In and of themselves they tell you nothing about an economy's health or ill health.
But by themselves they are not decisive the way proponents predicted they would be.
But by themselves they aren't enough to power a company of Alcatel's size.
Already, most bosses seem to have convinced themselves they are nothing like Ms Stewart or Messrs Kozlowski and Skilling.
Some days, they (told themselves they) were lucky because it started raining and they allowed themselves to go home early.
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If central banks want to sell bonds to anyone but themselves they will have to pay more than near zero interest.
So if sport utilities come with risk, people are able to rationalize it by persuading themselves they have control over the situation.
When comfortably-off cultural types from the West stray into areas which journalists like to keep for themselves they risk being portrayed as dilettantes.
Indeed, in and of themselves they justify a move by Yale and other universities to aggressively promote YIISA's activities and establish similar institutes.
As for the schools themselves they know full well the financial reward that comes with an invitation to the tournament and subsequent extended run.
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The idea is based on the premise that when suppliers are left to themselves they will design, build and operate a factory more cheaply than their customers can.
As countries try to save themselves they endanger each other.
Could women who take HRT feel so good about themselves they drink more, they enjoy themselves more, they even smoke more, eat more unhealthy food, couldn't that be giving them the cancer?
Military and political leaders convince themselves they can rely on air power and sea power to fight future wars, and thus neglect the industrial base that makes rapid production of armored systems feasible.
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If Republican leaders do not take this advice and continue to let Democrats have their way in expanding the wealth redistribution and regulatory state, they may tell themselves they are just being realistic.
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I've had that a lot, where a person is engaged in some kind of innocent behavior and ultimately even in trying to vindicate themselves they wind up being physically arrested or even physically assaulted.
The list could go on and on, and in each case the person committing the act of dishonesty told themselves they had a perfectly valid reason why the end result justified their lack of integrity.
Performance measures like energy costs should be measured against an ideal, not a budget, he says, and when divisions transfer products among themselves they should be at market prices for the entire amount of goods being "sold, " not just a portion.
To make money for themselves they reach for yield by lending to more speculative borrowers whom they can charge more interest to, and they too often lend to high interest paying governments whose junkie bonds they buy for a fat yield as well as their implicit security.
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On the whole, the Philippines' ruling elite shows little interest in levying taxes they themselves might have to pay, or providing public services they themselves are unlikely to use.
Wherever and whenever they announce themselves, they are actually somewhere else, lost in dream.
They asked themselves how they could get much better results from the workforce already in place.
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If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect.
When people change the way they define themselves, they begin to behave in ways consistent with that belief.
It is unusual for children to kill themselves, but not unheard of, and children are so guileless that if they tell you they are thinking about killing themselves, they need to be taken with utmost seriousness.
And when they become bosses themselves, they give the same orders.
Johnson saying that they don't play for the crowd or the media is absolutely correct - they play for themselves and they play to win.
They gave of themselves until they had nothing more to give.
In other words, these rivals were so intent on being able to say they built it themselves that they built little or nothing of enduring value.
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