And the answer would be return on investment.
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When she found out what he'd done, she told him that there'd better be a return on the investment or else he'd be driving the crane to work.
To buy shares of stock in a business trading at fair value means that it is highly likely that all of your return will be generated by earnings growth, and that there will be no excess return from the shares trending upward from an undervalued position.
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Elections can be made on filing a return that, because the return is filed, cannot be undone on an amended return.
Until that changes there will be no return to the glories of the neo-gothic town halls.
The bigger threat might be a return to the subsidy culture of the 1970s.
Mr Obama's proposals appear to be a return to the principles underlying the Glass-Steagall Act.
If Stewart comes in for a Tauzin meeting, it will be a return engagement.
One simple proposal would be to return federal discretionary spending back to its 2008 level.
There will never, ever be a return to a gold standard, not even if the world implodes.
The best case scenario, she says, would be to return and distribute the money to its shareholders.
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The best hope for the future of Chinese cuisine seems to be a return to the cradle.
It is the point of approach beyond which there can be no return.
For those Americans still holding pre-WWI Russian bonds, what will be the return on their investment negotiated under this settlement?
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Muamba is taking specialist medical advice ahead of what he hopes to be a return to the rigors of the professional game.
Moline predicts there may even be a return to Disney's homespun values.
It would be a return to his roots for all-rounder Flintoff, who started his career in the Palace Shield as a junior at Dutton Forshaw.
To leave without victory would be to return to the beginning, and we would have to do it all over again in a few years.
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One of Martinez's first appointments at the JJB is expected to be a return to the club for Wigan's former manager Graham Barrow as new reserve team boss.
Sanchez threw 121 pitches in those eight innings, so there would be no return for the ninth to try to match Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood with 20 strikeouts.
The George W. Bush-era Constellation project, for instance (later cancelled by Mr Obama), was supposedly going to be a return mission to the moon followed by a trip to Mars.
There will be a return of many favourite characters from the past as it reaches its climax including rogue slayer Faith and Buffy's first love Angel, played by David Boreanez.
He hopes the rebuilding will not be a return to the old ways, but an opportunity to reform the government and make Japan's economy more integrated with the outside world.
This would be difficult for Germany, he said, and would have to be in return for other countries having "precise, deliverable" programmes of change and reform that could restore European competitiveness.
Even with the Uptons in the fold, the key to Atlanta's season could be the return of catcher Brian McCann following surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
Boosting troop numbers to deter illegal logging and ranching would thus be a return to two old modes of military thinking: defending the forests from invaders and extending the reach of the state.
Although unions have gained some recognition rights and a minimum wage, Tony Blair's Labour party has made it clear that there will be no return to the legal immunities that they enjoyed before 1980.
The only reporters I buy dinner or drinks for are the ones who I have friendships with and we both understand there will be a return engagement where they will pick up the tab.
Thaksin, who has vowed never to bow to mob rule, hopes a broad raft of support among rural Thais will be enough return him to office and bury the controversy once and for all.
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