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  • But by taking an asset-centric view of both types of models, a number of these concerns can be alleviated.

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  • In his resignation letter, Pernetti said that his initial instinct on viewing the footage was to fire Rice, but an investigation by university lawyers and an outside law firm into the coach's conduct determined that dismissing the coach was not justifiable.

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  • By all accounts, Twinkies were an aging but still popular product made by an established company and workforce.

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  • That's an iPhone limitation, but by extension, it becomes an Outride limitation.

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  • That is, the status of victimhood is not determined by facts, but by membership in an identity group.

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  • But by putting together an ambitious product for the crowd funding site and timing that to coincide with an update of your more stable product, you get the best of both worlds as a creator.

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  • Both councils say there is no appetite for the cities to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was proposed by an expert panel reporting to the assembly last July.

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  • Angelo Mathews seemed likely to provide an early beacon of optimism for them, but was run out by an inch as he looked for the second run he needed to reach a maiden century.

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  • In 2008 the country became a candidate of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - an international project meant to promote openness about government oil revenues - but failed to qualify by an April 2010 deadline.

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  • In addition, hedge fund managers, unlike mutual fund managers, aren't judged by how well they perform against an index but by how strong their profits are in a given year.

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  • Both councils say there is no appetite to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was recently proposed by an expert panel reporting to the assembly.

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