The problem, say Winn and Power, wasn't the strategy of selling online at cut-rate prices--it was the failure to implement Winn's revolutionary retailing vision and to utilize his talents.
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Medical science is advancing at a rate that doesn't preclude the development of a treatment, but it's not clear if it will come in time.
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You need to read the speech for the full explanation, but the basic idea is that higher inflation can help push down the real cost of borrowing - the real interest rate - at times when nominal interest rates can't go any lower.
The 1GHz CPU isn't capable of running any popular video formats at an acceptable rate above 1024x768, so you'll have to stick with standard definition, if at all.
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But cosmetic changes to the brand won't solve deeper issues at Citi--namely a cost base that is growing faster than the rate of revenue growth.
If Kidd can't make jumpers at a higher rate than he has recently, the Knicks might as well take advantage of the defense that Brewer brings and hope he finds his shot.
"Antarctica is so cold that even if warming occurs it won't melt" at the rate seen in Greenland, said Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and a co-author of the new paper.
If enough persons want to own T-bills at any price, even at a negative rate of interest, then THAT is the appropriate price at which the bill should trade.
Last week, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy expanded at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter, and private economists don't predict much of a pickup in the third quarter.
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Unlike days of old, Washington doesn't need piles of gold, nor does the government need to promise to exchange gold at a fixed rate for dollars, as it did under the traditional gold standard.
Another real classy charge is the idea that, well, wealthy Americans who feel like paying their fair share, feel like paying taxes at a rate that middle-class Americans do -- if they don't, have the option of doing it themselves by writing a check.
Don't tell that to omelet lovers, who have watched the price of eggs rise at a whopping 15% annualized rate in the last three years.
Eventually, the company says it plans to have options for BlackBerrys, iPhones and a whole host of other gadgets, although at the rate things have been going, we wouldn't hold out for them anytime soon.
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