No securities market comes close in size to the U.S. But when it comes to investor appetite for risk, the flow chart shows fund managers have been more apt to remain invested in higher beta emerging markets than in the advanced economies, especially basket-case Europe which is now more riskier than any of the big emerging markets, both politically and economically.

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Nine out of ten agencies, in my experience, will jump at the chance to think beyond the media flow chart.

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The result is a manually-entered, cumbersome flow chart that can, at best, address a handful of the hundreds of known quality measures and use limited data to address these.

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In May, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general issued a report on the watch-list process, including a flow chart describing how anyone suspected of terrorist ties passes through a series of lists, the most serious of which includes the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list.

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The chart will represent money flow and will never lie.

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Just use their handy-dandy flow chart and leap to your own conclusions about how the dispute will conclude.

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You can see the chart below that shows how revenue proportion differs from cash flow proportions for different CBS businesses.

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The public's top foreign-policy goals (see chart) are preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the country and protecting the jobs of American workers.

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It may help to write out a flow chart, that way we can see every single step and keep breaking the steps down into smaller and smaller pieces.

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