But dig a little deeper and the truth is more complex and may say as much about planned obsolescence as it does consumer safety. |
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With the withdrawal of the poster foreseeable, it's an example of built-in obsolescence. |
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It felt like part of a long, long slide down that slippery slope of obsolescence. |
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An end to planned obsolescence, where products are designed for a limited life, is essential. |
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We need to keep the volumes up as the margins have been falling and we are constantly battling against obsolescence. |
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There is no doubt that we could do without the 17 brands of toothpaste, the planned obsolescence, and the annual fashion changes. |
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He uses an image from the process of photographic development, whose obsolescence is imminent due to the advent of digital photography. |
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Is our disposable society or planned obsolescence to blame of the decline in product quality? |
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The rapid obsolescence of computer hardware has resulted in the early retirement of otherwise good equipment. |
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This planned obsolescence is a deliberate attempt to beat the rivals in the survival-of-the-fittest race. |
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Never should the great courses be threatened with obsolescence because of greed and contempt for the treasures of the game. |
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More than any other literary form, science fiction always courts obsolescence. |
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We encounter the unhappy possibility that the radio may be slated for obsolescence. |
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The company is almost guaranteed repeat purchasers as obsolescence is built in to each publication. |
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Most of the teaching aids displayed are in or on the brink of obsolescence. |
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Allowing for obsolescence in intelligence testing is just as essential as allowing for inflation in economic analysis. |
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There is some anecdotal evidence that some software vendors install kill switches in their software to enforce planned obsolescence. |
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Format obsolescence has been crucial to record companies, as it allows them to recycle their catalogs. |
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The first suggests that aging evolved as a process of planned obsolescence. |
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One result of increased durability is that obsolescence rather than decay will be the major reason old structures and old products are torn down and thrown away. |
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Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence. |
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Years afterward he would elegize the obsolescence of the aircraft. |
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Planned obsolescence is the deliberate creating of products that will not last and that are not repairable. |
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In doing so, he implied the obsolescence of that most embedded of British watering holes, the pub. |
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In addition, spectrophotometers Doug previously rescued from obsolescence will be refurbished and refitted with the new detector. |
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This interest is generally limited by the scarcity, penury or obsolescence of the material resources available, and by the human capacities. |
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We are therefore not talking about a company condemned by ossification and obsolescence. |
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These expanding technologies have greatly reduced the need for warehousing as well as the risk of obsolescence. |
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We anticipate the obsolescence of our facilities, to maintain their integrity and optimal safety conditions. |
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Provisions are recorded against inventories, taking into account market prices, sales prospects and the risk of obsolescence. |
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Can the authorities representing this source of legitimacy survive the obsolescence of the values they are supposed to represent? |
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Possible depreciation at year-end reflects market prices, prospects of sale and the risk associated with obsolescence. |
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Nevertheless, a corporation is not bound to pay this special tax when the corporation ceases to use the equipment due to obsolescence. |
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Of the 459 MW of installed capacity, only 335 MW are available because of obsolescence of some facilities and maintenance constraints. |
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To do so would ignore the central importance of skill obsolescence and skill renewal. |
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And therein lies a tale of fragility and obsolescence that can be told in two tidy charts. |
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Or at least they should, if they are not to follow the path to obsolescence. |
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Nike offers a clear picture of how planned obsolescence has evolved. |
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Until recently I had an old Cadillac, and it was built with something we used to call planned obsolescence, where it was supposed to be serviced frequently. |
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It does this by introducing planned obsolescence into the organism itself. |
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Techniques pioneered by bike manufacturers such as the assembly line, planned obsolescence, and marketing incentives were readily adopted by the automotive industry. |
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Big business gave us planned obsolescence and blundering corporations. |
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While most people are now wise to the role of planned obsolescence in selling cars, not so many are aware that the makers of domestic products play the same marketing game. |
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Manufacturers would then be more inclined to produce less waste in their packaging, and to reduce the planned obsolescence in the design of their products. |
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But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence. |
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These vexed machines with their built in obsolescence are no match for me. |
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Planned obsolescence within the fashion industry allows for perpetual consumption of new clothes that lose their value before ever losing practicality. |
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Limited volumes, reduced inventories for such parts and changing standards have turned obsolescence from a risk to a near-certainty over the 30-40 year life of rolling stock. |
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Inventories can take several months before they are converted into finished goods and sold, and can sometimes be subject to loss of value and obsolescence. |
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The obsolescence of its equipment is the main reason for the closure. |
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A century earlier, mills had located along the Park River because of the water power, but by the 1850s water power was approaching obsolescence. |
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General Electric was one of the pioneers and early widespread adopters of planned obsolescence, with a major part in the Phoebus cartel. |
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He concluded that the decision making authority had been highly concentrated in these two bodies to the detriment and possible obsolescence of others including parliament. |
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Yet that model may be approaching obsolescence – or at least a hiatus. |
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It will benefit from its assumed valor and slower obsolescence. |
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It would be in the interest of Member States to lose no time in solving the problems caused by the obsolescence of Headquarters buildings, including the delay incurred for modernization. |
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The mealy-mouthed and abortive reform, the accounting system's obsolescence and vulnerability to fraud and the Eurostat affair are just three examples that speak volumes. |
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The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and their is no prevision of their obsolescence. |
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Apart from carrier degradation, recent development suggests that obsolescence and the associated unavailability of replay equipment may become an equal, if not greater threat for the future retrievability of information. |
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Paper emerges yet again in his practice as his Proustian madeleine, summoning our evanescing past through its own obsolescence. |
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Some of the Allied types were approaching obsolescence, such as the Fairey Battle. |
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With Colt you can focus on business opportunities, stop worrying about technology, security, obsolescence and investment-and trust us to address service delivery. |
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So since men are generally bigger, louder, gassier, eat more and fight more than women, why not let maleness slip into well-earned obsolescence? |
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These reconciliations would also facilitate determining the value, quantity and type of items that should be written off owing to spoilage, obsolescence or pilferage. |
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But this strategy of make-to-break is a particularly extreme and cynical form of planned obsolescence. |
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From 1980 to the present there has been a steady growth of factors driving obsolescence in COTS components. |
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It's funny, but my friends and I, as rebellious young people, used lo criticize corporate America for a policy of planned obsolescence. |
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Functional obsolescence relating to style and design, work hand in hand with physical deterioration and are accounted for in the percent good tables. |
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Energy efficiency, use of recyclables and low-toxicity materials are all a step in the right direction, but an important addition is the elimination of planned obsolescence. |
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The planned obsolescence of a previous age has become an abandoned strategy. |
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The guidelines of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations on food stock control have been targeted at avoiding the potential accumulation of surplus stocks which could lead to food obsolescence, pilferage and spoilage. |
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We regularly review inventory quantities on hand for excess inventory, obsolescence and declines in market value below cost and record an allowance against the inventory balance for such declines. |
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Our industry is highly competitive and characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product development, and rapid product obsolescence. |
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The work appears to play with technological obsolescence, through its pronounced reference to chroma-key visual effects and allusions to outdated fashion. |
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They didn't seem to get the memo about planned obsolescence. |
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