Because a simple economic stock-take of the coalition's first two-and-a-half years in office would not look very impressive at all.
It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.
Decrypting a 40-stock portfolio can take 18 seconds, an eternity in wireless time.
Anyone whose job or business will be impacted can't take stock-market risks, and should be selling despite low prices.
He says many stock-fund managers "take the quite reasonable approach that treats currency as a cyclical risk" that washes out over time.
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This extraordinary chance to take stock first-hand of the situation in Cambodia helped inform the observations and recommendations we made in the Center's analysis.
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If the technology successfully drives costs lower, it could be a welcome boost for Hollywood, which, despite selling the world tales of futuristic sophistication, is as an industry often behind the curve in technology--images are stored on bulky, perishable film stock and large crews of technicians take orders from essentially paper-based offices.
So why would somebody go buy the stock and try to make the take-over fail ?
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The complex deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, is structured as a recapitalization of MetroPCS, which will be the surviving company, keep its stock listing, but take on the T-Mobile name.
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But investors may want to stay with the stock, as it could be an attractive take-over candidate at these valuations.
Emotional consumers, for instance, fail to take stock of their human and non-human resources, and to prioritize their needs and desires.
How is the stock market to take confidence from all this fiddle-faddling?
Take Coca-Cola, whose stock tumbled from its June high of 70 to 48 in early October, before recovering somewhat to a recent 64.
If this prediction plays out, we should see a stock market sell-off in late 2010 as individuals take profits and sit on the cash.
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The Casey Research analyst favors buying gold as part of a regular accumulation program, somewhat similar to the cost-averaging approach many take in the stock market.
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"There is no more 'month end' -- previously, you would do this stock take of data once a month but you can upload it in real time, " Darby told CNN.
We'd be foolish to take comfort in the strength of recent stock-market performance.
Instead, given the recent fluctuations in the stock market, Groupon executives decided to take a wait-and-see approach, this person said.
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It also comes as historians and Jewish organizations continue encouraging nations to take unvarnished stock of their actions in Nazi-era Europe.
Circle, a private firm which is part-listed on the London Stock Exchange, is to take over the hospital in Cambridgeshire, from 1 February next year.
Of course this isn't the first time that we've seen rebates drive down computer prices so much -- there was the HP setup that we saw over Labor Day, which included a CRT, and a burner for the same price after rebates too -- but a laptop is something to take stock of.
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At my firm, The MDE Group, we take a two-pronged approach to managing stock volatility.
Those investors will also have to take two-thirds of their payout in stock, while Slim will be paid entirely in cash.
We have the whole tour and at the end of it we shall take stock of both the Test matches and one-dayers.
Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov arrived in the city of Chelyabinsk on Friday evening to take stock of the situation, the official Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Next month the Committee on Standards in Public Life - whose recommendations for changes to MPs' expenses set the groundwork for the current system - will publish in its annual report a "stock take" of the situation.
His family lost their savings in the stock-market crash of 1929 and Mr. Holding remained reluctant to take on debt, even as his business empire blossomed.
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However, given that most stock indices peaked only around mid-2007, equity prices could still take a couple more years for a sustained rebound, at least by historical benchmarks.
Lunsford expects that Acorn may do another financing before launching CorCap, but does not foresee an offering to the public stock markets until the company has solid revenues--something that will take a few years, at the least.
If a government recapitalisation does prove necessary, the treasury is likely to take one of two routes: a preferred-stock investment that allows the agencies to raise more capital of their own, or nationalisation through a common-equity injection that leaves current owners with nothing, and thus offers the taxpayer a better deal.
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