Great investors and traders, like great sportsmen or artists, can be poor at explaining what they do.
Even the modern iterations of growth and value, which seek to eliminate overlap between styles, have proven to be very poor at distinguishing exposure.
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Even in the unlikely event that pay floors do not reduce employment at all among the poor, they will be effective at reducing poverty only if a large number of poor families contain low-wage workers.
Meanwhile, performance at stores carrying the Thorntons name continued to be poor, with sales at its own-name stores down 9%.
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But the prime cause of the discount is more likely to be poor corporate governance at the family-run chaebol conglomerates that dominate the economy.
In this dot-com-like bubble, the smaller companies will prove to be especially poor investments, at least over the long term.
If real compensation growth for the poor can be sustained at just 2% a year, after just 20 years their real incomes will increase by 50%, and after 40 years their incomes will more than double.
At the other end, moments after having a shot saved by Langfield, Hutchinson side-footed Hateley's 88th-minute corner beyond the Dons goalie to give Motherwell a two-goal lead, though Dons boss Brown will be unhappy at the poor marking.
Could it be poor 40-yard sprint times at the NFL Combine?
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British children brought up in two-parent families where only one parent works are almost three times more likely to be poor than children with two parents at work.
Just as the workers at Exxon would be poor not rich by global standards i9f they had a low value add: for they would have the low wages to go along with the low productivity.
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Ministers said at the time vice-chancellors would be required to boost their efforts to get students from poor backgrounds studying at their universities.
Economic migration can only be seriously challenged by improving opportunities for the poor at home.
Senators are required, by custom, to speak of one another in the third person, directing their anger and sarcasm through whichever poor freshman happens to be the presiding officer at the moment.
Like Clement Attlee, he worked after university at Toynbee Hall, a university foundation in London's East End, where he was able to see the wretchedness of the poor at first hand and to be shocked by it.
HIV, malaria or tuberculosis may be able to sell to poor countries more or less at cost, because they can make up their profit margins by charging more to travellers or to rich-country consumers who are at risk at home.
However, the greatest cost of job interviews is not the wasted time of the interviewer, it is the fact that they are poor at identifying how effective applicants will be if they are hired, and they can easily lead to lawsuits.
In other words, "I wouldn't expect my daughter to be any good at maths because I wasn't any good" might not be just a matter of poor parental attitude.
And therefore the residents training at these programs will be by their definition poor physicians.
That is not unusual for banks, which generally seem to be run by people who are excellent bankers but very poor at managing stuff.
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Poor maintenance at some hospitals was also said to be hampering efforts to keep wards and public spaces clean.
There will be rich kids who land legacy slots at fancy colleges, poor kids who fall behind while attending rotten elementary schools.
Current leader Ieuan Wyn Jones announced he would be standing down from the helm after a poor showing for Plaid at this year's assembly elections.
Yes there can be problems and poor managers, but these people do not last long at Cintas and are quickly removed.
Ieuan Wyn Jones announced he would be standing down as Plaid leader after a poor showing by the party at the assembly election.
The Red Bull boss also commented on McLaren's Lewis Hamilton's poor run of form, saying he needed to "be at ease with himself and his surroundings" and stop taking out his frustration on the track.
Finland were not prepared to settle for a draw though and came out on the offensive at the start of what turned out to be a poor second half with the excellent Jari Litmanen key to their attack.
Compressing too much information into one multiplex - broadcasting several "complicated" programmes at the same time, can also be a recipe for poor picture quality.
If you considered an investment in the stock market, looking at how prices moved over the past year would be a poor way to estimate future performance.
Sadly, it looks like Don Cheadle wasn't able to erase whatever's printed on his jacket (seriously, uh, cool jacket, Cheadle) and poor Shannon Elizabeth didn't seem to be able make anything happen at all.
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