"We are just trying to maximize our first-mover advantage," said Bill Cobb, general manager for consumer sales at Netpliance, which is based in Austin, Tex.
They were, she said, "astute at using the local political situation wherever they went to maximize their advantage".
It is political hardball, intended to maximize partisan advantage within the rules of the game, often by pressing or breaking norms.
Mr. Joffe, quickly surveying the history of traditional European diplomacy, describes a centuries-long exercise in aggression and containment, with the great powers seeking to maximize their advantage while frustrating their rivals, usually through temporary alliances.
The lack of affordable housing remains an issue, and for too long, government has ignored the need to invest in transportation and other areas that will make the state more livable and maximize the advantage of New Jersey's location.
The political case on the court's docket is both highly political and, given the new Republican strategy of accelerating redistricting battles in order to maximize partisan advantage, highly relevant.
The Chinese Communist Party has wobbled between that goal and its desire to maximize domestic advantage from Mr. Snowden's revelations, said Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese official and researcher who now divides his time among Hong Kong, mainland China and Australia.
Isn't that what becomes of the precious right to vote?" This case emerged as a challenge to Wisconsin's State Assembly districts, which were painstakingly drawn by Republicans in 2011 to maximize partisan advantage, and which have reliably delivered more than sixty per cent of the seats in the Assembly to the G.O.P., even in a year when Democratic candidates earned more votes.
To maximize its advantage, Beijing is exploiting a fundamental difference between two major international bodies: the World Trade Organization, which wields strict, enforceable penalties for countries that impede trade, and the International Monetary Fund, which acts as a kind of watchdog for global economic policy but has no power over countries like China that do not borrow money from it.
Perhaps four- or six-layer NDs are sufficient to maximize the advantage of minibands.
