At the end of the day, bling-ability may be boundless.
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Given that the deadline you have provided us with, expires on the 1st day of August 2008, creates a suspicion and raises an eye-brow, as to the ability of the members of the Board to consider the evidence presented in less than a day and make a decision that will have unforeseen consequences.
But, more broadly, this day affirms our ability to overcome the challenges of our politics and meet the challenges of our time.
How was it that a woman apparently of little musical ability had one day sat at a piano and had begun to play Chopin with ease, and Chopin music that no one had heard before?
Do our modern day econometric models have the ability to understand the impacts of fiscal retrenchment after a financial crisis having been calibrated in a period of excessive leverage?
But banking stocks recovered from Tuesday's slide, a day in which investors once again turned skeptical about the ability of Spain and other heavily indebted members of the 17-nation euro bloc to implement austerity measures and manage their debt loads.
Psychology professor Seth Roberts eats a half stick of butter every day because, he says, it speeds up his ability to do simple math problems by 5%.
If all the proposed LNG projects get done it would give the U.S. the ability to export 20 billion cubic feet of gas per day, or about a third of current supplies.
During this year, six NYSE board members ran scandal-plagued companies (see slideshow), raising the question: Do allegations of misconduct at the companies where they work their day jobs compromise their ability to be effective exchange directors?
The Lions were in some trouble themselves at start of play, resuming on 143-6, but Ambrose and Rashid gave the selectors a reminder of their ability after being overlooked for Test, one-day and Twenty20 squads this week.
"Hedge funds are really major players and their performance is measured monthly, and they have the ability to move in and out of stocks in one day, long or short, and they could be moving in or out of positions, " Rueckert said.
As I've written before, this has the ability, on any given day, to provoke a drain of liquidity from the Greek banking system, forcing the Bank of Greece to ask for levels of Emergency Liquidity Assistance that the ECB just cannot countenance.
The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast Friday, carrying 19 heavy-lift helicopters, 51 hospital beds, three operating rooms, and the ability to produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of drinkable water per day.
Putting more pressure on the markets is news that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is asking for information about U.S. bank units of big Euro banks and their ability to access funds needed to run day-to-day operations.
In addition, vitamin D can be produced by the skin with sunlight exposure, but this ability decreases with age and varies considerably by geography, time of day or year, skin melanin content (darker skin produces less vitamin D) and sunscreen use.
Shares slumped 60% on the day of its results blow, when its auditors also raised "significant doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern.
Powell, who is on an eight-day visit to Europe and central Asia, had earlier raised fresh questions about the ability of Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat to control Palestinian militant groups in the Mideast.
"The monetary board has no plans of changing the basic exchange-rate policy, " Singson insisted July 9, the day the stock market fell 4.1% because of worries about the central bank's ability to fight speculators.
In effect, many of the big banks have turned themselves from businesses whose profits rose and fell with the capital-raising needs of their clients into immense trading houses whose fortunes depend on their ability to exploit day-to-day movements in the markets.
In a day and age where the ability to think quickly and react gracefully is critical to the success of workers, businesses, and nonprofits, it is important not to get distracted by the wrong perception of what is in the way of success.
The ability to refuel satellites in space could one day save satellite operators from the significant costs of building and launching new replacement satellites.
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Then Wall Street one day changed its mind, and Webvan suddenly found itself with an extraordinary amount of infrastructure and without the ability to get to profitability.
In addition, the Saudis hold the whip hand in the oil market because of their ability to increase production by as much as 2.5 million barrels a day--or cause a worldwide shortage by turning off the spigots.
The ability to limit purchases by day and food type empowers parents to dole-out treats in celebration of mediocrity.
In addition, the company also announced a new feature called Aereo Try for Free, which allows consumers the ability to access Aereo's technology for a continuous one-hour period each day, free of charge.
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However, in the context of capturing work-related communication to facilitate collaboration or create an audit trail, face-to-face communication has a few weaknesses (my ability to accurately capture notes and my memory of the myriad conversations I have about work every day being just two of them).
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