And taking a long hard look at past mistakes is undoubtedly the best way to learn.
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We agree that investors look primarily at past performance as a barometer of future performance.
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Instead of looking at past performance, look at costs when comparing similar type funds.
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To find out how much you can get, look at past eBay auctions for the same item.
But at past economic turning points, the correlation between stocks and commodities were lower than they are today.
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If you look at past performance only, Tellabs is one terrific growth company.
The Nasa researchers, alongside a team from UCSB, made the comparison by looking at past tropical ocean surface temperatures.
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In fact, most investors we know look at past earnings growth in order to predict future earnings growth.
The compact disc player, high-definition television and Blu-ray each debuted at past conventions.
"If you look at past declines in the monetary base, they've always preceded recessions in the United States and globally, " she said.
It all might seem a bit silly except for the fact that many of today's big Web trends have appeared first at past ETechs.
He said he backed Mr Brown's plan for a committee to look at past expenses claims but did "not have much faith in it".
Greece, its Eurozone official creditors and the IMF, could benefit from looking back at past situations where highly indebted sovereign nations not only recovered by adopting wise policies, but thrived.
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This year, as at past G-8 meetings, there will be another, enormously momentous item in play - a threat that will receive, all other things being equal, little if any public notice.
By looking at past storms, the researchers created a formula that says damage is proportional to wind speed multiplied by itself and then taking that number and multiplying it by itself, after adjusting for inflation and factors such as population.
We in government never tired of saying - alongside so many public service leaders themselves, frustrated at past failure - that it had to be money tied to reform to ensure that basic standards were defined and delivered in each service.
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That may have been so at past general elections - but 28% of the vote and a close second place finish in Eastleigh have shown that, at the very least in Westminster by-elections as well as European elections, UKIP is now a force to be reckoned with.
Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be crashed or stolen and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.
Beyond that, insurance companies look at past claims histories to determine which models incur more or less damage in a crash, are more or less damaging to other vehicles, people and property, are more or less likely to be stolen or be involved in a crash and have higher or lower bodily injury claims.
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While the numbers reported by Politico are substantial, looking at past spending on lobbying indicates that Google is the only company that has substantially stepped up its spending this year ( as has been noted before), assuming these companies will spend the same amount on lobbying in the second half of 2010 as they spent in the first half.
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He believes that on the beach you are allowed to stare, as though you were looking not at the person but through the person, past the person at the water, past the water to the horizon, past the horizon into infinity.
It was a nine-to-five job, and at half past three every day I guarantee you would find me sitting, snoring at my desk.
"What we know is that at twenty past eleven last night, Kieran was with a number of friends when he was shot at short range by what we believe was a lone gunman, " she said.
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In the next few post I will look at the past 3- 5- and 10-year returns.
When Aisling came down at five past eight they were talking about it in the kitchen.
At the past two monthly policy board meetings, BoJ decided to expand QE measures.
Jeffrey Brinker gets up at half past five and makes cappuccinos for himself and his wife.
Look at the past century: 4 pandemics, separated by 39 years, 11 years, and 41 years.
At half past three in the morning we were still trying to take it in.
It happened at 5 past 9 on the morning of Monday, the 10th of September, 1984.
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