When this happens, the necessity of common sense and the reality of what actually works often times gets thrown out the window as a trade-off for promotional gain.
It sells at eight times my estimate of 2009 earnings, five times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and 1.8 times annual sales.
Pension systems that work so capriciously make little sense at the best of times, and even less in an ageing world.
Her writing is at its best when it is honest and vulnerable rather than hectoring and prescriptive: when she admits, for example, that even she feels the loneliness of modern society at times, and yearns for the sense of belonging that life in the clan however cruel and dysfunctional can still provide.
Day trading, which made no sense even in the best of times, is now 100% illusory.
"I decided to (be) a hip old lady" -- one who had a wicked sense of humor, the kind of person who was married 12 times and cracked a whip in a ward of cardiac patients.
Besides celebrating, Seoul should also "take into account" the sense of grief in North Korea over the launch, Global Times advises.
One of those I especially like now is May Department Stores (nyse: MAY - news - people ), America's largest such chain, at 50% of annual revenue, 4 times cash flow (in the sense of 2002 net income plus depreciation) and with a 4.1% dividend yield.
But the Russian people and any sense of what it felt like to live through the tumultuous times he describes are largely absent from this book.
The share price is only 3.5 times cash flow (in the sense of net plus depreciation) for 2010.
Now at 30% of revenue, 90% of book value, 7 times 2009 earnings and 3 times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation), and with a 3.6% dividend yield, it's too cheap to pass up.
The new S Pen can sense 1, 024 levels of pressure sensitivity, four times more than the original S Pen.
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Let us hope that the advances of recent times will reawaken a sense of awe and well-being, that we will rest easy in the knowledge that there is indeed a God and that we will rediscover and reinvigorate the principles--however imperfectly adhered to--that created this nation: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Tighe, who now heads up the chain's men's area, had met Martha Stewart numerous times to get a sense of what she envisioned for the store.
But if you guessed India, which makes the most sense after China, you would be correct and either are a reader of The Economic Times in India, or a damn good guesser.
One of the more tiresome tropes of current times is that speculation is in some sense bad.
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We are instead called to move forward with the sense of confidence and candor that serious times demand.
Read all about it, in the Times, which has a sense of humor and is still alive.
That came to 15 times operating income (in the sense of net before interest, taxes and depreciation).
That was about 21 times operating income (in the sense of earnings before depreciation, interest, taxes and amortization).
Still, in that backdrop you can buy it at only one times revenue, seven times trailing earnings and three times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation).
After a leveraged buyout a borrower will typically have debt (bonds plus bank debt) equal to four to seven times operating profit (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation).
With a majority of employees feeling a sense of urgency, scores of individuals are likely to apply to be part of the guiding coalition sometimes ten times as many as can actually take part!
With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp.
With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp. (nyse: BLL - news - people ), whose enterprise multiple is nine.
Data logs of the Model S that left New York Times reporter John Broder stranded revealed a "violation of common sense" according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but Broder is now offering his side of the story to help make sense of the information.
In Watt's Latin America Equity fund, for example, you are getting shares of YPF, an integrated oil company in Argentina that trades at 6.5 times estimated cash flow (in the sense of expected 1998 earnings plus depreciation).
Having 43 separate forces around the country of hugely different sizes may have made sense in Victorian times, but nobody would invent it today.
M. had a sense of humour, even if he was capable of telling the same anecdote three times in 15 minutes.
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