Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the great thing in the world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you're moving.
But at the press conference on May 13th to launch the latest edition, there was as much interest in the prospects for the report itself as in what it had to say about the prospects for inflation.
And that has helped cushion some of the tough stuff that happened in the first six months of this year, including the effects on oil prices as a consequence of what happened in the Middle East as well as what happened in Japan.
Many people are just as interested in what businesses have to say as what people have to say.
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Many people are just as interested in what bands, artists, organizations or businesses have to say, as what people have to say.
Ultimately Kokonas encouraged a willing to Achatz to go out on his own, and it was Kokonas who drew up the financial plan, all the while bringing in individuals he knew from the investment world as investors in what became Alinea.
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With the software, companies can do things like track website conversions and ticket backlogs, as well as engage in what-if analysis.
Will it seriously influence the scorekeepers, let alone the corporate risk-takers, that Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appeared to be cementing its order in free elections even as Thailand writhed in what is (albeit roughly) a republican-monarchist tussle?
The notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've moved on to other things, that's not who we are.
Of course, what the Fed manages to convey about what it will do in the future is as important as what it does or does not do in the present.
If you are in the compliance or ethics department at your company, perhaps you should not worry as much about what an employee is doing in their private life as much as what they are talking about around the water cooler.
Clearly the capital stock we had in 2009 was not as long-lived and durable as what we had in 1966.
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Especially since their penchant is to price things according to what they think they need in revenue, as opposed to what the market will accept in revenue.
What is in the best interest of the management is not necessarily the same as what is in the best interests of the shareholders.
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In some cases they may just not be as familiar with what's in the package as I would like.
Knowing what to avoid in a market correction can be just as important as knowing what to buy in a rally.
The worst scenario envisaged by the firm turned out to be less than half as bad as what actually happened in the markets.
Of course, if you happen to be a pacifist by conviction, you probably hate all that Alexander stood for as well as what he did in war, but, if the premise of war be granted, he was surely a formidably great generalissimo.
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Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruise is in the same boat as Carnival, trading in what appears to be severely overbought regions.
They solved it by standardising the reports from the research centres, and paying as much attention to what the animals in each place did not do as to what they did.
The school trip to a jail in Washington DC was intended as a cautionary lesson in what could happen if youngsters misbehaved and got into trouble with the police.
"Rahman was never tasked to, nor did he as far as I know, engage in what he refers to as a 'create and capture' methodology, " Hoban wrote.
It is critically important that technology advocates, and those who care about innovation in general, take part in a conversation as to what the next steps are in a post-SOPA world.
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As in law firms, what looks like irrational behaviour may in fact be a community norm which efficiently discourages free-riding.
To what extent the state, to what extent the individual student, to what extent the alumni of the universities, as happens in the States, to what extent the society as a whole?
School grades are cited, for example, as a form of extrinsic recognition if students see them as a reflection of their ability yet they fall in the intrinsic bucket of motivation if they are seen as what is accomplished in class.
Hire the right people, and then get the hell out of their way as they specialize in what they do best.
Sustainability is vital to us, as is transparency in what we do.
People know as soon as they walk in what the details of what details of what happen are and what is expected of them.
It was gearing up for what would be more than a million-man commitment to the western front, as well as for involvement in what by that time was a globe-spanning naval conflict.
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