When deciding which platforms to support, IT administrators are challenged with balancing market share and capabilities against long-term potential.
In a commentary published Friday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said local authorities have to calibrate their grip on the property market by balancing support for first-home purchases and curbing speculation.
Building up a two-sided market, and balancing the needs of each side, require pricing strategies that would make little sense in more traditional, one-sided industries.
The goal was to keep the individual market premiums low by balancing out costs in the exchanges, so that the young and healthy would equally participate.
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Google faced a similar battle when its founders made the tough decision to layer an agnostic search service with paid ads, and balancing such a service for a consumer market has remained an algorithmic challenge for Google ever since.
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It's a delicate balancing act, and the expectations of a volatile market have further tied the Fed's hands.
For Placek, Poland's entry into the European Union in 2004 provided an opportunity to expand beyond his home market, but it's a delicate financial balancing act.
With or without the threat of a dividend-tax increase, investors with a dividend-heavy portfolio should consider balancing their approach by adding something as simple as a broad-market index fund, Mr. Dickson says.
The market for talent is very important, but so is getting the program right--balancing rewards with performance and risk, and providing the right mix of kinds of pay.
The 101-page complaint details the tightrope UBS officials walked in the last year, balancing their desire not to anger issuer clients with the need to reduce its own exposure to a market that was seized up in the credit crisis.
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