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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On a recent visit, a guest marveled at Case's hubris: The Sonoran Desert setting is so picturesque, the activities so singular (and space-demanding--the resort spans 317 acres), the staff so large and highly educated, and the variety of activities so extensive that the idea of all this being both exportable and profitable seems counterintuitive.
All of those firms--the excellent, the good and the so-so--compete to place their cash into companies that need large venture investments, and that have the potential to multiply them several times over.
The defendant was not quite like all the others, the hustlers and the hoodlums and the petty and not-so-petty criminals that throng courts the world over.
The boom has all the standard features of an oil-price shock, except that, compared with the more familiar cases of 1973-74 and 1979-80, and the not-so-noticed case of 1990-91, this one happened in reverse.
Not least when they pander to a British public that no longer shares many of the fundamental values of the United States and our approach to the world and so distance themselves from the "special relationship" that has served both nations -- and the world -- so well.
The Democratic campaigns now turn their attention to the Louisiana primary and Nebraska and Washington caucuses Saturday, the Maine caucuses Sunday and the so-called Potomac primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia next Tuesday.
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The law is so new--and the scandal that inspired it still so fresh in the public's memory--that its violation has put the Governor on the defensive, even though it was Bush who pushed the measure through the legislature last spring.
The council said there were difficult driving conditions in the north and east of the county, and the so-called "mountain road" - the B4329 - closed.
In other cases, publishers requested that sales figures be removed entirely, despite giving the more than so-and-so routine.
They gained illegal access to the roof, secured a remote satellite in an out-of-the-way place, and situated it so that the signal beamed off the next-door building into Billy's office.
Ironically, the wood inlays are so impeccably finished they look artificial and both the hand-stitched upholstery and leather-trimmed dashboard are finished so precisely it looks as if the work were done by machine.
For his part, Zaak has steered a judicious course, ostensibly avoiding the obvious and the not-so-obvious pitfalls, and has refrained from pressing her.
Jorge was on the podium at the opening 12 rounds of the season - only the fourth rider in history to do so - and crucially he has finished every race in the top four, including seven wins so far.
But even if they were to do that, it leaves unresolved the great British debate - about whether the UK's indebtedness is so great, and the confidence of investors in our credit-worthiness so fragile, that the chancellor dare not cut taxes or increase job-creating infrastructure investment.
The new band includes an American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ...
So we need to out-educate, out-build and out-innovate so the economy will create jobs in the future.
And the public has been swept away in the colorful--and so far relatively peaceful--campaign festivities, a carnival of flags, revved-up motorbikes and tribal preening that's a welcome distraction from the hardships of a still contracting economy.
So the popular logic, the common logic is you're actually at an advantage is you lose a game in February so that - like the Patriots were 18-0, and so there was all these pressure on them to go 19-0.
This could include training policies, whistle-blower programs, internal tone-from-the-top communications and so forth.
So perhaps the fact that the two businesses and the likes of Sky and TalkTalk - are scrapping so furiously over the broadband market is good news.
In the case of the Pope's visit, there was a high level of coverage but it was over a period of months and weeks - the build-up and so on.
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The measure requiring doctors with hospital-admitting privileges to perform abortions and the so-called fetal heartbeat and fetal pain bills were the first to reach Gov. Jack Dalrymple's desk Monday afternoon.
The possibility of poverty - and so the fear of poverty - has risen for people in the middle.
There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.
But nurses will not be able to provide the standards of care we all want to see when they are so overstretched and the wards so short-staffed.
Some will say the banks are partly to blame for the sluggishness of the economic recovery, having pumped up the leverage in the boom years and now - in this era of so-called de-risking and deleveraging - starving businesses with good growth prospects of the credit they so badly need.
And he runs out of ammunition -- the bad guy -- and so one of my police officers comes off the side and tackles him in the street.
While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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Be patient-bad markets happen and the so-called experts are just offering their subjective opinions.
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