On top of which, no-one tells you that so-and-so or such-and-such a person is going to be at the event.
These macro factors matter more than the same old so-and-so is a great CEO and such-and-such company has performed well in the past.
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Why did so-and-so get such a great book cover and mine looks like an ad for the circus?
What sets them apart is their ability to think outside of Japanese industry's tried and not-so-true practices, and embrace such ideas such as shareholder value and being customer-driven - the management buzzwords in thriving companies worldwide.
Markel and colleagues examined 43 cities and found that so-called nonpharmaceutical interventions -- steps such as isolating patients and school closings -- were remarkably successful in tamping down the outbreak.
It urges the Bush Administration for once to throw its weight with the potential victims of such repression -- rather than its perpetrators -- and in so doing to contribute to deterrence of such an eventuality.
Not only are small and mid-sized manufacturers feeling cheerier, but so are non-manufacturing companies such as property developers and retailers.
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The new test is the latest weapon in WADA's arsenal following the development of tests for the endurance-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO) and so-called designer steroids such as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), which have been chemically engineered to deceive the testers.
He promotes the concept of an Eastern wildway to physically connect America's state parks, conservation areas and forests so wide-ranging animals such as bears, wolves and eagles can roam freely.
Low costs are a big reason why Intel and AMD have survived, while companies known for data-center processors built around so-called RISC designs such as DEC and Sun have been swallowed up by larger companies.
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How can one city -- even one with such a rich history and such a large population -- sustain so many museums?
Officials said that the issue, which has strained U.S.-Russia relations and so could affect other U.S. foreign-policy priorities such as Iran and Syria in which Russian support is needed won't be resolved before the U.S. vote in November.
Her unease lasted through the introductions of two elderly Russian couples, two elderly Chinese couples, three middle-aged Dominican couples, one handsome young Haitian man, one very tall, very old, and very loud Haitian woman with a funny name Oolna and one dark-skinned woman who spoke so fast and with such a heavy accent that nobody could understand what she said or where she came from.
Do Clinton, Obama and their allies really believe the majority of Americans are so ignorant and ill-informed as to fall for such false alternatives and vicious traps?
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Add these costs to the human toll of people being turfed out of their homes, and it is no surprise that America's politicians are scrambling for ways to stem the foreclosures. (All the more so because hardest-hit areas include election swing states such as Ohio and Florida.) So far, the focus is on low-cost intervention: encouraging borrowers to seek counselling and lenders to show forbearance.
These companies own big businesses tied to dying services (land-line phones) and low- or no-growth services (such as broadband internet or cable subscriptions), so profits and share prices generally went down.
If Italy and Greece had not been so over-indebted and sclerotic, they would not be in such trouble today.
And so are anti-tax groups such as The National Taxpayers Union and Americans for Tax Reform.
Lately, companies such as STEC have been improving solid-state memory so that it better suits larger scale equipment such as PCs and servers--Seagate's sweet spot.
And yet, they have so mismanaged their affairs - with such devastating potential consequences for the global economy and its financial system - that the rest of the world believes it has no choice but to come to its rescue.
Eclipse claims 1, 000-plus cash deposits from owner-pilots and 1, 500 or so orders from air-taxi operators such as DayJet.
The most important, in the United States and in most other countries, is a positive declaration that gold, and gold-based instruments (such as gold-based bank accounts and so forth) would be permitted for monetary usage, just as we use dollars or, for that matter, foreign currencies such as Canadian dollars or euros.
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But it gave the green light to a slimmed-down version, with so-called "customer-facing" areas - such as libraries and one stop shops - staying within the council system.
One not-so-ideological hang-up: The technology and market for such an industry didn't and still doesn't exist for commercially profitable levels of production.
Bomb-sniffing dogs and police equipped with radiation-detecting devices will patrol the Long Island Marathon, and the 20, 000 or so finish-line spectators will be limited to carrying small bags such as purses and camera cases, said Inspector Kenneth Lack, a spokesman for the Nassau County Police.
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That is, high-equity investors buying condos and turning them into rentals and in doing so stabilizing the market such that it became safe for low-equity investors to do the same.
"Efficient enforcement" would bring in revenues exceeding the country's economy -- so how can such a convoluted, anti-incentive, byzantine and contradictory tax code be enforced?
However, technology is always changing and many changes, such as use of personal devices (so-called BYOD) and social-media platforms for work-related purposes, may pose additional challenges to the employers' ability to monitor employee communications.
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There is already so little old-growth forest left that it threatens the long-term survival of many plant and animal species, so continuing to log such forests is deeply irresponsible.
More than half of the graduate students who study less-commonly taught languages (such as Hindi, Indonesian and Farsi) and 78% of those who study the least-common languages such as Pashto and Urdu do so at Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.
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