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Based upon your post above, I have called my accountant, and am moving my retirement savings out of the buggy-whip sector.
Amor Fati 2009
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Rushed to the spring-board and the leap, always, after the take - off, in mid-air, they had to encounter an assistant who stood underneath, an extraordinarily long buggy-whip in hand, and lashed them vigorously.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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Those who have a stake in the status quo, even if they meet those other criteria, are going to fear the change that comes to buggy-whip manufacturers of all ages.
Let Me Tell You a Story... Ulysses 2010
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Newspapers think like buggy whip makers thought in 1908, that they were in the buggy-whip business, but their business was killed by the automobile.
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As for firms that have no choice but to cut jobs, if your company is the 21st-century equivalent of the proverbial buggy-whip industry, don't fool yourself — downsizing will only postpone, not prevent, your eventual demise.
Lay Off the Layoffs 2010
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Yes, it reeks a bit of the times of the buggy-whip and flagpole-sitting, but it's an evil evergreen, and still pretty damn effective.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Yes, it reeks a bit of the times of the buggy-whip and flagpole-sitting, but it's an evil evergreen, and still pretty damn effective.
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This decline is not the "buggy-whip" phenomenon where an industry is being replaced or is evolving.
Dave Johnson: Steel: Important To Us But Not Important To Us 2009
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Back in the days of the buggy-whip and leeches I graduated from medical school, ready to start my internship and residency in pediatrics.
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A more fundamental problem is that the entertainment industry is built on a foundation of outdated business practices and buggy-whip technologies, such as sheet-music publishing, licensing middlemen, etc. who would be completely redundant in the internet era except for the fact that they control the legal rights to the music.
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