With greater knowledge comes the confidence to do it yourself, whether it is actively picking stocks or buying and holding market indexes, through exchange-traded funds ( ETFs).

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Is your community management program in place as a PR or promotional vehicle, or do you actively design and manage it as customer insight and service outpost as well?

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Maybe they do know and are actively working on it.

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It demonstrates that we are actively helping them in ways that make it easier for them to do their jobs.

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We aim for a purchase price of around 75% of the market value and prefer "sell and rent backs" as the existing owners would be more likely to respect the property, we do not have to actively seek new tenants, and it causes minimal disruption to the existing owners.

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To prevent it, managers have to actively decide what not to do, he adds.

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In a rare appearance at an investor conference in February, Mr. Cook acknowledged that the Apple board was actively discussing what to do with the cash, since the company had more than it needed to run its business.

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And in this case, the hybrid model has nothing to do with overhead cams and internal-combustion horsepower but everything to do with using IT-driven insights to get NASCAR fans to buy more tickets and engage more actively with the sport.

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