Because U.S. citizenship has tremendous value, and we shouldn't give it away on the cheap.
"I couldn't give it away today, " said Mr. Palmisano of the PC business.
They want the ball at their feet, treating it with care and making sure they don't give it away.
"You can't give it away on the streets and then start charging for it online, " said Lorna Tilbian, media analyst at Numis Securities.
"It's trying to make sure that they deal appropriately - that they don't give it away to the wrong people, that they keep it safe where it needs to be kept safe, " she added.
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As John Wayne might have said, we won this country inch by inch -- we weren't about to give it away kilometer by kilometer.
"There's going to be a view finder added and a load of other features but I don't want to give away what it is yet, " he said.
It doesn't give much away, but the inference is that phone manufacturers have been focusing on increasing the number of megapixels in camera phones, rather than picture quality.
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This picture was completely different to anything I had seen before but then because it was so close up it didn't give too much away either.
It isn't a massive film like "Batman" so you have to give away a bit of it and hope that the amnesiac effect that's part of the subject of the film is working on the audience as well.
It was a cheap free-kick to give away and then we didn't do our job right in the wall so it was a real frustration but we had enough about them to come back and score the winning goal.
Just a few weeks ago, it seemed like you couldn't give news organizations away.
The Bafta-winning comic said he didn't want to give too much away, but admitted "it was quite interesting" filming both versions.
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This book won't make life's vicissitudes go away, nor will it give you a Candide-like view of the world.
We give you our consent to govern, don't pocket it and ride away.
Frankly, we don't buy the PR line: it's not sustainable for Intel to constantly "give away" their machines, so the payoff is inevitably going to be some sort of lock-in by getting there first.
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