Equity values have moved up smartly (although they should be up even more given what's happening to corporate balance sheets and bottom lines).

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Walsall managed just seven wins and seven clean sheets in the whole of the 2005-2006 season when they finished bottom of League One.

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Bottom line: good CSR practices make for better companies, as well as better balance sheets.

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Allen, and led now by interim-head Nader Pourhassan and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Richard Trauger, CytoDyn epitomizes how many new medical therapies are developed today, in virtual (read, decentralized) laboratories, by companies with short ledger sheets, and armed with two or three sharp concepts with strong therapeutic and bottom-line potential.

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Earlier in the day the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said the global recession is nearing a bottom, but warned that the recovery will be weak unless governments do more to remove uncertainty from bank balance sheets.

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