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Critics say Microsoft's incredible two-decade run at the top of the computer industry has less to do with innovation than it does with bully tactics. But new research from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack suggests a different reason: the company's ability to spot technological trends and exploit key software technologies.
Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually just the period when titans are vulnerable to being knocked off by disruptive technologies.
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Answer: The Lady Mayoress doesn’t understand why she must cut and distribute the winter flowers, but her companions insist it is a tradition. Why or why not does anyone truly understand following this tradition? *
Explanation:
A gerund looks like a verb which ends in -ing, but it functions as a noun in a sentence. A predicate noun follows a linking verb, such as <em>to be, to seem, </em>etc. So, among all these examples, the only gerund phrase which is used as a predicate noun is found in the last sentence, and the gerund is leading, whereas the whole phrase is leading people to their seats.
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I believe that it's a hiaku a japanese poem that are usually about nature. Haiku's have 3 lines with syllables 5,7,5 for each line. The first line boiling, hot lava has 5 syllables, Second line bubbles beneath the Earth's crust has 7syllables, and finally the third line shhhh! The giant stirs has 5 syllables.
Explanation:
I would say that the writer is using either personification or metaphor. However, I find B. personification to be the most logical answer.