Many small businesses cannot afford to (a) shut down for a day, (b) renovate repairs or (c) pay the deductible on insurance claims.
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Result: Today in the U.S. 150 million cell users (up fivefold since 1995) talk an average of eight hours a month (up fourfold) while paying a dime a minute (down by a factor of four).
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
Whether you get a marriage bonus (your combined tax bill goes down) or suffer a marriage penalty (you pay more as a couple) depends on various factors.
Firefighters have rescued a woman who fell down a 16ft (5m) deep hole on a country estate in Perthshire.
Less exciting was the bottom line for the second quarter, 11 cents a share, down (yes, down) from 17 cents a year earlier.
Finally, business slows down a little (just a little) at the end of the year for many tax professionals.
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Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is down about 0.5%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is down about 0.1%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is lower by about 0.5%.
Remedy: When we make a major decision such as accepting (or turning down) a job offer, we tend to exercise confirmation bias.
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Opposing Frank is the real-life police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who hunts Frank down with a group of irregulars (that is, honest cops) operating out of Essex County, New Jersey.
They cannot agree on who should bear the cost of today's crisis: should it be creditors (through a write-down), debtors (through austerity) or the Germans (through transfers to the south)?
When the last of them has been nominated and confirmed, Congress should sit them down at a witness table (or tables) and ask them to agree on a few points.
American fund managers are also doing well in other Latin American countries, which have either adopted the Chilean approach (eg, Mexico and Bolivia), or gone down a similar route while avoiding mandatory contributions (eg, Argentina and Brazil).
The Nets rank dead last in the NBA in possessions per game (90.5), which is down slightly from a year ago, when they ranked 21st (92.7) out of 30 teams.
Last week a South African group pulled out of a bid to buy the club after the Rugby Football Union (RFU) turned down a plan to relocate to London.
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Among the largest underlying components of GWX, in trading today Corus Entertainment, Inc. ( Toronto: CJR-B) is off about 0.1%, Dundee Corp ( Toronto: DC-A) is down about 0.8%, and Home Capital Group Inc ( Toronto: HCG) is lower by about 1.7%.
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Acting on a million-dollar tip from a dying man in Naples, Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time international intriguer with a Flatbush accent, tracks down a feared global potentate, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), who hires him to do a sensitive job: to investigate Arkadin himself.
Fox was second with "X Factor" (9.1 million, 3.1) down a tenth, followed by "Glee" (6.2 million, 2.6), up 8 percent.
Among the largest underlying components of VEA, in trading today Nestle S A ( OTC: NSRGY) is down about 1.1%, Novartis ( NYSE: NVS) is down about 1.6%, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc ( NYSE: RDS.A) is lower by about 2.4%.
We get flying dragons, a breathless opening sequence in which Gandalf (Ian McKellen) plummets down a belching abyss, and Shadowfax, a flawless white horse who will gallop in from nowhere, though only in slow-motion.
Among the largest underlying components of RWX, in trading today Brookfield Asset Management ( Toronto: BAM-A) is down about 0.3%, RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust ( Toronto: REI-UN) is up about 0.2%, and Brookfield Office Properties Inc ( Toronto: BPO) is relatively unchanged.
This posits that there is a tradeoff between economic growth and inflation: that to gin up an economy a central bank must print more money (which eventually leads to more inflation), and that to bring inflation down a central bank must tighten money (which slows down the economy).
Trish clearly felt (and often stated) that she was dating down and that it was my money (I had a good job) that got me access to her.
It just take a few swipes to get used to, a swipe up from the bezel will show you the running applications application (a true multitasking) while swiping down will bring up a menu screen for the current application.
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Among the largest underlying components of VT, in trading today Apple Inc ( NASD: AAPL) is trading flat, International Business Machines Corp. ( NYSE: IBM) is down about 0.6%, and Nestle S A ( OTC: NSRGY) is lower by about 0.7%.
But it would also raise inflation, recently down after peaking at a (monthly) 3.4% in April.
We could also call this a top down (IBM) versus bottom up (Apple) fight.
Set around a sweet courtyard, hung unsurprisingly with red lanterns, Red Lantern House is located down a hutong (old alleyway).
These can involve closing down takeaways near schools (a shove) or a ban on smoking near playgrounds (a smack).
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Engineers had to abseil about 80ft (25m) down a cliff to examine a Devon rail line which was closed after a landslip.
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