Our figures are pretax, account for firm expenses and profit-sharing arrangements, and exclude gains or losses stemming from ownership in the hedge fund firms themselves or from investments held outside the managed investment pools.
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The risk of disregarding these rules is customers getting frustrated with your service or disengaging themselves from your brand.
Most of these cannot be readily quantified but are disproportionately important to the poor, who cannot afford to distract or insulate themselves from them.
Many of my Facebook friends have removed or untagged themselves from their more embarrassing photos or even changed their Facebook name to something an employer wont search for.
With over 500 million active users creating 90 pieces of content (web links, photo albums, etc.) each month, marketers need to decide to embrace or distance themselves from the new tool.
"Labels cannot function or sustain themselves from record sales revenues and so much of their income comes from the 'other' ways artists generate revenue -- endorsements, commercial appearances, ringtone sales, and live shows, " Davis says.
They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves.
They weren't immune from the culture, they just eventually broke from it, or came to hold themselves in some ways apart from it.
All backers of his 2008 campaign, these groups have either reaped significant benefits from the stimulus or have used it to bolster themselves from the worst impact of the recession.
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Yesterday Mr George Papandreou received unanimous support from his cabinet but some members, including Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos have now either publically disagreed with the plan or have distance themselves from it.
And concerning Google TV, which runs on a version of Android, Google prevented users from installing security software to protect themselves from harmful content or malware, per PC World.
Whether for this reason or from conviction, most profess themselves unfazed by the prospect of a failure to raise the debt ceiling.
Markets were born when humans chose to acquire what they needed by trading with each other rather than producing it themselves or taking from someone else by force.
Right now, 90 percent of Americans support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun.
Right now, 90 percent of Americans -- 90 percent -- support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun.
Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
Many people give to medical research charities because they know someone who suffered from the disease, or they themselves have been diagnosed.
Breakfast clubs are not a new initiative, but until now they have been subsidised by schools themselves or through grants from organisations including the National Lottery.
Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of bond fund managers out there touting that they have the product solution to help investors protect themselves from, or even take advantage of, rising interest rates.
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First, pain is not a particularly significant factor in leading people to ask for death: in the Netherlands, only 5% of requests for assisted suicide or euthanasia come from those who described themselves as being in unbearable pain.
The most significant consequence of these three developments is that, because command-and-control is unsustainable in our new wiki world, the biggest challenge facing traditional organizations is whether or not they can transform themselves from top-down hierarchies to peer-to-peer networks before someone else comes along, creates a competing peer-to-peer network, and puts them out of business.
And that simply cannot happen if special interests from either side of the political divide seek to except themselves from the requirements of the law or make a late play to improve their own self-interest at great cost to all other Americans.
Everyone held on to coral or whatever they could to prevent themselves from being swept away.
Authors who want that kind of exposure have to buy it from specialist PR firms or do it themselves.
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That money is then clawed back by the operator over the life of the contract: either from the monthly payments or from some slice of the call revenues themselves.
Both seem to imply that the colonial inheritance of an independent class of public servants who could detach themselves from their ethnic or religious roots and serve the nation offered Africa its best chance of developing.
You could argue, and in fact this point was made to me earlier in the week by Alastair Mitchell of Huddle, that the success or failure of the social business meme revolves around one central question: will enough CIOs have the guts, or the capability, to extricate themselves from big vendor relationships.
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They take risks, put themselves on display, and therefore expose themselves to everything from applause or booing.
With time on their hands, many German firms are positioning themselves to endure or even profit from disruption.
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Is that prospect now being used to coerce testimony or settlements from midlevel executives who, while believing themselves innocent, don't dare risk a trial?
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