Sporting aluminum headbands, swivel mechanisms and end caps, they project an image that's as strong and solid as their sound.
They've also stuffed a pair of speakers into each end and covered them by those independently juddering end-caps.
One argument is that the law would not force the FCC to end spectrum caps, so if a firm purchased additional spectrum that it preferred to its current spectrum it could divest later.
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Harris, who used a runner. was yorked for four by Glenn MgGrath, bringing a tremendous late effort from The Black Caps to an end.
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Since 1999, when the premium was greater than 25% at month's end, megacaps have outperformed small caps by an average of 3.7 percentage points over the following 12 months.
Then it was the Caps turn at the other end as Lundqvist stood his ground when Ovechkin cut to the net.
The fundamental reason for this tendency is tax sensitive investors (mostly individual retail investors) sell small-caps to lock in year-end tax losses, then reinvest their portfolio in the New Year.
Investors try to get ahead of the game as early as the end of October, pushing up the performance of small caps well before the new year.
He said they were not of any great value at the time, but by the end of the day, he had "the only three baseball caps that had been down to the Titanic, all the way to the bottom of the Atlantic".
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The 29-year-old, who has won 21 caps as a centre for Wales, left the Scarlets at the end of last season and spurned the chance to rejoin the region.
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Small-cap stocks have rallied more strongly than large-caps this year, despite their historically weaker ability to avoid taxes and the likelihood that an end-of-year repeal of the Bush tax rate cuts would fall more heavily on entrepreneurial small companies.
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