Congress could help him sleep at night by including capital gains in the formula for the alternative minimum tax.

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But MBf Finance apparently does not fulfill some of the other conditions of the central bank's CAMEL formula -- capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings performance and liquidity position.

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Revlon, which acquired Bari Cosmetics in July, is still in the pool of potential buyers, and we saw Markwins outbid Swander Pace Capital in order to pick up Physicians Formula in September.

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Finding a governing formula by which legitimate civilian authorities in the capital, Bamako, can extend their remit throughout the country will be no easy task, and will not be helped by reports of misbehaviour and executions by Malian troops.

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As Google struggled to make its advertising formula work in 2001 and 2002, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital grew impatient.

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So what we did for what I call the magic formula in the book is, we rank all companies based on their return on capital and we also rank all companies based on how cheaply we can buy them relative to their earnings.

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