The holy grail of investing: how to discern opportunities for value that are outstanding in a competitive marketplace.

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It might not be enough and the complacent investor may not know how to discern if they are doing enough.

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Companies need to leverage all information for strategic advantage while ensuring they know what they have, where it is, how to get it, and how to quickly discern what it means for eDiscovery purposes.

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This involves shining a light into the brain to discern how much activity is there, and examining the corresponding oxygen level.

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Samantha Henig, her daughter, is in her late twenties, with a twenty-first-century version of the same career. (She has worked as a Web editor and writer at several publications, including this one, and is now the online editor of the New York Times Magazine.) Together, trading the writing in tag-team fashion, they assess the key departments of twentysomething life school, careers, dating, family-making, and so forth and try to discern how much has actually changed.

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People looking at the blurry photograph were understandably less confident about the weight of the people pictured therein, given that it was harder to discern just how many people were in the picture.

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But it is hard to know how it hopes to reconcile these aims, harder still to discern the ultimate goal of Germany's European policy.

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How Ms Sotomayor will shape the court is hard to discern.

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During our brief time with the device (these are prototypes and so didn't represent how the final models will arrive software-wise), we were hard pressed to discern much of a performance difference between this and the Lumia 820.

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