But some studies have looked at different end-points, such as death from all causes, or pneumonia or heart attack.
Primary end-points are needed for definitive (Phase 3) proof of efficacy, but they are the most pernicious concept in early stage development.
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Mike Lenhoff, a stock market strategist who is also from Brewin Dolphin, is optimistic about prospects for European equities for the rest of 2009 and has a year-end target of 5, 000 points for Britain's FTSE 100 all-share index, a level it has hovered around for the last month.
The game became an end-to-end spectacle with both teams sensing the three points could be theirs but chances went begging time and again.
We need to fight that year-end pressure to get points on the scoreboard.
Lastly, introducing high-end features breeds demand at the lower price points while Apple can learn how to maintain margins with higher-priced components.
In the third, Washington took a seven-point lead early in the quarter, but the Knicks scored nine straight points near the end and led 73-70 going to the fourth.
Implied yields on 90-day bill prices slipped by three basis points along the curve and the lower yield environment spread to the long end where benchmark 10-year yields dropped by three basis points to 5.45%.
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The Kings got the lead to 18-6, but then Stoudemire had a dunk and three-point play on consecutive possessions, scoring seven points in a 19-4 burst to end the quarter that gave the Knicks a 25-22 lead.
Forest had seen their 19-game unbeaten run end at Derby last weekend but they have not dropped points at home since 7 November - and they showed the character and desire to grind out victory against the Owls even if the performance was below their recent standards.
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Muni-yields fell mainly in the longer end where deals maturing between 23-30-years fell by six basis points.
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There could be an upside of 15% to our price estimate if the iPhone market share exceeds our current end-of-period estimate by about 4 percentage points.
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Both sides had chances to earn three points as the game turned into an end-to-end affair before finishing on equal terms.
The win helped Neil Lennon's side move on to five points in Group I, two behind joint-leaders Atletico Madrid and Udinese, while Rennes, who had Yann M'Vila sent-off towards the end, are bottom with two points.
And herein lies the nagging doubt that many SAP customers, influencers and employees still have: Can SAP can fully transform its old-school ERP ways in order to un-tether back end systems and deal with critical mobility pain points like security and scalability?
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Short-end bill prices fell sending implied yields higher by five basis points forcing the gradient of the curve higher as the steepening process grinds forward.
Helped by a worldwide slump in oil prices, he has managed to bring inflation down for four months running (see chart), even if the government's year-end target of 50% looks too optimistic by 15 percentage points.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury is at 4.8%, down from 4.96% on Monday, an indication that investors are stampeding to the relative safety of U.S. government debt and away from corporate bonds rated Baa, whose yields have risen from 117 points above the 10-year Treasury at the end of last year to 134 above the mark as of Monday.
In his final year, he appeared in all 82 games and averaged 20 points per, which put him among the (low-end of) league leaders.
In his final year, he appeared in all 82 games and average 20 points per, which put him among the (low-end of) league leaders.
They lifted the average by about 22 points and left only LG (which has few high-end US phones) and a pre-transition BlackBerry lagging behind.
The Dow lost more than 2, 000 points from late July through mid-August and by the end of the summer 15 companies had postponed their planned IPOs.
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