of the gallery: the far wall does not appear to be a wall at all, but an undifferentiated void.
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"Like other policies initiated by this President, it is a reflection of executive will and discretion, driven by undifferentiated suspicion of Muslims as a group, an entitlement to animus, as well as reflexive opposition to prior executive action," the lawyers wrote.
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This is why "the African-Americans" has a quietly dismissive ring to it: It implies that black Americans are less a group of persons than a unitary topic, an undifferentiated clump of nuisance, a problem we're never quite rid of.
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In 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget formally directed that aggregate statistics should be gathered on "Asians and Pacific Islanders," which led to Asian-Americans being rescued from the undifferentiated category of "Other" in the 1980 US census.
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It is a tremendous competitive advantage to task those engineers with building differentiated business functionality while your competitors build services that do commoditized, undifferentiated heavy lifting, and then remain stuck with the maintenance of those services for years to come.
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What had been an undifferentiated cloud of reflections immediately resolves into a subsurface superstructure, a chunk of material the size of a Greenland iceberg—even looks like an iceberg, except for the fact that it has the density of silicon and ferro-cement.
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The joy of sex becomes the job of sex, as Talese and Foos heap upon the reader endless and undifferentiated accounts from the journals of smutty dialogue, masturbation, three-ways, toilet habits, cross-dressing, dildo action and even sex with teddy bears.
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The "people" are presented as an undifferentiated, feisty lot, eager to fight off the fascists with broom handles if they must; I challenge you to find a subway car anywhere in the world with that many people in such strong agreement about a contentious issue.
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Future Meat production tanks for meat and fat Future Meat production tanks for meat and fat The secret to Future Meat's success is its use of undifferentiated fibroblast cells that can be triggered with small molecules to turn into either fat cells or muscle cells.
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I think that the firehose pace of interesting games, and the ecology of games that you need to be familiar with to talk about that firehose in a compelling way, creates a condition where most things just kind of come out looking like grey, undifferentiated mass.
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What Hayles alludes to but does not ask, however, is this: Does the substitution of one female identity for another say something about the perceived interchangeability of a particular type of embodied labor, and the undifferentiated female laborers that were processual ciphers to their male employers?
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There they are, the people, citizens undifferentiated, with their suddenly discovered Lebanese flags, outside the Central Bank, demanding that its longtime governor, Riad Salameh, quit, hand himself over to judicial authorities, explain his son's opulent wedding in France this year, and provide details of money stolen by the government.
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As an undifferentiated cell, they are capable of becoming any one of a large number of specialized cells, whether it's blood, brain, or embryonic, and are also capable of dividing nearly without limit in a living human or animal, making them one of the body's best repair mechanisms.
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Hallucinations afflict lookouts because, as Ishmael explains in Moby-Dick, they're up at odd hours and alone, parsing the "blending cadence of waves with thoughts" for danger, whales, or other vessels; the brain and eyes are inclined to make meaning and mirages of undifferentiated land- and seascapes where none exist.
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"An Apple Subscription allows the company to use its existing ecosystem, reach and brand to de-risk new business, out-compete in undifferentiated ones and create a rich, proprietary experience that its competitors will struggle to match (due to either their more modest cash reserves or scope of services)," Ball added.
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" In a blog post, Brad Burnham, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a top New York venture-capital firm, bemoaned the collateral damage from the quasi monopolies of the digital age: "Publishers find themselves becoming commodity content suppliers in a sea of undifferentiated content in the Facebook news feed.
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The second niche is empty, and an unidentifiable animal bone has been placed in the ninth, while the other seven contain a plaster cast of a body part (a foot's instep and toes, a hand, an eyeless face, plus a penis, an ear, a male nipple, and an undifferentiated lump of flesh).
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He worried that a world bereft of a taste-making aristocracy and dedicated to the theoretical proposition of human equality would reduce people to the level of undifferentiated atoms: mediocre narcissists who, in their determination to exercise their rights, reduced themselves to the level of equal dependency on an all-powerful state.
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"Opening the border to raw beef from Argentina is certain to put downward pressure on U.S. cattle prices, and meat packers will be able to use this cheaper, undifferentiated beef as a direct substitute for beef produced by U.S. cattle producers," said Bill Bullard, chief executive of U.S. cattle producers' group R-CALF USA.
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Yet as someone with no use for Martin Denny or Jean Michel Jarré or for that matter Junoon, I get undifferentiated pleasure from this two-disc best-of by Haroon and Farook Shamsher, Indian-Bangladeshi brothers who came of age mastering '80s sampling and beatmaking skills in their flautist father's East End instrument shop.
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"We'll see more of those kinds of plays where banks try and get the same economies of scale without full blown mergers ... merging portions of their business, undifferentiated aspects of their business, cost centers ... and try and reduce things that way," he said, suggesting fixed income operations as one area likely to see this happen.
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But if you described a product that its participants, customers, were down 40%, if you were described a product where people who would normally be buying the product are not buying the product and where the product itself is becoming undifferentiated because people want to buy it on an algorithm, you'd be describing the public market.
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Her Newbery Medal for "The Slave Dancer" inspired a protest at the awards ceremony that year: The novel, which tells the story of a white New Orleans youth conscripted to play the fife on a slave ship in the 1840s, had been condemned by some reviewers for portraying the captured African slaves as a passive, undifferentiated group.
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What seems at first like an undifferentiated pile of drudgery can, in fact, be divided into three categories: tasks that need doing for the health and hygiene of the garden; tasks that could be done to tidy up the place; and tasks that a more organized, more ambitious and generally better person would do to create a thriving garden next spring.
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" (In December of last year, he did tell a PopSugar reporter that her choice to register for a code for every date of Harry Styles' upcoming arena tour had been a bad idea.) The basic process of verifying fans and offering them codes is always the same, he explains, but artists can opt to add an engagement layer on top of that, which "takes the undifferentiated pool and makes a queue.
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Our four-letter words all have to do with what the great Soviet theorist Mikhail Bakhtin called the grotesque: those parts of the body that are open to or project themselves into the world, or which produce an undifferentiated and inert substance: dick and arses, piss and shit, the possibility of a bodily unity, something that the Victorians with their terror of socialist revolution felt themselves required to stamp out at every turn.
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Tate said sales in its speciality food ingredients business rose 4 percent to 897 million pounds, while its bulk ingredients division saw a 1 percent drop in sales, hurt by a fall in corn costs and weak ethanol prices in the U.S. Speciality ingredients, such as artificial sweeteners and dietary fibres, involve special technology or patents and are therefore much more profitable than undifferentiated bulk ingredients such as high-fructose corn syrup.
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Microsoft, potentially Apple, all the Chinese big internet companies, folks like us who are providing key insight based on some amount of proprietary data, whether it's gleaned from AWS or it's gleaned from server logs that you practically give to an investor, and then everybody who isn't that, the LPs say, "Well wait, you have an undifferentiated product which then forces you to invest in the marginal outcomes, which now ties up my money for a shitty return, relative to what I can get in the public markets," and so that's what happens to venture capitalists. Right.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within our rating case for the issuer include: --Brent oil price that trends up from $21000/barrel in 2110 to a longer-term price of $21000/barrel; --Pro forma contracted backlog is forecast to remain intact with no material renegotiations; --Market day-rates assumed to be at or near cash breakeven levels; --Fleet composition considers announced rig retirements and attempts to adjust for uncompetitive rigs due to their technological obsolescence, undifferentiated market position, or cost-prohibitive through-the-cycle economics; --Capital expenditures of approximately $211 million, $21500 million, and $21000 million in 212000, 4807123, and 212001, respectively, plus Songa Offshore spending generally consistent with recent levels over the next couple of years; --Songa Offshore acquisition completed by YE2017 assuming the announced transaction funding, including approximately $660 million convertible bond, $540 million Transocean equity, and $480 million cash; --No additional Shell UDW secured debt issuances.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS Fitch's key assumptions within our rating case for the issuer include: --Brent oil price that trends up from $21000/barrel in 212000 to a longer-term price of $4807123/barrel; --Pro forma contracted backlog is forecast to remain intact with no material renegotiations; --Market day rates assumed to be at or near cash breakeven levels; --Fleet composition considers announced rig retirements and attempts to adjust for uncompetitive rigs due to their technological obsolescence, undifferentiated market position, or cost-prohibitive through-the-cycle economics; --Capital expenditures of approximately $212001 million, $165 million, and $190 million in 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively, plus Songa Offshore spending generally consistent with recent levels over the next couple years; --Repayment of debt at the scheduled maturity dates considering recent open market and tendering activities; --Songa Offshore acquisition completed by YE 2017 assuming the announced transaction funding, including approximately $13 million convertible bond, $540 million Transocean equity, and $480 million cash; --No additional Shell UDW secured debt issuances.
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