These days there is a gold-standard tick-list: a house behind a gate (Belgravia for Italians, Chelsea for Russians), a Gerhard Richter for the wall, the kids in one of a handful of schools, the right portfolio of charities, a place in the country not too far from London.
And almost two-thirds described a tick-box approach to measuring progress as "unhelpful" or "not useful at all".
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Knight Capital general counsel Leonard Amoruso asks how the individual stock circuit breakers will interact with market-wide circuit breakers, a newly adopted up-tick rule for short sellers and internal circuit breakers imposed by NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq.
To position for a tick-up in the economic recovery, Birinyi likes industrials, technology and some consumer stocks.
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Despite strong objections to the lack of a tick-box, everyone, Labour said, should fill in the forms when they arrive through the letterbox next April.
The electrically assisted power-steering ratio is a tick quicker, and the self-centering feel is more affirmative.
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Bruce is starting to see a "noticeable up-tick" in turnover (though he won't quantify it).
"There have been continuing problems with the work capability assessment which has used a tick box-style assessment to assess people's fitness for work, " he said.
That posed a political puzzle - in a border poll would these people tick a British or an Irish box?
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Oct. 2, critics of the markets have called for a return to the up-tick rule.
The school failed to ensure that the students take precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through dense woods known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, Munn's attorneys said.
The school failed to ensure that the students take any precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through a densely wooded area known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, her attorneys said.
The SEC's extension Wednesday was silent, however, on the issue of the up-tick rule, which was a rule abolished last year that forced traders to wait for a stock to tick up before shorting it.
Many critics of the SEC have called for the restoration of that up-tick rule as a better solution to the problem.
Meanwhile, it has looked also for easier allies, including Iran, which has given Sri Lanka a seven-month supply of oil on tick.
Another problem, of course, is the elimination of the "up-tick" rule, a controversial SEC rule change last July (well-timed to the beginning of the credit market meltdown) that removed the rule that short-selling could only be done when a stock was rising.
It was maybe because of Berne - where clocks continue to tick over centuries - that the Theory of Relativity, a concept that time is not constant, could have been born.
Like Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle before him, Todd Snider often writes songs with a slightly boozy country-rock swagger, paced by a steady intellectual metronome that's a tick or two ahead of most of his peers.
There should also be a ban on naked shorting and the up-tick rule needs to return.
But maybe you don't know this: In July and August corporate IT purchases ticked up--just a smidgen, but they did tick up.
Am I giving the NY Giants app a shout-out because I want to royally tick off Eagles, Cowboys Redskins and Jets fans?
The front tires take a huge bite on turn-in, the car barely rolls and then it burrows into a corner like a tick.
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Still, the consensus is that shares in a newly offered company will tick up by 10-15%.
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The story here is also not awe-inspiring, but since spiking in the aftermath of the horrific 1998-99 debt default and recession-within-depression, there has been a steady downward tick in the crude death rate.
Attorneys for the school argued that tick-borne encephalitis is such a rare disease that it could not have foreseen a risk and could not be expected to warn Munn or require her to use protection against it.
Many also want a return of the so-called uptick rule, in which a short sale could only be put on after a tick up in the price of the targeted stock.
This is the interesting part -- is that tick up actually going to make a difference?
The up-tick rule once only permitted short sales of a stock if a stock price was rising.
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On day three, a troop of baboons go about their daily grooming and tick-picking tasks with nonchalance, ignoring both the camera-toting hikers and the dollops of yellow foam blowing off the angry sea.
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