Executives deemed to be potential money-makers command conspicuous compensation and perquisites despite their recent and often glaring failures.
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Even so, some investors say that, despite their recent earnings troubles, there are few substitutes for the strength of strong global companies.
Despite their recent turmoil, Afghans have a legendary reputation for hospitality.
This album, called simply 1, highlights why comparisons between the Beatles and the Irish boy band Westlife are laughable, despite their recent glut of number one singles.
Petrol prices, despite their recent retreat, hurt nearly everyone.
At the same time, and despite their recent growth and globalisation, the economies of Latin America depend on the far bigger one of the United States for capital, know-how, technology and remittances.
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Many mobile-phone companies have much higher market valuations than fixed-line operators, despite their more recent origins.
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The home side's victory continues their recent revival, despite their manager Gerard Houllier fulfilling a pre-match pledge to rotate his squad, and maintains their recent dominance over Rovers in cup competitions.
Ever since the Brazilians have tended to view free trade with suspicion, despite their country's recent success as an exporter.
Meanwhile, the likes of Dinesh Mongia and Mohammed Kaif are forced to sit on the sidelines despite their excellent form in the recent one-day series.
Afghan officials say the incident began after an Afghan Border Police unit deployed on the Goshta border noticed that the Pakistani forces began additional work on fortifying their outpost, despite recent agreements to suspend such construction.
Despite their spat over shares and the more recent book controversy, Allen says he and Gates remain friendly.
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Some loan pools already have seen default rates exceeding 40%, a big reason many subprime bonds trade at a fraction of their face value, and their holders won't recover their full principal balance, despite the recent rally.
Britain will probably remain the islands' biggest customer, and, despite the recent bout of tough love, their main ally.
"All in all, demand for the Spanish debt remained solid, despite recent talks of further slippage in their fiscal consolidation, " said Annalisa Piazza, a fixed-income strategist at Newedge.
Continuing concerns about the prospects of inflation have many investors and advisors looking toward deploying inflation hedges like gold, commodities, TIPs and, despite the recent collapse, even real estate in their allocation models.
He seems genuinely to believe that most European governments are keen to get their taxes down, despite swings to the left in recent national elections.
Thus, despite the recent decisions by Bayer and Monsanto to drop some of their GM products, it seems likely that Europeans will find foodstuffs carrying the EU-mandated warning labels on their supermarket shelves.
That raised hopes retail prices, which have risen in recent months despite easing wholesale prices, may now be on their way down.
Despite good economic news in recent days that GOP leaders hoped would boost their fortunes, voters were split nearly equally on whether the economy is in good or poor shape, according to the early exit poll results.
However, inflation has been largely benign in recent years despite the attempts of the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy through their own inflationary measures.
Lorises have become a popular exotic pet in recent years, despite alarms raised by conservationists that the trade is contributing to their demise in the wild.
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In fact, despite headlines declaring the sitcom dead in recent years, comedies have kept audiences glued to their TV sets for more hours recently than in the genre's early 1990s heyday, it says.
Despite the recent sell off from equity funds around the world, the place investors have kept their money this year has been the emerging markets.
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Despite the recent rally, Mr Barty points out, even in the south prices are still below their long-run average relative to incomes.
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Despite opposing the change in two recent Home Office consultations, Mr Starmer told him they had revised their opinion after "considering the case law in greater depth".
So the recent fall in share prices (still down by 15% from their peak, despite this week's rally) has actually come as a bit of a relief.
For Chelsea boss Ancelotti, attending the game despite the recent death of his father, there was satisfaction in the manner in which his side responded to their first Premier League defeat of the season at Manchester City.
Recent gun violence have had little impact in swaying the public, despite the outrage at the time of their occurrence.
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And despite a recent survey by ChangeWave Investment Research suggesting that more than one-third of AOL subscribers are unhappy with their service, AOL manages to hold on to them.
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