The Chandra Asri chief executive points out that his company's entry alone increased the regional capacity of plastics by 20%.
The question of who contributes what to health-care provision was one of the chief sticking points that prompted New York's transport workers to strike in December.
Mr McCain regards his steadfastness on Iraq as one of his chief selling points, and accuses Barack Obama, who opposed the invasion from the first, of naivety about foreign affairs.
Jack Lief , Arena's chief executive, points out that the heart valve side effects were rare, and that a big clinical trial could settle the issue.
As Lynn Turner, the SEC's former chief accountant, points out, much of what the act requires is covered by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and by the Treadway Commission's recommendations on firms' internal controls, which date back to the early 1990s.
Lay co-founded Enron and served as its chairman and, like Skilling, its chief executive at different points.
Mr Timmermans, the risk chief at ING, points to the problem of getting out of positions at the right time.
Robert Spiegel, Schering's chief medical officer, points out that Nissen himself has said that lowering bad cholesterol, or LDL, is the "cornerstone" of cholesterol therapy.
Doug Webb, QinetiQ's chief financial officer, points to acquisitions in America, giving QinetiQ's core defence business access to a far bigger market, and to increases in operating efficiency.
Boingo Chief Executive Dave Hagan points to the latter.
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As Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa, points out, growth does not just make more money available for social spending.
But Bittorrent's chief technology officer Eric Klinker points out that P4P faces major hurdles before it can be adopted widely by Internet service providers.
But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
The chief executive Lyn Hill-Tout points to changes on wards which - in the past - were singled out for criticism.
"It cost us a lot of money not going up and we're not going to hide from that, " chief executive Steve Gorvett told BBC Points West.
Mickey Levy, chief economist at NationsBank Securities, points out that even wage growth itself is not inflationary if it is matched by increases in productivity growth.
"In the first eight weeks of this year we have seen (mortgage) rates come down by anything up to 45 basis points, " Persimmon chief executive Mike Farley told the Reuters news agency.
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Rolls-Royce do not know how much the car would cost if they were to put it into production, though chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos points out that electric cars that are currently for sale come with rather large price premiums.
Or the Southwest Chief, bound for Garden City and points beyond.
Defaulting on your mortgage should be one of your last resorts, points out Sherry Chris, chief executive officer of Better Homes and Gardens real estate.
Edward Yardeni, chief economist at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, points out that the growth in firms' real sales per employee used to rise in step with productivity growth.
Raj Singh, a former investment banker who recently became chief risk officer of Swiss Re, points out that the banks' risk models, which try to put a value on how much they should realistically expect to lose in the 99% of the time that passes for normality, draw on reams of historical data.
The chief defence counsel, Stephen Jones, scored points relentlessly in his fierce cross-examination of Mr Fortier.
And still, since making the announcement, Pepsi shares outperformed chief rival Coca-Cola by 2 percentage points (11.8% versus 9.5%, respectively).
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The fund-management industry, with trillions of dollars of other people's money in its care, has seen surprisingly little fraud, points out Alan Brown, global chief investment officer of State Street, an American fund-management firm.
Jorge A. Ganoza, president, chief executive officer and director of Fortuna, points to the San Jose mine, which came into commercial production Sept. 1, 2011, as an example of the company building through organic growth.
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Ministers have accepted recommendations put forward by the new Chief Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor, in a review of policing last year, that candidates should be able to apply at the higher entry points of Inspector, Superintendent and Chief Constable.
However, Azar Jammine, chief economist at the Econometrix consultancy in Johannesburg, points out that South Africa also imports electricity from the huge Cahora Bassa dam in Mozambique.
Among a list of great points made by pro player Destiny, chief among his reasons for Starcraft losing players to League of Legends is its accessibility.
However, points out John Lonski, Moody's chief economist, net new borrowing by American firms has fallen sharply, as have repurchases of shares.
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