Many believe capital deployment should follow a "pecking-order theory" that prescribes that managements should apply their cash flow, in order of priority, to fix their balance sheet if overleveraged, fund organic investments, pay dividends, fund acquisitive growth and, only when there is additional cash left over, to distribute it via share repurchases.
In order to test the theory they analyzed whether their data fit the predictions of a well-known theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Therefore we need to come up with a new overarching theory of everything in order to preserve the middle class and thus liberal democracy.
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The company, currently comprising eight employees, has spent a lot of time thinking and planning in order to take this idea from theory to reality.
Roger Penrose, for example, has long been on record as arguing that it is quantum mechanics, not general relativity, that needs to be modified in order to successfully develop a grand unified theory.
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This gets economic theory backward: We produce in order to consume and we invest in order to produce more.
Kaplan's article was a clear bid to rehabilitate Mearsheimer in order to advance his pre-Israel Lobby theory of realism in international affairs.
Another change involves teacher training, which used to focus on educational theory but ignore practical techniques for keeping order in class.
Medical malpractice lawyers spare no effort trying to get the details of physician reviews, which in many states are protected from legal discovery under the theory that such discussions must be frank in order to improve medical care.
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in Louisiana, said in its order Tuesday that there are a few variations on the classical theory of insider trading, which is when a company insider trades based on information that is not publicly available.
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Secondly, Paul says SideCar supports a limit on revenue per year for drivers, which will ensure that people are using the service as ridesharing and in theory are only using the money donated by riders in order to pay for car expenses, not to make a profit in a taxi-type service.
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To develop these algorithms the 60 researchers involved used techniques that include game theory (in which agents have to overcome barriers to collaboration in order to get the best outcome), probabilistic modelling (which is employed to predict missing data and reduce uncertainty) and optimisation techniques (which can provide means of making decisions when communications between agents are limited).
In theory, this would prompt companies to trim costs and lower their premium costs in order to compete with other providers and the government plan.
Recently, Salon.com interviewed researcher Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin about his theory (basically) that women should withhold sex until later in the relationship in order to get a commitment.
In theory, there's a law against that kind of thing, passed in order to avoid a lot of killing and maiming, but since Maria Shriver, the state's first lady, has been photographed at the wheel with her mobile phone, it must be all right.
There is a second theory, not incompatible with the first: Mr Abdi is committing political suicide in order to avoid revelations to do with national security that could have sorely embarrassed senior reformists, and provided the United States with an excuse to increase its already considerable bellicosity towards Iran.
What that ultimately means, in theory, is that less demand for a currency means higher interest rates in the future in order to attract people to it.
In theory the government could sack the chairman of the BBC Trust by what's called an Order in Council which are issued "by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council".
Critics of for-profit education generally contend that the private sector is willing to sacrifice educational quality and the interests of the student in order to generate a short-term profit, an argument that Stanfield suggests is largely unsubstantiated by economic theory, empirical evidence or sound reasoning.
The theory, of course, is that the poorer teams will use that money on good players in order to get into the World Series.
The theory is that the brain is pre-programmed to encourage us to eat high-energy foods in order to give us the best chance of survival.
The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.
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