Sometimes it seems rude to turn down an invitation to go out for cocktails.
This was the mantra Warren Buffet used to turn down a chance to invest in Microsoft in 1980.
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Why are designers willing to turn down paying jobs to spend time and tens of thousands of dollars of their own cash on a charity show house?
Westwood's decision to turn down an invitation to play in the United States is another huge boost for the European Tour, on the back of a week that saw Europe regain the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor.
Enterprises may scale down production, reduce investments, or turn down opportunities to innovate.
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Brotman is so convinced that long-term care insurance is critical for retirement planning that he asks clients who turn it down to sign a waiver that absolves his firm from fiduciary responsibility for the decision.
Recently my furnace needed some repairs (unrelated to the Nest), and it was super convenient to be able to toggle it on and off from my iPhone in the basement instead of having to run upstairs, turn it on, run down to observe it, then run back up to turn it off.
But this much is clear: It was impossible for Sirna executives to turn down such a big premium to its market value.
The criminologist Colin Wilson, who has corresponded with Brady for almost a decade, says that the decision by the Home Office to put a stop to this work and to turn down Brady's offer to donate a kidney with no reason given, devastated him.
Because the market wanted Mark Zuckerberg to turn Facebook upside down, to sell out users and bombard pages with meaningless advertisements.
Unlike antidepressants, which take days to weeks to turn down brain anxiety centers (and to show clinical effect), Xanax and other benzodiazepines produce immediate relief.
But the Libyan government said in its appeal filing Tuesday that legally, the ICC was wrong to turn down its request for a postponement to surrender Gadhafi.
During the next decade, the Fed returned to Keynesian discretionary monetary policy, trying to steer the real economy to long term growth by manipulating interest rates, loosening when the economy seemed to turn down, tightening when this seemed to go too far and inflation started to rise.
He wanted to come in and see the President, and you don't turn down the opportunity to talk to Warren Buffett.
However, you have to turn down the other offer before you get to see your new written employment contract.
"The Wales coaching job was an opportunity too good to turn down for Warren, who had aspirations to continue on as an international coach, " said Bowen.
Over 75% of our applicants were willing to turn down well-paid internships with fortune 500 companies to join the AltruHelp team.
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Mr Blix has been keen not to seem to turn down the extra help that France and others want to give him.
So really, what motivation is there for (usually very unpaid) games journalists to turn down a free flight, hotel and early access to a game?
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Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said the trust currently had to turn down two out of every three research projects due to lack of funds.
That prompted his decision to turn down federal financing for his campaigns, bringing an end to the post-Watergate reforms, and leading to reliance on the Super PACs he once criticized.
Ask them how much of their time and money is wasted arguing with health insurance company representatives whose sole job is to turn down a requested procedure so that they will not have to pay for the same.
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Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy urged the council to turn down the application for the operation on the site, close to the Hicks Gate roundabout.
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Instead he was able to turn down an offer from Goldman Sachs, which is still trying to woo him away from the great job he took with a competitor.
Patel told BBC Radio 5 Live he would not turn down the chance to play.
When they hear shooting they turn down the television to gauge how close the bullets are and stay indoors.
However, former Spurs team-mate Younes Kaboul has indicated he will turn down a move to the Stadium of Light.
Who would turn down the chance to redesign entire cities without public interference?
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