Some employers are re-evaluating their retirement plans' stable-value options in the wake of poor performance during the financial crisis.

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He suggests evaluating their creditworthiness in a new way that takes into account the value of their intellectual property.

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But the Yankees are among the best teams in baseball at evaluating major-league talent and finding value where others have overlooked it.

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Our team has spent a tremendous amount of time evaluating this deal and we have concluded we are uniquely positioned to maximize the value of Lucasfilm's IP in a manner that can generate substantial value for our shareholders above and beyond the purchase price.

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The import behind that statement is that customers can get on with the business of running a shoe business or a CPG company or a bank and begin withdrawing from the costly, maddening, and ultimately low-value world of evaluating, testing, purchasing, integrating, deploying, monitoring, patching, and babysitting vast swaths of infrastructure and applications and networks and storage.

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Zogby International polling done in the week prior to the election found that a majority of voters, in evaluating political candidates, did value military service.

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