Unless you buy debt at distressed levels, the upside is limited and the downside decidedly less so, which is why bond portfolios cannot be diversified anything like as much as equity portfolios.
If Baidu is smart, it might be advised to invest in more existing companies like Qunar that already have a strong operating record, rather than trying to start its own new businesses, where its record is decidedly not so good.
This is a decidedly minority view--so far the international effects have been generally benign.
Pasto reflects all the many faces of the country, but does so with a decidedly different attitude and a very different flair.
Such a system may well be discussed at the talks in Canada, but the political will to act has so far been decidedly lacking.
This year was the first time in a few years that there was no big crisis looming, so the mood was decidedly more positive.
Zombies occupy what roboticists and animators call "the uncanny valley" in human perception though decidedly not human, they are so close to being human that they prompt instant revulsion.
His two television performances so far this year have been decidedly underwhelming - but would a more formidable "once more unto the breach" speech make a scrap of difference?
Yes, when we got our hands on the device this evening, the very first thing we noticed was the decidedly elderly operating system that ships with it -- so, it's not the freshest Android device on the block.
For example, in 2007, according to the New York Times, it held 53.2% of the so-called edge-connector market, but it ended 2010 with a decidedly smaller 42.2% of that market.
And there are good reasons to suppose that emerging stockmarkets will start to look decidedly attractive again to those that have fled, if only because almost everything else looks so pug ugly.
So the global economic prognosis, outside of parts of Asia-Australia, is decidedly grim.
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