The 30-stock index finished with a 10-point gain, up 0.1% to 14, 548.
The campaign will continue beyond GAW and gain momentum in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup.
High-tech workers in America, who forgo big salaries to work at a start-up, gain precious experience as well as options.
Same-store sales overall were up 2.5%, retail pharmacy leading the way with a 3% gain and front-of-store products up 1.4% to reflect a slight improvement in discretionary consumer spending in the July-September period.
Indeed, Cisco bought another Ethernet start-up, Granite Systems, to gain access to the firm's gigabit-a-second technology.
Web applications are often slow, because most consumers have to gain access to them over dial-up connections.
The flow-through gain would have pumped up the basis in the partnership interest resulting in a capital loss on liquidation.
Of particular interest for a retail company, same-store sales rose 4.1% in the recent quarter, up from a prior-year gain of 1%.
The introduction of hosted servers, co-location and managed services meant that even those entities, without significant capital or technical resources, could gain benefits previously unavailable to the start-up.
Ford will lead market-share gainers in the U.S. auto industry between now and 2015, picking up 0.8 percent of the market, while General Motors recovers a 0.5-percent share gain and Toyota picks up 0.3 percent of the market in the same time frame, according to the latest version of an exhaustive annual prognosis by a veteran securities analyst.
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Opponents of gay and lesbian marriage are also pushing a federal constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage nationwide, though it failed to gain the needed two-thirds majority to pass when it came up for votes in both the House and Senate.
Another sign that the new-issues market is heating up: January 2006 offerings had an average first-day gain of 16% versus the 7% average since 2001.
The 30-stock Dow closed at 14, 579 Thursday, up 0.4% on the session, to wrap up a first-quarter gain of 11.3%.
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The other IPOs from financial sponsors have seen an average first-day gain of 22% and are up an average 21% from their listing dates through Thursday, according to Ipreo, a market-data firm.
But the athletes and coaches on the field and the brands willing to pony up the money to gain 30-seconds of exposure during breaks in the action are not the only benefactors of the Big Game.
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Part of the growth has been driven by demand caused by everything from anthrax to bird flu to SARS. But much of it has come from 48-year-old Lim's gutsy push to ramp up quickly in a low-tech commodity business to gain an edge over his dozens of rivals.
Then there was a rush to get something - anything - up and running so as to gain market share.
Playing a direct brand of football and hustling Arsenal into errors, the hosts looked to gain an advantage as they racked up the set-pieces.
Industrial production in the 12-member block edged up by 0.1% in December to give a 12-month gain of 2.5%.
An event like this is where she will gain that all-important experience that will help her step up to greater things.
By curbing investments in new products, marketing, sales and technology, they let cash-rich competitors gain market share and often never catch up.
The brisk start saw the unit gain after a February producer price report highlighted a pick-up in the pace of input costs to a 6.6% pace compared with one year ago.
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Jack Wilshere is one of those likely to come in to the Gunners' line-up, but the England Under-21 star admits he would consider a loan deal to gain more first-team experience this season.
Instead, Mr Bowman tried to tie up a cunning side-deal to gain control of Captain Morgan rum, the Seagram brand that he coveted most, with Morgan's original Puerto Rican distillers, who had reclaimed ownership from Seagram under a change-of-control clause.
Shares of Pulte rallied to a 5% gain Thursday morning and is up more than 14% year-to-date.
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On the charts, AMZN has racked up a respectable year-to-date gain of 17.8%, comfortably outperforming the broader equities market.
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The stadium at Monastir was surrounded by a virtual moat of water and the district's governor came to direct clean-up operations to allow the Caf inspectors to gain access to the venue.
Existing tax-free bonds could be liquidated to invest in paid-up life insurance if there is little or no gain on their sale.
Amazon could build on this platform, and -who knows- maybe they will catch up to Apple as they gain more supply chain scale and expertise.
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But Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder expands on the concepts in Fooled and its follow-up The Black Swan and goes far beyond financial markets into a more general theory of randomness and volatility and their importance in life and nature.
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