But the couple also realized they had one unfair advantage.
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Trump's claim that that is an unfair advantage is false.
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Regulators said this gave Google an unfair advantage over competitors.
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You might say she has an unfair advantage: her gender.
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What's the argument that the money equals an unfair advantage?
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Digital communities will become the new unfair advantage in every industry.
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The first is that in practice incumbents have an unfair advantage.
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Communicating your unfair advantageMake your unfair advantage really clear to LPs.
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The European Union says the tax incentives provided an unfair advantage.
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He claimed that athletes given such waivers had an unfair advantage.
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"They're giving themselves an unfair advantage that they claim they aren't."
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Finally, do Nike's springy new shoes give runners an unfair advantage?
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Or do you think they give some athletes an unfair advantage?
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"We don't want to give the enemy any unfair advantage," Army Col.
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Some rivals say the 28-year-old's hyperandrogenism gives an unfair advantage.
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Such a leak could have given an unfair advantage to some investors.
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Because of my father, I had an unfair advantage as a kid.
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But some runners and researchers think the footwear confers an unfair advantage.
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That could give what it considers an unfair advantage to China's exporters.
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"We have an unfair advantage in this, given our experience," Sivan quipped.
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But some men say these measures are giving women an unfair advantage.
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Was the returning champ using his prime headlining slot to unfair advantage?
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"Imposers take unfair advantage of your time, talent and good nature," Hakim writes.
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This means adding equipment like an electric motor to gain an unfair advantage.
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Trump says this is an unfair advantage but the evidence suggests it's not.
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Ek claims Apple Music has an "unfair advantage" over rivals such as Spotify.
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It was about suppressing votes for Democrats and giving themselves an unfair advantage.
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Business groups argue the rule gives organized labor an unfair advantage over employers.
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Doing so, it has contended, would create an unfair advantage for one company.
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Eastern cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia have an unfair advantage here.
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"You're getting the unfair advantage while poor people are being drafted," he said.
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Does that feel like an unfair advantage — that Facebook isn't properly monitoring that?
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Steroids, spitballs and corked bats have been utilized by players to unfair advantage.
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"This gives offshore manufacturers an unfair advantage over domestic manufacturers," the company said.
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The 28-year-old outfielder said the Astros definitely had an unfair advantage.
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And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage.
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Western companies are worried the effort will give Chinese rivals an unfair advantage.
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The South American country has said that government financing gives Bombardier an unfair advantage.
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They say foreign government subsidies have given certain nations unfair advantage over the U.S.
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The DPP, naturally, thinks the KMT's wealth gives it an unfair advantage in elections.
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We think that if it increases performance, then that unfair advantage should be eliminated.
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Some other competitors at the event said her inclusion gives her an unfair advantage.
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Did Facebook's ad platform give Donald Trump an unfair advantage in the 2016 election?
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In a world where lies and truth are equated, lies have an unfair advantage.
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"But one side might want to be angling in" to gain an unfair advantage.
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Does anyone think that this gives New York an unfair advantage in interstate competition?
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Apple isn't the only company leveraging a mobile operating system for an unfair advantage.
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Relying on polls gives an unfair advantage to candidates who are already well known.
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The organization argues that athletes with high levels of testosterone have an unfair advantage.
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Countries always find new and unexpected ways to give favored industries an unfair advantage.
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Since the shoes' release, they've been assessing whether the footwear provide an unfair advantage.
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Do you think educational consultants are providing a valuable service or an unfair advantage?
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But European regulators successfully argued that Google's practices gave it an unfair advantage against competitors.
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They said Norwegian would gain an unfair advantage and undercut the American carriers on fares.
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The aim is to eliminate any unfair advantage brought on by the unfairly devalued currency.
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It's all about ensuring the Corps maintains an unfair advantage on the battlefield, Gez said.
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I really think is your kid got every possible unfair advantage you could buy them.
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There has been social media criticism about you holding an unfair advantage having undergone surgery.
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Most states, and bricks-and-mortar retailers, think this gives e-commerce an unfair advantage.
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The only way out is to have an unfair advantage through differentiated products and services.
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Some complained that the boy's prescribed testosterone treatment gave him an unfair advantage over girls.
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They say current rules give those filing lawsuits an unfair advantage to pick favorable courts.
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Some competitors have said women with higher levels of the hormone have an unfair advantage.
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But in Apple's case, they continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn.
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So products full of high-fructose corn syrup and soybean oil have an unfair advantage.
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The goal: to ensure that no one company can buy an unfair advantage over another.
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Critics say it gives an unfair advantage to big companies that can afford to participate.
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Learning disabilities are indeed a disability; accommodations don't give students with disabilities an unfair advantage.
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Some runners and experts say the footwear confers an unfair advantage and should be regulated.
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It discourages job switching and entrepreneurship, and offers an unfair advantage to the comfortably employed.
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It said the amended application seemed to remove what it saw as an unfair advantage.
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But in Apple's case, they continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn.
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"All we're saying is she is taking something that gives her an unfair advantage," Baudheim said.
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It's taking unfair advantage of someone who thought they were a protected guest in your home.
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Since those companies benefit from favorable policies and subsidies, foreign companies complain of an unfair advantage.
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It's like I just showed up with an unfair advantage against the rest of you suckers.
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Spotify, which competes directly with Apple Music, argues that this constitutes an unfair advantage for Apple.
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Some complained that the boy's prescribed testosterone treatment gave him an unfair advantage over girls. Sen.
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The company says that Google's software bundle in Android creates an unfair advantage against its competitors.
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Lobbyists continue to insinuate that the tax exemption gives credit unions an unfair advantage over banks.
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The Trump administration has long pointed to China as having an unfair advantage in the agreement.
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But some retail competitors argue the policy for third-party vendors gives Amazon an unfair advantage.
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But the group doesn't define what constitutes an "unfair advantage" or how "reasonably available" gets determined.
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Employers who don't want to invest in proper training would have an unfair advantage with IRAPs.
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It argues that Google is giving itself an unfair advantage by putting its own results first.
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According to sports officials, that gave her an unfair advantage over most women in some events.
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Tax experts and economists have long argued that as a result, borrowing gets an unfair advantage.
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Would using an ex post facto diagnosis on the job market give me an unfair advantage?
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People often criticize genetic editing because of its ability to give some humans an unfair advantage over others, but healthy people already DO have an unfair advantage over those born with a genetic disease, so genetic modification could exist to allow everyone an equal chance at life.
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Lyft claimed the law would give Uber an unfair advantage because it's bigger and has more fares.
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"They continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn," Ek said in the blog post.
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And so they've got an unfair advantage just because of the way the government works in China.
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FOR years, online retailers in America have enjoyed an unfair advantage over their bricks-and-mortar competitors.
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In the 2016 election cycle, Clinton's rivals said a limited debate schedule gave her an unfair advantage.
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Without controlling participation based on testosterone levels, experts worry that trans women would have an unfair advantage.
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If you start with your unfair advantage — and the LP clearly understands you — it's a good start.
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Do the privileged groups attending the G-20 gain an unfair advantage through access to world leaders?
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Apple could come under fire for having an unfair advantage as the iPhone's sole NFC-based wallet.
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"We're trying to give people an unfair advantage," said David Bradbury, president and fund manager at VCET.
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Most StarCraft II pros are well younger than 200, so that's a bit of an unfair advantage.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations is looking into whether the Vaporfly sneakers confer an unfair advantage.
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For his part, Mr. Draghi denied that he was trying to give European companies an unfair advantage.
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The unsolicited approach comes amid criticism from U.S. carriers that Persian Gulf competitors have an unfair advantage.
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Their control over the state legislatures then gave the GOP an unfair advantage in the US House.
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Does "science" show that transgender girls who compete as females in a sport have an unfair advantage?
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How can I have an unfair advantage over her if she beats me most of the time?
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He was very biased against Indian gaming and said they had an unfair advantage over his casinos.
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"We will ensure that no country or foreign corporation can take unfair advantage of U.S. markets," Ross said.
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In the tech world, we often talk about a startup's "unfair advantage" that allows it to beat competitors.
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Hillary Clinton was among those complaining that the carrier was skirting labour laws, giving it an unfair advantage.
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U.S. authorities said the scheme gave Liu's companies an unfair advantage over American rivals and posed other hazards.
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But Canadians who haven't made US iTunes accounts think these early Pokémon Go players have an unfair advantage.
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He'd like to see it opened up to more people so that programmers don't have an unfair advantage.
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Mr. Trump has long accused China of systematically undervaluing its currency to obtain an unfair advantage in trade.
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Democrats pressed the executives on whether the merger would give the companies an unfair advantage over their competitors.
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According to the EC, Amazon received tax advantages between 2003 and 2011 and was given an unfair advantage.
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Some sellers say that Amazon has an unfair advantage in accessing sales data on its third-party platform.
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Your unique gifts — your point of view, what you're drawn to, your personal expertise — that's your unfair advantage.
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But according to the Department of Labor, white applicants have a dramatically unfair advantage in landing those gigs.
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Then caginess is deemed an unfair advantage and, as we have seen in recent days, a fireable offense.
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Companies will have to repay state aid if this is found to have given them an unfair advantage.
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The Swedish music streaming company accused Apple of giving its own music service an unfair advantage over competitors.
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And as a former state Supreme Court justice, he suggested the map still gave Republicans an unfair advantage.
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Male Marines "thought that women have an unfair advantage in how their PFT is scored," the study states.
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He supports slapping tariffs on Chinese-made drones so competitors in China do not have an unfair advantage.
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Nike Chief Executive John Donahoe has also rejected the idea that the technology gives athletes an unfair advantage.
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Some have been found guilty of using their control over the tracks to win unfair advantage over private operators.
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The WSJ reports that Google told government officials that the current restrictions give an unfair advantage to local competitors.
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Some view credit bids as giving investors who buy a distressed company's debt at cheap prices an unfair advantage.
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To say something is "rigged" is to say it's designed to give one group an unfair advantage over another.
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Martin O'Malley accused the party's leadership of giving Hillary Clinton an unfair advantage by limiting the number of debates.
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The program, aptly codenamed "Hell," reportedly spied on Lyft drivers from 2014 to 2016, giving Uber an unfair advantage.
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He says it creates an unfair advantage, that China is "raping" the United States when it comes to trade.
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He pulled down 10 boards, but the guy is 6-foot-4, so he's got an unfair advantage there.
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Earlier this week, the music-streaming service filed a complaint in Europe saying Apple Music has an unfair advantage.
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U.S. and European competitors have accused Emirates and other Gulf carriers of having an unfair advantage through state subsidies.
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The aim is to increase transparency in share trading and stop some investors having an unfair advantage over others.
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Brick-and-mortar retailers have made an especially strong push, arguing their online rivals now have an unfair advantage.
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Some observers consider Semenya to be also running with an unfair advantage, albeit one she can do little about.
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Sanders' campaign has long said that superdelegates represent an unfair advantage for Clinton, contrary the will of the people.
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In doing so, would the OCC give such companies an unfair advantage to others already in that regulated space?
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Some people consider springs to be an unfair advantage, but few seem to feel the same way about levers.
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"One of the first things I look for is what the company's unfair advantage is," he told Business Insider.
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In recent days, though, Mr. Trump has targeted Amazon in tweets, asserting that the company has an unfair advantage.
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Clinton's campaign says that gives an unfair advantage to inland residents when compared with those on the East Coast.
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That's an unfair advantage if there ever was one, but we can't choose our parents; just ask my kids.
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Vaporfly soles give runners more energetic efficiency, but some researchers and runners think the shoes confer an unfair advantage.
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The Chinese government stands accused of devaluing its currency in order to gain an unfair advantage in international trade.
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What's competitive about incumbents protecting themselves from competition by the overwhelming and unfair advantage of rigging the donor game?
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This photo is commenting on this unfair advantage the wealthy have, and how powerful and evil money can become.
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But, Telekom argues, its rival would enjoy an unfair advantage because it would have an effective cable TV monopoly.
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Foreign trade groups have said it gives unfair advantage to Chinese companies and is a tool of Beijing's industrial policies.
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Some farmers and grain companies believe lawmakers will craft legislation to fix what they call the unfair advantage for cooperatives.
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She said her concern is dual platforms could gain an unfair advantage as a consequence of access to merchants' data.
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Did anyone who donated money to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state receive an unfair advantage?
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SEC critics have said the use of these in-house judges gives the agency an unfair advantage in enforcement disputes.
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Investors use financial terms to protect their interests in so many ways, every day, that they've got an unfair advantage.
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This is called zero-rating, and regulators believe it harms online competition, giving certain companies an unfair advantage over others.
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Cannabis delivery platform Eaze is facing a lawsuit over accusations it has an unfair advantage by accepting credit card payments.
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Some retail competitors argue this policy for third-party vendors that sell on Amazon's platform gives it an unfair advantage.
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The Fairway Market in Red Hook has an unfair advantage: an absurdly gorgeous, clear view of the Statue of Liberty.
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Waymo claims that Uber gained an unfair advantage by getting Lidar files that Levandowski allegedly stole before leaving the company.
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Licensed industries scream loudest about "consumer protection" when reforms threaten their unfair advantage, which often spooks politicians away from reform.
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To prevent an unfair advantage in letter mail, the government has tightly controlled how much USPS charges for its letters.
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Shortly after the game, the N.F.L. began investigating whether the Patriots had used deflated footballs to gain an unfair advantage.
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However, his critics will likely cite the electoral board's qualms with his party to argue Guzman was given unfair advantage.
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Moreover, insurers say that the government would have an unfair advantage if it both regulates and competes with private plans.
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John doesn't support either side in the conflict, but believes that Dinka are given an unfair advantage in South Sudan.
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The Trump administration argued this gives an unfair advantage to China and incentivizes importing knock-off goods from the country.
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While rappers may lack this form of promotion, they have what Mr. Matvienko called an unfair advantage: They can swear.
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OTC trading would need to be stopped as well to avoid users having an unfair advantage over other market participants.
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Nike&aposs Vaporfly shoes are making headlines for the unfair advantage they may or may not confer on their wearers.
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It's an extremely unfair advantage in my opinion and something you are continually fighting against if you are a startup.
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That, the critics say, could allow Google to gain an unfair advantage over user behavior data invaluable for advertising purposes.
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When it comes to glamorous drag, men who impersonate women have traditionally had an unfair advantage over their female counterparts.
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That's precisely what European Union regulators are probing: whether Amazon's consumer data gives it an inherent — and unfair — advantage over rivals.
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In a minute, we'll start with ... I mean, presumably they're going to look into whether these companies have an unfair advantage.
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It's meant to be a tidy mechanism that allows executives to exercise their rights as shareholders without playing an unfair advantage.
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Instead it was, as Alexander essentially acknowledged, an improper and illegal effort to get an unfair advantage in the next election.
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However, this has raised questions about whether the shoes are offering an unfair advantage or are simply the most energy-efficient.
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The European Union's executive has responsibility for enforcing rules to stop countries giving local companies an unfair advantage through state aid.
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Some nootropic supplements claim that they'll make you so smart that you'll have an "unfair advantage," but that is a stretch.
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Restaurant owners complain that because mobile vendors do not have to pay rent or real-estate taxes, they enjoy unfair advantage.
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Ashby, however, worries that by using data we might not realize we're giving up creates an unfair advantage for insurance companies.
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Retailers had long complained that Amazon and other online retailers maintained an unfair advantage by not adding sales tax to purchases.
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European regulators are closely watching how Amazon uses its own sales data to potentially gain an unfair advantage over marketplace sellers.
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There are a lot of reasons to think that zero-rating this service gives it an unfair advantage over competing services.
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The company says it wants to partner with municipalities but is concerned that city-run networks may have an unfair advantage.
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This is especially the case in families like ours, where a big age gap gives the older child an unfair advantage.
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Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM were all bidding, but Amazon, Catz said, with its massive cloud services business, had an unfair advantage.
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Clinton, said that far from making Mr. Trump a genius, the tax disclosure illustrated the unfair advantage given to wealthy Americans.
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Not everyone is so thrilled with the surge of successful women candidates, with some whining that women have an unfair advantage.
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Either constitutes "impermissible benefits" and "inducements" — an unfair advantage, as though the Cardinals had greased their opponents' rims before a game.
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And — in Stoppelman's view — Google used its dominance in the search market to give its local reviews product an unfair advantage.
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Mr. Trump said Mr. Draghi was trying to push down the value of the euro to give Europe an unfair advantage.
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Spotify recently complained to European regulators that Apple used the App Store to give its Apple Music service an unfair advantage.
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Nonetheless, Birol said fossil-fuel consumption subsidies that totaled $400 billion in 2018 are providing an "unfair advantage" to those fuels.
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The current I.A.A.F. rules state only that shoes may not confer an "unfair advantage" and must be "reasonably available" to all.
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A particular focus, officials said, will be on the data they hold that could give them an unfair advantage over rivals.
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"To me, it seems a pretty clear case of a team trying to gain an unfair advantage using technology," he said.
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But people who abuse the privilege are breaking a fundamental social principle: They're taking unfair advantage of the compliance of others.
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And how better to address the problem of unfair advantage, the basis of the court's decision to scrap the old map?
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The I.A.A.F. has argued that athletes with higher testosterone levels gain an unfair advantage in muscle strength and oxygen-carrying capacity.
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But for competitive online gaming it can wildly unbalance the playing field, enabling some players to have an unfair advantage over others.
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Apple thinks content should be treated the same, and there should be no unfair advantage for one group over another, Cook said.
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We simply don't want to have the TLC mistakenly hand Uber an unfair advantage over smaller players and actually hurt driver earnings.
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Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.
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If all this did lead to an entrenched, unfair advantage, the effect, when compounded over decades, would make wealth inequality disastrously worse.
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Since that year's election, other parties have been awarded compensatory seats to eliminate the unfair advantage gained by winners of overhang seats.
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And if you showed up with an Imperial, nine times out of 10 you'd be banned because you had an unfair advantage.
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Russia was furious when the World Anti-Doping Agency exposed a huge state-sponsored effort to give Russian athletes an unfair advantage.
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How can the technology be cast into an unfair advantage that will yield big margins and growth that underpin billion-dollar businesses?
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Pennywise the Clown, It Pennywise falls under the supernatural category which is an unfair advantage for anyone trying to escape his wrath.
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As Bloomberg reported last month, a possible condition would be pledging not to give its own programming an unfair advantage over rivals.
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"I have had an unfair advantage over a lot of people," he says, recalling his early access to computers and music programs.
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That may have given GDF Suez an unfair advantage over other companies in breach of EU state aid rules, the Commission said.
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Back in January 2017, Trump alleged that Japan used its "money supply" to weaken the yen and give exporters an unfair advantage.
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It said this gave Home Depot an unfair advantage over rivals that complied with state hazardous waste control and unfair competition laws.
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The U.S. Congress should impose tariffs on China, and other nations, that manipulate their currency to gain an unfair advantage in trade.
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That information allowed Thomas to have an unfair advantage in securing two contracts worth more than $22019 million, according to the DOJ.
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The company's franchise agreement forces franchisees to settle disputes via arbitration, something that many experts say can give companies an unfair advantage.
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Farley argues that keeping voice actors in the dark about what project they're working on gives video game companies an unfair advantage.
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To succeed in today's highly competitive environment, consumer startups need a brand new idea and some unfair advantage to set themselves apart.
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The United States has long argued that the so-called launch aid provided to Airbus gave it an unfair advantage over Boeing.
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The worry normally goes that the candidate who can amass the bigger war-chest will get an unfair advantage at the polls.
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The end goal: to ensure both countries adjust the rate of exchange between their currencies and get rid of any unfair advantage.
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The previous World Athletics rules stated only that shoes must not confer an "unfair advantage" and must be "reasonably available" to all.
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For decades, multiple presidential administrations did little while China flouted the rules and gained an unfair advantage in the international trade market.
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Currency manipulation, where a country lowers the value of its currency to gain an unfair advantage, is rampant, particularly in Asia. Sen.
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The EU view was that this gave an unfair advantage to biodiesel producers there, allowing them to sell at unfairly low prices.
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It was often so high it was classified as being within the male range, a situation the authorities considered an unfair advantage.
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The running shoe has caused an uproar in the last few weeks over claims that it offers its wearers an unfair advantage.
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When people use aimbots or other cheat technologies to gain an unfair advantage, they ruin games for people who are playing fairly.
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Without such enforcement, Democrats and labor unions aligned with them worry Mexico will have an unfair advantage to compete with American companies.
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Some publishing executives argue that authors who benefit from bulk purchases have an unfair advantage over writers who rely on organic sales.
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But to the Trump administration, forcing people to work for little or no money is also an "unfair advantage" for foreign businesses.
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In other sports, doping is both frowned upon and explicitly prohibited because it is seen as giving PED users an unfair advantage.
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I've just never been that person because I don't see the point of kicking people who are down because it's an unfair advantage.
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The company, which argued the law would hand an unfair advantage to Uber, recently lost a bid to temporarily halt the wage hike.
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The IAAF argued that female runners with high testosterone levels have an unfair advantage in races ranging from 400 meters to 1 mile.
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But Bergmayer and some other network neutrality supporters worry that AT&T's approach could give its subsidiary an unfair advantage in the marketplace.
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If the correlation between unfair advantage and plastic surgery derives from me being a transgender woman, it is clearly a matter of ignorance.
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She also dropped threats to use security as a bargaining chip and promised not to seek an unfair advantage through deregulation post-Brexit.
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Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic candidate for president, have said that Amazon has an unfair advantage that third-party sellers could never fully overcome.
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Some games support mouse and keyboard controls, but most don't, lest you gain an unfair advantage over other online players with standard controllers.
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The EU view was that this gave an unfair advantage to biodiesel producers there, allowing them to "dump" product at unfairly low prices.
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" In the case of the German manufacturer, he said, "one would suspect the timing isn't coincidental and the government has an unfair advantage.
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British sprinter Bethany Woodward recently returned one of her medals, feeling that an inaccurate classification had given her relay team an unfair advantage.
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The anticompetitive and free speech issues with letting ISPs determine which services get an unfair advantage on the network should be fairly obvious.
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Any country that devalues their currency in order to take unfair advantage of the United States will face tariffs to stop the cheating.
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Brexit is perhaps the most compelling example of the unfair advantage enjoyed in modern democracies by "shriek" scaremongering issues over sober interest politics.
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Clinton's connection to Bill wasn't some kind of unfair advantage; it just puts her on a more level playing field with the men.
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The administration argued that the country had taken steps to devalue its currency in order to gain an unfair advantage in international trade.
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This market reality has given an unfair advantage to farmers and land grabbers who succeed in avoiding law enforcement efforts to stop deforestation.
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Nike's (NKE) Vaporfly shoe is reportedly set to be banned by World Athletics, amid allegations that it gives an unfair advantage to runners.
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Optum claimed Smith, now a director of strategy and research at ABC, misappropriated trade secrets that would give the venture an unfair advantage.
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And they have been complaining to market administrators that they are being beat in capacity auctions because clean energy has an unfair advantage.
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That has worked very well, and that aspect, where the United States really kind of gets and maintains an unfair advantage ... Really, truly.
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Consovoy argued that DC and Maryland's claims — that Trump's hotel had an unfair advantage and hurt other local hotels and venues — were too speculative.
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The European Commission said Google had an unfair advantage by pre-installing its Chrome browser and Google search app on Android smartphones and notebooks.
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Amazon is also under pressure from competitors who say it has an unfair advantage to win a Pentagon cloud computing contract known as JEDI.
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There's debate on both sides of the Atlantic as to whether Amazon's mountain of data gives it an inherent — and unfair — advantage over rivals.
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The argument against re-electing presidents—that the incumbent has an unfair advantage—applies less to congress, where experience may serve the public interest.
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ICE officials claim that employers who hire undocumented workers gain an "unfair advantage" over others and take jobs from US citizens and legal residents.
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The agreement came about after a Google competitor in Russia, Yandex, complained that installing Google apps on Android phones gave Google an unfair advantage.
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Both Democrats and Republicans have been bashing buybacks, saying corporate America is getting an unfair advantage in the tax code that rewards selfish behavior.
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Music streaming giant Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission's antitrust regulators, saying Apple Music has an "unfair advantage" over rivals.
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By pre-installing its Chrome browser and Google search app on Android devices, Google had an unfair advantage over its rivals, EU enforcers said.
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She was once one of Beyoncé's backup dancers, which some people believe gives her and Chmerkovskiy an unfair advantage over the other DWTS contestants.
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Grant has an unfair advantage here, being an actual firefighter and all, and is the first to win a one-on-one with JoJo.
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A version of this same service was recently banned by regulators in India because it was deemed as giving an unfair advantage to Facebook.
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Basically, if some data is free and other data is not, it gives an unfair advantage to the company blessed to provide free data.
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Opposition parties have complained the BJP is gaining an unfair advantage by using the state broadcaster and the NaMo TV to air its propaganda.
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"This means the questions did not present an unfair advantage to either group," Kate Welk, the director of assessment communications, said in an email.
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"If you actually understand how transactions are flowing through the system, then you have potentially unfair advantage when it comes to underwriting," said Acharya.
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Some experts, too, have disagreed with the idea that it might deliver an unfair advantage, though effects of the drug on athletes are hazy.
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If state-owned banks make cut-price loans, or state-owned electricity companies sell cheap energy, Chinese exporters have an unfair advantage, it says.
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Though Zee gets ingrained publicity almost every morning on GMA, some viewers feel it's an unfair advantage and that could cost her some votes.
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"Businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens create an unfair advantage," Katrina Berger, an agent for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit, said in a statement.
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Likewise, footage must be provided to the prosecution and defense at the same time; otherwise, there would be an unfair advantage to the prosecution.
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When you start your own company, one of the things that investors look for is what gives you an unfair advantage over the competition.
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" He added: "Accessing early vote totals before the overall results are final can clearly give an unfair advantage to one candidate over the other.
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"Businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens create an unfair advantage over their competing businesses," Ms. Berger said at a news conference after the raid.
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Oracle has argued for months that Amazon has an unfair advantage in the race to become the cloud-computing provider for the Defense Department.
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US President Donald Trump has long complained about the trade deficit with China, accusing Beijing of creating an unfair advantage for its own companies.
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Mike Trout -- the best player in baseball -- says the tip-off is a HUGE advantage to the hitters and creates a ridiculously unfair advantage.
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The fact it can be bought at all, no matter the candidate, on the day Americans go the polls seems like an unfair advantage.
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Nike (NKE) – Nike's Vaporfly shoe reportedly is set to be banned by World Athletics, amid allegations that it gives an unfair advantage to runners.
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The EU antitrust authority said it was concerned that the Shazam deal might give Apple an unfair advantage in poaching users from its rivals.
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Republicans maintained that government-sponsored retirement savings accounts free of federal consumer protection rules had an unfair advantage over plans from private-sector providers.
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The back story: The United States contends that Airbus, the European aerospace company, received illegal subsidies that gave it an unfair advantage over Boeing.
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The back story: The United States contends that Airbus, the European aerospace company, received illegal subsidies that gave it an unfair advantage over Boeing.
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Majority groups that have been unfairly advantaged for too long see any even minute reduction in that unfair advantage as an all-out attack.
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You shouldn't have to worry about dying because another player managed to open a loot box that gave them an unfair advantage over you.
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"By giving itself an unfair advantage, it betrays consumers' trust in Google to match them with the most helpful information," Focus on the User said.
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ICE officials have said that employers who hire undocumented workers gain an "unfair advantage" over others and take jobs from US citizens and legal residents.
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ICE officials have said that businesses that hire undocumented workers get an "unfair advantage" over others and take jobs from US citizens and legal residents.
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Critics say regulations prevent exchanges from delaying orders and that when IEX itself sends orders, they bypass the speed bump, giving IEX an unfair advantage.
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Under a 1988 U.S. currency law, the main purpose of the designation is to force negotiations with the offending country to eliminate any unfair advantage.
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The lawsuit: In March, the owners of the restaurant sued Trump and the business behind the Trump International Hotel claiming they had an unfair advantage.
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Palma, who came to the protest with a friend, said she believed the Hungarian election system gave an unfair advantage to Orban's ruling Fidesz party.
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The other plaintiffs, including a Jill Phaneuf, a Washington-based events booker, joined the lawsuit saying Trump businesses have unfair advantage in the hospitality industry.
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And when they do, stand by for the howls of righteous indignation about how Republicans are gaming the system to give themselves an unfair advantage.
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S. airlines have long maintained that it's too hard to compete with Gulf carriers such as Emirates and Etihad because they enjoy an unfair advantage.
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Because material from past SATs is typically reused on later exams, the items New Oriental is distributing could provide test-takers with an unfair advantage.
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The Italian company could bundle internet, fixed telephony and multimedia content services provided by Vivendi, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals, the person said.
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Several of America's bourses had lobbied against certification, arguing that such a "speed bump" to slow down trades would give the exchange an unfair advantage.
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The rules, which include precise limits on compensation for campaign staff members, are intended to prevent the wealthy from gaining an unfair advantage in politics.
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Community banks have long said credit unions have an unfair advantage, insisting small banks serve the same purpose but face steeper regulatory and tax burdens.
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The Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association, a lobby group, grouses about the unfair advantage Albertan drivers enjoy because they pay no provincial sales tax on vehicles.
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Two years ago voters rejected an attempt to overhaul the tax system, which critics say gives the country an unfair advantage in attracting global companies.
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"When cheaters use aimbots or other cheat technologies to gain an unfair advantage, they ruin games for people who are playing fairly," the spokesperson wrote.
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That's why regulators have tended to approve these deals as long as the merging companies agree not to take unfair advantage of their market power.
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"They continue to give themselves an unfair advantage at every turn," Daniel Ek, Spotify's chief executive, said in a message posted on the company's website.
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Together those factors appear to give Chinese firms an unfair advantage in negotiations with foreign companies, especially those eager to get into China's huge market.
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In our next fund, we'll be expanding our suite of services and our network of connections, all designed to give our founders an unfair advantage.
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The crackdown followed protests against Uber and similar services by taxi drivers who contended the services received an unfair advantage due to lack of regulation.
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Janavs said in court that she was "so very sorry that I tried to create an unfair advantage for my children," according to the report.
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The ruling by Commerce may add to tensions between the U.S. and China, which has rejected that it gives its aluminum producers an unfair advantage.
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But when the government is the primary source of a particular industry's massive good fortune, the call to remove that unfair advantage is truly justified.
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Swimming allowed record-setting, full-body suits, then banned them after the 4 Beijing Olympics because they gave an unfair advantage in buoyancy and speed.
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Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman has long accused Google of giving its own lackluster local reviews product an unfair advantage over competitors like Yelp and TripAdvisor.
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Spotify filed a complaint with the European Commission's antitrust regulators earlier this year, alleging Apple Music gives the U.S. tech giant an "unfair advantage" over rivals.
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"It gives a little bit of unfair advantage to exporters who either are or are not making sales, and can trade that information accordingly," he said.
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Spotify's complaint hinges on the fact that Apple owns the iOS platform as well as the App Store, giving it an unfair advantage over its competitors.
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The company expressly forbids sellers from creating multiple accounts because it gives a single seller with multiple storefronts an unfair advantage over competitors with just one.
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The United States last week challenged China's export duties on similar materials, arguing they violated Beijing's WTO commitments and gave an unfair advantage to Chinese manufacturers.
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Trump, during a telephone interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box, " said the ability of Chinese President Xi Jinping to directly impact monetary policy is an unfair advantage.
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"After reviewing many reports of in-game cheating, we have started taking action against players taking unfair advantage of and abusing Pokemon GO," the company said.
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Some on Wall Street have complained that it gives corporate mergers and acquisitions teams, which are not subject to the same leverage restrictions, an unfair advantage.
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The U.S. Treasury Department late Monday after the stock market closed declared China a currency manipulator, saying it's using yuan to gain "unfair advantage" in trade.
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Salesforce has raised concerns that Microsoft will be able to deny competitors use of LinkedIn's mass collection of user data giving the company an unfair advantage.
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And in March, D.C. restaurant Cork Wine Bar sued, claiming the restaurant at Trump Hotel had an unfair advantage as it is associated with the president.
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It was a tactic that at times had Vekic looking to the skies and shrugging her shoulders, as though Williams was somehow using an unfair advantage.
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In March 2018, the owner of Leeds United Football Club, Andrea Radrizzani, said on Twitter and in a media interview that Wolves had an unfair advantage.
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And banks have argued that the tax exemption the credit unions enjoy presents an unfair advantage and their business activity should rightfully be curbed by Washington.
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Earlier in February, Sprint filed a lawsuit against AT&T for what it said are misleading 20183G marketing tactics that give AT&T an unfair advantage.
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Facebook's "Free Basics" program was recently banned in India, after activists claimed the effort would give the company an unfair advantage in its emerging digital market.
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The European Commission opened an investigation into the deal in April, concerned that it might give Apple an unfair advantage in poaching users from its rivals.
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"Forced arbitration takes power away from ordinary people and gives it to big banks and Wall Street companies that already have an unfair advantage," said Sen.
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Many argue that China holds an unfair advantage in artificial intelligence because of its citizens' willingness to easily give up personal data desired by tech companies.
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In a letter to Skoda employees reacting to the Reuters report, Skoda's main union chief, Jaroslav Povsik, objected to statements that Skoda had an unfair advantage.
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Doing so would add a true alternative and ensure that neither FICO nor Vantage have an unfair advantage due to their relationship with the credit repositories.
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Opponents of the deal argue that it doesn't go far enough to "get tough" with trading partners seen as taking unfair advantage of existing trade deals.
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The previous FCC argued such deals let companies buy an unfair advantage over smaller competitors, tilting the until-now level internet playing field on its ear.
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Now, cheaters in online shooters such as Rainbow Six: Siege and Battlefield V are tweaking their graphics settings to gain an unfair advantage over other players.
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I know this is an unfair advantage but I also feel that it's a great way to talk about a startup from beginning to, well, end.
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Like Lopez, Wakelam got into hacking as a teenager — specifically he spent most of his time hacking a video game to give himself an unfair advantage.
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Traditional retail industry groups argue that e-commerce businesses have an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar competitors by being able to avoid collecting sales tax.
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That gives them some male biological characteristics, male levels of the hormone testosterone after puberty, and an unfair advantage over other female athletes, the I.A.A.F. says.
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Spotify complained to European regulators last month that Apple used the App Store to give its Apple Music service an unfair advantage over Spotify's competing app.
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Now the European Commission is looking into whether Dutch regulators have let Ikea get away with an "unfair advantage over other companies" with its byzantine structure.
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The concern is that platforms can build services that compete with third-party services running on their platforms, and can easily give themselves an unfair advantage.
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But the move also was certain to intensify a long-running debate in Washington about whether airlines based in the Persian Gulf have an unfair advantage.
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Her lawsuit against the world's governing body for track and field is pending, and the group is out to prove that she has an unfair advantage.
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In Nascar racing, the first communication via radio in the early 1950s used walkie-talkies, which were banned after teams complained they gave an unfair advantage.
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The EU competition enforcer said five measures, among them loans, capital increases, and debt-to-equity conversions may have given Malev Ground Handling an unfair advantage.
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"China gives its aluminum industry an unfair advantage through underpriced loans and other illegal government subsidies," President Barack Obama said in a statement accompanying the announcement.
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The decision struck down the state legislative maps drawn in 2016 that critics said were racially discriminatory and gave an unfair advantage to the Republican Party.
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ANODE, a lobby for alternative retail energy suppliers, had taken the matter to the court arguing the scheme gave an unfair advantage to energy group Engie.
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But big companies in the rest of the world worry that it is more than that: an unfair advantage in China's home court, and perhaps elsewhere.
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Ad bans give incumbent politicians an unfair advantage, and establishing partial ad archives gives political ad buyers an incentive to not declare their ads as political.
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Trump has taken a tough stance on trade relations, accusing China and Japan of manipulating their currencies to create an unfair advantage when competing against U.S. exporters.
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European regulators originally insisted the bank had to sell the branches by 2013 so as to prevent the lender from gaining an unfair advantage over its competitors.
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Officials have begun an initiative to inspect arcades along New Jersey boardwalks, ensuring the house doesn't have an unfair advantage preventing players from bringing home a prize.
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Thailand had not conducted any currency intervention policies to gain an unfair advantage in trade and the central bank focused on stability in exchange rates, Pimchanok said.
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" By rolling out these phony "25GE" icons, Sprint says AT&T's distorted the definition of actual 25G to "secure an unfair advantage in the saturated wireless market.
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More important, what does that mean for the millions of other species on this planet who don't have that unfair advantage, who still exist at evolution's mercy?
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"Businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens create an unfair advantage over their competing businesses," said Katrina W. Berger, special agent in charge of HSI's Dallas field office.
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Trump, who has persistently called on the Fed to ease monetary policy, accused Draghi of trying to weaken the euro to gain an unfair advantage in trade.
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There are even a few games that make good use of the 32:9 screen ratio, so much so that it almost feels like an unfair advantage.
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A number of 2020 Democrats, including Sanders, came out swinging against the DNC after it announced the change, saying that it gives an unfair advantage to Bloomberg.
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Eni and other alternative providers have asked French and European competition authorities to end the regulated power tariffs, which they say give an unfair advantage to EDF.
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Instead of hiding, Mr Schwarzenegger is in the thick of a nationwide campaign against gerrymandering—when parties draw electoral districts to give their side an unfair advantage.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in the 100-meter sprinter's favor, arguing that the association had not proved that testosterone gives athletes an unfair advantage.
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The European Commission believes that this so-called "sweetheart" deal gave Apple an unfair advantage compared to other companies, and constitutes a breach of state aid rules.
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The popular music streaming service recently filed an antitrust suit with the European Commission, saying Apple uses its stringent guidelines to give Apple Music an unfair advantage.
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Don't inundate your investor with numbers; present a concise hypothesis for your unfair advantage in a growing market with your current traction being evidence to back it.
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European regulators originally told RBS to sell the branches by 2013 to prevent the state-backed bank, Britain's largest small-business lender, from having an unfair advantage.
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At the heart of the EU complaint is Google's reliance on bundling its own software into Android, which Europe's regulators say gives the company an unfair advantage.
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That in making those choices you feel you are treated fairly, that no one is given an unfair advantage or disadvantage for how they choose to play.
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Your internet provider can't block your access to any legal content, and they can't slow down Netflix just to give their own video service an unfair advantage.
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When fraudulent in-app purchases pollute the economics of the game and allow some players to gain an unfair advantage, it ruins the experience for other players.
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Its rapid growth has antagonized U.S.-based companies, including American, who have accused Qatar Airways of accepting government subsidies to gain an unfair advantage in the market.
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The European Commission said the Spanish aid may have given the country an unfair advantage in attracting the Peugeot project or that it may even be unnecessary.
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One of Trump's signature issues has been his promise to get tough with trading partners like China, which he alleges takes unfair advantage of the United States.
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Wall Street lobbyists and the Chamber of Commerce complained that state efforts would crowd "out the private market" and give states an "unfair advantage" over private providers.
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The company still faces separate suits by Volkswagen dealers and by dealers of competing brands, who say the cheating gave Volkswagen an unfair advantage in the market.
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MGM argued that granting the tribes' application would give them an unfair advantage over a casino 12 miles away from the proposed site of the tribes' venture.
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Pharmaceutical companies argue that since test data is so expensive to produce, it is an unfair advantage to let other companies rely on that data without cost.
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" Perrone charged that Amazon is a monopoly that, if it acquires Whole Foods, would also hurt consumers by allowing the company to "gain unfair advantage with suppliers.
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Russian sports officials have called it a longstanding method to increase stamina and help athletes recover from training, disputing the notion that it gives an unfair advantage.
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How do we fight back against soulless corporate profiteering taking unfair advantage of our addiction to the old familiar software we depend on to run our lives?
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In a 2017 message to supporters, he said the changes were necessary to ensure that "no candidate participating in our presidential nominating process gains any unfair advantage."
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Net neutrality advocates view broadband providers as important utilitylike services like the phone, saying that without the rules, big players with deep pockets have an unfair advantage.
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But the minute they do give any one player what is perceived to be an unfair advantage, that will only dig an even deeper hole for Epic.
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The company says the goal in verifying primary candidates is to avoid giving unfair advantage to incumbents in primary races, who usually have higher visibility than challengers.
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The FBI is investigating Uber's "Hell" program to determine if it gave Uber an unfair advantage over Lyft and other competitors, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
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That could allow it to gain an unfair advantage over rivals, by giving it access to greater amounts of data to help support its online advertising business.
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China's drug watchdog suspended the platform in February after an outcry by domestic pharmacy chains who complained the role gave Alibaba Health an unfair advantage over rivals.
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Gene Kimmelman, CEO of Public Knowledge, a public interest group dealing with market competition issues, said it would give AT&T an unfair advantage over content providers.
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Amazon, for example, is under investigation since July as European authorities assess whether the company is using sales data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller retailers.
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It also compels utilities to study whether new policies hand affluent ratepayers an unfair advantage or have a negative impact on the security of our energy infrastructure.
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Policymakers in Tokyo were shocked by an accusation by Trump that Japan was using "money supply" to weaken the yen to give its exports an unfair advantage.
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Some Twitter users are questioning whether Roper-Tolbert colluded with her husband to maximize her DraftKings entries and give her an unfair advantage on the gambling site.
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So if you are the children of these rich people, you already have an enormous advantage—an unfair advantage—simply because of how our society is organized.
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She says Hudson's endgame was to "gain an unfair advantage" in their custody negotiations which reached an impasse Wednesday, trying to make David look like the villain.
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Gachagua said China was using its position as a lender to give its firms an unfair advantage over their local counterparts when it comes to competing for contracts.
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According to the AP, he used the info he gathered from the keyloggers to get an unfair advantage in many of his classes, including business, engineering, and chemistry.
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"The coaches told me to just focus on running, nothing else," said Semenya, who is reported to produce excess testosterone that many feel gives her an unfair advantage.
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The issue is further complicated by Beggs' transition treatment, which requires him to take doses of testosterone that some competitors and fans say give him an unfair advantage.
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The president also sees that many countries and companies take unfair advantage of the United States and he is willing to fight to create a level playing field.
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Allen Lau, CEO of the fast-growing storytelling app Wattpad, believes running his company in Toronto gives him an unfair advantage over his entrepreneurial counterparts in Silicon Valley.
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Magistrates had suspected Susanna Masi was paid some 220,000 euros ($257,004) between 2013-2015 in return for sensitive material that could have given Ernst & Young an unfair advantage.
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Illegal insider trading gives people with access to nonpublic company information an unfair advantage over everyone else, a bit like using secret cheat codes in a multiplayer game.
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This discrepancy, which partly stems from old-fashioned concepts like "physical establishment" in tax law, represents an unfair advantage for asset-light tech groups, the bloc has argued.
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To even the playing field, he has pledged to impose a 45% tariff on imports from China, which he said manipulates its currency to gain an unfair advantage.
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They said Chinese goods -- especially commodities such as steel and aluminium -- were still heavily underpriced because of subsidies and state-backed oversupply, giving Chinese exporters an unfair advantage.
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In recent months, a number of U.S. lawmakers have slammed the Cuban Adjustment Act, claiming it gives Cubans an unfair advantage and allows scammers to exploit the system.
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Even worse, some countries abused their openness to dump their products, subsidize their goods, target our industries, and manipulate their currencies to gain unfair advantage over our country.
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They say Chinese goods — especially commodities such as steel and aluminium — are still heavily underpriced because of subsidies and state-backed oversupply, giving Chinese exporters an unfair advantage.
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Though the cases are slightly different, regulators in Europe did rule that Google's inclusion of the Chrome browser pre-installed on Android devices gave it an unfair advantage.
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When men sexually harass women, they not only invade their bodily integrity, they also cripple their careers, kneecapping their advancement—and giving the organization's men an unfair advantage.
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The cries that people are cheating to gain an unfair advantage may result in radical reforms to the system, but whether those create positive change is another question.
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As such, caps and overage fees have been a great way for companies to give their own services an unfair advantage in the increasingly competitive streaming video market.
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"It goes back to making sure we're not giving the enemy an unfair advantage and we're not showcasing the exact location of our troops worldwide," Pentagon spokesman Col.
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Policymakers in Tokyo were also shocked by an accusation by Trump that Japan was using "money supply" to weaken the yen to give its exports an unfair advantage.
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Yes, this would seem to give the Kings an unfair advantage in the Pacific, but don't worry—the boys are working with the Coyotes and the Flames, too.
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"When people use aimbots or other cheat technologies to gain an unfair advantage, they ruin games for people who are playing fairly," Epic Games said in a statement.
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How ironic that today the U.S. president is disfiguring the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the argument that Mexico takes unfair advantage of the United States!
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They said Chinese goods — especially commodities such as steel and aluminum — were still heavily underpriced because of subsidies and state-backed oversupply, giving Chinese exporters an unfair advantage.
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The unions felt the bargaining tactic could set a precedent and give the city an unfair advantage at a time when 90 of 144 union contracts have expired.
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Many billionaire fortunes come from nothing more worthy than having the right parents, good friends in high places, or the opportunity to take unfair advantage of weak governance.
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Police said there were indications that JBS and controlling shareholder FB Participações SA gained an unfair advantage in trading stocks, currency futures and forwards in April and May.
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The Swedish music streaming company has filed a complaint against Apple with European antitrust officials, accusing it of giving its own music service an unfair advantage over competitors.
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Using bots to buy tickets is still illegal in New York, outlawed in 2010 on the grounds that they give an unfair advantage to brokers over regular fans.
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Competitors have long complained that Android's dominance gives Google an unfair advantage in attracting users to those apps—and then using data from them to devise and target advertising.
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But the association will have to ensure that Calibra, the separate subsidiary that Facebook has created to offer Libra payments, should not have an unfair advantage over other firms.
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As attorney and wrestling parent Jim Baudhuin told SportsDay, Beggs's competitors believe he has an unfair advantage, even though they say they have no problem with Beggs's gender identity.
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" Spotify filed an antitrust complaint against Apple in Europe earlier this week, with CEO Daniel Ek arguing that App Store policies give Apple an "unfair advantage at every turn.
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Through the group's U.S. unit Asbeck pushed for import tariffs on Chinese panels, arguing that low labor costs and local government support gave his Chinese rivals an unfair advantage.
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At issue has been the use of a programmable mouse by the team's "carry" player, Atun, which the qualifier organizers have deemed to have given him an unfair advantage.
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In 0003, Thomas Paine declared that nations should give every 2000-year-old a lump sum because those who inherit land have an unfair advantage over those who don't.
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Embraer has threatened to challenge the state funding, which it says gives Bombardier an unfair advantage in sales campaigns where its new CSeries is up against Embraer's E-Jets.
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Citing the charged rhetoric of the 2016 race for the White House, Suarez dismissed the idea that Mexico had an unfair advantage when compared to its NAFTA trading partner.
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The European Union's executive arm ruled last week that Apple received $14.5 billion in illegal Irish tax breaks that gave the tech company an unfair advantage over other businesses.
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Bisping says Henderson had an unfair advantage in that fight -- even though Hendo's testosterone replacement therapy was approved by the athletic commission back then (it has since been banned).
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U.S. producers complain that their Canadian competitors enjoy an unfair advantage by harvesting timber more cheaply on federally owned land, while American timber is largely grown on private land.
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China's first cyber security law will increase costs for multinationals, leave them vulnerable to industrial espionage and give Chinese companies an unfair advantage, business representatives and analysts have warned.
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It's a victory for state tax coffers, as well as brick-and-mortar businesses that had cried foul over what they saw as an unfair advantage for internet competitors.
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The European Commission opened an investigation into the case in April to check whether the loan complies with the bloc's state aid rules against giving companies an unfair advantage.
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Without the unfair advantage of a weighted district, Senators need to attract and keep the pro-compromise, solution-focused voters on their side in order to stay in office.
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The European Commission, the EU's enforcement arm, announced Wednesday morning that Amazon's dual function as a platform and as a supplier of goods presents an unfair advantage against competition.
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Even so, the Chinese have already been allowed to set the wages for the workers they bring to the site — something that European companies fear is an unfair advantage.
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On Thursday, the European Commission said that after a six-month review, it had concluded that the app did not give Apple an unfair advantage that merited government intervention.
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Insider trading refers to buying or selling of a stock by a trader who has inside knowledge that the investing public is not aware of, creating an unfair advantage.
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Finally, the investigation found that Mr. Coleman had granted an unfair advantage when he hired a fraternity brother in 2014 for a job the man was not qualified for.
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In McDonald's case, the commission started an investigation in 2015 to look at whether the authorities in Luxembourg had selectively given McDonald's an unfair advantage through its tax arrangements.
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Some have said that the shoes offer their wearers an unfair advantage due to their foam and carbon-fiber sole, which is designed to preserve energy with each step.
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But Chi-X, ASX's largest client and its only competitor, fears the new system would give the Australian-listed bourse an unfair advantage, company executives told a media briefing.
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But some have been scathing, saying regulations prevent exchanges from slowing orders and that when IEX itself sends orders, they bypass the speed bump, giving IEX an unfair advantage.
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Basically, the EU argues that Google forced phone makers to preinstall its Search and Browser apps onto Android phones, giving its products an unfair advantage over those of competitors.
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For decades, they have suffered through accusations that they have an unfair advantage due to being assigned male at birth, and ensuing witch hunts that involve cruel sex testing.
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The American president again criticized China for devaluing its currency to create an unfair advantage in trade that he said was exacerbated by policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Grizzled men with beards have an unfair advantage over everyone else when singing Tom Waits—that's part of what made Scarlett Johansson's Anywhere I Lay My Head so impressive.
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The suit alleges that Uber defied regulations and operated illegally in Australia, giving it an unfair advantage over local taxi drivers and other industry players that complied with the law.
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Maria Sharapova, who was recently suspended from competition for doping, has often referred to Williams as having an unfair advantage due to her size, and as being big and powerful.
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The governor said that his comments were targeted at rival politicians trying to get an unfair advantage in the election by saying that voters should not support a non-Muslim.
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Specifically, Spotify is upset at the 30 percent that Apple charges developers for subscriptions, and it says that it's designed to give Apple Music an unfair advantage in the marketplace.
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According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey, Levoff's alleged unfair advantage amounted to earnings of approximately $227,000 on some trades, while preventing losses of around $377,000 on others.
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That could have given the Patriots an unfair advantage over their rival teams, because slightly deflated balls are easier to catch and throw, and each team uses their own footballs.
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But as long as legislators in Washington and Massachusetts keep listening to lobbyists instead of founders and entrepreneurs, California will maintain its unfair advantage in the global war for talent.
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The city's lawsuit argued that Turo's users have added to airport traffic congestion and that its operation at the airport without paying fees gives it an unfair advantage against competitors.
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Jašarević's commentary:Payment for cells, tissues and organs is likely to take unfair advantage of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, undermines altruistic donation, and leads to profiteering and human trafficking.
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Democratic voters in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against their state Thursday, challenging the existing Congressional district map on the grounds that current boundaries give Republicans an unfair advantage in elections.
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When Florida defeated Ohio State for the 2006 national championship, the Big Ten commissioner, Jim Delany, complained that the SEC had gained an unfair advantage by recruiting junior college players.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU state aid regulators opened an investigation on Monday into Spain's environmental incentives for coal power plants, concerned that the scheme may give the facilities an unfair advantage.
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But some wealthy, mostly white parents, according to a New York Times report, may have had access to an unfair advantage that pushed them towards the front of the line.
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European competition authorities are also increasingly looking at how companies like Facebook may hold a dominant position over people's digital information, which may give them an unfair advantage over rivals.
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After his victories on Super Tuesday, he called out Komatsu, a Japanese manufacturer of construction machinery, saying the weak yen gave it an unfair advantage over its American rival Caterpillar.
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Some experts argue that the use of the term "welfare reform" is racially coded, serving as a dog whistle that positions public assistance as an unfair advantage given to minorities.
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One argument for making administrative proceedings a less-appealing avenue for enforcement has been the perception of an unfair advantage when the case is heard by an in-house judge.
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Ten years later, the conclusions of that case remain murky, however, and the scientific debate about whether the prosthetics offer a competitor some unfair advantage has never been fully settled.
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EU governments in turn have responded with a series of measures, most of which will need to be vetted by Vestager to ensure that no company gets an unfair advantage.
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Kipchoge, Desisa and Tadese wore customized lightweight shoes with a carbon-fiber plate that some scientists believed gave the runners an unfair advantage because it effectively acted as a spring.
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The goal is to determine whether the shoes confer an unfair advantage; a decision about whether or not the organization will ban or regulate Nike's tech could come within weeks.
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The Labor Department is changing the way it will release economic reports to the public, in an effort to tighten security it says gave Wall Street traders an unfair advantage.
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"If you want to come to China ... you have to understand what is your unfair advantage coming out and do you solve a problem for that local market," he said.
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"Many of these issues relate to a lack of transparency and fairness, which places purchasers at an unfair advantage when attempting to buy tickets in the current marketplace," it continued.
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Investigators suspect both brothers gained an unfair advantage in trading shares of JBS while helping the company build unusually high positions in currency futures and forwards in April and May.
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He also cited efforts to renegotiate what he called "broken and bad trade deals" with countries who he said gained an "unfair advantage" over the United States in the past.
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Japanese policymakers were shocked by an accusation by Trump, made before the summit, that countries like China and Japan were manipulating their currencies to give their exports an unfair advantage.
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Most of the other male Tinder users I speak to, excluding those who have the unfair advantage of being a handsome bastard, agree that Tinder is a brutal numbers game.
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Sara Netanyahu, who was initially charged with fraud one year ago, agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of taking unfair advantage of a mistake, the Justice Ministry statement said.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down the initial four-game suspension for Brady's part in allegedly deflating footballs for an unfair advantage during an AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.
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The European Commission said last month an investigation into the state's dealings with Ilva would focus on whether measures allowing it to finance plant modernisation had given it an unfair advantage.
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Rather than competing on the merits, the company can enjoy the unfair advantage of massive network effects even though it may be starting from scratch in a new line of business.
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The ruling comes after an investigation led by Europe's competition commissioner found that Ireland had given Apple an unfair advantage compared to other companies in breach of EU state aid rules.
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The Treasury Department's announcement hinged on a 1988 portion of federal law that permits the Treasury secretary to work with the IMF to "eliminate the unfair advantage" associated with currency manipulation.
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While the exact nature of their role remains somewhat mysterious, Facebook's disclosure suggests that the company improperly obtained user data that could have given it an unfair advantage in reaching voters.
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First, the biggest news in tech right now is the European Commission's ruling that Google has been unfairly using Android to push Google search on users, giving it an unfair advantage.
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" Further clouding all of this is the fact that the USPS hasn't released the specifics of its pricing deals with Amazon, for fear of given competing delivery services "an unfair advantage.
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It didn't get the ban, as a judge ruled it would give Qualcomm an unfair advantage in the U.S., but partial bans were put in place in both Germany and China.
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Fears that trans girls might have an unfair advantage over cis girls are rooted in a basic misunderstanding of how hormone replacement therapy works, which nullifies much of any said advantage.
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The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) filed a lawsuit Wednesday against NCUA, the nation's top credit union regulator, arguing that its new lending rules give credit unions an unfair advantage.
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It's a huge win for vendors with physical storefronts, which have long argued that their online counterparts enjoyed an unfair advantage because they didn't have to charge customers local sales tax.
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These mergers are mostly taking place to get ahead of consumers' migration to digital TV. But some worry that mergers could give deep-pocketed media conglomerates an unfair advantage over upstarts.
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Put more accurately, can Citadel trade through its NYSE market maker and, if so, will it have an unfair advantage over other institutions, and individuals, trading through the Citadel owned platform?
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People felt like being born male gave certain competitors an unfair advantage, but Paige really broke down what all the hormones do and what the actual experience of transitioning is like.
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A new trial date had been set for next month, but Navarro ruled Monday that a new trial would provide the prosecution with an unfair advantage, according to The Arizona Republic.
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For example, selling on a marketplace that it also controls may give Amazon an unfair advantage, considering it can access data from other sellers and use it to improve its efforts.
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The controversial $3.1 billion merger was approved after eight months, despite an outcry from competitors and industry-watchers who said it would give Google an unfair advantage in search advertising tools.
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Unless athletic authorities want to take on all conditions that might result in an unfair advantage – biological, genetic, social or otherwise – it seems arbitrary to focus on testosterone in female athletes.
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In March, lawmakers passed a compromise bill to fix the "grain glitch," which inadvertently gave farm cooperatives an unfair advantage over their corporate competitors because of another tax code drafting error.
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We got Tanya in Bev Hills and she talked about the fact Ashley's already one of S.I.'s cover girls, which could give her an unfair advantage in the rookie voting.
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During the Obama years, the WTO ruled in favor of Brazil in 2014 in a case that argued American cotton subsidies gave US cotton farmers an unfair advantage over Brazilian competitors.
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The United States has long argued that such aid gave Airbus an unfair advantage, allowing it to gain market share in Europe, Australia, China, South Korea and elsewhere at Boeing's expense.
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The Commission began its investigation into Tirrenia after complaints by competitors into public support that could have given an unfair advantage to Tirrenia, which was acquired by Compagnia Italiana de Navigazione.
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The complaint accused Mr. Scott of using his office for an unfair advantage when he suggested state law enforcement officials investigate purported cases of fraud committed by Democrats during the election.
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In fact, many would argue that, even in isolation, model-minority stereotypes give an unfair advantage to candidates who should be judged on their records and not on stereotypes about them.
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"It is welcome news to see that regulators are finally getting serious about taking on the unfair advantage Amazon has staked out on its platform," said Robert Engel, the group's spokesman.
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The Europe-based Spotify also filed a complaint to the European Union's antitrust regulator in March, saying Apple's strict rules for the App Store gave an unfair advantage to Apple Music.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union's markets watchdog has proposed measures to stop share trading platforms based outside the bloc having an unfair advantage over EU rivals as Britain readies for Brexit.
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The NFIB and other proponents have dubbed it the "ambush election" rule, arguing that it forces employers to hold election under a radically expedited timeline, giving union organizers an unfair advantage.
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"We will investigate whether regional and local authorities in Germany, against the rules, gave an unfair advantage to Ryanair over its competitors," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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The European Commission is investigating whether the Dutch government violated European Union rules by approving the tax avoidance scheme and giving Nike and its Converse unit an unfair advantage over competitors.
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If you want to discover your strengths as an entrepreneur, try this exercise, which will help you uncover both your soft and hard skills and uncover your unfair advantage in business.
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To consumers with good credit and adequate income to qualify for low borrowing rates, those borrowing costs may sound like an unscrupulous lender taking unfair advantage of a borrower with no alternatives.
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Publicly traded oil companies like Exxon Mobil were also concerned that the disclosure forms would reveal valuable information about individual projects, giving their state-owned and privately held competitors an unfair advantage.
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Two years ago, under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters rejected an attempt to overhaul the tax system, which critics say gives the country an unfair advantage in attracting global companies.
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Member states should not allow companies to set up arrangements that unduly reduce their taxable profits and give them an unfair advantage over competitors, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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Opponents claim the bill would give transgender women — who they call men — an unfair advantage in women's sports and allow children to undergo medically assisted gender transitions without any oversight of parents.
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"It's a hypercompetitive industry,'' says Katie Nemec, spokeswoman for the National Sporting Goods Association, who added that online retailers who don't have to tack sales tax onto merchandise get "an unfair advantage . . .
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And Spotify has filed another antitrust complaint over Apple's 30 percent cut with the European Union, complaining that it gives Apple an unfair advantage when promoting its own streaming service, Apple Music.
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Today, Waymo's lawyers took that argument one step further, basically calling Otto a shell company used by Levandowski to give Uber an unfair advantage in the competitive field of self-driving cars.
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Meanwhile, EU regulators Monday opened a probe into tax deals granted by Luxembourg to French electric utility company Engie, which they consider to have given the company an unfair advantage over others.
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Privileged parents who wielded their money, power and professional influence to curry favor, cheat the school system, manipulate the admissions policies, and often broke laws to gain unfair advantage for their children.
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Activists rallied internet users in favor of net neutrality rules, especially after two companies announced zero-rating plans that critics feared would give wealthy American companies an unfair advantage over local startups.
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The Treasury Department's announcement centered around a 1988 portion of federal law that permits the U.S. Treasury Secretary to work with the IMF to "eliminate the unfair advantage" associated with currency manipulation.
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In the coming weeks, the EU is expected to sanction Google for using its search market dominance to favor its own Google Shopping services, giving them an unfair advantage in the market.
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After failing to successfully bid on the contract, Oracle mounted a legal challenge to the Pentagon's process, alleging its rival had an unfair advantage due to Amazon's close relationships inside the department.
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European regulators originally ordered a sale of Williams & Glyn by 2013 to prevent RBS, Britain's largest small-business lender, from having an unfair advantage and posing a systemic threat to its economy.
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Earlier this year, a class-action lawsuit was brought against them by a San Francisco-based fashion boutique citing an unfair advantage due to Donald Trump promoting his daughter's line on Twitter.
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Separate suits by Volkswagen dealers and by dealers of competing brands, who say the cheating gave Volkswagen an unfair advantage in the market, would probably not be part of the initial settlement.
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Incumbents often mention how much they would like to ban corporate money in politics, usually under the theory that corporate money somehow contaminates our politics and gives the wealthy an unfair advantage.
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Semenya, 28, has been waiting since February following her appeal against an IAAF regulation, which said female athletes classed as having DSDs gain an unfair advantage due to their higher testosterone levels.
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" Perez said he is "more committed than ever before to restoring voters' faith in our democratic process because even the perception of impartiality or an unfair advantage undermines our ability to win.
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" As DirecTV itself has explained: "[V]ertical integration of programming and distribution can, if left unchecked, give the integrated entity the incentive and ability to gain an unfair advantage over its rivals.
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The country's framers obviously could not have known that they were creating a system that would give Donald Trump's party an unfair advantage over Hillary Clinton's party more than two centuries later.
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Even if Chinese- and Indian-Americans have an unfair advantage in college admissions, lumping all Asians with them causes underprivileged Asian subgroups to not receive the attention and government services they need.
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Mr. Trump's task force does not address the president's other complaint about Amazon: that the online retailer fails to pay sales taxes, giving it an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar businesses.
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Separately, the EU competition enforcer ordered Romania to recover 570 million euros ($618.05 million) of incompatible state aid from rail freight operator CFR Marfa because the support gave it an unfair advantage.
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The man and woman who hold the world records for fastest marathon both compete in Vaporflys, and the footwear has stirred controversy since some critics say its technology confers an unfair advantage.
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Some runners and researchers think the Vaporfly does confer an unfair advantage, since the shoes&apos foam and carbon-fiber sole is designed so that less energy is lost in each footfall.
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"I am more committed than ever before to restoring voters' faith in our democratic process because even the perception of impartiality or an unfair advantage undermines our ability to win," he wrote.
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But if these shoes are helping athletes like Kipchoge push the limits of what we think is humanly possible, should athletic regulators be concerned that they're also giving runners an unfair advantage?
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Going from the world's global trading chump to the global trade champ begins with debunking many global trade myths and replacing them with trade reality including: All countries want an unfair advantage.
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ISPs are also banned from engaging in paid prioritization, or letting deeper-pocketed content or service companies buy an unfair advantage for their traffic in terms of speed, latency, or network prioritization.
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Trump has repeatedly criticized currency manipulation by other countries with which the United States has large trade deficits, saying weaker currencies abroad give trading partners an unfair advantage and hurts American workers.
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The gaming community was outraged over the company's pricing of in-game purchases for the "Star Wars Battlefront II" game, with many complaining that the option gave unfair advantage to the well-heeled.
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The 19 EU countries that share the euro currency worry that protections for Britain and the eight other non-eurozone nations would offer unfair advantage to Britain's financial center, the City of London.
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The reason that the UCI revelation was so big was that it marks the first time a cheater in a sport competition has been caught using motorized technology to receive an unfair advantage.
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The EU's Competition Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon to investigate whether the company is using sales data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller sellers on the Marketplace platform.
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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager who has the final word on whether EU governments can grant subsidies to troubled companies without giving them an unfair advantage, said she did not see any problems.
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Amazon is becoming a direct competitor for more sellers, raising questions around how the company's use of its marketplace sales data could potentially give it an unfair advantage over other brands and merchants.
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N F-35 FIGHTERF-35 FIGHTER CANADIAN PROCUREMENT MINISTER SAYS OTTAWA CAN DESIGN BIDDING PROCESS FOR FIGHTER JETS THAT DOESN'T GIVE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE TO F-35 Further company coverage: (Reporting by David Ljunggren)
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"This report, if true, would only further prove that Saudi Arabia is willing to go to extreme lengths to protect its unfair advantage in the global oil market," Diamond said in a statement.
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Something else to understand about the real effects of a carbon tax is the tremendous aid it will give to those seeking to crush competition and gain an unfair advantage in our marketplace.
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In 22012, Michael Farmer, founding partner of the Red Kite fund that specialises in copper, also accused high-frequency traders using super-fast computers of distorting the market and getting an unfair advantage.
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Salesforce began grumbling to regulators in Europe about the LinkedIn deal last month, raising concerns that the agreement would hinder access to LinkedIn's data for other companies and give Microsoft an unfair advantage.
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Margrethe Vestager, Europe's competition chief, ordered Apple in August to pay the amount, alleging the company had received preferential tax rulings from the Irish government that gave Apple an unfair advantage over rivals.
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The government's review comes as Amazon's competitors are complaining that the bid is being structured in a way that gives an unfair advantage to Amazon Web Services, the company's growing cloud computing business.
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For their part, insurers say the government would have an unfair advantage in any system of premium support because it would be regulating health plans and competing with them at the same time.
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"Member states should not allow companies to set up arrangements that unduly reduce their taxable profits and give them an unfair advantage over their competitors," Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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The system, owned by the CFDA but operated by Ali Health, had caused tension within China's healthcare market, with pharmacy chains saying the Alibaba-linked firm would have an unfair advantage over rivals.
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The suit said, among other things, that Qualcomm got an unfair advantage in negotiating patent licenses because its customers feared it could cut off supplies of chips they needed to keep making handsets.
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Virgets said it was widely accepted that testosterone creates an unfair advantage for certain boxers, because it gives them additional strength and stamina, but researching and quantifying the advantage would require extensive testing.
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In the case of Google, rivals had long complained that the company gave itself an unfair advantage by automatically putting some of its services at the top of so-called specialized search results.
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In the EU case, regulators said Google forced manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser, together with its Google Play app store, on Android devices, giving it an unfair advantage.
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Officials sidestepped making a ruling on whether the design of the shoes — extra-thick soles and springlike, carbon-fiber shanks that spring runners forward — gives an unfair advantage to runners who wear them.
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Michelle Janavs is set to appear in Boston federal court after admitting to taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions cheating and fraud scheme to help her daughters gain an unfair advantage.
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" DraftKings outlines the following as unacceptable behavior: players who engage in "team-building complementary lineups which serve to work together AND executing a strategy that may create any unfair advantage over individual play.
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That approach gives an unfair advantage to people familiar with the host crag, which is one of the reasons that the sport now favours unique creations indoors; they can be kept under wraps.
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"It is an unfair advantage that's killing retailers, especially small businesses and specialty retailers," said Paul Rafelson, a state and local tax attorney and adjunct law professor at Pace University in New York.
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Lyft claims the rules give Uber an unfair advantage because it judges companies differently based on their "utilization rate," or how often drivers have a passenger in their car versus driving around empty.
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A DOJ official told reporters Monday that the agency is concerned the combined company will charge competitors hefty fees to distribute Time Warner content, providing an unfair advantage to AT&T-owned DirecTV.
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"The whole reason of this program being in place is to prevent things like that from happening, prevent two individuals from getting into an Octagon where one has an unfair advantage," Novtizky said.
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These arguments have often spilled out in tweets, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly telling Benioff that he doesn't like Prop C because companies that are bigger than his (!) might have an unfair advantage.
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With China, the Trump administration is pushing for China to reform policies on trade, subsidy and intellectual property practices that it says have given Chinese companies an unfair advantage over U.S. companies for decades.
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The White House has complained that China has used predatory practices in a relentless push to grant Chinese companies an unfair advantage in the industries of the future, including robotics, electric cars and biopharmaceuticals.
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Internet providers claim this idea—known as "zero rating"—is good for customers, but net neutrality advocates worry that they can be used to give carriers' own products an unfair advantage over the competition.
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Although the competition point is really about whether the discoverability and visibility of a preload on a dominant platform is an unfair advantage, not that other apps are being blocked at a technical level.
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A loophole had meant GST was only applied to items purchased from overseas retailers worth $1,000 AUD or more — so local competitors argued it gave Amazon, eBay and other overseas competitors an unfair advantage.
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In 2011, the F.D.A.'s medical reviewers recommended against approval of Xarelto, citing concerns that the patients receiving warfarin during the trial were being poorly managed, which could give an unfair advantage to Xarelto.
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The bill also places meaningful restrictions on behaviors like "zero rating," a practice that lets deep-pocketed companies buy an unfair advantage by exempting their content from arbitrary broadband usage caps and overage fees.
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Differences in testosterone, specifically higher levels of testosterone among female athletes, have been a topic of debate in the Olympics for many decades, with officials stating concerns that it could provide an unfair advantage.
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PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) - France should repeal a decree regulating gas prices which rivals say gives an unfair advantage to energy group Engie, a senior counsel of France's highest administrative court said on Friday.
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"Member states should not allow companies to set up complex structures that unduly reduce their taxable profits and give them an unfair advantage over competitors," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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XOXO had a singular unfair advantage over most other conferences: the preternaturally good taste of Andy Baio, whose curatorial instincts lead him to some of the strangest and most beautiful parts of the internet.
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However, a coalition of Attorney Generals from five states — New York, California, Vermont, Maryland, and Pennsylvania — disagreed, saying that the delay offered an unfair advantage to polluting car companies and was against the law.
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The government has been keen to encourage greater competition in Britain's banking sector, but the dominant established players clearly feel that fledgeling lenders such as Aldermore and Metro Bank are gaining an unfair advantage.
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So pissed in fact, he's now trying to block the Microsoft/LinkedIn deal from closing because he claims when Microsoft rolls in LinkedIn data to its Dynamics software, Microsoft will have an unfair advantage.
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The U.S. and the EU are concerned about Chinese state subsidies which give Chinese exporters an unfair advantage and about the need to transfer technologies for companies that want to be active in China.
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For years, and through multiple presidential administrations — Clinton, Bush and Obama — the United States has naively looked the other way while China cheated its way to an unfair advantage in the international trade market.
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In Friday's decision, the 10th Circuit said that denying wage protections to workers in the marijuana industry would encourage employers to engage in illegal markets and give them an unfair advantage over legal businesses.
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That's drawn protests from companies that say Uber drivers don't have to comply with the same licensing standards as London's storied black cabdrivers, giving it an unfair advantage and placing the public at risk.
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Police suspect they gained an unfair advantage in trading JBS stock and currency futures and forwards in April and May, said the person, who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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The social network said it would not combine its data with that of WhatsApp, but it did so later — raising concerns that it could gain an unfair advantage over rivals in the advertising business.
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"Clean athletes who have dedicated years of their lives to training and who never sought to gain unfair advantage through doping should not be punished for the past actions of other individuals," Mutko wrote.
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But threatening a century-and-a-half-old organization is a disproportionately dramatic response to the issue, which reveals the White House's obsession with what it sees as China's unfair advantage in global trade.
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Soccer's rule making body IFAB, which approved trials of the new system in March, says research proves the team taking the first penalty have a 60 percent chance of winning, giving them an unfair advantage.
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Boeing claims Bombardier's new C Series aircraft have an unfair advantage over its own similar aircraft in the US market due to the nature of subsidies the company receives from the Canadian and British governments.
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This would be to ensure more time to negotiate the kind of all-UK customs arrangement that would satisfy Brussels' demands that Britain abide by rules preventing it getting an unfair advantage in EU markets.
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And tariffs do nothing to address the underlying complaint of American steel and aluminium producers: that state support gives Chinese producers an unfair advantage that has them pumping out production as job losses mount elsewhere.
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Regulators are looking at whether the malfunctioning device might have led doctors to give patients the wrong dose of warfarin, which could have led to additional bleeding episodes and given an unfair advantage to Xarelto.
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The court suspended that rule in 22014, when Dutee Chand, an Indian sprinter with abnormally high testosterone levels, disputed that there was proof that women like her received an unfair advantage in all athletic events.
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The European Commission in August 2016 ordered Ireland to recover the money from Apple because of an illegal tax deal which gave the company an unfair advantage in breach of the bloc's state aid rules.
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CAS suspended that rule in 246, when Dutee Chand, an Indian sprinter with abnormally high testosterone levels, disputed that there was any proof that women like her received an unfair advantage in all athletic events.
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They argue the Whole Foods acquisition will give Amazon an unfair advantage over traditional grocers and new players that might emerge in the market, potentially grounds for the deal to be blocked for antitrust reasons.
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Why it matters: The complaints add another wrinkle to debate over whether Corporate America has an unfair advantage when negotiating tax benefits that forces small businesses and workers to finance a rising share government spending.
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Earlier this month, the European Commission launched an antitrust probe into whether Amazon's use of other merchants' data offered an unfair advantage to its retail unit, which has made private-label versions of popular products.
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"Timber sales are a major source of income for my own family, and we have suffered financially for many years from an unfair advantage enjoyed by our major competitor in this vital market," he wrote.
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The European Commission is also investigating several cases to see if they breach the bloc's state aid rules which prohibit EU countries from giving some companies an unfair advantage by making special deals on tax.
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I think it's absolutely absurd, but a lot of people who have access can use certain technology to optimize themselves and give themselves an unfair advantage over people who don't have access to this technology.
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In April, Comcast withdrew its $45 billion offer for Time Warner Cable after U.S. regulators raised concerns that the deal would give it an unfair advantage in the cable TV and Internet-based services market.
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In October, Washington accused the Canadian province of British Columbia of providing an unfair advantage to local vineyards by giving their wine an exclusive retail channel in grocery store shelves and cutting out U.S. competition.
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"Internet service providers treated YouTube's videos the same as they did Google's, and Google couldn't pay the ISPs [internet service providers] to gain an unfair advantage, like a fast lane into consumers' homes," they wrote.
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He failed to win a medal, but Pistorius' presence on the track was hailed as a triumph over adversity and a victory over critics who claimed his blades gave him an unfair advantage over others.
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Stowers, whose coach had slammed Hubbard's entry as an "unfair advantage" in the lead-up, claimed gold with a combined total of 7kg, ahead of Nauruan Charisma Amoe-Tarrant (7) and England's Emily Campbell (242).
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LAUREL HUBBARD (Weightlifiting, New Zealand) Transgender weightlifter Hubbard has had to fight off opposition from critics, particularly in Australia, who had sought to have her banned for the Games claiming she had an unfair advantage.
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Next, I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator, and to apply tariffs to any country that devalues its currency to gain an unfair advantage over the United States.
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The PBOC sold substantial amounts of foreign currency in recent years to purchase renminbi, quite the opposite of behavior that would give China an unfair advantage over U.S., European and Japanese firms in international trade.
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Already, Mr. Misener, the lead lobbyist, has called for an overhaul of an arcane system of international delivery rates that he says give foreign e-commerce rivals an unfair advantage to deliver to American homes.
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Video game companies such as Valve popularized this form of monetization in the digital realm and all those old arguments against them—that they're predatory and create an unfair advantage for the wealthy—are back.
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In a strange twist of timing, Big Telecom may walk away from the storm with an unfair advantage that could hurt smaller, local providers in Houston—and drive up costs for consumers in the process.
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Well, and it's not ... You know, we're focused on fiction for the originals, because that's what we know best, and we have kind of unfair advantage there, in terms of access to the talent pool.
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Chile's former government in March asked antitrust regulator FNE to block the stake sale to Chinese firms, saying it would distort the global lithium market and give China an unfair advantage in securing strategic resources.
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Such a market involves a small set of people receiving an unfair advantage because of personal relationships "based on trust, loyalty, family, and long-standing social networks," according to one academic primer on the subject.
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Athletes with this disorder of sexual development can produce testosterone in the male range, according to an I.A.A.F.-backed study, and gain an unfair advantage in muscle strength and oxygen-carrying capacity in certain events.
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Such entities, including Mr. Johnson's family-run plastics manufacturing business, account for more than half of the nation's business income, and the senator says the tax bill would give an unfair advantage to larger corporations.
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Mr. Dutton defended the tough new measures during his interview on Monday, saying that asylum seekers who sought legal help to remain in Australia after receiving medical treatment were taking unfair advantage of the system.
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The class action lawsuit against Loggi was opened in 2018 by Sao Paulo prosecutors, who said the app had an unfair advantage over other delivery competitors who maintain formal work relationships with their delivery workers.
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Firms need to have "have an effective compliance program to control it" and must understand that use of alternative data could give them "an unfair advantage in using material non-public information," Di Florio said.
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A spokeswoman for the duchy said in a statement that Parliament had "confirmed its status as a private estate" and that the Treasury had agreed that its tax status did not confer an unfair advantage.
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The IAAF claim they now have the scientific proof of unfair advantage for DSD athletes and that this was presented to CAS at Semenya's five-day hearing in February, but this is disputed by ASA.
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But by making it as easy as possible for people to turn good ideas into new companies, California law has given the San Francisco Bay Area an unfair advantage over other aspiring high-tech hubs.
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The more likely voters were to believe that racial discrimination is not a systemic problem and that women complaining about sexism were actually seeking unfair advantage over men, the more likely they were to support Trump.
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There's a bit of an unfair advantage, of course: As real-life husband and wife, Krasinski and Blunt were able to use their own relationship to give a bit of unspoken backstory to Lee and Evelyn.
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"I feel annoyed that my positive review, as well as those of numerous others, have been exploited to mislead shoppers, and to give the swapped-in product an unfair advantage over its hardworking competition," Nepomnyashy said.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew also encouraged China on Friday to shift to a more market-oriented exchange rate in "an orderly way" and "refrain from policies that would be destabilizing and create an unfair advantage".
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Hunan-based pharmacy chain Yontinhe Group said in January it was suing the CFDA over the monitoring system, alleging the arrangement gave an unfair advantage to Ali Health, which has its own online drug sales business.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators opened an investigation on Monday into Apple's bid for British music discovery app Shazam, concerned the deal might give the iPhone maker an unfair advantage in poaching users from its rivals.
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Larger retailers would pay their share, leading to the saving of thousands of good paying American jobs, while reducing fraud and removing the unfair advantage of larger retailers over independent retailers in the blending of gasoline.
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We're told as long as Kodi shows up for his scheduled 'AGT' events and filming dates -- and isn't intentionally seeking press for an unfair advantage -- he's free to perform any previously scheduled live concerts and gigs.
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The IAAF wants female athletes with differences in sexual development to reduce their blood testosterone level to below a stipulated concentration for a period of six months before they can compete, to prevent any unfair advantage.
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His explanation wasn't about intolerance, it was based on the fact Caitlyn can RIP (she's got a 6 handicap) -- and Nelson believes allowing her to hit from the women's tee would give her an unfair advantage.
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Taxi drivers in Paris and other cities have protested the company's presence and — like taxi drivers in many American cities — have argued that Uber drivers have an unfair advantage because they are not as heavily regulated.
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Last year, Google was fined 4.34 billion euros by the European Commission, saying the tech giant gave itself an unfair advantage by pre-installing its Chrome browser and Google search app on Android smartphones and notebooks.
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Bats are almost totemic: they illicit strong nostalgic feelings in players, and the MCC's law echoes that in its need for the bat to fit into some historic idea that it doesn't create an unfair advantage.
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The group asserts it is acting in the name of fairness, but transgender rights activists accuse members of simply not wanting transgender people to participate, out of fear that those athletes will have an unfair advantage.
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Adidas opposed the filing on the grounds that the two-stripe mark was confusingly similar to its existing three-stripe registrations and would take unfair advantage of, or be detrimental to, the repute of such marks.
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According to these rules, a suspected hyperandrogenous female athlete would have to undergo a three-stage medical evaluation to see whether or not she has extra testosterone that may give her an unfair advantage over athletes.
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The issue of whether a rare biological trait was causing an unfair advantage for Semenya and a small subset of women quickly morphed into a battle about privacy and human rights, and Semenya became its symbol.
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To rebuild trust, officials will "ensure that no candidate participating in our presidential nominating process gains any unfair advantage — real or perceived — during our primary season," Mr. Perez said in a 2017 message to party members.
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In his weekly interview on state radio on Friday, Mr. Orban said that Central European University's status, which allowed it to operate in Hungary while issuing American degrees, gave it an unfair advantage over Hungarian counterparts.
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When it is bought and stolen, hacked and spied upon, the trophy loses its shine, hopefully reminding us that at this level, there is only a blurry sliver of daylight between fair competition and unfair advantage.
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Utilities argue that net metering, in place in over 40 states, turns many homeowners into free riders on the grid, giving them an unfair advantage over customers who do not want or cannot afford solar panels.
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Collusion would be a violation of DraftKings rules which say "team-building complementary lineups which serve to work together AND executing a strategy that may create any unfair advantage over individual play" is an unacceptable behavior.
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"In terms of the study of alcohol and its effects, I probably have an unfair advantage in that I am, A, Australian, and, B, an actor," he said, his eyes perfectly clear now, glinting with humor.
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Szalamacha, 47, had spearheaded a progressive tax on turnover in the retail sector that has been suspended by the European Commission after less than a month over suspicions that it gives smaller companies an unfair advantage.
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TOKYO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Japan's government is set to tighten regulation to prevent technology giants including Facebook Inc and Google from abusing their market power and having unfair advantage over small businesses, officials said on Tuesday.
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Hunan-based pharmacy chain Yontinhe Group said last month it was suing the CFDA over the monitoring system, alleging the arrangement gave an unfair advantage to Ali Health, which has its own online drug sales business.
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"Violating emissions standards endangers public health and can give violators an unfair advantage in the marketplace," Jeffrey Wood, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, said in a written statement.
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The European Commission in August 2016 ordered Ireland to recover 13 billion euros from Apple because of an illegal tax deal which gave the company an unfair advantage in breach of the bloc's state aid rules.
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Apple's entry into the field sparked concerns from music streaming companies such as Spotify, which have argued that the 30 percent cut Apple takes of subscriptions in its App Store give its own service an unfair advantage.
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UNFAIR ADVANTAGE The precise details of the complaint against Google in India could not be determined, but sources have told Reuters it is on the exact same lines as the case filed against the company in Europe.
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The rules seek to prevent women with hyperandrogenism, which produces higher than normal levels of testosterone and is deemed by the governing body to give them an unfair advantage, from running distances from 400m to the mile.
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The Barclays investors accused the bank of misleading them about its business and culture by touting its Liquidity Cross, or LX, dark pool as a safe venue, when it actually gave high-frequency traders an unfair advantage.
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The double Olympic and triple world 800 meters champion faces having to take medication to lower her higher than normal levels of naturally-produced testosterone, which the sport's governing IAAF has deemed gives her an unfair advantage.
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The complaint accuses Canada of breaking WTO rules by giving unfair advantage to wine from British Columbia (BC) because the province's wine gets exclusive access to a retail channel on grocery store shelves, cutting out U.S. competitors.
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The review of Amazon's discount pricing is an indication the FTC is taking a serious look at the e-commerce company's agreement to buy Whole Foods, a deal that critics say could give Amazon an unfair advantage.
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Wiggins, who retired at the end of 2016, has always said he was not looking for unfair advantage but merely trying to mitigate the impact of asthma and allergies when using banned substances under medical exemption rules.
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Serra, a former presidential candidate who took over the ministry two months ago, said a $1 billion investment in Bombardier from the province of Quebec was a "subsidy" and gave the company an unfair advantage against Embraer.
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The BBC's commercial rivals argue the 3.7 billion pounds license fee it receives from viewers gives it an unfair advantage and distorts the market - a view shared by some members of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government.
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There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of five-times Olympic gold medal winner Wiggins who denied looking for any "unfair advantage", saying the medication was to reduce the impact of asthma and allergies.
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Consumers accused the defendants of taking unfair advantage of their 80 percent share of the U.S. market for online music, and that by making such music "less attractive" to buy were able to drive up CD prices.
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Schrems also contends that this behavior is additionally problematic because dominant tech giants are gaining an unfair advantage over small businesses — which simply cannot throw their weight around in the same way to get what they want.
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Rather it's more likely that they may seek to impose carbon-related tariffs on U.S. goods if these are deemed to be enjoying an unfair advantage because they are produced in an economy free of carbon restraints.
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"Timber sales are a major source of income for my own family, and we have suffered financially for many years from an unfair advantage enjoyed by our major competitor in this vital market," he wrote. http://bit.
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Beggs' family has sought to have him wrestle as a boy, and some of his opponents have said he has an unfair advantage among girls from the testosterone he is taking as a part of his transition.
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The separate charges "afford the government an unfair advantage by increasing the likelihood that the jury will convict on at least one count, if only as the result of a compromise verdict," Butina's lawyers told the judge.
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She said that her main concern was whether Amazon had an unfair advantage over competing vendors that sell on its platform, noting that the e-commerce giant's wealth of marketplace data could give it an upper hand.
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When the group began publishing athlete files in mid-September, it argued that the exemptions — granted by top sports authorities and approved by WADA and the International Olympic Committee — constituted sanctioned doping and delivered an unfair advantage.
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Under pressure from the regulator, it agreed last week to share comprehensive traffic data for all toll roads in New South Wales, where Sydney is located, to alleviate concerns that it has an unfair advantage over rivals.
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If these therapies, used as a preventive measure, also happen to have ancillary benefits for cognition, memory or learning that allow such a person to excel at school or work, would we deem that an unfair advantage?
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In 2015, Supermac's European expansion plans were stopped by a 41-page objection filed by McDonald's, in which the company argued that Supermac's name "[takes] unfair advantage of the distinctive character and repute of" McDonald's own McName.
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Some — including Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish league — have suggested that the wealth of P.S.G.'s Qatari backers gives the club an unfair advantage in the Champions League, and have called for UEFA to intervene.
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"No one side, Democrat or Republican, would have an unfair advantage swaying over the inmate population, same as in society," said Brown, who also said he had access to national and local newspapers and cable news, said.
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Those results were met with calls from some people to ban the shoes, since the carbon-fiber plate was thought to be acting like a spring, creating extra propulsion and an unfair advantage compared to other shoes.
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The pressure to manage these high-speed trades grows when the stock market becomes more volatile, as it has been in recent months, in part to prevent the fastest traders from taking unfair advantage of slower firms.
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Trump has long accused China of weakening its currency to make its exports cheaper and gain an unfair advantage in trade, though his administration has on multiple occasions declined to officially declare the country a currency manipulator.
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Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday accused Bernie Sanders of seeking an unfair "advantage" in the Democratic primary with his about-face on the question of how many delegates a candidate must amass before clinching the party's presidential nomination.
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"Amazon the platform is giving Amazon the retailer an unfair advantage because they can," said Shaoul Sussman, a legal fellow at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance who has argued that Amazon's pricing practices may be illegal.
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Not only does this kind of blatant tax dodging starve our families and communities of needed resources, but it also gives big corporations an unfair advantage over small businesses like mine, which pay our taxes every year.
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Taxi drivers had protested Uber and other services, Reuters previously reported, claiming the services had an unfair advantage due to a lack of regulation requiring them to pay the same fees to which traditional cabs are subject.
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The big challenge for regulators is figuring out how to draw a clear line between search engine features that provide a better experience for users versus those that merely give an unfair advantage to Google-owned products.
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Speaking on state radio Friday, Orbán, known for his dog-whistle rhetoric directed at the college's founder, George Soros, labeled C.E.U.'s unusual set-up a "fraud," saying it gave it an unfair advantage over Hungarian institutions.
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The European Commission said on Thursday that it had opened an in-depth investigation into the tax treatment of Nike Inc in the Netherlands, saying this may have given the U.S. sportswear maker an illegal and unfair advantage.
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Trump, who softened his tone on immigration in a speech on Tuesday, has for months railed against Mexico's "unfair" advantage under the North American Free Trade Agreement, while warning U.S. companies not to invest south of the border.
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The European Commission ruling wraps up a three-year long investigation into whether Amazon received an unfair advantage based on a 2003 Luxembourg tax ruling which allows an Amazon subsidiary to pay less tax there than other companies.
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"The Commission has concerns that two Dutch tax rulings may have allowed Inter IKEA to pay less tax and given them an unfair advantage over other companies, in breach of EU State aid rules," the EU executive said.
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Music streaming service Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission over App Store rules that give Apple an "unfair advantage at every turn," the company CEO Daniel Ek announced in a blog post Wednesday.
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The new FCC rules would also enable broadband providers to charge major internet companies fees to have content and services delivered at higher speeds, a move that many small businesses argue would grant larger competitors an unfair advantage.
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The reports about Cambridge Analytica's close ties to Steve Bannon and the Trump campaign suggest that, because the Trump team targeted and constructed its ads according to unethically received data, the ads themselves gave Trump an unfair advantage.
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If your technology can help you make more scarce talent more productive, or help your customers become more productive, then you are creating an unfair advantage internally, while establishing yourself as the de facto product for your customers.
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The Treasury Department should support modernizing the tax code using sales factor apportionment so Apple is fully taxed on US sales, cannot shift profits overseas, and does not have an unfair advantage over other US companies and taxpayers.
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While Amazon didn't have high-profile controversies like Facebook, the company still spent generously trying to influence Congress in areas like government procurement and cloud modernization — two areas where its critics allege the company has an unfair advantage.
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A liberal-leaning government watchdog group on Friday filed suit over North Carolina congressional districts they say give Republicans an unfair advantage, launching a new round of litigation that could have far-reaching effects for years to come.
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The European Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple an unfair advantage over other companies by allowing it to pay a tax rate of between 0.005 percent and 1 percent, in breach of the European Union's state aid rules.
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Paulo Cesar Silva, the head of Embraer's commercial aviation unit, said in a telephone interview that favorable government financing has given Bombardier an unfair advantage in sales campaigns where its new CSeries is up against Embraer's E-Jets.
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"We are investigating cases of a practice known as 'spoofing' in which large-scale fake orders are placed and withdrawn with the aim of achieving an unfair advantage," Branson said in remarks prepared for FINMA's annual news conference.
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Although, on the surface, doping has not been a major problem in soccer as it has been for sports like athletics and cycling, there have been recent instances of players using illegal substances to gain an unfair advantage.
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Ahead of this year's Commonwealth Games, which started April 4, Sweeney's was not such a hot number for athletes in search of an unfair advantage -- possibly because he is now an adviser for the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Previously, "Fortnite" maker Epic Games told Insider in a statement that it has a "zero tolerance policy" for cheating software, which it says gives players an unfair advantage and ruins the game for people who are playing fairly.
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The I.A.A.F. has argued for years that rules governing testosterone levels are needed to level the playing field and to reduce an unfair advantage gained in some women's events by athletes with so-called differences of sexual development.
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LONDON — European authorities on Thursday cleared Apple's acquisition of the popular song-recognition app Shazam, after months of study into whether the deal would give the iPhone maker an unfair advantage over rival streaming music services like Spotify.
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In "Do-Over," following Trump's election, a divorced financier resolves to apologize to an old female friend about a moment of sexism that gave him an unfair advantage over her in a student election back at boarding school.
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Beggs, who had a 56-0 record en route to the title, drew complaints that his steroid therapy treatment had given him an unfair advantage against girls who risked injury just by getting on the mat with him.
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The former Los Angeles Lakers guard, who regularly attends Dodgers games, said nothing good can come of wondering what might have been if the Astros hadn't relied on stealing pitching signs to give their batters an unfair advantage.
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The Italian carmaker was hit with a tax bill of up to 30 million euros ($35 million) in 2015 after the European Commission said Luxembourg's 2012 tax ruling cut the company's taxes considerably, giving it an unfair advantage.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 17 (Reuters) - EU competition regulators on Monday widened their investigation into additional incentives granted by Spanish authorities to Ryanair and other airlines operating at two airports in Catalonia, concerned that they may have an unfair advantage.
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All India Online Vendors Association, whose 3,500 members sell products on various online platforms including Flipkart, in a statement said fewer than 100 of its members benefitted from Flipkart's partial discount funding, giving some sellers an unfair advantage.
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BRUSSELS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators on Monday opened a probe into tax deals granted by Luxembourg to French electric utility company Engie, which they consider to have given the company an unfair advantage over others.
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If a rival can simply take that information at zero cost, claiming that keeping this information protected under intellectual property laws is an unfair advantage, then what motivation is there to build the database in the first place?
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"We want to create a zero tolerance environment ... and a level playing field to ensure all businesses play by the same rules with no unfair advantage for those exploiting victims of trafficking," Zafeiropoulou said after announcing the scheme.
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But there are no hard-and-fast rules regarding the eligibility of bladed runners at scholastic or collegiate levels, and the scientific debate has never been fully settled about whether the prosthetics offer a competitor some unfair advantage.
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The European Commission's decision will come after a near-two year investigation into whether a Luxembourg 2003 tax ruling for an Amazon subsidiary allows the company to pay less tax there than other companies, giving it an unfair advantage.
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How come, as CSU receiver Colton Korn pointed out, it isn't considered an unfair advantage for other Big South programs to hand out "cost-of-attendance" scholarships—money in addition to tuition, room and board—when Charleston Southern doesn't?
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The BJP denies it has a bias against Muslims, but says it is opposed to giving unfair advantage to any community, a practice it describes as "appeasement" and alleges the opposition Congress party of long following to win votes.
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Paris has long complained that central and eastern Europe gains an unfair advantage from the "social dumping" of cheap labor, arguing the posting of low-paid workers hurts local jobs and erodes labor protections in higher-wage member states.
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You might recall that Razer likes to jokingly promote its gaming gear with the tagline "gain the unfair advantage," and that's exactly what Atun did, by programming macro commands into his Razer mouse using the Razer Synapse configuration tool.
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As we've reported, the EU is in the middle of a probe into whether Amazon's mountain of data on what people are browsing and buying gives it an inherent — and unfair — advantage over the small sellers on its marketplace.
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Not only is it wrong to force people to help finance union activities they do not agree with, but it is also deceptive to give public employees an unfair advantage over other advocacy organizations with laws requiring financial contributions.
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People can buy AmazonBasics USB cables and water filter cartridges or fashion under its Find by Amazon label, for example, although in April it scaled down promotions of private-label brands following regulatory scrutiny and calls of unfair advantage.
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Paul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, recently said he feared wider inequality in society in the future because young people with rich parents would retain such an unfair advantage in the important years of early adulthood.
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Leading financial institutions like Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley can gain an unfair advantage because of rules that allow them to invest in the commodities sector, said the report from the Fed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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How Amazon and other tech giants use their market power to gain an unfair advantage over smaller competitors is poised to become a more contentious issue, and one of the key discussion points for the presidential election next year.
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The collective bargaining agreements provide an unfair advantage to officers, and the investigating agencies — [the Independent Police Review Authority] and CPD's Bureau of Internal Affairs — are under-resourced, lack true independence and are not held accountable for their work.
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WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - The United States launched a challenge against China's export duties on nine key metals and minerals on Wednesday, arguing that the duties violate World Trade Organization rules and give an unfair advantage to Chinese manufacturers.
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In Trump's view (and that of many others dating back to the Reagan administration), the current arrangement gives China an unfair advantage because it classifies it as a developing country, keeping its shipping rates to the US artificially low.
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"As the largest cybersecurity company in China, 360 Security has an unfair advantage in fighting frauds," said Xu. That's because 360 Security gleans reams of user behavioral data from its security browsers to determine borrowers' "willingness" to repay loans.
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With the new technology that is being made, athletes aren't getting an unfair advantage to boost their performance, athletes are actually improving the same amount as they did back in the 1850s, when track spikes were first being produced.
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Last year, the court repealed a similar law on regulated gas prices after a lobby group of alternative retail energy suppliers took the issue to the court, arguing the regulated gas scheme gave former monopoly Engie an unfair advantage.
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"What we don't want to see is people removing long-term lets from the market and getting an unfair advantage in an unregulated short-term market," Murphy said, adding that he hope to bring plans to cabinet very shortly.
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Trade tensions with the U.S. have put pressure on China to respond to long-standing complaints that key local industries are off-limits to foreign companies, and that domestic players have an unfair advantage in China's state-controlled economy.
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The spotlight is on two tax rulings granted by the Dutch tax authorities in 2006 and 2011, which the European Commission said have significantly reduced Inter IKEA Systems' taxable profits in the Netherlands and given it an unfair advantage.
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Google (GOOGL) has created an ecosystem where it can track people's online behavior through a suite of products it owns, collecting a trove of user data that gives it an unfair advantage over competitors, according to News Corp Australia.
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The action against Pearson comes on the same day that GM (GM) filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler (FCAU), charging that it received unfair advantage by bribing union officials, which helped the company lower its labor costs.
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The EU sees May's "all-UK" backstop, keeping all of Britain inside the EU customs union, as a dodge to grab unfair advantage by giving a special deal intended for a small, troubled province to Europe's third-biggest economy.
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"The defendants at different times and in different ways circumvented the law to gain unfair advantage," added an Inspector André Boulanger at the press conference, in some cases obtaining gifts or political financing in exchange for awarding public contracts.
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As athletes, it's a huge step in the right direction that the only athletes competing in Pyeongchang will be clean athletes, and that you won't have to worry that you're being beaten by somebody that has an unfair advantage.
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As we accelerate our pace of globalization, certain countries will deploy all sorts of ways to fence themselves off… We are committed to protecting intellectual property, but will not be bullied by those who exploit the issue for unfair advantage.
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As a way of sidestepping a conversation on human-caused climate change, which both Trump and EPA head Scott Pruitt routinely deny, the Trump Administration argues the Paris Agreement doesn't put "America First," instead giving our rivals an unfair advantage.
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The US tech giant is currently contesting a €2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) fine handed to it by the EU in 2017 for allegedly abusing its dominance as a search engine to give an unfair advantage to its own shopping comparison service.
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Trump has ceded day-to-day control over his businesses to his sons Eric and Donald Jr. Gross and Pitts, who are married, said their wine bar has lost business because the Trump hotel and its restaurants have an unfair advantage.
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The CEO cited an unfair advantage since its global competitors don't manufacture within the U.S. "What's most ironic is I invested $150 million to build new plant in Huntsville — at the same time our competitor built one in Mexico," he said.
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Trump International Hotel WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a local restaurant accusing the Trump International Hotel of having an unlawfully unfair advantage in attracting customers because of its ties to the president.
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" They also called for Facebook to restrict the extent to which politicians can target their advertisements, a spending cap to ensure more entrenched lawmakers do not have an unfair advantage over new candidates and broader observance of "election silence periods.
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Semenya has gone from dealing with questions on the issue in awkward silence to batting them away with seeming exasperation without offering a considered response or understanding of the frustration of rivals who feel she has had an unfair advantage.
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How Amazon and other tech giants use their market power to gain an unfair advantage over smaller competitors is poised to become a more contentious issue going forward, and one of the key discussion points for the presidential election next year.
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A few points later Zverev finished off the 37-year-old with a nerveless volley, but his on-court interview was drowned out by a cacophony of boos and heckling from fans who believed the German had gained an unfair advantage.
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The U.S. also wants to eliminate China's non-tariff barriers to trade, such as industrial subsidies, as well as regulations, licensing procedures, technical standards and other practices that discriminate against U.S. businesses and give an unfair advantage to their Chinese competitors.
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"When one steps out of line, it's not fair to the other 64, and I couldn't look at the other 64 in the eye knowing that I had substantial proof to say, unfortunately, she sought an unfair advantage," Gravitt says.
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A serious discussion about affirmative action would begin with the unfair advantage given to less-than-spectacular students who happen to come from rich families -- such as those with similar backgrounds to Jared Kushner and Donald Trump himself often get.
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If that doesn't happen and Congress is required to craft a new law, activists believe that a ban on anti-competitive zero rating will be integral in preventing the wealthiest content companies from buying their way to an unfair advantage.
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"Such approval, which was granted by the state of Israel, gives a significant and unfair advantage to a foreign airline and is contrary to any principle of reciprocity in the world of international aviation," the company said in a statement.
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"Congress enacted CIPA in part to ensure that the Government cannot rely on an unelaborated claim of state secrecy, like the one the Government is asserting here, to gain an unfair advantage in the discovery process," the defense lawyers add.
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Apple's entry into the music streaming field with Apple Music sparked concerns from other companies, such as Spotify, which have argued that the 30 percent cut Apple takes of subscriptions in its App Store gives its own service an unfair advantage.
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Magistrates suspect that Susanna Masi was paid some 220,000 euros (£195,290.33) between 2013-2015 in return for sensitive material, including on planned tax reforms which could have given the professional services firm an unfair advantage over its rivals, the sources said.
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The remarks made by the commerce ministry came after the United States launched a challenge against China's export duties on nine key metals and minerals on Wednesday, arguing that they violate WTO rules and give an unfair advantage to Chinese manufacturers.
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Article 17 bis of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement (ATA) was designed to explicitly bar this type of "flag of convenience" airline operation from benefiting from the agreement and gaining an unfair advantage over airlines that play by the rules.
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In an interview this year, Ms. Vestager said individuals had to be careful about how much data they shared with companies, and she questioned whether the collection of large amounts of information gave one company an unfair advantage over another.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to set up a dispute settlement panel to examine restrictions on Chinese exports of 12 raw materials which it says give an unfair advantage to Chinese producers.
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Its funding model means that it faces constant scrutiny by the British public, who pay for it, and by commercial rivals, who say the 3.7-billion-pound ($4.8-billion) license fee distorts the market and gives the BBC an unfair advantage.
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"If Katie Ledecky goes to Stanford and she has a deal with a suit company, does that take away from what she's doing there, does that give her an unfair advantage?" said Bob Bowman, the A.S.U. men's and women's swimming coach.
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Trump administration officials also object to non-tariff barriers in China, including industrial subsidies, regulations, business licensing procedures, product standards reviews and other practices that they say keep U.S. goods out of China or give an unfair advantage to domestic firms.
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Even more recently, Paralympic jumper Markus Rehm was actually denied a bid for the 2016 Olympics in Rio because it was unclear whether or not those carbon fiber blades [used for his amputated right leg] actually gave him an unfair advantage.
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In his opinion representing the 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy argued the physical presence distinction no longer made sense in the modern era, and the lower court ruling gave large online retailers an unfair advantage over their digital counterparts.
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Seventy-five percent of Republicans say companies will bring jobs back to the United States as a result of Mr. Trump's trade policies — economists are skeptical — and 83 percent say other countries often take unfair advantage of the United States.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed legislation as part of her 2020 presidential campaign that would bar companies like Amazon from selling goods in a digital marketplace they control, arguing it gives them an unfair advantage over other merchants on the platform.
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The simple truth is that the global balance of payments needs to be balanced — that means it must be equal to zero (adjusted for minor measurement errors) — and there is no American hegemony or unfair advantage in that particular economic concept.
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"Their interventions have been consistent to a transition to a market-oriented exchange rate and it hasn't had the character of an intervention that we would say by design is to try and gain an unfair advantage," the official said.
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"In the absence of any evidence of any intent by Maria of enhancing her performance or trying to gain an unfair advantage through the use of mildronate, we further conclude this falls into the category of 'honest' mistakes," he said.
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These enterprises behaved like private companies — maximizing their profits and in some cases expanding internationally — but because they were nominally organs of government, they were immune from litigation in international courts, giving them an unfair advantage over businesses in the West.
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UEFA, European football's governing body, has been investigating the club for possible breaches of its Financial Fair Play regulations, which are supposed to stop clubs from getting into unmanageable debt or allowing wealthy benefactors to give top teams an unfair advantage.
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Just two days after Apple sent out press invites for the streaming video event this month, Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with European antitrust officials, accusing it of giving its own music service — Apple Music — an unfair advantage over competitors.
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But big companies in the rest of the world worry that the program gives an unfair advantage to homegrown players, with the stated goal of Chinese companies' owning as much as 80 percent of specific domestic markets in eight years.
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In short, the government does have an important role to play in protecting consumers' privacy and catalysing competition, so long as it plays that role carefully and fairly, minimizing the opportunities for companies to game the regulatory system for unfair advantage.
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Contrary to U.S. President Donald Trump's grumbles about a "devalued" euro handing the region's exporters an unfair advantage over U.S. rivals, the euro has risen to five-month highs versus trading partners' currencies, an index compiled by the European Central Bank shows.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, part-owner of airline Vistara, said on Wednesday that a rule restricting new carriers from flying overseas should be scrapped because it gives an unfair advantage to foreign airlines that now dominate international air travel.
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European regulators originally ordered a sale of W&G by 2013 to prevent RBS, Britain's largest small-business lender and responsible for 1 in 4 loans in the sector, from having an unfair advantage and posing a systemic threat to its economy.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A marketing executive who authored a parenting advice book was sentenced on Wednesday to three weeks in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions cheating and fraud scheme in order to help her son gain an unfair advantage.
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A loophole in tax regulations, however, means that the GST is currently applied only to items purchased from overseas retailers if they are worth $1,000 AUD or more, which many local companies argued gave Amazon, eBay and other overseas competitors an unfair advantage.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday that it had opened an in-depth investigation into the tax treatment of Nike Inc in the Netherlands, saying this may have given the U.S. sportswear maker an illegal and unfair advantage.
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Under the modified deal, announced in December, Vodacom would have bought assets related to Neotel's fixed-line business but not its frequency spectrum - which the Competition Commission's said would have given Vodacom an unfair advantage in rolling out a high-speed 4G network.
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So the attorneys general for Maryland and Washington, DC, filed suit over this, using the creative argument that Trump's violation of the emoluments clause was giving his business (and specifically his DC hotel) an unfair advantage over hotels or convention centers they subsidize.
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Goldman Sachs told the Securities and Exchange Commission in a letter dated Tuesday that it supported a proposed new stock exchange, but also pointed out that one exchange should not have an unfair advantage over another in its control of market data.
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Investigators will also examine what data Amazon uses to pick a seller as the default option for a given product when a user clicks the "buy" button—and whether Amazon has an unfair advantage to be designated the default for products it sells.
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That might be good for AT&T customers who are also DirecTV Now subscribers, but critics argue it gives AT&T's service an unfair advantage over competitors like Dish's Sling TV. The California and New York bill would prohibit this type of exemption.
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Under the Obama administration, the FCC was concerned about zero rating – especially AT&T's plans to zero rate DirecTV Now and Verizon's zero rating of go90 [disclosure: Verizon owns TechCrunch parent AOL] – which it felt could give the companies an unfair advantage.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal have amended state guarantees on deferred tax assets created by banks following discussions with EU regulators concerned that these may give the lenders an unfair advantage, the bloc's state aid chief said on Tuesday.
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European regulators originally ordered a sale of W&G by 2013 to prevent RBS, Britain's largest small business lender and responsible for 1 in 4 loans in the sector, from having an unfair advantage and posing a systemic threat to its economy.
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Trump has ceded day-to-day control over his businesses to his sons Eric and Donald Jr. Gross and Pitts, who are married, said their wine bar has lost business because the Trump hotel and restaurants within it enjoy an unfair advantage.
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" RUSSIAN ATHLETES SHOULD NOT BE SINGLED OUT, SPORTS MINISTER SAYS "Clean athletes who have dedicated years of their lives to training and who never sought to gain unfair advantage through doping should not be punished for the past actions of other individuals.
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These deals, related to agreements from 1991 and 2007, gave Apple an unfair advantage over other companies, and broke Europe's so-called state-aid rules that forbid any government from providing unfair assistance to certain companies over others, she is expected to say.
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The United States and other Western economies have long complained to the WTO about China's lack of transparency on industrial subsidies, which they contend give Chinese companies an unfair advantage and lead to overproduction of goods that are dumped into world markets.
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In fact, she said that much of the recent social media criticism against her came from women overseas, who believe that she will have an unfair advantage over other national beauty queens when she participates in the Miss Universe pageant later this year.
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A major concern among some officials is that, much like Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, they will go into business, but with the unfair advantage of having armed men behind them and the implicit protection of senior figures in the Iraqi government.
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Regulators in Washington and Europe are looking more closely at whether the methods that companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google use to collect and hoard data give them an unfair advantage over rivals without comparable access to the same kind of data.
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BRUSSELS, April 4 - A two-year investigation into whether Apple's tax deal with Irish authorities gave the iPhone maker an unfair advantage will take a lot longer because of the large amount of data involved, the EU antitrust chief said on Monday.
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In a statement last month, sociologists at the Slovak Academy of Sciences criticized the polling bill as a "violation of the freedom of speech that gives unfair advantage to political parties - that would still be able to order opinion polls without publishing them".
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The debate around the cost distribution underscores how some companies view the post office as gaining an unfair advantage over other parcel carriers with a flawed costing methodology — allowing it to essentially cross-subsidize its "competitive" business with the monopoly "market dominant" business.
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The statement was clearly aimed at China, which is often accused of propping up its companies to give them an unfair advantage over foreign competitors, and of forcing foreign companies to share sensitive technology in return for permission to operate in China.
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"AT&T ... has sought to gain an unfair advantage in the race to 5G by embarking on a nationwide advertising campaign to deceive consumers into believing that its existing 4G LTE Advanced network is now a 5G network," Sprint said in its lawsuit.
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The vote to stay the new data security rules came in response to petitions filed by broadband providers and advertising trade groups that said the rules would give web companies like Google and Facebook an unfair advantage in the online advertising market.
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If you believe that increased market concentration is a central problem, you might consider tougher antitrust enforcement, a favorite of liberals, but also explore conservative arguments that complex regulation creates an unfair advantage for big companies that can employ scores of lawyers.
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Both come at a time when participants have raised questions over whether new, higher-cost data feeds give an unfair advantage to the biggest of the algorithmic machine-driven traders who play a major role in the $5-trillion-a-day market.
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In a world where big telecommunications companies increasingly own technology and content companies — Comcast owns NBCUniversal, for example, and Verizon owns Yahoo and AOL — net neutrality supporters worry that broadband network owners could give an unfair advantage to their own content and services.
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Orbán has said he believes it is "cheating" for CEU to not have home accreditation, and that it gives the university an unfair advantage over Hungarian institutions because its graduates receive a diploma that is recognized as coming from a US institution.
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But the judge concluded that Postman, as the Chamber's point person coordinating strategy with Uber, likely had access to Uber documents relevant to the class action, which claims that Uber enjoys an unfair advantage over ordinary limousine companies because it classifies drivers as independent contractors.
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They aren't the first to be worried about the company's reach when it comes to the App Store: Spotify filed an antitrust complaint of its own against Apple, saying that the technology company was giving itself an unfair advantage against third-party music streaming services.
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The commission's concerns stem from the fact that Google is using the Play Store as a incentive to force manufacturers to offer Google search and Chrome, with no option to only offer just the store, giving Google an unfair advantage when it comes to search.
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The letters, which Mashable acquired from the FCC, detail how AT&T and Verizon are using their programs to create an unfair advantage, thus violating rules put in place to ensure the internet remains a level playing field for all companies and their customers.
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As Reuters noted, ITC administrative law judge Thomas Pender found that Apple had violated the patents but declined to impose a ban "on some older iPhone models containing Intel Corp chips," ruling that would give Qualcomm an unfair advantage in the U.S. mobile chip market.
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Bernie Sanders and his supporters repeatedly argued throughout 2016 that superdelegates (the party prefers to call them "automatic" delegates now) gave Hillary Clinton an unfair advantage, tilting delegate counts in her favor even in states where he did well in the primary or caucus.
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According to Richard Cram of the Multistate Tax Commission, third-party sellers on Amazon are avoiding more than $1 billion annually in sales taxes across the country, giving those dealers an unfair advantage on brick-and-mortar competition, and robbing local governments of revenue.
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A WTO appellate body found that the European Union and four of its member countries -- the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain -- didn't comply with prior rulings over subsidies, which gave Airbus an unfair advantage on the world market and hurt U.S.-based Boeing.
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Reality might not be so far behind: In 2008 runner Oscar Pistorius, a double-leg amputee, sought to compete in the Bejing Olympics, but his running blades, made of carbon fiber and modeled after a cheetah's leg, were seen by some as an unfair advantage.
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A WTO appellate body found that the European Union and four of its member countries — the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain — didn't comply with prior rulings over subsidies, which gave Airbus an unfair advantage on the world market and hurt U.S.-based Boeing.
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"As someone who hugely benefited from it and maybe bears in part the guilt of what feels like an unfair advantage," he said, referring to his peculiar career path, which skipped the usual dues-paying steps, "I feel I need to expose what I know."
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"This is outright cheating and theft, and it gives China an unfair advantage at the expense of law-abiding businesses and countries that follow the international rules in return for the privilege of participating in the global economic system," Rosenstein said at a press conference.
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Gencos have seized on low prices to make the following argument: State-level policies that support renewable energy (or, in the case of New York, nuclear energy) artificially lower the prices of those resources, thus giving them an unfair advantage and distorting wholesale markets.
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"The picture of Ireland painted by the Commission in its decision, as a country prepared to play fast and loose with the law to gain unfair advantage, could not be more damaging or further from the truth," Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told lawmakers.
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The IAAF decided that elevated testosterone levels give them an unfair advantage in races ranging from 400 meters to one mile and instituted a new policy that mandated that female athletes with the condition take medication, such as contraceptives, to reduce their testosterone levels.
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They argue that rivals working for Uber have an unfair advantage because they do not have to meet the same car specification requirements or pass an exhaustive exam, known as "the Knowledge," that tests a cabby's ability to navigate city streets without a map.
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This forced subsidy gave China an unfair advantage against American manufacturers and workers, while disadvantaging private carriers like FedEx and U.P.S. Incredibly, under the union's terminal dues rules, it is cheaper to send a small package from Shanghai to New York than from Chicago.
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As part of its crackdown on tax avoidance, the European Commission three years ago ordered Belgium to recover some 1203 million euros ($790 million) from the group, saying the companies' "excess profit" tax plan gave them an unfair advantage vis-a-vis smaller firms.
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"When a competitor has the opportunity to poach that knowledge without making the investment in research and development, it gives them an unfair advantage, which a three-judge panel agreed happened in this case," said Jack Rosenstein, TSG's chief executive, in an emailed statement.
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" Perez said that the party would set the dates for the 85033 Democratic primary debates before all candidates enter the race, in order "to ensure that no candidate participating in our presidential nominating process gains any unfair advantage — real or perceived — during our primary season.
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He also bypassed the World Trade Organization to impose unilateral tariffs on an initial $50 billion worth of Chinese goods in a showdown with Beijing over trade practices that give Chinese firms an unfair advantage and force American firms to turn over intellectual property.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Paralympic long jump champion Markus Rehm saw his dream of competing at the Rio Olympics fade on Friday after the IAAF said that the German had failed to prove that he does not gain an unfair advantage as a prosthesis-wearing athlete.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, who has attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in the past for raising interest rates, even turned on Draghi on Twitter on Tuesday, accusing the ECB chief of trying to weaken the euro to gain an unfair advantage in trade.
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And exempting it from data limits could give its own service an unfair advantage over competitors such as Dish Network's Sling TV or on-demand services like Hulu and Netflix—unless those companies shell out to pay AT&T to have their apps exempted as well.
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"This reform is consistent with the tax policies of nearly every other country in the world, and it would effectively end the 'Made in America' tax that creates an unfair advantage for foreign-based companies at the expense of U.S. jobs and economic growth," the letter states.
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Semenya is awaiting a Court of Arbitration for Sport verdict on her appeal against an IAAF regulation that says female athletes classed as having differences in sexual development (DSDs) gain an unfair advantage due to their higher testosterone levels, though only in races between 400 and 1,000m.
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Xbox One players have been asking for mouse and keyboard support for a long time — the console was released in November 2013, and the feature only arrived last month — but Microsoft had long resisted because some fans feared precise mouse movement might give players an unfair advantage.
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"Allowing one of the candidates to not just preside over their own election but misuse their office to give them an unfair advantage is just anti-democratic and unlawful," Bryan Sells, a former Justice Department attorney who is co-counsel on the case, said in a statement.
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It's proved popular with users, with T-Mobile claiming video views on its network have "more than doubled" since the deal was introduced, but critics say it's creating a tiered internet service, with the Uncarrier given the unfair advantage of deciding who wins and who loses.
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NON-TARIFF BARRIERS Trump administration officials have used the broad category of non-tariff barriers to include China's industrial subsidies, numerous regulations, business licensing procedures, product standards reviews and other practices to keep U.S. goods out or to give an unfair advantage to domestic Chinese firms.
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That's why the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) have long supported policies preventing soring, which is the practice of deliberately causing pain to exaggerate the leg motion of a horse's gait to gain an unfair advantage in show rings.
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"A conspiracy by the leadership of the Australian men's test cricket team which broke the rules with a clear intention to gain an unfair advantage during the third test in South Africa goes to the heart of integrity," said Magellan CEO Hamish Douglass in the statement.
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But some transwomen athletes who long ago had their testicles removed (and as a result, make virtually no testosterone) were unhappy with the policy; they argued that lifting the surgery requirement gave transwomen who still had testosterone-producing testicles an unfair advantage over transwomen who didn't.
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MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU NEED TO PUSH CHINA ON IMPORTANT ISSUES LIKE REDUCING EXCESS CAPACITY IN ALUMINUM AND STEEL, LIKE NOT CLOSING THEIR MARKETS TO FOREIGN BUSINESSES THAT ARE OPEN WHERE THE OTHER COUNTRIES ARE OPEN TO THEM, NOT HAVING SUBSIDIES THAT SKEW INVESTMENT AND CREATE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE.
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But the cable giant is using the specter of harming people who are sick and/or disabled to justify a more self-serving focus: eliminating rules that prevent ISPs from selling an unfair advantage to deep-pocketed content companies (including its own media arm, NBC Universal).
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' election commission on Tuesday said it may bar local broadcasts of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao's bid to win back the world welterweight title next month because it could give him an unfair advantage over rival candidates in an election a month later.
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In reality, there are sectors such as beauty where many companies have product margins >90% or true brands such as Rothy's where there is such a strong word-of-mouth effect and this gives them an unfair advantage with far better unit economics than the average.
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It's proved popular with users, with T-Mobile claiming video views on its network have "more than doubled" since the deal was introduced, but critics say it's creating a tiered Internet service, with the Uncarrier given the unfair advantage of deciding who wins and who loses.
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His suggestion to cap the corporate rate at 2628 percent is also a bad idea because it would add a whopping $28503 trillion to the deficit over 22019 years without closing any of the corporate tax loopholes that put businesses like ours at an unfair advantage.
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In the complaint to the Vienna-based Energy Community body, five local and international environmental groups said the deal does not comply with the body's rules on state aid "because it provides ContourGlobal a range of benefits that give it an unfair advantage over other energy producers".
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In 2015, when Brady and the Patriots were investigated by the N.F.L. for using deflated footballs to gain an unfair advantage — with Brady eventually suspended and, by association, labeled a cheater (in roughly 44 states) — New Englanders were outraged by what they saw as outsiders' bias.
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The Justice Department had argued that AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner would allow it to charge premium prices to rivals who relied on its Turner and HBO channels to woo customers to their cable plans, potentially giving it an unfair advantage in the pay-TV market.
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The divisions come as Trump lashed out at other NATO member nations in Brussels on Wednesday for taking 'unfair' advantage of U.S. military might and several days after a delegation of GOP senators visited Russia and were promptly used by Moscow's messaging apparatus, which painted them as weak.
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The IAAF wants female athletes with differences of sexual development who run in events from 400 meters to a mile, to reduce their blood testosterone level to below five (5) nmol/L for a period of six months before they can compete, saying they have an unfair advantage.
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And so, he's trying to say things that are newsworthy, or he's trying to make them newsworthy to force him to get coverage like what he did last night in Montana because people are trying to cut back on that because they realize it is an unfair advantage.
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Taxi drivers argue that ride-booking companies do not respect certain regulations — like a ban on cruising for fares, which only taxis can legally do — and they say that drivers for ride-booking services have an unfair advantage because they do not have to pay for expensive taxi licenses.
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The memo provides more detail on Trumps frequent complaints that many large emerging market countries such as China have been taking unfair advantage of their status as developing economies under WTO rules, which allow them to maintain higher tariffs and other trade barriers aimed at boosting domestic growth.
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"This is outright cheating and theft, and it gives China an unfair advantage at the expense of law-abiding businesses and countries that follow the international rules in return for the privilege of participating in the global economic system," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.
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The IAAF wants female athletes with differences of sexual development who run in events from 400 meters to a mile to reduce their blood testosterone level to below five (5) nmol/L for a period of six months before they can compete, saying they have an unfair advantage.
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As evidenced by the IOC panel that convened last November, and a study released in 2015, which found trans female runners have no advantage over cisgender female runners, medical experts agree that trans women who have hormonally transitioned do not posses an unfair advantage over other female athletes.
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Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, repeatedly expressed his opposition to the California law, arguing that if California schools allow college athletes to make money, they would have an unfair advantage over schools in other states and warned that these schools would be barred from competing in NCAA championships.
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Separately, Valor Econômico reported that Palocci will implicate Esteves's BTG Pactual, which allegedly obtained unfair advantage ahead of its acquisition of a stake in Banco Pan in 2011 after the target received an investment from Caixa Participações SA, owner of state-run lender Caixa Econômica Federal, in 2009.
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That's why we hope DNC members and our Unity Reform Commission will vote to pass the following reforms: Fair and transparent primary process It's critically important that the DNC doesn't put its thumb on the scale -- in perception or reality -- or that any primary candidate has an unfair advantage.
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The memo provides more detail on Trump's frequent complaints that many large emerging market countries such as China have been taking unfair advantage of their status as developing economies under WTO rules, which allow them to maintain higher tariffs and other trade barriers aimed at boosting domestic growth.
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In the world of intelligent applications, data will be king, and the services that can generate the highest-quality data will have an unfair advantage from their data flywheel — more data leading to better models, leading to a better user experience, leading to more users, leading to more data.
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Double taxation gives foreign companies an unfair advantage because they are able to invest their foreign earnings in the U.S. tax free; whereas, American companies must pay tax to the U.S. government on their foreign earnings (plus various state corporate income taxes) before they can invest at home.
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Earlier this year, after formal complaints made by Spotify, the EU launched an anti-trust probe into Apple to examine if the company's practice of taking a 30 percent cut for purchases made in the App Store gave Apple first-party apps like Apple Music an unfair advantage.
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At a campaign outing on Thursday to rally youngsters to his cause, Cameron was ambushed by students, fielding questions touching on his "personal experience of tax avoidance", his refusal to bail out the steel industry and whether he felt government pamphlets gave the "In" campaign an unfair advantage.
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The Trump administration has argued that the cheap rates give Chinese manufacturers and merchants an unfair advantage over their American counterparts, and have resulted in scenarios where it is at times cheaper to ship items from China to the U.S. than it is from one part of the U.S. to another.
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" The suit alleges that YouTube, which controls an estimated 95% of online videos, "used their monopoly power over content regulation to selectively apply their rules and restrictions in a manner that allowed them to gain an unfair advantage to profit from their own content to the detriment of its consumers.
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Asking employees to "relinquish the central substantive right" extended in the National Labour Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935—the right "to act together to better their working conditions"—gives bosses an unfair advantage over workers and prevented the plaintiffs from resolving their complaints over unpaid overtime and other alleged infractions.
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Viktor Orban, who considers the Hungarian-born Soros an ideological rival, said that Central European University, founded in 1991, is "cheating" with its unfair advantage over Hungarian universities because its diplomas are accepted in both Hungary and the U.S. "This is not fair to Hungarian universities," Orban said on state radio.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's government has asked antitrust regulators to block the sale of a stake in lithium company SQM to a Chinese company on the grounds it would give China an unfair advantage in the global race to secure resources to develop electric vehicles, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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Asked whether avoiding paying value added tax gave the company an unfair advantage over its rivals, a spokesman said: "The same rules apply to any international service provider with customers in the UK." Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax authority, declined to comment on Uber, citing confidentiality rules.
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The critiques around unfair advantage may not be backed up by science, but even if trans women do have advantages here and there, many argue that those advantages are no different than the advantage that someone like Michael Phelps, whose long wingspan has been credited with some of his success, has.
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Her plan involves appointing regulators who share her views on the industry and pushing legislation that would make it illegal for a large internet company to both own a platform or marketplace and also compete in it — which critics say gives tech giants an unfair advantage over startups and local businesses.
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Trump has complained about the U.S. trade deficit with Japan and accused Tokyo of using its "money supply" to weaken the yen and give exporters an unfair advantage - seen as a criticism of the Bank of Japan's radical policy of flooding the financial system with yen to end decades of deflation.
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In Jagex's statement about the event, 5PLUS50K12's ultimate disqualification has been chalked up to his running of a botnet that garnered him and his clanmates an unfair advantage, although the exact use and specification of what that bot net was doing mostly exists in the land of YouTube speculation.
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MORE TOP STORIES: NAACP calls for boycott of North Carolina over voting, bathroom laws Trump's transgender move puts spotlight on Supreme Court case Some of the wrestler's opponents have said Beggs had an unfair advantage among girls because of the testosterone he is taking as a part of his gender transition.
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"This is outright cheating and theft, and it gives China an unfair advantage at the expense of law-abiding businesses and countries that follow the international rules in return for the privilege of participating in the global economic system," Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, said at a news conference.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: HackerloopAfter realizing they had an unfair advantage during Nerf battles over a competitor who was missing a hand, the tinkerers at Hackerloop decided to level the battlefield by building Nicholas Huchet a custom Nerf blaster prosthetic that can be automatically fired whenever he contracts his forearm muscles.
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The lawsuit, while focused on forcing the Federal Election Commission's hand on a technical timing issue, seeks to put a spotlight on a broader question: the NRA's role in recent elections and whether the powerful gun lobby skirted contribution limits to provide an unfair advantage to Trump and other candidates it backed.
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"What we've been doing in the stock market to prevent flash crashes, they're nowhere near that in the cryptocurrency market," said Joe Saluzzi, co-founder of Themis Trading and co-author of "Broken Markets," a 2012 book criticizing the way regulators have allowed high-frequency traders to take unfair advantage of markets.
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In a two-day summit meant to set new terms for Britain's EU membership, France pushed to reduce the leeway offered to the City of London, on the grounds that it could have given an unfair advantage to the British financial centre, which generates around 10 percent of Britain's gross domestic product.
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In a television interview, Mr. Bloomberg's first since he announced his presidential campaign, the billionaire and former mayor of New York City rejected the idea that he had an unfair advantage, saying that while other candidates asked donors for money, he had made his money himself and then given most of it away.
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Hicks argued filling 70,000 vacant desks in white schools would create an "unfair advantage" for black children; she worked to block a privately funded effort by black parents to enroll their children in different schools, and told the city's cardinal she would leave the Catholic Church if he protested her role in the whole thing.
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To do so could get them into trouble, Jensen said, because his work would be seen as giving the athletes an unfair advantage over others, as if they were on steroids, at a time when anyone turning on ESPN was bound to hear about professional athletes getting busted for taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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Apple Music, which competes directly with Spotify, was given "an unfair advantage at every turn," according to embittered CEO Daniel Ek. Allegations of "monopolistic" pricing is also at the heart of Apple v Pepper—a class action dating back to 2011—which the Supreme Court allowed to move forward to oral arguments last November.
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"If I were Amazon, I would be worried about being viewed as giving unfair advantage to my private label products, given the amount of power they hold in general — and how unpopular the amount of power is quickly becoming," said Andrea Leigh, VP of Ideoclick, an agency that helps sellers and brands sell on Amazon.
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The I.A.A.F. had argued that athletes classified with "differences of sexual development," also known as intersex athletes — particularly women who possess testes and natural testosterone levels in the male range — gain an unfair advantage in women's events ranging from 400 meters to one mile because they have additional muscle mass, strength and oxygen-carrying capacity.
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ADAY worked with the most technically advanced factory in Europe (the one that manufactured the now-banned Michael Phelps swimsuit that gave the Olympian an unfair advantage) to take the legging to new heights, adding details like a sculpting waistband, side phone pocket, bonded seams, and breathable, sweat wicking, UV-protective, quick-drying, AND pill-resistant compression fabric.
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As the Pentagon moves toward selecting its primary cloud vendor for the next decade, Oracle in particular has been complaining to anyone who will listen that Amazon has an unfair advantage in the deal, going so far as to file a formal complaint last month, even before bids were in and long before the Pentagon made its choice.
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During the White House press briefing with reporters earlier in the day, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that new tariffs on Canada related to dairy and lumber trade were not the result of a personality clash between Trudeau and Trump, but merely the administration holding Canada accountable in what they're calling an unfair advantage for lumber subsidies.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Media companies plan to ask U.S. regulators to force AT&T Inc and Time Warner Inc to share their trove of customer data if the telecom and content companies merge, fearing the combined behemoth would have an unfair advantage selling targeted mobile advertising, a handful of media executives told Reuters this week.
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Modern Appealing Clothing (MAC) says the first daughter 's firm has also gained an "unfair advantage" from from her husband Jared "working for the President of the United States" and charged that President Trump, his trusted adviser Kellyanne Conway, and White House spokesman Sean Spicer have all helped boost sales of Ivanka Trump Marks LLC products.
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"If I were Amazon, I would be worried about being viewed as giving unfair advantage to my private label products, given the amount of power they hold in general — and how unpopular the amount of power is quickly becoming," said Andrea Leigh, vice president of Ideoclick, an agency that helps sellers and brands sell on Amazon.
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Moreover, if you agree with Mr. Trump's oft-repeated views that China and other countries seize unfair advantage in trade by depressing their currencies (economists generally argue that's not the case with regard to China at present, but it has been in the recent past), you should want low-interest-rate policies out of the Fed.
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While central bank officials are quick to say that exchange rate shifts are merely an unintended consequence of monetary stimulus policies aimed at spurring economic growth, there's no denying that currency movements spawned by differential interest-rate paths can deliver an unwarranted blow to one country's exporters while providing an unfair advantage to rivals in other countries.
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Regional Australian newspaper Mandurah Mail reports that Sorensen's lawyers said the trafficking was a part of a larger scheme to make the company's boars more fertile over time"GD Pork imported the semen illegally in an attempt to get an unfair advantage over its competitors, through new genetics," Australia federal agriculture minister Bridget McKenzie told the Guardian.
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Footwear technology has also progressed to the point that some are concerned that certain shoes provide runners an unfair advantage; a number of notable marathoners have called for the banning of Nike's Vaporfly, which uses a carbon plate and an extra-cushioned sole to help athletes run 4 to 5 percent faster than they would using a traditional model.
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The shoes were worn by 28500 of the 6900 top finishers at the six biggest marathons in the world, so World Athletics, the ruling body for international track and field, is investigating whether the $2628 shoes with special foam soles and carbon fiber plates in each heel create an unfair advantage under the rules (NBC News).
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In " Transgender Boy Wins Texas Girls' Wrestling Title," The Associated Press writes: A 17-year-old transgender boy completed an undefeated season on Saturday by winning a Texas state girls' wrestling championship — an accomplishment clouded by criticism from those who believe the testosterone he is taking as he transitions from female to male gave him an unfair advantage.
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Keep the flow of the game constant, and make up for the lost revenue by putting advertisements on the jerseys, as they do in soccer and will next season in the N.B.A. — JAMES WAGNER Ban all arm/hand armor and padding on batters — it's an unfair advantage and wastes thousands of minutes as straps are adjusted between pitches.
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Apple later banned the app, causing Kaspersky to file its complaint with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service The claim comes hot on the heels of a similar complaint made by Spotify, which alleges that the App Store's so-called Apple tax — 30 percent of any transactions — gives the company's own services (in this case, Apple Music) an unfair advantage over its competitors.
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So you would think that Evans-Smith beating Fox would have put to bed all the arguments about trans women having an innate and unfair advantage over cis women, but barely a week after their fight Evans-Smith was complaining to a reporter about that advantage, and then, for good measure, advocating for a league set aside just for transgender people.
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"Many will argue that it allows for people to do things quickly and adapt to the metagame quicker, but conversely I know a great deal of people who have given up playing because it's so widespread that they feel like it gives an unfair advantage to the players and that they'd have to hack in order to keep up," he explains.
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A U.S.–China trade agreement must achieve three key goals to be successful: eliminate tariffs and discriminatory practices that prevent American companies from selling more manufactured goods to China; end Chinese policies that distort the free market and give their companies an unfair advantage; and create clear and binding enforcement tools to ensure the United States can hold China fully accountable.
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Rubio's staff suggested on Tuesday that Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE's team is circulating the report for an unfair advantage in Hawaii's GOP presidential caucuses later that evening.
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"Despite the absence of positive test results, WADA was able to use evidence gathered by ASADA to prove that the players had been injected with the prohibited substance as part of a team program designed to give Essendon an unfair advantage in the 2012 season," a statement from The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), which supported the decision, stated.
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The magical sword enables Arthur to butcher his opponents at lightning speed while shockwaves shake the land, thus giving him an annoyingly unfair advantage over his enemies: this is Arthur as a cross between two Marvel superheroes who have been on screen lately, Quicksilver and Iron Fist, and the editors have cut most of these digital skirmishes down to noisy flashes and flurries of action.
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Border adjustability, which would subject imports to U.S. tax and exempt exports, "is consistent with the tax policies of nearly every other country in the world, and it would effectively end the 'Made in America' tax that creates an unfair advantage for foreign-based companies at the expense of U.S. jobs and economic growth," the CEOs wrote in a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday.
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While public health, obviously, has to be the primary concern, this seems to be the only way of attempting to ensure the league not only finishes its season, but does so with something approaching parity: anything less than a wholesale measure would have given, or at least would have seemed to have given, some teams — those playing in front of crowds — an unfair advantage.
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However, when it became apparent to Ms. Hudson that Mr. Otunga would be the parent granted residential care of the child, as a result of Mr. Otunga being the child's primary caregiver while Ms. Hudson pursues her career all over the world, Ms. Hudson decided to file a meritless Petition for Order of Protection in an effort to gain an unfair advantage in the custody dispute.
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