If you diversify into activity where you have no competitive advantage you are just tilting at windmills. |
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It was Riddoch who planted the first grape vines and helped to diversify the pastoral economy of the area with an agricultural industry. |
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We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas. |
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They will be forced to tie up, find new fishing grounds or diversify into prawn fishing. |
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The internet is showing real shortcomings, as users increase and applications diversify. |
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The implementation of wind farms can create new skilled jobs, as well as helping to diversify economies in rural areas. |
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Similarly, as companies diversify and industry groups broaden, product and market conflicts of interest arise. |
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The onetime gas pipeline company had shrewdly used its rights of way to diversify into telecommunications. |
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Much as Joel has prospered from his ability to play children, he seeks to diversify his roles. |
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Residents are also less able to diversify their investment portfolios internationally or to make use of exchange rate futures and swap markets. |
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Farmers these days have to diversify to survive, and we had a good look at the options available. |
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The brothers have had to diversify in order to stay in business and do car repairs, services and recoveries. |
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Most feel that failure to diversify and a complacency born of the plant's long history have sounded its death knell. |
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Pittsburgh has launched a multitude of programs to diversify the region's economy away from heavy industry into high technology. |
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In Asia Pacific companies often diversify successfully into new businesses, which are totally different and considered non-core. |
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Holders of dollars should diversify their own baskets before central banks and sovereign wealth funds ultimately do the same. |
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He is now looking to diversify into tourism and possibly farming to survive until the ban is lifted. |
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The company is currently focusing on skiing trips, but plans to diversify into rafting and scuba diving in the near future. |
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It was during the dark days of the BSE crisis that inspired the local man to adapt and diversify to save his future as a farmer. |
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Companies which defocus when they diversify probably do not have very good products to begin with, or good product engineers. |
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She knew she would be retiring shortly from the Royal Ballet and welcomed the opportunity to diversify her career. |
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We need to diversify the economy so that a single mother with a job can comfortably support a child. |
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Strangely, it has taken the brand more than three years to diversify from menswear into womenswear. |
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We need a much larger scheme for retraining and re-educating people if they are to diversify effectively. |
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The time has come to encourage our farmers to diversify into areas such as horticulture, floriculture and oilseeds. |
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Farmers may diversify by changing the crops they grow, the kinds of products they trade, or the places they live. |
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In addition, investing in these bonds may help to diversify your fixed-income holdings. |
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Now you can see the plan is to diversify the economy and not only depend on the production of primary commodities. |
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Because less than 10 automakers worldwide dominate the industry, suppliers have little opportunity to broadly diversify their customer base. |
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The felling will give forest chiefs an opportunity to diversify habitats and encourage more broadleaf trees. |
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Williams, a one-time gas pipeline company, had shrewdly used its rights of way to diversify into telecommunications. |
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The government intends these measures to allow institutions to diversify, specialise and raise their own funds. |
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More still needed to be done to diversify into crops such as smallcrops, olives, macadamias and hemp. |
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If they want to survive as an e-shopping computer company, they must diversify their collections of computers. |
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Several speakers cried, and some angrily scorned Plan 2008's strategy, arguing there should be more concrete plans to diversify. |
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The company also said it would diversify its copper product range to boost product margin. |
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Their efforts to diversify their economy by the development of secondary industry have had only limited success. |
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Now the company's second act depends on how fast Micromarketing can diversify its client base. |
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In their effort to diversify their revenue, they have capitalized on traditional practices to new advantage. |
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With the stock market grinding down the value of shares, gun-shy investors are flocking to bonds to diversify assets and safeguard their investment dollars. |
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There are lots of chimney pots, which means we can diversify very easily. |
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When the farmer tried to diversify to honeydew melons for export, he was told by his prospective American client that the produce did not meet their specifications. |
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During his presidency education expanded and the government made efforts to diversify the economy to release Zambia from its dependence on copper. |
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One of the main developments to have come out of the past two decades was the realisation of the need to diversify the economy to other equally promising alternatives. |
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This is part of the Central Bank's attempt to diversify the users of the auditorium to ensure that as wide a cross section of the community gets to use the space. |
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This would enable the company to diversify and compensate for losses in Europe by reaching East Asian markets. |
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If a landowning nobility was to prosper, it was well advised to diversify out of land and reap some of the gain of financial, commercial, and industrial growth. |
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Republicans have failed to diversify their party in the year since proclaiming the urgency of a bigger tent. |
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Actors are constantly talking about their desire to diversify themselves and play different characters. |
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I don't have the option to diversify by selling the options so diversifying means additional savings. |
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In the 1990s, the company sought to diversify its assets to buffer sagging rail business, which included buying Vancouver Wharves and Canadian Stevedoring. |
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The British Horse Society welcomes recognition at national level of the value of equestrianism to the rural economy, and the proposed help for farmers who want to diversify. |
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The two tech titans reported disappointing earnings as they try to diversify from their highly profitable, maturing cores. |
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The question is whether corporations would be so bullish on racial preferences in university admissions were they not under such pressure to diversify their own workforces. |
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As it moves to diversify its business, HWANGE Colliery Company Limited has invited bids for methane gas exploration at its Lubimbi coalfields. |
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Data centres are a growing part of the Guernsey economy and are helping it diversify away from mainly finance related industries. |
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However, terrestrial life would not greatly diversify and affect the landscape until the Devonian. |
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Griffin decided to do what other large shoe companies had been doing for years, that is, to diversify into nonshoe areas. |
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Japan has therefore aimed to diversify its sources and maintain high levels of energy efficiency. |
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In the Late Cretaceous, snakes recolonized land, and continued to diversify into today's snakes. |
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Fiji is also planning to diversify its energy sector through the use of science and technology. |
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Sometimes this was done to smooth out cyclical bumps, to diversify, the hope being that it would hedge an investment portfolio. |
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Botswana is planning to use science and technology to diversify its economy and thereby reduce its dependence on diamond mining. |
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The major reasons were cheap imports, the strong dollar, declining exports, and a failure to diversify. |
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In mid 2013, PTPN X planned to diversify products by operating a bio-ethanol plant using bagasse as the feedstock in Mojokerto, East Java. |
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In addition, the Company plans to diversify the product line to include Winnebago brand trailer and fifth wheel products. |
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In recent years, the trend has been to diversify and plant more broadleaved and mixed woodlands. |
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Holders of such securities are anxious to hedge, diversify or monetize a part of this wealth without creating a taxable or sale event. |
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If we plant winter cover crops and diversify crop rotations, nitrogen losses could be reduced quite a lot. |
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OnePlus will now diversify on its own, with the help of quite a few former members of competitor software customization team Paranoid Android. |
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Increase and diversify the velocity of your messages to a maddening pace. |
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The company has made a concerted effort in recent years to diversify its customer base,'' said Lasse Glassen, spokesman for CalAmp. |
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In an effort to diversify agricultural production, the Dominican Republic has announced a program to bolster dragon fruit production. |
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This preponderance of real estate litigation offers appraisers a valuable opportunity to diversify their practices by acting as expert witnesses. |
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This gives Oil America Group the opportunity to raise drilling funds for oil and gas partnerships but to also diversify into other fazes of the oil and natural gas industry. |
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In that way, they were able to diversify a large part of the risk away. |
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Mushroom specialist Greyfriars is planning to diversify into sweetcorn, garlic and cabbage to help Morrisons meet its post-Safeway acquisition produce needs. |
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As demand for the new 2015 Maserati Ghibli is expected to grow exponentially over the coming year, this dealership has elected to diversify its Ghibli lineup. |
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With the decreased availability of traditional CEO directors, some boards have had to diversify their membership beyond the bounds of the Old Boy network. |
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We need to diversify our agriculture towards self sufficiency subsistency. |
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Many package operators and travel agencies are seeking to diversify into products such as long-haul which enable them to add greater value for the customer. |
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The increased availability of capital allows for the execution of numerous exit strategies, which offer owners the flexibility to diversify and liquify their holdings. |
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With awareness of the goji and wolfberry names growing exponentially, now is a good time to add wolfberry growing to diversify and add to farm income. |
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Attempts to diversify the economy away from agriculture failed. |
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In the 1990s, the government initiated efforts to diversify agriculture. |
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In the resulting ecological vacuum, rodents and other Glires were allowed to evolve and diversify, taking the niches left by extinct multituberculates. |
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Since then some parts of the agricultural industry have begun to diversify and recover, with a strong local food sector and many artisan producers. |
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Since then, its contribution to official reserves has risen continually as banks seek to diversify their reserves, and trade in the eurozone continues to expand. |
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