This aims to place a value on how long a company takes to cover its costs of acquiring new customers.
But there is a limit to how long such a crisis footing can be maintained, unless national survival is at stake.
But it doesn't take a calculator to see how a long-term investor--which is what people investing for retirement are supposed to be--would pay a lot more after just a few years, even if up-front Class A-type fees are waived, as they often are in retirement accounts.
They were asked to reflect on how many hours they talked on their phone a month, how long they had been using their cell phone, if they remembered how many phone calls they made a month and to what side of the head they typically held the phone.
As an example, as of September 1st 2010, the Greek regulator banned naked short selling of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA. Lauded US politician, Barny Frank once said that all institutional investors should state, when they open a position how long they intend to hold the position for!
Rules govern how many hamburger patties to a pound of beef (10), how long to toast a bun (17 seconds) and how much sanitizer to use when cleaning the shake machine (1 packet for 2.5 gallons of water).
They look, though, a little like warnings as to how long a cup of Starbucks stays good.
But excited researchers say that apo E is rapidly emerging as the first-found of a set of mysterious genes that roughly determine how long a person will live, provided he or she escapes an "unnatural" death from bacteria and viruses, war, accidents, unhealthy diet, smoking or other environmental happenstance.
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Consider this example: Suppose you're sitting in a meeting with clients, and someone asks you how long a certain digital project is slated to take.
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She can pinpoint with uncanny precision where a tumor will grow months ahead of time and predict how long a patient is likely to live under various treatment scenarios.
So it is ditching prescriptive standards which say, for example, how thick a door must be rather than merely how long it should be able to withstand a fire.
These decisions are weighted on how long a driver has been using the app and how trustworthy they have been in reporting hazards and traffic.
Also, set a deadline for how long they can be on your insurance policies.
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But there is a limit to how long they can be outside the parliament.
And we can get into a debate about how long the rules should last.
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But is there a limit to how long people should be able to be on unemployment insurance?
Lieberman couldn't put a timetable on how long troops will be in Iraq.
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Still, there is a question over how long that willingness will endure as Greeks count the cost of recession.
The judge, Recorder RA Britton warned him he would "get a custodial sentence - it is just a matter of how long".
CouchDB and MongoDB are essentially single-headed databases, and from that standpoint, availability is a function of how long you can keep the hardware running.
That spike in the death rate at age 27 can thus be seen as a marker of how long unconstrained excess takes to kill.
He added firefighters at large incidents had to be relieved every three hours as there is a limit to how long they can work at such intensity.
One surprising finding, Dr. Hazen said, was how a long-term diet that includes meat affected the amount of TMAO-producing bacteria in the gut and thus magnified the risk.
Heating degree days are a measure of how long and how far the temperature stays below 65 degrees, that being the point at which people reach for their thermostats.
It looks like the variable cost of upgrading to newer curriculum will be pretty cheap, though, which is good- its just a question of how long the equipment can last.
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They provide a sense of how long good and bad times will last and how value migrates within an industry, and they thereby let companies continually assess their strategies' relevance.
Even though Sony said Monday it's still planning a spring launch, scuttlebutts are doing the rounds that it's now a question of how long the next generation system will be delayed--rather than whether or not it will be delayed at all.
Parents should be firm with their kids, say advisers, by making them pay for rent and other expenses if possible, setting a limit for how long they are allowed to stay, and avoiding the temptation to offer extra financial help, like loans.
Dividing the costs per unit is a common practice for analysts, since no one knows at the outset how long a car program will last.
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But as a general idea of how long the average person will live, yes, we do have a good idea.
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