IT SOUNDS a great business to be in: a product with no known or even imaginable substitute, ever-growing demand, tied customers.
I'm usually too preoccupied with work, with the flashing red light on my BlackBerry, with all the loose ends that seem to demand tying.
Increasing demand tied to the weak dollar has set off a price war among trans-Atlantic airlines, pushing prices to new lows, said Sean Tipton, spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents in London.
No longer is chip demand tied directly to PC demand.
New, onerous regulatory demands tied to lending, not least rules requiring banks to set aside more capital against loans, do not help.That has provided an opening for a raft of new entrants.
Whatever happened to the TiVo- Netflix movies-on-demand tie-up you announced back in 2004?
Until recently, patent trolls have predominantly wielded utility patents, making infringement demands tied, albeit loosely, to the value of the technology or functional contribution to the product.
What is clear is that on-demand tied to delivery is seen as a massive growth area and in food alone could be a bigger business than the first generation of online take-out aggregators.
Nonetheless, Numero Uno mentioned unspecified department demands tied to the existing Figueroa Street store in its letter pulling out of the project.
For now, House leaders seem to have dropped their demand to tie the reopening of government to ending health care reform.
It's a look that demands a tie in order to look complete.
