Yet a C can still make tax sense if its profits are likely to be modest and you want to retain profits in the business.
Rarely are people easy to read, especially because stars often go out of their way to be modest, and divas work hard to insulate themselves from criticism.
Industrial production, expected on July 15, is expected to be modest, at 0.17% according to the index.
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There is a lot to be said for a country such as Britain accepting that it has much to be modest about.
Big time hackers have big time egos so this will present what will likely only be a modest challenge to them.
If so, there will be a real impact to the economy, but we expect it to be modest and likely overshadowed by the continuing improvements in the housing market.
The gains from winning the JPMorgan whale trade are believed to be modest.
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The wage-subsidy scheme, though, was too modest to be meaningful and the stimulus package has expired.
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If this occurs only in, say, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, the overall impact is likely to be modest.
Globally, the damage from price increases to date is likely to be modest.
So we tried to be modest in what we thought we could accomplish.
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The occasion turned out to be modest in size, if not in passions.
The economic damage caused by such a rise is predicted to be modest, perhaps 0.2% of global GDP a year.
The question of the hour, when Mr Osborne sits down tomorrow, will be how this modest giveaway to Britain's "hard-working households" compares with any change in taxes for the top one per cent.
"The recovery has been modest to be diplomatic, feeble at best, " says Martchev, who looks for the SOX to take out its July low once this rally peters out and short-sellers take new positions.
But although overall growth is likely to be modest for some years, there are still plenty of opportunities, particularly in agribusiness and mining, and in catering for growing demand for education, health-care and the like.
The short-term impact is likely to be modest but if such measures ease households' worries about future pensions and health care, it could in the long term encourage them to save less and spend more.
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In the past two years, we were more bearish than the large industry research firms, who expected 2011 and 2012 to be modest growth years while we correctly anticipated smaller growth in 2011 and a contraction in 2012.
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With a menu built mainly around the traditional soft, fluffy bao, a staple of real-deal Chinese cooking, BaoHaus does the most it can with what, at first glance, seem to be modest goals: sandwiches, but with a twist, rice and noodle bowls, and in-house made drinks.
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True, family allowances are to be raised and modest earners given tax relief in line with Mr Lafontaine's aim to boost domestic demand.
So, despite the great popularity of the Tamagotchi, many millions have to be sold in order to make even a modest profit.
There's likely to be a modest, short-lived bump in Mr. Romney's polls after his convention speech.
Senate Republicans could probably be persuaded to back a modest boost in infrastructure spending.
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The stated purposes of this legislation purport to be as modest as they are seemingly laudable.
They too are likely to be more modest in number than Mr Gove had hoped.
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And the units that are being built tend to be relatively modest, which means fewer hands are needed.
It may be possible to design a modest government-run voluntary long-term care insurance program that is financially viable.
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When it came out with Gleevec for leukemia, Novartis thought it was only going to be a modest seller.
We should therefore be modest in our expectations as to how much further we will take the subject here.
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