If they do, people who believe their investments are good due only to the favorable tax rates will sell, creating more opportunities for people who believe the investments are good regardless of tax rates to find fair-priced purchases.

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Mr. Dodd signaled to the hedge funds that he wouldn't include Mr. Durbin's provision in his bill, a position favorable to Visa and MasterCard that didn't surface for weeks, according to people at the meeting.

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As the public opinion on gaming continues to become more favorable (and more people joining in), eSports will also become more popular.

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It is certainly true that the White House and congressional supporters of CLASS disagreed with Foster and chose to use more favorable Congressional Budget Office estimates of how many people would buy the insurance.

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While those deal terms are similar to Apple's pact with publishers, these people say, magazine executives believe that the competition could eventually lead to more favorable terms.

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The places they go, people they see, and things they do add up to favorable laws, rulings, and decisions regarding their tax liability.

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The 12 million new jobs, all of the new small businesses, the sharp reduction in the deficit, the historic lows in unemployment, and all of the favorable economic statistics which now make it possible to have projections that give more revenue and more opportunity for Americans, the people who are here in this caucus and the House members who are joining us made that possible.

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"It's very likely people were delaying starting businesses during the recession due to the fact that conditions weren't favorable for entrepreneurs, " she says.

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