Granted, this is government by fits and starts, hobbled by the whims of voters.
The year was defined by fits and starts related to Europe's sovereign-debt crisis and global economic growth concerns, prompting investors to flock to defensive and dividend-paying stocks.
While their initial efforts were marked by only fits of growth, they continued to water their deep-sown seed of opportunity so it might flourish into full bloom.
Genghis Khan by no means fits the pantheon of Soviet heroes, but he has remained a spiritual force for asserting the identity and independence of the Mongolians.
Led by "If It Fits, It Ships" service, the shipping revenue was up 9.9% for the quarter.
The 1974 UK release of the William Friedkin movie starring Linda Blair was marred by reports of cinemagoers suffering fits, fainting and vomiting.
Yahoo, by the way, hardly fits the profile of a troll.
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Fortunately, speculation that the device could be launched by the end of year fits with the Apple's usual October iPhone announcement -- so you might not have to wait too long to find out.
By contrast, Dow Jones fits the mold of a traditional news media company, having tried and failed to compete in the financial data business in the 1990s through its troubled acquisition of Telerate, which it eventually unloaded in 1998 to Bridge Information Systems.
These are complicated but solutions are not best derived by ideological one-side-fits-all solutions.
"He fits into the story by not fitting in, " Rothenberg said.
The boat, designed in a contemporary tone by British architect Ken Freivokh, fits up to 12 guests in five lower-deck staterooms and one upper-deck VIP cabin.
Also from the England, Palma Violets played with fits of rage propelled by smash-and-bash drummer William Martin Doyle as Samuel Thomas Fryer and Chilli Jesson split the lead vocals, like Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash.
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Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.
Another stock that fits this profile, selected by a different Marketocracy Master is Apple (AAPL).
Morgan Chase because of activities undertaken by Bear Stearns before the takeover unfortunately fits the description of allowing no good deed to go unpunished.
And all the paperwork and red tape that used to give freelancers fits is now handled automatically by many online services, freeing contractors up to focus on growing their businesses.
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Vega is not actually part of the true Greek alphabet (Alpha-Beta) that is so beloved by financial quants etc and yet it fits neatly into the family tree of performance benchmarks.
This diverse picture fits with previous research conducted by University College, London, which similarly found both positive accounts of records being "more thorough and focused" and negative ones that they were becoming "less detailed and more anodyne".
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Carved out of the same polycarbonate that's given Nokia's Lumia line its signature look, the handset feels reassuringly solid in hand -- a sentiment reinforced by its unibody construction -- and fits comfortably while also making a design statement.
It should be clear by now that the second option more than fits the reality.
The Latitude 10 fits easily into current IT environments by supporting existing Microsoft productivity applications and plugging into existing management consoles.
Still, Facebook's progress in mobile is coming in fits and starts, as underlined by the company's recent Poke mobile app.
Successive downgrades by international ratings agencies have been giving them fits.
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She's an expert on the subject, having created Theatre for One, a 4- by-8-foot portable theater that fits just one audience member and one actor.
Sadly like many things today, the "one size fits all" approach often pushed by academic pundits in their ignorance of day-to-day business activities completely ignores the complexities of competing working requirements.
One of the dangers of the "good governance" movement is the notion that one size fits all, which is held by many, including some major institutional shareholders and the proxy rating agencies, at least on many issues.
Promoting parks and public space fits neatly with the communitarian ideas beloved by the Blair government.
The Disney investment is also noteworthy because it fits within a broader portfolio of actions by the company to cut energy and water consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The relationship between the two is represented by the straight lines estimated to give the best fits between the data before and after social welfare spending reaches 10% of personal income.
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