To get a handle on who might be next, compare dividend checks to adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a measure of real estate's cash-generating ability.

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And most importantly, a conference that had greater revenue-generating ability.

FORBES: Amen!

And for a school that had to cut 7 sports recently due to budgetary issues, anything that boosts the long-term revenue-generating ability of your program should be a welcomed change.

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This is a byproduct of the avid college football fan base which resides throughout the Southeast, which in turn fuels the revenue-generating ability of such schools and thus their ability to throw large wads of cash at incoming coaching staffs.

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When you boil it all down, outstanding investors are distinguished for their ability to control risk AND generating returns.

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Avoiding unnecessary reimbursements requires the ability to centrally administer BYOD devices, including generating monthly reports of the active devices and automatic reconciliation of reimbursements with device and employee status.

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If Facebook dominates the mobile arena, it cannibalizes its own ability to earn ad revenues without an obvious revenue-generating replacement.

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As an investor who likes the Facebook story, I would prefer Facebook to post another quarter in order to reverse its margin compression and to prove its ability to leverage the Instagram transaction into a revenue-generating mobile strategy.

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