But it works out so consistently that over the long-term it outperforms the market to a significant degree, while also avoiding large losses (since they most often occur in the unfavorable seasons), and while taking only 50% of market risk (since one is in the market roughly only six months out of every twelve).
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And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.
The Dreyfus Brazil mutual fund has been the best performer, avoiding mostly large cap materials and commodities overweights like Petrobras and Vale, which plague the MSCI Brazil index.
By doing so we have a better chance of creating lasting, large-scale change and avoiding the trap of disconnected, short-lived do-gooding that ultimately goes nowhere.
Finally, the unlikely sources of funds used to purchase the shares also suggest that Vance and Wellington were keen on avoiding raising red flags by perhaps making large purchases on margin or contacting a bank for a loan.
It seems reasonable to suggest that without knowledge of the data and policies that have resulted in so large a percentage of Americans avoiding the responsibility to pay income taxes, one can hardly form a rational opinion as to whether or not these folks are taking advantage of the system while leaving the rest of us to foot the bills.
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Particularly now, when the specter of sequestering looms large, forming another committee or avoiding hard decisions is irresponsible.
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The company still has to prove itself with a broader user base while avoiding another startup death trap a large company like Foursquare or Facebook, a current partner, rolling out a similar service should it work.
Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.
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Precision agriculture is saving farmers across the country millions of dollars annually and dramatically reducing the impact of large-scale agriculture on the environment by avoiding unnecessary application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.
The winning move comes as White lures Black toward two large obstacles in the middle of the hanger, narrowly avoiding them.
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There he stayed for two decades, avoiding politics and demonstrating a mastery of the computer models needed to manage large portfolios of mortgage-backed bonds.
Aside from the growing trend of 5-inch (and larger) high-res phones, we're also seeing an increase in momentum for large-screen models (and yes, we're avoiding the dreaded "p" word).
But we can't have large businesses and individuals who can afford coverage game the system by avoiding responsibility to themselves or their employees.
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