The bottom line: Certain assets outperform other assets most of the time, but not all the time.
But such calculations have to be made not in retrospect but in real time, and not by dispassionate observers but by commanders in the field.
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But not spending time on user research and analysis is a critical mistake .
The decision was eventually reversed, but not in time for her to attend the ceremony.
Usually you can find me banded together with these outliers, but not this time.
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Maybe if people had showed up in masses, that expectation would have been warranted, but not this time.
Eventually the new ways may begin to work but not any time soon.
These and other radical innovations might appear someday, but not this time, and thus the iPhone 5 is boring.
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In the normal course of events, the motion would be nodded through in the dead of night - but not this time.
Sometimes the show feels aimless, uncertain of itself, but not this time.
That used to work with this stock, but not this time around.
The players finally acceded but not in time to salvage the season.
Ronnie Petrie, head of emerging markets at Standard Life Investments, said that the bears will wrong on China, but not any time soon.
There was a remarkable degree of consensus at the meeting about what had gone wrong, but not much time to talk about what they could do differently next time.
Trading in water rights may one day bring order to the 20m well-users in India, but not in time to feed the 1.4 billion Indian mouths expected by 2025.
According to new research from Brown University, if you spend an hour a day commuting, you surrender sleep, exercise, eating with your family, and food preparation--but not TV time.
That often happens, but not this time.
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That takes time as well (but not as much time as creating a brand new operating system and smartphone ecosystem would take).
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It will be interesting to see what users are OK with Facebook knowing where they are some of the time, but not all of the time.
Human beings spend a lot of time trying to figure out what will make them happy, but not nearly enough time trying to hang on to the happiness they already have.
In 2010, Chavez declared then-Ambassador Patrick Duddy persona non grata, marking the last time that the US had an ambassadorial presence in Venezuela (but not the last time the two countries have expelled diplomatic personnel).
There is time and space to allow for a diplomatic solution, but it is not time without end.
"Obviously there is a time to go, but this is not the time, " he said last month.
Gold does act as an inflation hedge, but not all the time, explained Artigas.
Both men had admitted being in the car but not at the time relevant to the murder.
She had been afraid, of course, but not sorry, not at the time.
This is the first sponsor that London 2012 has lost, but not the first time funding issues have been raised.
"I think he's funny, but not all the time, " says Megan, who admits she likes when her dad comments that she looks pretty in pictures.
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