All told, your Passport money is swimming upstream against a current flowing at 7%.

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The smart money in the smart-grid space is swimming upstream and doing so as speedily as possible.

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Every year, the Rogue is filled with salmon swimming upstream to spawn.

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In fact, the smartest executives understand that swimming upstream against the conventional wisdom of the risk averse can actually create significant opportunities for growth.

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Reaching a slipway guarded on their approach by a fence running down into the water, some of the men plunged into the river and began swimming upstream.

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In other words, the smart-grid survivors are those swimming upstream.

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Olivia is in front, swimming upstream, parting the crowds.

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So we're swimming upstream against what has been the mainstream of media trending, but I think we're serving our audience with simply broader and deeper news than any other English language news channel.

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The investigators didn't include a response from Winnick, who founded the company, but by the time that the June 5, 2000, memo was written, Winnick was already well upstream--and swimming not in a river but in the pool of his mansion in Southern California.

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