By investing in companies like Grasslands, Fullterton and other impact investors are laying the foundation for new finance-based theories, tools, and metrics to serve the needs of a sustainable economic system.

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He throws in all the reputable polls (determined by their history), plus many of the other non-poll based theories on who wins elections (such as economic and survey data), whips it well to remove bias and various other nasty bits, and figures out a good set of odds for each state.

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Based on suspect nutritional theories and an obsession with regular bowel movements, these and similar new products represented an early triumph of advertising as much as any significant advance in western man's well-being.

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Focusing epecially on the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012, the manual proposes theories, principles and techniques that are based on the experiences of those who have developed practices that were successful and that met certain expectations.

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It is able to confirm studies based on cultural, linguistic and archaeological evidence and in some cases contradict existing theories.

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In a piece on how crackpot energy theories ensnare investors and dupe the media, we spotlighted New Jersey-based BlackLight Power.

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Indeed, one of the foundational linguistic theories of the twentieth century, which came to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, was based in part on the work of Benjamin Whorf, an inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance company.

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