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Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz eschewed asking questions during his time, instead opting to point out how farcical the entire hearing was.

Leaders of companies such as IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, and Amazon are eschewing a single-minded focus on shareholders and committing to include customers, employees, suppliers, and communities in their priorities.

By eschewing a multilateral approach to setting space policy, the US also opens the door to a free-for-all where every country makes up its own rules.

The first iPhone famously eschewed then-current 3G wireless connectivity, without much harm, while Microsoft helped spark a new category of combined laptops and tablets, now called 2-in-1s, with its first Surface device.