The first is that, by and large, pre-1980, your earning capacity was limited by the national economy in which you lived.

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"As a practical matter each individual infringer lacks the assets, net worth and earning capacity to make civil prosecution practical, " it said.

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Far too many people fail to save and then find themselves downsized at the height of their earning capacity, never to recover.

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But when you focus on following your passion and letting your inspiration flow, your energy gets a boost and your earning capacity is strong.

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Although this principle, also known as enhanced earning capacity, went beyond the scope of the report, it came up repeatedly in meetings, Mr. Kiernan said.

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White says this entrenched culture, coupled with a prevalent assumption that women do not have an earning capacity, has condemned many widows to acute poverty.

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If people make more over their lifetimes by having gone to college than not then we can, as a very basic thought, assume that the education has added to their earning capacity.

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Toshiba just doubled the capacity of their Gigabeat V30 earning their Microsoft Portable Media Center player a swank new V60E moniker.

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Or to put it another way, Greece's austerity programme is succeeding in impoverishing Greek people with little in the way of discernible benefits to the Greek private sector and the capacity of Greece to start earning its way in the world.

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Fortunately, the Big Board contains a quotient of intrinsic value embedded in tangible corporate assets, then average earning power cycle to cycle and dividend paying capacity.

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