• But the stake was a conspicuous, and at times volatile, item in Goldman's quarterly results.

    WSJ: Goldman Sachs Selling ICBC Stake

  • Luck will be young and vibrant and Indianapolis will shower him with a conspicuous amount of money.

    WSJ: Peyton Manning, Sad but Single

  • One former executive, onetime NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, has been a conspicuous embarrassment.

    FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.

  • At the same meeting, he said a conspicuous lack of participation by Hasidic residents in the district made their preference clear.

    WSJ: Bike-Share Rides Past Neighborhood

  • When they are together, he displays a conspicuous affection for her.

    BBC: Rebekah Brooks' arrest is huge blow for Murdochs

  • The problem with these and other proposals has been a conspicuous lack of evidence regarding which, if any of them is a good description of reality.

    ECONOMIST: The hunt for physics��s most elusive quarry is over

  • Last month, it published a consultation document on devolving corporation tax to Holyrood, but with a conspicuous lack of any reckoning on its likely or possible impact.

    BBC: Tax Cuts Earn Limited Returns

  • It's the WGR614, and it bears the same metallic silver casing of many other Netgear products, but there's also a conspicuous black antenna rising from the back.

    FORBES: Wireless Networking Gets Easy

  • You will be required to post a notice for 10 business days in a conspicuous place at the job site listing the offered wage and your intention to hire a H-1B worker.

    FORBES: Immigration On A Very Fast Track: The Race For H-1B Visas

  • Mr Major, who preaches the equal opportunities for which his own life is a conspicuous advertisement, has far to go if ever he is to impose that vision on a deeply conservative country.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • Andy Warhol is a conspicuous exception.

    FORBES: Business Is Pleasure

  • Typically, these are motivated by a conspicuous success, a development program that was driven by the strength of beautiful molecular data, and the canonical example these days is PCSK9, a target which seems to feature an almost unprecedented alignment of human genetics, biomarker, and animal model data.

    FORBES: Strategy: Why Big Pharmas Do What They Do -- And How Silicon Valley Might Help Them Think Differently

  • For one, she had a real reason to fear that she could be indicted: Starr had made a conspicuous point of building his case without her, collecting evidence piece by piece from her friends, fellow interns, her mother, now even the Secret Service, that could turn her denials to powder.

    CNN: Tick, Tock, Tick... ...Talk

  • He had exchanged words and a very conspicuous looking envelope with the head inspector.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • At a deeper level, though, the ad-hoc targeting of a few conspicuous culprits makes no noticeable difference to the way the country works.

    ECONOMIST: Russia has changed since Soviet days, but not nearly enough

  • Next year Harrah's will play a more conspicuous role, moving the event to the Rio, which has conference rooms big enough to handle three times as many spectators and players.

    FORBES: Stacking the Deck

  • George Clooney's entire collection of suits may be less expensive than Lil Jon's chain, but the latter certainly comes with its perks--it's safe to say that a 5-pound "Crunk Ain't Dead" pendant is a bit too conspicuous to be lost at a coat check.

    FORBES

  • Maria, it was not a thrilling match it was played at roughly three-quarters speed, sometimes far less than that. (Exhibition tennis is a little like airline food: sufficient when trapped with limited options, but no comparison to an authentic meal.) Roddick won 7-5, 7-6, a meaningless but still conspicuous result, as Federer owns a 21-2 lifetime record when the stakes are real.

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  • There is even a correction going on in conspicuous consumption: Net-a-porter, a pricey website, offers to deliver designer outfits to its customers in brown paper bags.

    ECONOMIST: The rise and fall of the wealthy

  • Way back in 1899, influential Norwegian-American sociologist Thorsten Veblen dismissed fashion as part of a trend of conspicuous consumption.

    FORBES: Making Sense of Fashion

  • Environmental concerns, Ford says, have made people more thoughtful about their purchases, while the recession has led to a decline in conspicuous consumption.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • Yes, there has been a lot of conspicuous consumption in the past decade, but what has been more striking is the quest for the genuine--the handcrafted object, the locally sourced menu, the Vini del Paradiso experience.

    FORBES: Editor's Note

  • The draft however, is not a merit badge handed out for conspicuous college performance, it is a projection as to how a player will perform over the next ten years.

    FORBES: How To Be A Great Sports Agent: Part Four

  • The fiscal and economic challenges are conspicuous: a substantial and intractable gap between public spending and tax revenues in the US at a time of anaemic economic growth.

    BBC: As the US loses AAA, where is a safe harbour?

  • To be sure, this board has a long history of conspicuous missteps, including successive controversies over the firing of former CEOs Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker.

    FORBES: H-P: Is There a Miraculous Recovery Ahead?

  • We need a new theory of conspicuous philanthropy.

    FORBES: Rationalizing Wealth

  • The point is that the UK banks' downgrade is an inevitable consequence of government policy to reduce the likelihood that they would be bailed out in a crisis - of which the most conspicuous manifestation has been the Vickers' commission recommendations to put retail banks behind a ring fence and make creditors to banks explicitly liable to losses.

    BBC: If RBS needs capital, taxpayers will suffer

  • In fact, they have remained surprisingly conspicuous, becoming a kind of secular scripture for the aid fraternity.

    ECONOMIST: Global poverty

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