According to Peter Tasker of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, depreciation equals around two-thirds of Japanese firms' cash-flow, profits only one-third.

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Boeing and Airbus design modern, complex airplanes to be flown by two equals.

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When they try to persuade investors, and often themselves, that synergies abound (that two and two equals not merely five but six or more) in their takeovers of firms engaged in activities that they know next to nothing about, companies prefer such euphemisms as multi-industry business or non-related diversification.

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The core of the problem is that the two countries are no longer equals.

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Murray has a bone to pick with his co-star, claiming that the two were not treated as equals.

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Nor does it require similarity of size: mergers of equals seem to be especially tricky, perhaps because they disrupt two strong corporate cultures, and they often throw up intractable problems of leadership.

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Nationally, Martha Stewart Living's ratings in February dropped to a ho-hum 1.5 (one rating point equals almost 1 million TV households), down from 2.4 two years ago.

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Rather, it's a 4.0-liter that's essentially like two tight V-4 engines joined at the hip (V plus V equals a W).

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About two-thirds of Sarah Lawrence students take advantage of grants, the average size of which equals more than half the tuition cost.

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Two hundred and ten military units were thrown at the liquidation of the fallout of the catastrophe, which equals about 340, 000 military personnel.

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