Of course, money is but one factor a free agent must consider in choosing a team.
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Whale researchers use population models that factor a species' reproductive rate and its natural mortality to come up with an estimate of how many are likely dying.
The X Factor was a smash (10.2 million viewers for the finale), and when Cowell approached Fox in 2005 for renewal of his Idol contract, he threatened to sell X Factor to a competing network.
The look of that vehicle isn't the only cool thing about it: it's also the product of a new approach to manufacturing, which has the potential to reduce the overall process by a factor a five.
What would have been the impact on commodity prices and the foreign exchange value of the dollar if the Fed had increased the money supply by a factor of eight (rather than a factor of three) in a bit more than four years?
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Is that resilience a positive sign, or dies it perhaps create a concern that the U.S. market would have further to fall from here than markets in Asia and Europe if it should decide it also needs to factor a recession in Europe into its prices?
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In a typical GPU implementation you get a factor of 5 to a factor of 10 reduction in your hardware footprint.
GM's Mr. Reuss also sees fuel prices playing a factor in a sales shift to smaller vehicles.
The councillors believe it was a factor behind a low turnout at this month's local authority elections.
But such judgments are speculative, and though pollution is a factor, a bigger one is simply how much fresh water is available.
In Sweden there are tougher limits on advertising aimed at young people, which Dr Nairn said could be a factor in a less consumerist culture.
So whether or not that was a factor in this case, it certainly is a factor in some tension that exists.
We believe the estimated deceleration in growth is more a seasonal factor than a long-term trend.
On the plus side, housing is finally turning into a positive factor after a long decline.
Overall, Bush won the Catholic vote 52% to 47%, a vital factor in a relatively close election.
The program has been a major factor supporting a rally in stocks by encouraging investors to buy riskier assets.
Again, researchers found liberal use of swear words to be a key factor in a city's overall happiness score.
Picower's death was ruled an accidental drowning in which heart disease played a contributing factor, a bizarre coda to a deeply mysterious life.
Legal access to contraception is a significant factor in a larger number of women getting at least some college education and in more women pursing advanced degrees.
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Engineering is a key factor for a sustainable future and the need for engineers will only be met through educational programmes and professional training with significant sustainability components, such as the projects envisaged by this partnership.
Europe is still mired in a recession and a debt crisis that tends to flare up every few weeks, while slower growth in countries like China was a big factor in a disappointing third-quarter earnings season.
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In the first stage, Air Polonia wants to achieve a load factor - a profit benchmark showing the percentage of paying passengers per seat flown -- of above 40 percent on foreign flights and 70 percent on domestic routes.
The second thing the team did was to introduce a genetic mutation into the genome of the young egg that allowed for the production of a growth factor, a kind of protein, that can only come from the paternal genome but is vital for normal embryonic development.
Though Asian Americans make up only 6% of the state's registered voters, they could be a deciding factor in a close race with low turnout--if they vote as they did in June's open primary, when Fong took 3 out of 4 Asian voters, many of them "crossover" Democrats motivated more by ethnic pride than ideology.
Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.
Now some would say that drugs is a major contributory factor to a broken society.
At the low end, cheap gear such as the Eee PC offer a small form factor at a nice price.
Meanwhile, observers cite continued central-bank accommodation as a factor still putting a floor under gold.
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