FinAid, a financial aid advisory firm, finds that the federal need analysis methodology doesn't always accurately reflect a family's ability to pay, making some families look richer than they are.
Now under the federal need analysis formula only (not the institutional), 529 and ESA assets owned by students are considered assets of the parent for federal aid purposes, therefore they get more favorable aid treatment than other assets like savings accounts, mutual funds, stocks and bonds.
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Plant breeders have learned from experience about the need for risk analysis, assessment and management.
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This step often is enough for me to determine which ones need more careful analysis.
This is an area in which Administration policy-making is in particular need of rigorous analysis and deliberation.
To understand such inter-dependency you will need social network analysis tools and people with the skills to perform such analyses.
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But before we conclude that markets failed, we need a careful analysis of public policy's role in creating this mess.
We need joint common analysis as to the way we can put the world back on the path of growth and stability.
If they can, the overall intelligence effort should benefit immeasurably, especially in the area of counterintelligence where -- as spy scandals in recent years have demonstrated -- there has been a crying need for better analysis.
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In practice, you need to take your analysis a step further and consider qualitative factors.
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And the EPA, based on the need for further scientific analysis, delayed the greenhouse gas permitting rules for biomass.
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But like every other approach to the art of investing or trading, when something goes wrong we have to accept that the markets have changed, and so we need to revise our analysis.
On the subject of transparency, I would argue that many signals now point to the need for more systematic analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the investment processes which drive capitalism.
While a closer examination of the specifications shows the MacBook Pro range is coming down very slightly in price (with a slight speed bump), the implications of the announcement need a little more analysis.
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But before its relevance could be fully determined, an analysis would need to be made of each call to determine the ratio of calls made relative to blacks, whites and Hispanics, whether other strangers who weren't black were ever seen in the complex and not called on and whether unknown black men were ever seen in the complex and the police not called.
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Apparel companies need to do the city analysis to understand where to place their bets.
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But you don't need Barra's complex analysis to draw some simple conclusions from the study.
Such a decision would be based on an extensive cost-benefit analysis that would need to satisfy members of VW Group's board of management.
But as the world becomes more hyper-local the need to incorporate location into analysis of key business functions is becoming imperative in many industries.
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"We'll need to wait for further analysis to see if the parts of the UK furthest from the south east saw a similar bounce, " he said.
In the last analysis, the need for ceaseless innovation is all about leadership: the power to define a strategic direction and drive organizations to implement accordingly.
This study continues to be the most comprehensive, publicly available official analysis of the need for U.S. nuclear testing and should, I believe, be required reading for anyone interested in this subject.
Social network analysis may not and need not be a perfect mapping to show value.
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Scientists need both data and rigor in analysis in order to avoid common decision making biases.
You would need to combine this type of analysis with several other indicators.
Research costs are dropping, but doctors will need better-quality data and analysis.
We need to do a lot more analysis back at the lab before we can confirm the volcano has caused extra phytoplankton growth.
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This inevitably leads to speculation that Apple has shifted to a 28nm fabrication process, possibly snubbing Samsung's 32nm foundries, but we'd need a proper silicon-level analysis to be certain.
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Of course this is just 1 example and there would need to be a full scale analysis across all the sectors and differing metrics to assess whether or not there was a strong argument to make for using a metric such as RSI.
I'm hoping that more than usual comes out of these efforts, because it's problems like these that point to the need for these efforts and to really have a real thorough analysis of what kind of leadership we've been getting, what we need, and what Congress should be doing.
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