At first the oddly delightful sensibility of "The Hammer" seems to derive from stand-up comedy -- lots of free-form riffs on topics ranging from toggle bolts to the La Brea tar pits.
The marketing prowess of many leading non-profits tends to derive from the fact that, unlike most for-profits, they have to persuade people to part with money for goods or services that are used by others.
So we'll pass along these predictions from Shaw Wu, based on supposed deals between Apple and PortalPlayer (who currently supplies the chips for Apple's hard drive-based players, but stand to derive high revenues from new flash-based chip designs in Q3), that he expects a 2GB iPod mini with flash-based storage instead of an HDD by as early as the end of this year.
Another 35% of sales derive from high-voltage integrated circuits that go into ultrasound imaging equipment made by General Electric, Philips and Siemens.
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The two men have something else in common, which may perhaps derive from their ego-nurturing backgrounds.
As elsewhere in this region, the inhabitants here derive from the Arromanian-speaking Vlach minority, well known for their masonry.
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Individuals derive procedural utility from being self-employed because it gives them a higher measure of self-determination and freedom.
Ironically, the proposals barely touch the Warren Buffets and other super-rich who derive their revenue from capital gains and dividends and keep the bulk of their wealth from taxation by setting up private charities and foundations.
Moreover, some 70% of farming households derive most of their income from non-agricultural activities.
These instruments are called 'derivatives' because they derive from an underlying financial asset - in this case, share prices.
As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.
They can be understood as non-linear stories that help individuals derive meaning from the complicated paradoxes of everyday life.
The employer-sponsor has sought to derive a benefit from the retirement plan (which regulators have effectively sanctioned) and has tailored the plan to meet his objective.
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There are a number of ways our company will derive value from Lucasfilm's intellectual property-some of which can be realized immediately while others will accrue to us over time.
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What if a person could derive the same kind of benefit from a mind-controlled videogame?
At a maximum it will force nation-states to find new ways to derive revenue from their citizens.
Strategas has just developed an index for that unlikely eventuality, allowing investors to short firms that derive the greatest proportion of their sales from federal-government contracts.
On Tuesday, OAO Severstal went in for the kill, boasting a "highly credible restructuring plan designed to derive maximum value from Esmark, including a five-year capital improvement plan that carries the full support of the United Steelworkers, " the Russian company said.
Most continue to have and raise children and, in greater numbers than ever before, to combine motherhood not just with jobs but careers vocations in which they make long-term investments and from which they derive not only income but personal satisfaction and identity.
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This resolve requires a deep inner strength --strength you can, and should, derive from your diversity.
Some libertarians are uncomfortable with that insight, preferring to derive rights and responsibilities from an essentially economic and pre-political framework.
Like the outcasts many no doubt were in high school, high-power rocketeers seem to derive a certain inner strength from the persecution they endure, nowadays at the hands of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other killjoy agencies looking to rain on their exploding parade.
Or because they derive much of their income as capital gains or from tax-free municipal bonds.
Consultant conflicts may be responsible for over-allocations into equities since consultants may derive substantial brokerage income from equity managers they recommend.
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Her manner was in contrast to the sometimes-starchy rituals of traditional European hotelkeeping, which derive from a time when the aristocracy demanded deference from their social inferiors.
The Benedettis begin as peasants and become wealthy landowners, but their prosperity and power derive from an original sin, committed in the seventeen-nineties, for which future generations have never received full absolution.
REITs have to derive nearly all their income from property rents to keep their tax-free status.
After all, as he says, some of the American companies that invest in British film-makers are themselves owned by Japanese companies which derive their revenue from the whole world.
Other top competitors like Bank of America and Citigroup are viewed as more risky than Wells Fargo, as they continue to deal with the after-effects of the financial crisis and derive less of their profits from mortgages.
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