Retailers will continue to be important and, for more complex solutions, we will use value-added resellers.

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But value-added is complex and difficult to implement properly, and even more difficult to use as a metric for getting rid of bad teachers.

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The Church charges the ordinance workers below-market-value rent as a means of off-setting the operating expenses of the complex.

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Digging below the surface of GDP reveals a structure of value-adding production far more complex than the simplistic analysis given by most media reports.

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Mr. FELCH: Value-added is a somewhat complex statistical approach.

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However, British sports business expert Simon Chadwick argues that these figures do not show the whole picture -- and he insists that brand value is more complex than mere numbers can portray.

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As long as there are implicit government guarantees for financial institutions that are considered too big, too complex or too interconnected to fail, the value of those institutions' stocks increases with risk-taking.

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Working within these messy, complex, for-profit companies these intrapreneurs are daring to try new approaches to create long-term value for shareholders, customers, communities and the planet.

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