For example, Mr Alito's vote was decisive in upholding a rule in Kansas obliging jurors to impose the death penalty in murder cases where they deem aggravating and mitigating factors to be of equal weight.

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In summary, he believes that having two questions of equal weight would be unusual and not advisable.

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By assigning an equal weight to each component of the index it may be that one may develop a well balanced risk reward profile.

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Ranking companies on a single metric, like sales, can be misleading, which is why Forbes uses a composite ranking, giving equal weight to sales, profits, assets and market value.

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