Yeah, yeah, the moats, I call it the moats, and Amazon has moats and moats.
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They built moats, everywhere they went they built moats and now they're benefiting from those moats they built.
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Well, in Amazon's case it's interesting because they always compare Uber to that, although opposite argument that Amazon took that wasted money or whatever and they built moats around it; moat after moat after moat, technology moats, warehouse moats, expertise moats, relationship moats.
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Others sink into the quagmire, surrounded by moats of mud.
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Vast pools of data can thus act as protective moats.
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The statement identifies Moats' accused killer as Brian Keith Stalons.
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Their dominance has ruined the economic moats of many industries.
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Elon Musk recently said that he thinks moats are stupid.
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New corporate moats are wider, deeper and harder to cross.
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Others, like Moats, need surgery in order to have vaginal intercourse.
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I don't see that they have moats that other people have.
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"Moats are lame," teased Elon Musk, a tech entrepreneur, last year.
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Local moats can be regional, political, cultural or economic in nature.
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I think they have far less moats than you all do.
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"Robotics for menial tasks does not mean unimportant tasks," Moats said.
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I am flying over tiny hills with moats of purple flowers.
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It's because it has built so many moats around its businesses.
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He argues that some firms have "moats" that protect them from competition.
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After doing more research, Moats discovered that she also had no vagina.
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"Oh man, trust me, it killed us," Pittsburgh linebacker Arthur Moats said.
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It's not really about building, you know, higher turrets and deeper moats.
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Around the vacuum chamber are two moats containing water and oil respectively.
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This cumulative investment is a proxy for the size of those moats.
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Geraghty-Moats, 210, won by topping a field of only 216 athletes.
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This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats.
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The two agree that "moats" protect companies from their competition for years.
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It has become fashionable for managers to build "moats", or barriers to entry.
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Among these moats: Convenience, data, speed, breadth and flat-out excellent customer service.
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"They could have done anything they wanted," Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats said.
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It's largely about protecting economic moats, based on AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez's comments.
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The strategy (buy stocks with moats) sounds simple; but it is not easy.
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It's simple – Buffett's love of competitive moats has trumped his fear of flying.
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Divers checked the murky water of a dozen moats that surround the palace.
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The investor added he thinks technology hasn't destroyed the moats in every industry.
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However, recent developments have made these competitive moats deeper and easier to dig.
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"This was a great performance to bounce back," Pittsburgh linebacker Arthur Moats said.
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They have data moats, they've got manufacturing moats, they've got packaging moats, customer service ... Right, so we unwrap packaging and inside it might be 10 Disney passes or it might be an old diploma on vellum, and our team has to use our software to make a series of decisions on how that should be framed, and then the rest of the factory has to be powered like a real factory.
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If you're one of the AI entrepreneurs out there: what are your AI moats?
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Although Dr. Smith has not treated Moats, she says there's reason to be optimistic.
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Companies that work as a fiduciary build lifetime moats that are hard to beat.
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They also set oil-filled moats ablaze, which creates choking black plumes of smoke.
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The deputy has been cleared by a doctor and returned to work, Moats said.
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But breaching a computer on the outside of these digital moats is nevertheless troubling.
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Owning data flows creates more impressive moats than merely locking down static data sets.
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"I was kind of shocked, because I didn't have any details," Sheriff Moats said.
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He then taunted Warren Buffett, suggesting his idea of corporate "moats" is sugary nonsense.
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He says companies&apos competitive moats can be analyzed in a rather simple fashion.
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As Susie makes clear, moats were more than just an investment philosophy for her husband.
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For her part, Moats seems determined to see the positive no matter what the outcome.
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One way American firms have improved their moats in recent times is through creeping consolidation.
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Warren Buffett, an investor, says he likes companies with "moats" that protect them from competition.
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I'm not calling Uber out particularly, but there's no moat, there's not as many moats.
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NOTES: Steelers LB Arthur Moats went out in the first quarter with a pectoral injury.
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"I think moats are lame," the Tesla co-founder said during the company's earnings call.
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However, I'd argue that digging deeper moats is the real key to long-term success.
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It is simple: Mr. Buffett's love of competitive moats has overridden his fear of flying.
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Yet our McMansions now find themselves with real moats, at times patrolled by real alligators.
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Team Stark-Targaryen is building fire moats and setting Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright)-themed bait.
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That Berkshire made losing bets on firms with apparently unbreachable moats shows the difficulty of foresight.
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The MAP, performance threshold and stability threshold are all central elements to identifying strong data moats.
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Watford's stadium Vicarage Road must've been built in medieval times because the thing still has moats.
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Facebook and Google dominate online advertising; Warren Buffett likes firms with "moats" that keep rivals out.
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In terms of analyzing moats around it, consumer behavior ... they are two different types of decisions.
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There are roadblocks, but if you can get over those, they kind of become competitive moats.
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"Luckily, the business that we've built, I would say, has a few natural moats," says Huang.
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Nearly all startup pitches include a conversation around moats and the barrier to entry, and rightfully so.
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SO LONG RUNWAYS FOR THESE COMPANIES, WIDE RUNWAYS, AND NOW WE HAVE COMPETITIVE MOATS DUE TO SCALE.
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Founders can't rely on viral coefficients, strong network effects or deep technology moats to justify stratospheric valuations.
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So, Apple, recognizing that ladders will keep getting taller, opted for more analog (time/ capital expensive) moats.
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Amazon, also is going for moats, erecting a hundred-plus expensive and slow‑to‑get-built warehouses.
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But clumsy regulation could deepen the moats of the incumbents, and prevent disruptors from gaining a foothold.
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"Ski jumping, you want to be light; cross-country, you want to be fast," Geraghty-Moats said.
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The reason, he told Swisher, is a "boring economics case" of the moats surrounding each company's business.
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Others have worked hard to establish moats that aren't easily bridged, even when consumer choice is limited.
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"You have to understand the economics of moats," he said on the "Value Investing with Legends" podcast.
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Moats is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and former editorial page editor of the Rutland (Vermont) Herald.
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Kaylee Moats was diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), a rare genetic condition, at age 18.
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"Party at Sunday" is the kind of song you'd be happy to watch dust moats drift down to.
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It has 16th century fortress architecture and is the only fortification in Europe with double walls and moats.
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"We see one-day shipping deepening Amazon&aposs moats, leading to larger share gains/profits," the note said.
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But like Moats, most girls with the condition aren't diagnosed until they're teenagers when they don't start to menstruate.
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Additionally, the landscape architect we totally interviewed informed us that moats haven't been en vogue since the Middle Ages.
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Bredgade stretches from Nyhavn canal to the moats of Kastellet, but this street is more than a convenient thoroughfare.
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"They'd have a whole lot to lose," Mr. Moats said, if they tried to make a run for it.
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Big advantages, or "unbridgeable moats," have been a major part of Warren Buffett's famed investing philosophy over the years.
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He and his fellow managers want to get involved only with companies that are building wider and deeper moats.
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But Moats says her insurance company considers this a cosmetic or gender-reassignment surgery, and therefore they won't cover it.
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As the officers positioned themselves behind a vehicle, Stalons allegedly opened fire from his father's garage, killing Moats, police said.
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" It continues: "Wet or dry moats may be substituted for the required fencing provided ZAA written approval has been obtained.
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Their CEO, Yashar Behzadi says, To date, the major platform companies have leveraged data moats to maintain their competitive advantage.
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"Roku's competitive moats are rising as its IP gets built into more TVs under exclusive multi-year deals," Martin wrote.
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Dupree took over as the starter for Moats in the middle of 2015, but according to Jacob Kingler of PennLive.
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In addition, to the degree Amazon is after the larger health care sector, it's surrounded by regulatory and compliance moats.
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Then you immediately, once you have access to cheap capital, want to build analog moats that take years to overcome.
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There is talk of moats and floats, and a lengthy segment on Buffett's calamitous 1987 bet on investment bank Salomon Brothers.
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An ultrasound revealed that Moats has no uterus or cervix, and she wouldn't be able to get pregnant or carry children.
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A storm in northern California dumped so much water on the region that roads turned into moats, isolating two California towns.
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The remains of Benin City's medieval moats and walls, which once demarcated the kingdom in precise fractal patterns, are largely derelict.
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You can get a job with a superstar company that has constructed moats and drawbridges to protect itself from global competition.
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Politicians, regulators and economists might draw some different lessons, especially as these corporate moats become more common and harder to cross.
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He also pulled the floor away from the walls, creating a channel that references the moats that once surrounded the castle.
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In Mosul, the Iraqi military pushed into a city fortified with booby traps, moats, snipers and dump trucks packed with explosives.
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" Sheriff Moats added, "It made me feel really good that they thought enough of one of my officers to help him.
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In fact, investors' enthusiasm for tech firms such as Amazon, Facebook and Google has been because they appear to have deep moats.
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They can support openness in theory because they have succeeded in protecting their own chunks of the economy with moats and drawbridges.
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Slowly but surely, cyber security is evolving from the days of castles and moats into the modern era of software driven business.
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The competition Geraghty-Moats traveled across the country for in 2005, the premier event that season, had only six girls in it.
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"Female CFOs drove more value appreciation, better defended profitability moats, and delivered excess risk-adjusted returns for their firms," the report said.
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Behind a Saxon hunting lodge with three moats, I sit with Amanda Feilding at a garden table shaded by a large tree.
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It was, and it was interesting, what Amazon does, which I don't think people realize, is that they put moats on everything.
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Is it just that they've got data moats, so you might as well train on all of that data if you've got it?
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Castañón-Moats is a leader who has built her career by delivering great client service, primarily to retail, consumer, and industrial product clients.
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So, every successful firm in the digital age needs to ask: In addition to big, tall walls, where can I build deep moats?
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"There are no moats, there are no force fields around any place in America," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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The analyst cited Amazon's one-day shipping for the target trim, but noted this will "will likely only deepen their moats" long term.
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The Academy of New England Journalists said Thursday it will honor David Randall Moats, Wayne Phaneuf, Ken Squier, and Lou Ureneck in an Oct.
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The most successful startups in this category establish network effects with moats of liquidity that are typically expensive to build but hard to deconstruct.
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Popularized by Buffett, moats are the competitive advantage a company has over new entrants and its rivals which protect its market share and profitability.
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These moats serve to insulate the cables that are connected to massive capacitor banks that basically act as large batteries for the Z machine.
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There is no defensible IP, no technology, no regulatory moats, no network effects, and no flywheel effect (the ancillary businesses are stupid, just stupid).
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Facebook, among the Four Horsemen, has the fewest old-economy moats, making it the most vulnerable to an invading army with big-ass ladders.
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The concept has worked so well for Buffett that other experts have put a lot of effort into understanding and standardizing how moats work.
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Moats and another officer had been dispatched Thursday to Stalons' father's home after receiving reports of a domestic incident possibly involving a gun, police said.
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The best data moats are tied to a particular problem domain, in which unique, fresh, data compounds in value as it solves problems for customers.
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Amazon, which uses AI extensively, controls around 40% of online commerce in America, helping it build moats that make it harder for rivals to compete.
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But Buffett shot back on Saturday, arguing that companies with strong, sustainable moats do exist and that technology has not destroyed them in every industry.
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BECKY QUICK: And-- and that became a subject where Charlie weighed in and said, yes, he's-- he's right that actual moats around castles are stupid.
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Tara Geraghty-Moats skied along a dark trail lit only by a set of LED lights during a Nordic combined Continental Cup competition in Colorado.
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" • When asked if Tesla should keep its electric car charging network to itself as a strategic asset, Mr. Musk said, "I think moats are lame.
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"Our long-standing thesis remains intact as AMZN increases investment in the assets (fulfillment, digital content, AWS) that reinforce its competitive moats," the analysts said.
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" Deryl Lamb, MD, Moats' family physician, also appears in the video, adding that "insurance does not consider this as something that would save her life, basically.
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These glacial paths are our street corners and crosswalks, now more reminiscent of mountain passes, often circled by moats of dirty slush water and icy walls.
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Click here to view original GIFThere are lots of ways to prevent people from trespassing on your property, including moats, drawbridges, and roaming packs of dogs.
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Wilks also said defensive end Arthur Moats — a ninth-year veteran battling for a spot — sprained his MCL and will likely miss two to four weeks.
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Quick take: "High walls and bigger moats" are obsolete in computer security, says Mark Testoni, CEO of NS2, the U.S. arm of German software giant SAP.
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Mr. Buffett inspired a generation of value investors to seek out companies with defensible advantages that could help protect profit — or "moats" in his investment argot.
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I want to get back eventually to the word "moats," because I think it's an important one in investing, like who has them and who doesn't?
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The 3-D map they made revealed new settlements with houses and temples, defensive fortifications like ditches and moats, as well as agricultural terraces and roads.
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Crowds gathered outside the Palace, a 115-hectare compound in the heart of Tokyo protected by moats and walls, that is home to the emperor and empress.
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NYT reporters Michael Shear and Julie Davis had the scoop about Trump proposing shooting migrants in the legs and erecting alligator-filled moats to deter illegal crossings.
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Global models eventually come up against the limits of local taste and context, and it's within these local "moats" that home-grown startups can make their play.
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Over time, her model was able to perfectly reproduce the mounds we see in Martian craters today, including the crescent-shaped moats that form around crater edges.
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Both the St. Louis and Palestine cases from the 1930s involved what FitzGerald calls "moats": a reliance on oceans and maritime power to interrupt successful refugee transit.
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Bottom line: Backing Uber would have been surprising given Buffett's known devotion to business moats, but he also has a history of backing big brands in crisis.
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Mr. King is just one of the many technology entrepreneurs who have since recently run into the enormous moats that surround and protect the existing financial industry.
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This is because over the long-term, AMZN's push toward 1-day (effectively raising shopper expectations) will likely only deepen their moats and share-gains against competitors.
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This new market environment will favor crisp operators and deep strategic thinkers who build real moats around their businesses, develop deep technology and tightly manage their unit economics.
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Buffett, at his annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting Saturday, reportedly responded by saying moats are still a good idea -- and that his See's Candies business is a good example.
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In an earnings call last week, Tesla co-founder Musk criticized so-called "moats" but he wasn't referring to the sort of moat you'd find around a castle.
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"We've all chosen a path that isn't the standard one, and maybe not even the recommended one, but we're here because we love the sport," Geraghty-Moats said.
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Johnny Moats, the sheriff of Polk County, Ga., received what can be a nightmarish call for a law enforcement officer on June 12 from one of his deputies.
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Retzler&aposs investments are concentrated in tech companies, and since most of them are far from household names, he says great management and "wide technological moats" are critical.
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It turned out there were no moats at all in the coding school market — that made driving significant sustainable economic profit in the coding boot camp market difficult.
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The officers then took cover behind their vehicle to wait for help, but a man opened fire on them from a garage, hitting Moats in the neck, police said.
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Unlike the United States, with its vast ocean moats and huge distances from the world's centers of conflict, Russia has lots of reasons to feel insecure at its borders.
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As Recode's Pivot co-host Scott Galloway has said, currently they don't have much in the way of "moats" surrounding their businesses because they're essentially offering the same services.
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A single bullet struck Maryville officer Kenny Moats in the neck, just missing his bulletproof vest, and he died soon after arriving at a hospital for treatment, police said.
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At the Houston Zoo, located near a medical center that was evacuated, some animal enclosure moats were filled with water but animals were all inside and safe, officials said.
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Much like Warren Buffett, he focuses on the long-term, looks for businesses with sustainable competitive advantages or "moats," and concentrates his capital in just a handful of securities.
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With lemon-juicer aluminum domes surrounded by 5.25-inch magnesium and aluminum-alloy moats, the cones are so visually striking it'd be silly to cover them up with a grille.
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We just ask that our community continue to pray for the family of Officer Moats and for the men and women in uniform as we go through this trying time.
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Both services are entering a highly competitive and increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape with many big studios building moats around their content in the form of exclusive subscription-based streaming services.
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As a result, players in this space will need to create significant competitive barriers and moats around their business models to fend off not only incumbents but also new entrants.
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Although FitzGerald gives remote control strategies names that evoke medieval fear and loathing ("moats" and "barbicans"), he stresses that the techniques that states use to enforce offshore borders are hypermodern.
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The estate doubles as the Beckley Foundation headquarters and is home to the remains of an ancient Saxon hunting lodge, three separate moats, and a family of very aggressive swans.
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But there's a legitimate concern in there, Andrew writes in his latest column: Moats still exist, and it remains hard for upstarts to break into banking, tech or, yes, automobiles.
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During the reign of Ewuare I, Benin City became the center of a powerful kingdom, which was eventually surrounded by more than nine thousand miles of moats and mud walls.
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"When I didn't get my period but my 12-year-old sister did, we decide to go to the gynecologist," Moats says in a video focusing on her diagnosis and condition.
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Most of the analyses I read focus on Amazon's broad advantages — what I'll call "bullet-point moats" — and then evaluate whether each program is replicable by a competing retailer like Walmart.
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If space allows, moats -- like at the gorilla enclosure in Cincinnati -- are used to keep a safe distance between the animals and visitors and give the animals a more "natural" environment.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Divers scoured moats around the Imperial Palace and police dogs sniffed in bushes on Monday as authorities ramped up security for the start of Japan's new "Reiwa" imperial era.
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OFFICER KENNY MOATS The 227-year-old Maryville police officer and a partner went to a home to check a report of domestic violence involving someone with a gun on August 173.
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For island exhibits, wet moats shall be used that are no less than 20 feet wide, with 50 percent of the water having a depth twice the height of the tallest animal.
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We see several moats in the TSLA approach, and we applaud the company for blazing these trails and leading the way in creating a sustainable electric vehicle (EV) revolution and automating transportation.
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Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats said that six inmates chose to help the deputy, who suffers from a chronic medical condition that makes him sensitive to changes in temperature, instead of fleeing.
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The Amazon "results reinforced again our long-standing thesis that investment in the assets behind AMZN's competitive moats (fulfillment, digital content, AWS) continues to drive the Prime flywheel effect," Thill wrote Friday.
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"ULTA's loyalty, prestigious brand access, & mass offerings drive traffic and are competitive moats, enabling ULTA to protect & gain share," Cowen and Co. analyst Oliver Chen wrote in a recent note to clients.
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It'd make it tough on the hustings to convince even a MAGA rally that the wall has been built and that get-tough immigration policies — snakes and gators and moats, oh my!
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They dropped all pretense of counting and began hacking firebreaks through the burning woods with shovel, ax, and pulaski, clearing protective moats around the towering white acacia trees where the macaws lived.
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He's got fortresses and moats to keep me out, but I know that part of him is in the turret calling for help, hoping to be saved — from what, I don't know yet.
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You can get a job with a superstar company that has constructed moats and drawbridges to protect itself, or with a middle-class guild that provides job security, or with the state bureaucracy.
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For example, in the United States monopolistic moats often allow pharmaceutical companies to charge what customers are willing to pay for a drug, regardless of the much lower costs of development and manufacturing.
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Going back to the days when social network fever swept the world a few years ago, Japan's top social networks were believed by many to have built moats of security in the country.
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Breakingviews Elon Musk and Warren E. Buffett clashed over the weekend after Mr. Musk, Tesla's chief executive, derided as lame Mr. Buffett's concept of companies having "moats" to keep potential competitors at bay.
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A compulsive journey across Britain' seas, lakes, rivers, canals, moats and open-air pools, its author pulling on his wetsuit at the merest glimmer of a ripple, the book had the thrill of addiction.
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But as the Power 5 conferences surround their multimillion-dollar kingdoms with deeper and wider moats, maybe it's fine that other programs are finding ways to end their seasons with one final March highlight.
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"We think that not all buybacks lead to riches," Johnston said, adding that she's "a big fan of moats, so we're also looking for other protective layers to add" in the face of headline crises.
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Kahn knew how to make a sculptural showpiece — see his 1982 National Assembly Building of Bangladesh that hulks over moats like a modernist castle — but every choice in this building design was about the art.
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Good or bad, just or unjust it may be, but a U.S. which is more willing to build moats and walls around its economy is one which, all else being equal, will have more inflation.
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Both Moats and Dupree will surely see plenty of reps, but Dupree emerging in camp as an every-down impact player would do wonders for the Steelers' front seven in terms of depth and flexibility.
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"Nordic combined was No. 22026 for me, but all the coaches, whether they were cross-country coaches or ski jumping coaches, they just looked at me and said, 'You have to choose,'" Geraghty-Moats said.
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A violinist-turned-architect and now a chocolate artist, Mr. Zaharatos, 28, uses his 230-D printer to design chocolate molds and plates for specific desserts, complete with moats that catch drizzled syrup and fillings.
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An overarching factor behind the interspecies tragedy at Gorilla World is how we have uncritically accepted the raising and displaying of gorillas, among our closest kin, behind glass or moats or fences in the first place.
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Many of the moats surrounding companies today are quite different from the vast monopolies like Standard Oil and U.S. Steel that were created in the late 19th century and broken up in the early 20th century.
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All of the products I've bought off Amazon to combat these beasts (organic bedbug killer, duct tape to seal potential entryways, plastic coaster moats that my bed sits on) have proven to be of little help.
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Now, we're going to see a strong iPhone 8 cycle, and then of course, you have Warren Buffett buying in, which suggests that maybe there are more moats around Apple than investors have given it credit for.
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But whether they have been dug by a company's experienced hand, the goodwill of its customers or the heavy machinery of governmental regulation, moats remain a formidable form of protection, even from the most willing of raiders.
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Much like Ford and Toyota developed impenetrable process moats through tight integration of partners, suppliers, and unique internal processes, systems of intelligence forge barracks through the perfect portmanteau of data, algorithms, domain expertise, and data-driven product design.
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Why it matters: A combined AbbVie and Allergan — both of which have engaged in controversial patent tactics to protect the moats around their blockbuster drugs — would be one of the largest companies in the rapidly consolidating pharmaceutical industry.
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LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Duchess of Cambridge played with children amidst a dragon nest and moats at a new play area inspired by Tudor Court legends which she officially opened at London's Hampton Court Palace on Wednesday.
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But whether they have been dug by a company's experienced hand, the good will of its customers or the heavy machinery of governmental regulation, moats remain a formidable form of protection, even from the most willing of raiders.
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But my recent experience has blown me away since Amazon has now managed to create a series of something I can only describe as moats to lock me in more and more and also keep out other retail options.
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Jeff seems to relish cutthroat competition, and that itself seems to be a big driver of the moats he builds, certainly at Amazon, and it seems with WaPo as well as recent visions in traditional industries positioned for upending.
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However much they may hate us, the would-be terrorists active there are not capable of attacking America, defended as we are by the world's most powerful military,expansive moats, and a stringent screening process for would-be visitors.
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"Subpar 1st quarter top-line results, but we ask if this is a 'broken story' or just a great brand with huge moats and large growth opportunities rolling through a rough patch," Morgan Stanley analyst John Glass said in a note.
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The stocks are a "mix of long-term structural growth stories and industry dominators/monopolies with deep moats which are well positioned to grow from strength to strength over the next decade," Kestel wrote in the note to clients Friday.
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More from Andrew: Whether they have been dug by a company's experienced hand, the good will of its customers or the heavy machinery of governmental regulation, moats remain a formidable form of protection, even from the most willing of raiders.
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Alex Collins ripped off a 17-yard run past linebacker Arthur Moats to the Pittsburgh 1, from where Buck Allen, lined up as a fullback, bulled his way into the end zone for a touchdown and a 24-20 lead.
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They contain some of the oldest and hardest stone in the world; over the course of 70 million years or so, erosion has sculpted them into spindly towers and ragged loaves, 5,000-foot-high turrets protected by moats and moonscape boulders.
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The reason isn't the bullet-point moats that are talked about in headlines, and it isn't the culture of innovation or Bezos's vision as CEO (though I do think Amazon's culture is incredible and Bezos is the most impressive CEO out there).
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In the two years it has held Mosul, ISIS has built an elaborate network of defenses, including moats filled with oil that stretch around the outskirts of the city, ready to be set ablaze to obscure the vision of coalition air power.
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And without deep moats around their businesses a permanent question-mark hangs over the unicorns: if Uber really is worth $100bn, after investing only $15bn or so, why wouldn't its rivals keep trying their luck, or an established tech giant be tempted in?
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They tried to cushion Joe from the poverty in the area, but sheltering him from it would never have been possible the way it is in areas where private schools and exclusive communities can build moats between the haves and the have-nots.
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For fashion start-up Rent the Runway and motorcycle gear retailer Revzilla, the business moats that help to keep Amazon out are constructed using a level of customer service, and creating a consumer community, that would not be possible for Jeff Bezos' low-cost model.
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In particular, as plant-based meat products tend to be relatively complex to manufacture, moats could prove to be deep.... However, we remain on the sidelines as valuation appears stretched at over 40x EV/NTM Sales, implying limited upside potential from a valuation perspective.
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In a time when "blitzscaling" is the business strategy du jour, some high-growth companies raise supergiant nine and 22018-figure VC rounds to help them build moats around walled-garden markets they're trying to build up from both sides, or they'll die trying.
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Transmission risks from spillover events are occurring with more frequency, said Dr. Jason Moats, associate division director with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service's Emergency Services Training Institute (TEEX), one of the largest training providers for first responders, emergency managers, and local government officials.
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While surveillance cameras, blast-proof glass and detectors have been common for years, the classic device of using water-filled moats to protect buildings is "returning to prominence," said Richard Paradis, an engineer and building security expert at the National Institute of Building Sciences.
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Plenty of stock screeners, such as those from the American Association of Individual Investors, Morningstar and ValueWalk, strive to identify stocks of companies with positive free cash flows, good returns on capital and strong competitive advantages (what Buffett calls "moats" as in a castle with a moat).
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More parochially, in 2009 the Daily Telegraph revealed that MPs routinely abused their expenses to do up homes that they sold on at a profit, as well as for sundry other ill-judged and absurd outlays such as the renovation of moats and the housing of ducks.
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AI investors talk enthusiastically about "public data" versus "proprietary data" to classify data sets, but the strength of a data moat has more dimensions, including: Software is now a commodity, making data moats more important than ever for companies to build a long-term competitive advantage.
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I think what they've been able to pull off actually has more moats, and I think the hotel industry, I don't want to say was ripe for disruption but I don't think the hotel experience has changed a hell of a lot in the last 20 years.
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In the current phase of the bull market, "reliable growth companies" that play a middleman role in de facto oligopolies have hogged a lot of the oxygen, at the expense of more cyclical plays, and especially consumer-facing companies whose moats are seen to be drying up.
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Google has a series of impenetrable moats around its business — it's the dominant search engine, has the top streaming video site, the most popular web browser, the most popular email service and makes the operating system that powers practically every non-Apple phone on the planet.
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While these transactions naturally raise concerns over apparent increases in concentration within certain market segments (at least when those segments are viewed in isolation from the broader content landscape), rejecting these transactions would have most likely favored existing content platforms that already enjoy substantial "moats" against competitive threats.
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In 2010, he was unhappily freelancing as a tech journalist in London when he discovered the nature writer Roger Deakin's book " Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain ," in which Deakin took a "frog's-eye view" of his homeland via its rivers, lochs, lidos, fens, moats, dykes, aqueducts, and canals.
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" Luigi Zingales, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago, wrote that the sharp increase in profits reflects Warren Buffett's investment dictum: "I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats' " — profits have risen "because firms became better at creating product differentiation and erecting barriers to entry.
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That's because Amazon isn't looking to sit on the money that flows through its coffers — it's looking to spend it on investments like new warehouses, more Alexa-powered gadgets and original video programming that will create the next moats separating it from the competition over the next decade.
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READ MORE: M for Muqawama -- Secret resistance fighting ISIS In the two years it has held the city, ISIS has built an elaborate network of defenses, including moats filled with oil that stretch around the outskirts of the city, ready to be set ablaze to obscure the vision of coalition air power.
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Antitrust enforcement I think is desperately needed, because the dynamics today are that these firms are really sitting on massive data moats, and so if you think about the next wave for AI and form factors shifting to kind of voice-based technology, if you don't have that ... KS: Which they dominate.
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Detroit Three executives boast that the heavy-duty pickup market is protected by "moats" - a 230-percent tariff on imported trucks and decades of engineering that have yielded vehicles that haul 2000,260 pound trailers, ride like large luxury sedans, and offer the same safety and connectivity technology as a BMW or Lexus luxury car.
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We may have moved on from a nearly-daily cycle of news involving tech giants sparring in courts over intellectual property infringement, but patents continue to be a major cornerstone of how companies and people measure their progress and create moats around the work that they have done in hopes of building that into profitable enterprises in the future.
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As this administration's threats to the public's health have mounted -- from sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, to eviscerating environmental policies that our health depends on, to the recent reports that the President asked for alligator-stocked border moats and shooting undocumented immigrant families in their legs to stop them (Trump denies he said this) -- where is the Surgeon General's voice?
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No, he actually ... Well, I mean he was touched with great talent in painting, but his ability to will himself to ask questions and be curious each day, the ability to push himself, to observe more carefully, go down to the moats around the castle and look at the dragonflies, full-wing dragonflies, to see if the wings alternate or whether they go in unison.
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