Using the Screener turned up more than three dozen companies that are rated attractive and have high ROEs.

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He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes.

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Their values, their book values, liquidate values, bad debt ratios, ROEs, ROAs, whatever you want to look at, were improving.

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My model looks for firms with 10-year average ROEs of at least 15%, and 10-year ROTCs of at least 12%.

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"If we can identify solid businesses with high ROEs, they will make money regardless of the political environment, " he advises.

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Chief executives will be forced to look for ways to cut costs to come up with ROEs that are more acceptable to investors.

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Our Rules of Engagement (ROEs) should also be reviewed.

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We must assume that al Qaeda has information on our current ROEs and how we react to high-speed craft - for example, Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval boats aggressively maneuvering in the direction of our ships with their guns unmasked.

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