"Acquiring seven-figure collector cars is purely a function of money, " said Mr. Weiner.
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But you will notice that this second, ongoing, value-added is not directly a function of the money amount that they invested in the original hardware or software.
How much heat the client wanted was simply a function of how much money they wanted to spend, so turn it up.
Innovative companies and jobs are a function of investment, but when money is being devalued investment in the intellectual concepts that actually grow the economy lose out in favor of inflation hedges.
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Indeed, economic growth is a very simple function of getting taxes, trade, regulation, and money generally right.
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While inflation may fundamentally result from too great a creation of money, the proximate or immediate cause of its actual development is much more a function of expectations of what will happen next.
Making money from the syndication of content and function is a work in progress.
Yes, independent or no, governed by a cabal of financiers or a collection of fools, its function has grown way beyond simply raising money for the government or clearing debts between banks.
It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.
Because the search function relies so heavily on Likes to fuel its recommendations, it becomes a way of justifying past money spent and continuing campaigns going forward.
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One part of Google is busy creating indexes of online information while at the same time filtering out "spam, " which in this context means Web sites whose only function is to make money off the fact you land on them, without providing any sort of "value-added" information in the process.
David Bonderman and Jim Coulter of TPG (Texas Pacific Group) ultimately made ten times their money on the investment in a sagging Continental Airlines, but their profits were clearly a function of making the flying experience infinitely better for customers.
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