Achieving this sort of change is comparable to how car manufacturers have instilled a commitment to quality or chemical companies such as DuPont have succeeded in making safety first such a central value.
It's a great value for first-time Wii owners who just want to jump in and experience all the great Wii games that helped usher in a revolution in motion-controlled gaming.
Each day, start a new row with the date in the first column (A), enter value of your portfolio in column B, and the value of your chosen ETF in column D.
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Yet unmarried couples can split children on their tax returns, giving them the greater value of a first and second child credit for their fourth or fifth child.
Just a month ago, we first featured Prestige Brands ( PB H) as a value stock that was worth looking into.
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In order to value a stock, the first statistic many investors look at is the price to earnings ratio.
In this admittedly narrow domain, it appears there is value in first generating a belief, and then testing it analytically.
To establish a policy's market value we first calculate its asset share, which tracks money into and out of the policy to the date of valuation.
Here is a better way to value stocks: First, the investor should weigh the cost of capital against the firm's stream of current and future free cash flows to determine the asset's value.
Consider, for instance, the tension between emerging economies' demand for reserves and their fear that the main reserve currency, the dollar, may lose value a dilemma first noted in 1947 by Robert Triffin, a Belgian economist.
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If your business meets the first condition, it means a lot of value-addition is information driven.
Since the Department of Agriculture first conducted a census in 1850, the value of farmland has risen at an annual rate of 3.4%.
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The willingness to take a chance on blemished credits pushed below-investment grade securities above par value for the first time since before the financial crisis, up from a nadir of 55 cents on the dollar in December of 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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After all, to borrow from a pawnbroker, you must first own an object of value.
Still, besides being a stirring reaffirmation of the First Amendment, the entertainment value frequently is high, and useful information occasionally is conveyed.
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Pay first, add value later might be a better motto.
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The first is the perception that a businessman's value to society lies solely (as opposed to chiefly) in being a good businessman, in starting companies and making better products.
Its balance sheet is strong, with a 19% debt to total value based on its first quarter 2010 numbers.
Business growth in such a field is typically good at first as those who most value the procedure pay for it.
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Normally, the first generics cut 50% of a drug's value, and this news meant the loss could be even more severe.
The CML data shows that the 13% deposit of a property's value put down by the average first-time buyer is the largest for more than three years.
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
To answer these questions, lets first take a quick look at what companies do to destroy value.
First, it is a continent rich in the high-value, natural resources necessary to propel China's maturing economy.
This breathes a bit of life into a genre that can have issues providing lasting value beyond the first few initial plays.
You'd be astonished how little of the value of a defined benefit builds up in the first 25 years of your career.
To get there, he must first convince people of the value of sharing -- a task he acknowledges as tricky.
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