This concept, which appears on the surface to be quite benign, is typically used to compare the costs of acquiring a customer (often referred to as SAC, which stands for Subscriber Acquisition Costs) with the discounted positive cash flows that will come from that customer over time.
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They've picked the most benign looking spot, but it has not turned out to be very benign.
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He performed a biopsy to remove the nodule, which turned out to be benign.
Vajpayee as its would-be prime minister, it seeks to project a more moderate image, pointing to its half-dozen Muslim candidates and to the comparatively benign Hindu-Muslim relations to be found in the states where it holds power.
In over 60 years and hundreds of millions of doses, it has proven to be quite benign.
Dr. SPIESEL: In the old days, chicken pox was thought to be so benign that it was thought that well, it would be convenient if you could control when children would get the disease.
As Latinos become more American, they may be able to achieve a more benign balance between old and new ways.
It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.
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T.s are thought to be more moral and benign.
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Families who have already weaned themselves off the grid, or opted, when possible, for public transport, veganism, non-exploitation of native species, refusing to wear leather, fur, or exploit animals in any way, need to be rewarded for their benign, cruelty-free (or nearly free) environmental altruism.
"We would be surprised to see further cuts in interest rates, but given the benign inflationary climate we do not expect to see major tightening this year, " said Ms Lea.
He strongly suggested that the markets would be more stable and benign if investors would return to the practice of long-term investing.
He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden.
Given the failure of the Afghan police to protect the UN compound, a broader concern is whether the country's security forces will ever be up to the job of managing less benign areas of Afghanistan than Mazar-i-Sharif, which is far from the Taliban's heartland.
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It has taken half a decade of denial and trial and error, but some of the world's largest banks seem to be close to figuring out how to make money in an environment of tighter rules, less benign markets and more demanding customers.
Erring on the side of restricting research opportunities to which individuals may be invited is benign only if we assume that individuals can only be harmed, and never benefited, by participating in the research, a claim that is refuted by much of the empirical evidence discussed in this Article.
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However, as memories fade and new reasons to be angry take their place, Bush's time in office might start to look comparatively benign.
First, PSA levels generally increase with age and can be inflated because of more benign problems in the prostate, leading to false-positive results.
According to Gregory Gratson, a researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the printing process is quite benign, so living cells grown in culture should be able to survive it.
There cannot be a pick-and-mix approach to living in a benign liberal country.
Complaining turns out not to be proof that the culture is bad, but a relatively benign part of the culture itself.
But more often his show seems to erase that line completely, with results that may be less benign than Oz and his many viewers realize.
After all, the crowd in Washington should be happy to get more money, even if it is the result of benign factors such as more jobs being created, companies earning higher profits, and people getting more pay.
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Stephen Duffy, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund said although many breast cancers were confirmed by taking slices of tissue via a needle, so that few patient with benign lumps had to undergo surgery, the Duke's technique could be even better.
Those deals might be benign or they might include provisions that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for competing services to effectively challenge iCloud.
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First, "Benign by Design" is a call to the producer to use green chemistry to change the material to be inert in the environment.
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