Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.
Mr. Weiss has also worked in various international fora to enhance regulatory transparency, incentivize the development of standards through open, transparent, consensus-based processes, encourage the use of good regulatory practices (including cost-benefit analysis), and facilitate greater regulatory alignment with major U.S. trading partners.
The fact that so many different people use the internet for so many different purposes is exactly why we struggle to come up with broad-based consensus on how the internet should be regulated (if at all) in the first place.
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But I think most Americans and most business leaders would agree that programs like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and unemployment insurance haven't just saved millions from poverty, they've helped secure broad-based consensus that is so critical to a functioning market economy.
And its PEG ratio is just 0.4 based on a consensus 5-year EPS growth rate of 21%.
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Unfortunately, consensus expectations were based on the 45-50 million Q4 production forecast that we and others had been seeing for some time.
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The Detroit-based car company reported first-quarter earnings that were better than consensus Friday, despite a drop in overall profit from a year ago thanks to weakness in Europe and Asia.
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That is the consensus of mobile media enthusiasts who are using location-based advertising and marketing.
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Samina Ahmed, South Asia director for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said consensus on a caretaker government was an important issue.
Net subscriber adds were 132, 000, which as the subscription-based stock news service StreetAccount points out is well below the Street consensus at 304, 000.
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Profits before taxes and one-time items for the U.K.-based company came to 47.6 million pounds, above the Street consensus at 42 million pounds.
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In the table below, check out Caterpillar, whose price-to-earnings ratio, based on estimates for the coming 12 months, stands below the consensus number on annualized earnings growth for the coming three to five years.
The China-based search engine Baidu this afternoon reported Q4 results that were a smidgen ahead of the Street consensus estimates.
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