Holding cash, Miller says, was the single biggest detractor to his performance in 2012.
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When something happens that threatens to create a detractor, intervene as quickly as you can.
Generally, he advises them to acknowledge their detractor and publicly request some time to discuss it further off-line.
For every detractor who thinks the Fund should lend less, there is someone who wants it to lend more.
However, a few years ago I figured out, for me, how to manage email and make it a very minor efficiency detractor.
But a key detractor has been government spending (local, state and federal) which has detracted from headline GDP for the last 8 quarters.
They communicated a fundamental misunderstanding to Xbox users: that advertising is fun and is a positive part of the user experience rather than a detractor from user experience.
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Headline GDP growth has been rather tepid of late, and falling government spending has actually been a key detractor in 9 of the past 11 quarters (see the graph from Fisher Investments research).
Still, the company has attracted at least one major detractor with a big megaphone: Barry Ritholtz, an asset manager who runs a quantitative research firm and founder of the well-trafficked blog The Big Picture.
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None of the sycophants has produced a single quote from any supporter or detractor of the 14th amendment to support the notion that it was intended to give the executive branch the authority to usurp Congressional jurisdiction from the Congress.
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From the apex of its fortunes only a couple of years ago to the most severe isolation modern Syria has ever witnessed, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad regime has single-handedly managed the feat which no other detractor achieved: bringing the entire country, and of course the regime itself, to a dead-end from which it can no longer extricate itself.
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