For example, a politician is assigned a gross domestic product number but gets a low multiplier, while a foundation executive is assigned the foundation's assets but gets a high multiplier.
One of the things I found as I came back to the company a number of years ago was that we had denigrated product quality on a number of our businesses, partly in response to rising commodity costs.
That means the book is a product with a number of services attached and needs treating like any other lean start-up.
Compustat, for instance, has a great product and a number of others.
It can, for example, increase the price that people are willing to pay for a product or the number of products a company can sell.
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Traders love the product because the number of common stocks listed on U.S. exchanges has dropped by half since 1997 and ETF trading is filling the gap.
Users can capture footage from their 3-D cameras, edit them, and export the finished product to a number of different 3-D formats, from those used in the theater to home devices.
The 128GB iPad is an attractive product for a number of iPad users, but I suspect that the knock-on effects in the rest of the tablet space are a very nice bonus for Tim Cook and his team at Apple.
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According to the U.S. Consumer Product Association, 2007 was the worst year ever in terms of the number of product recalls, with 467 consumer products recalled--and that doesn't include auto and medical snafus.
Subtle changes in product design simplify assembly or reduce the number of people needed to complete a product.
We can attribute this to a number of product improvement strategies that Time Warner Cable has employed in recent quarters.
They thought it was best to reduce the number of product lines, simplify the choices for customers, emphasize margins and drive less for sales.
However, he had confidence in his entrepreneurial abilities and believed he would be able to deliver a better product for the growing number of smartphone-using travelers.
The U.S. government today announced that it would permit Network Associates Inc. a license allowing it to ship its 128-bit PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) product to a large number of countries, excluding countries such as Iraq and Cuba.
Indeed it does: Best Buy populates its shelves and tables with a huge number of product SKUs, often without enough educational content or curation, with associates who are not necessarily intimately familiar with all products making it hard for any given vendor to stand out.
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In the North American market, Coca-Cola has recently benefited from a number of new product launches.
The food and drug administration will become a fully fledged ministry, following a number of tainted product scandals.
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The number of scareware product variants was about 142 in 2004, there have been 110 new variants tracked in just the first two months of 2010.
As tends to be the case with Apple, there are a number of new product rumors floating about from a new iPhone, new iPad and even the much discussed iWatch.
They drop a free product in a market where a number of small, entrepreneurial solutions are operating.
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As the team continues to grow, both in number of people and product maturity, the entropy also begins to increase.
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Also since the product stays fresh longer, it is now possible to reduce the number of deliveries without negatively affecting the quality of the product.
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Therefore, you do not have the luxury of waiting until the end of the show to mention your web site, your campaign, your new product, your toll-free number or your book.
There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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It received nearly three times the number of votes as the second-ranking Apple's MacBook, a product that could be expected to attract a far greater number of online activist platform zealots.
Moving to a year round product release cycle should deliver Apple a number of benefits.
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This indictment is the product of intense efforts by a large number of people in my Office.
Manz says search engines, with Google in particular, are still the number one choice for accessing product information.
Consider spreading your money across a number of different types of product, especially if you are investing for the longer term.
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