Now, if you believe the rationale behind the Forbes list of Most Innovative Companies (read bout it here), that innovators secure a stock premium, then it matters if a stock or brand is associated with innovation or not.
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When there's deflation--we experienced a mild bout of it in the late 1990s to 2002--it's the opposite: Not enough money is being created.
She might have passed it off as a bout of the flu if it hadn't been for the tremendous pain in her upper back.
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His schoolmaster father had contracted tuberculosis, and young Ka-shing suffered a milder bout but worked through it ("I always had a fighting heart").
After an especially long bout of prevarication, it said last week that the voucher review would report in September just in time for this year's conference.
However, the discussion changed on Friday and with it came another bout of selling.
It suffered a bout of terrible publicity last year when a battery-powered e6 taxi caught fire in a collision.
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One of the things that I learned over the years was never to lose sight of a top fundamental performer even when it undergoes a bout of selling.
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The 33-year-old from Norwich has admitted it is his toughest bout to date, but the incentives are huge.
It was the second bout of the diarrhoea and vomiting bug in successive voyages on the ship, which carries up to 1, 843 passengers.
Wall Street is ignoring a fresh bout of weak housing data as it waits for the Fed to come out of its two-day meeting.
Whether it's the European central bank lending trillions to European banks, or a third bout of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, it feels, to many, like these institutions are simply kicking the can down the road - deferring the moment of truth.
The American will start as hot favourite for the bout despite coming out of retirement for it.
Both had the advantage, if you can call it that, of a bout of dictatorship before 1980, and so started from a low base.
So while corporate selling should be picking up starting this week, it will take a sustained bout of new share sales to turn this market south.
That made it more of a middleweight bout, though no titles were at stake and none were needed before an appreciative crowd at the Mandalay Bay arena.
It will be the fourth bout between the two with Pacquiao narrowly edging Marquez in two fights after their first bout in 2004 ended in a draw.
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He has convinced the easy-going, tolerant British democracy that it must go through another bout of agony if ever again Englishmen are to live in peace and wealth and contentment.
And the biggest blow to hopes for a Pacquiao-Mayweather superfight, which seemed feasible even a few short months ago, is simply that the bout is no longer as relevant or important as it was last week.
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When he cracked a rib in a boxing bout during the pre-Ashes bonding trip to Germany, it had been feared Anderson might not play in the early tour games.
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Going into their bout with the Bombers, the Dames probably should have taken it as an ominous sign that their opponent was named for the rowdy squad in "Kansas City Bomber, " a 1972 skating film starring Raquel Welch.
Others - like Wolfgang Munchau in Monday's FT - are sticking with the view that Greece is better off getting to a primary surplus before defaulting, so it wouldn't face an Argentina-style bout of further austerity as a result of losing access to international markets.
General Surayud may want peaceful compromise but this, Supavud Saicheua, an analyst at Phatra Securities, noted this week, is like asking two boxers who dislike and mistrust each other to fight a championship bout without hurting each other, and then to agree to call it a draw.
The bout has been put back from the original 16 February date - when it was set for the Afan Lido - for Williams to recover from the injuries sustained in his defeat to Harrison.
It was hardly a display to inspire any American viewers of the bout, but the Welshman admitted only seeing Bernard Hopkins or Roy Jones Jnr in the other corner will get his juices flowing.
It was the Swiss who came out much the stronger from the bout of medical treatment and he served out for a two-sets-to-one lead before breaking at the start of the fourth, with Murray now playing from way behind the baseline.
Market lore has it that big gains in bonds and stocks tend to come after a bout of bad news and seem to end after good news, said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial's annuities division.
Moreover, the friendship with Mr Kennedy is personal as well as political: it was the straitlaced Mormon who supported Mr Kennedy in 1991 after a bout of late-night carousing with his nephew led a young woman to bring a rape charge against the younger Kennedy.
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