Now, only makers of high-end surveying and professional navigation receivers have adopted dual-system capability.

Nokia will be materially worse off if more makers adopt WP7, but Elop wants MS to succeed, not Nokia.

However, pernambuco is now an endangered species whose export is regulated by international treaty, so makers are currently adopting other materials: woods such as Ipê (Tabebuia) as well as synthetic materials.

But later this year, when makers of coding devices adopt the same standard for transmitting video images, the possibilities for video conferences will rise.

What distinguishes "Murder One" from the easy-thrill sort of escapade the film could easily have degenerated into is the businesslike manner its makers have adopted for the telling.

The Magic makers would take these stillborn babies and adopt them as their children.

Mr. Goldsworthy urges composite makers to adopt the sort of automation common with other materials.

Henry Maudslay patented an improved version of this a few years later, and other makers adopted the configuration.

Then again, the Flybook's makers have adopted an iPoddish marketing strategy, hoping to sell the thing as jewelry.

Some agency executives said Slim-Fast might be de-emphasizing its testimonial ads because so many rival makers of diet ads have adopted the same strategy.