To help ensure a successful outcome, take the time to evaluate each financial option on the length of time you will be able to use the funds, the costs of using the funds (such as interest payments), and also the amount of company control you might lose due to ownership positions others will then have.

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The existence of a previous acquaintance also affected behaviour: both the amount initially sent, and the percentage returned by the second player, rose in proportion to the length of time the players had known each other.

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In this case, the digital and the physical fed off each other: The length of the filibuster gave the trend adequate time to get off the ground and talk of the trend on the Senate floor increased interest in it.

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And many of these, though they all follow different paths, take the same, surprising, length of time to go round the sun: they complete exactly two orbits for each of Neptune's three.

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