The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.

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To find out, Forbes.com this year added a pitchers component to our annual ranking of the major-leaguers who deliver the most bang for the buck.

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But in Mexican peso terms, that goes up to 10% to 11% because of the added foreign-exchange component.

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In order to work out where an oligonucleotide has stuck, an extra, fluorescent, component is added to it when it is made.

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It could be disruptive to companies such as Square, PayPal or anyone that requires a separate hardware component to be added to their mobile device.

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Essentially, it added an on-screen component that shows song requests and user activity on TVs via a Roku player (of course, the company has since gone on to offer other devices as well).

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And as part of asking Congress for the authority for that kind of reorganization that existed up through President Reagan, he has made -- he has added as an incentive a component of that request that would require any reorganization to save money for the taxpayer, to save federal dollars.

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This threat also coincides with the possible loss of trust preferred securities as a component of Tier One capital, which recently was added to regulatory reform.

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So, why did the company feel the need to make touch a mandatory component of Haswell-running Ultrabooks, given the added cost and power-demands associated with the hardware.

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But the BLS itself admits a key component of this statistic--estimates of jobs added at small businesses just opened minus jobs lost at small ones just closed--tends to exaggerate employment in a slowdown.

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That effort is a reminder that when all the active-duty, reserve-component, retiree and dependent beneficiaries of the present system are added up, they exceed the margin of victory in many swing states during the 2008 election.

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However, it added, there might be a delay for future gadgets as it sought sources of the correct component.

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