We will, however, see a lessening of the rigidity of the rule of thumb that zero inventory makes the best business sense.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the sale, from a market perspective: While the rule of thumb for jewelry at auction is that on the secondary market pieces bring only a third of their original price, this collection reaped a hefty profit for the seller.
It always seems like the rule of thumb is the earlier you are, the faster you get through security.
At the height of its mainframe dominance in the 1980s, the rule of thumb was that IBM accounted for half of industry revenues, two-thirds of the profits and three-quarters of the market cap.
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Think of the old rule of thumb to subtract your age from 100 and invest that percentage in stocks or of the modern version in the form of target date retirement funds that start aggressive and become more conservative as you get closer to retirement.
The rule of thumb is that the further out, the greater the isolation: first plumbing, then electricity disappears, until finally, out in the Baltic Sea, tiny huts share a few metres of exposed granite with just the wind and seals.
Consider Las Vegas, where the rule of thumb is to place the room elevators as far from the hotel registration as possible, forcing guests to navigate the temptations of the casino along the way.
The rule of thumb is that 100 rems of exposure increases the chance you will die of cancer by 5% or so.
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Subtract all expenses and property taxes (30% of the rent is a good rule of thumb) and multiply by 12 to get the annual net operating income.
The rule of thumb is to subtract your age from 100 and allocate the difference to stocks.
Mutual fund pioneer John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group, offers this rule of thumb for investors: Own the same percentage of bonds as your age.
The usual rule of thumb for screen size, by the way, is that you should sit about 2.5 times as far away from your TV as the diagonal measurement of the screen.
"With a spinal injury, the rule of thumb is it takes about two years to have some idea how the fullness of the recovery is, " Levine said.
Apply the usual rule of thumb, where one megawatt will supply the needs of 500-900 average houses, and this run-of-river plant could serve as many as 2.4 million homes.
Add to the equation the high correlation in the stock market and high volatility, and suddenly the rule of thumb of investing 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in bonds no longer provides the returns they once did.
The prevailing rule of thumb is that deflation, not inflation, is the dreaded external reality.
The general rule of thumb is that running backs experience a decline in productivity around the age of 30 due to the wear and tear they undergo.
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The preference rule of thumb for connecting with family, friends and associates typically depends upon the generation.
The normal rule of thumb was that a canal (subject of another boom earlier in the 19th century) would halve the cost of transporting coal, and that rail would halve it again.
The general Google rule of thumb is that people tend to click on the first or second link that comes up in a search.
The new rule of thumb is NOT to shake hands on financial news programs on any of the networks, unless the host shakes hands with you first.
Also, back in those days, the rule of thumb was a manager could manage at most 7-8 direct reports.
The rule of thumb says these figures should be well above 2% for investors to get a decent deal.
You know, the rule of thumb used to be that about a quarter of a million cars equaled an assembly line.
If anything, the rule of thumb is to avoid risking an out in exchange for an extra base in that situation.
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As a rule of thumb, the larger the company and the larger the buyback the more reliable the buyback is as an indicator of the future stock price.
But bankers say the rule of thumb is that only about 15% of restructured loans eventually become bad debts (and even they need not be entirely written off).
"The first rule of thumb is to fix what you've got, " says Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm.
Many people follow the rule of thumb to save at least ten percent of their income for retirement and another ten percent for other goals, such as an emergency fund.
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The rule of thumb is that a 10pc rise in crude cuts US growth by 0.2pc four quarters later, but the science is flabbily soft and nobody knows where the inflexion point lies.
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