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Whether Micron (NASDAQ MU) can successfully segue from DRAM to NAND remains to be seen, its earlier effort to convert a large tranche of Taiwan DRAM capacity to its own production technology not yet passing the test.

Google's moves to transfer and sell off patents comes on the heels of its earlier effort in April to buy patents from third parties, also in a limited offer.

California Domestic Water Co. of Whittier, which has owned the property since the 1890s, has tried for years to have it rezoned for residential use, Johanson said, but its earlier efforts were thwarted by a 1978 referendum that blocked a proposed 700-unit condominium project.

Just last week, we reported that Amazon quietly announced that it would be retiring an ad unit called CPM Ads, one of its earlier efforts in building a display network, which was aimed at smaller websites that were a part of its Associates program.

To redress the balance, South-East Asia needs to be seen to be very much cleaner.Second, the region must resume its earlier efforts to lower trade barriers.

Pussy Riot's unapologetic court statements revealed an intellectual and philosophical rigor, and its earlier efforts with the art group Voina offered even more brazen forms of dissent.

Iraq used European designs for centrifuges in its earlier efforts, and American experts know what type of tubes are needed to make such centrifuges.

It would be better for the Americans to do more to counter the PKK in northern Iraq and for Turkey to renew its earlier efforts to improve the lot of Kurds in its south-east.Keeping Turkey on its pro-Western course is vital, not just for Iraq, but for the sake of all Turks, including the country's own big Kurdish population.

Abroad, his administration has stepped up its earlier efforts to define a doctrine of "pre-emptive intervention": America will in some cases strike before others strike it.The danger of mass-destruction weapons of any kind makes the doctrine of striking first seem more justifiable not just against al-Qaeda operatives but also, most crucially, against rogue states.

In recent years, Penn Central has talked of resurrecting a plan to build a tower above Grand Central, although its earlier efforts to do so were rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1968 -- an action that was upheld in 1978 by the United States Supreme Court.

The company's new devices replace its earlier efforts, which produced decidedly mixed sales.