If the child has committed a terrible crime, the parent may refuse to confront it because that feels like the surest strategy for restoring a stable existence.

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And therefore corporate top management teams come up with some contrived idea of a joint strategy to suggest synergies and justify their own existence.

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The key is to realize that momentum should never be used as a sole strategy for selecting securities and that the mere existence of a trend does not imply that it will continue into the future.

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The idea is to determine how a strategy would have performed if it had actually been in existence in the past.

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The Conservative-led borough council said the legal challenge would not affect its strategy, the number of homes agreed, or the existence of the four strategic development locations.

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