Set in some unspecified but very seventies looking future, Peter Martin (a luxuriously moustachioed Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) head off on a thousand-dollar-a-day vacation to adult theme-park Delos.

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As Greenblatt explains, the two-step formula is designed to buy stock in good companies at bargain prices something that other great value investors, like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham and John Neff also did.

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While legendary investors like Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch and John Neff all used the ratio differently, they and many others agreed that the ratio itself was a key to finding bargain-priced stocks.

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At a time when Dickens was documenting the shocking plight of the poor in contemporary Britain, the village had a unique egalitarian identity that attracted important figures to speak at the Hall, including Benjamin Disraeli, David Livingstone and John Ruskin.

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Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).

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Interestingly, John started out devoted to the value investing teachings of Benjamin Graham.

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ABSTRACT:BOOKS about literary novelist John Banville, who writes detective fiction under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met separately late Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about ending a deadlock of more than four years over settlements.

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