But what is also baked into the share price is the general prevailing view of what future profits are going to be, how much money is going to be made out of new products, how much can be made out of leveraging the brand, the cash the company has, the bright minds it has working for it?
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He believed the future of the European people would be made "much more difficult because of the arrogance of people who created a currency for political reasons and not consider the economic constraints in that creation".
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
But there is big money to be made from advertising revenue, much of which has gravitated towards the handful of newspapers that have built up a mass appeal.
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What we've seen, as I've been pushing our agencies and administration to take a hard look at this, is exactly what Mark just said, that in any area there's a whole bunch of underbrush that can be cleared out and made much more efficient, while still achieving the objectives of public health, welfare, environmental, and so forth.
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Instead of spending huge sums on sumptuous graphics, long cinematic sequences, endless levels, characters and plots, a game can be made much more challenging with a bit of nifty programming.
Now of course the real money is to be made overseas, and Iron Man 3 opened in much of the world last weekend before debuting this week in America and and China.
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The Dreamliner uses technology that allows much of it to be made of plastic composites instead of aluminium, which means it is lighter and, Boeing claims, will consume 20% less fuel than other, similar-sized planes.
Even if he were committed to such a worthy investment, much of it would be made towards the end of what would be his second term (should he be reelected) or later - hardly a bankable proposition.
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"While we would have much preferred none of this be made public at this time, we appreciate the paper's willingness to edit out those passages, which would likely have endangered personnel and operations in Afghanistan, " Morrell said in a statement.
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The money will be made in consumer lending (a much better quality of credit than your average real estate tycoon and with better margins, too) and supplying all those nice consumer things, many of them made in China and imported and distributed through the Carrefours and Wal-Marts of this world.
In order to realize the goal of true personalized cancer treatments, much more data will have to be made available and paired with rich clinical information on the case histories of the patients from which the samples come.
The immediate reason is that in many countries the state is now so bloated that, even without changing the basic structure of government, it could be made much more efficient.
But time and time again the NHS has failed to live up to expectations - at least in the way the health service interacts with patients and shares information (a much stronger case can be made for its use of technology in areas of medicine, such as robotic surgery).
Indeed we have been ourselves, you know I set up the review, the balance review of how much the government should be paying in local council tax contribution because it's made up of council tax by the local authorities and national.
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Thus, for the foreseeable future, savings to federal entitlement programs, insurers and patients will surely be much more modest than some of the hyperbolic predictions made by politicians and others.
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In the private sector, a decision is made about how much of the expense line needs to be cut and managers are forced to make the tough decisions.
As I have written in the past, there's an important debate now raging among economists about how much of the output lost since 2007 will ever be made up.
Its technology fuses bacterial proteins with part of the flu virus so that the vaccine can be made much more cheaply.
That's why we are able to be standing here today, having made so much progress in such a short period of time.
So you might ask, why accept even a small risk of such a dreadful outcome, if it can be made much smaller at moderate cost?
"While the project has made progress in terms of adaptation, but much remains to be done, " said Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, Director of UNESCO Office in Dakar.
While there has been a great deal of discussion around Obamacare and the Supreme Court ruling that is expected to be announced in the near future, much progress has been made in other areas of public health that has gone largely unnoticed.
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Fostering the explosion of apps to be used through the iPhone made the device that much more sticky.
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And therefore, although the gross investment made may be tens of millions for this plant, the net capital addition is much less.
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Those losses can be substantial, with investors giving back much, if not all of the gains made in the previous favorable season.
Risk-taking CEOs are much more likely to be paid with a greater share of their package made up of stock, options and bonuses, and less in the form of salary.
And because the whole system can store so much information, back-up copies of everything in it can be made internally in more than one brick, meaning that such a failure destroys no data.
Much is being made of the admission "a lot still needs to be done".
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