The Southeastern position, in effect, is that Michael Dell is acting out of simple economic self-interest and not out of his stated desire to hasten the transformation of the company without worrying about quarterly financial performance. (But, you are thinking, Gordon Gekko taught us that greed is good, right?) In short, Southeastern is saying that Michael Dell is seizing the day, buying back the company he founded on the cheap.

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Simple technology was his clear interest and passion, things you could touch, almost techno art.

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We scored the top three countries (5, 3, and 1 respectively) per term and added these into a simple indicator of innovation interest.

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He was still reeling from the failure of JoinStart, and wondered whether he really had any interest in building simple web products without a bigger goal.

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The basic idea of credit is simple: you borrow money, pay interest to the creditor and ultimately repay the loan in good faith.

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Interest on personal loans and credit cards will likely rise, and banks will charge more for simple tasks such as cashing a check.

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Given the lack of transparency in Indonesian business culture, few believe Jakarta has the discipline to abide by a currency board's simple but absolute rules -- print no more money than can be backed by hard currency and let interest rates rocket as high as the market demands.

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And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.

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