In good years they close a few big deals and rake in the money.
In good years, it tends to outperform and in bear markets it will underperform.
In the good years, bumper bank profits inflated both corporation-tax receipts and the income-tax take from bonuses.
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Variations on the theme of depressed conditions followed by Federal Reserve easing characterized other Very Good Years.
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Bank bosses claim such diversification has another advantage: good years in one business offset bad years in another.
However, he said this had been a problem for more than a decade, "in good years and in bad".
Mr Balls also claimed that Labour had run surpluses in some good years.
But the market is a truly risky one, prone to large and volatile swings between good years and bad.
These dearer crops bring in at least twice the revenue and up to seven times as much in good years.
Therefore, companies do not have to grow quickly year after year as long as they have one or two good years.
Islamic banks will face a higher cost of credit because returns from profits are variable: high in good years and low in bad ones.
Then there is life insurance, which at least seems to offer a guaranteed fixed rate of interest, plus a bit more in good years.
But the cash you have given away in the good years is much harder to get back from a cash-constrained public when times turn bad.
The American system of medicine is a model of skill and innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our lives.
The last two years have been good years for manufacturing employment.
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Despite some good years, the Eagles since 1960 have been wandering in the desert longer than the Israelites and that's why Reid is in Kansas City.
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Value stocks and small stocks have their good years and their bad years, Bogle says, so it s foolish to think that a winning stretch for fundamentalism is going to continue.
The sector may be paying a price for its cleverness, and for all those complex products and-off balance-sheet vehicles that seemed to be working so well in the good years.
"If we didn't have the crop insurance, then it's going to take, it takes three, four, five years of good years to make up for that one loss, " Schmidt said.
But subsistence farmers, who, with their families, are perhaps 85% of the population, still find it hard to amass the necessary surplus in good years to see them through the bad.
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Turn-outs in local elections, which even in good years were never much more than half the turn-out at general-election time, have fallen to as low as 22% of the electorate since 1997.
In the good years, the Asians' increasing exchange of trade and investment with each other, and even their tourists' desire to lie on each others' beaches, helped make their growth mutually reinforcing.
During the good years of booming equity markets and low inflation, such schemes did so well that some companies, such as Shell and Philips, made a profit with their workers' pension arrangements.
Williams has been a top-tier NBA point guard for a while, but he has done it for low-fi teams like Utah and Jersey, where attention is not a given, even in good years.
In the good years, Greece and Italy would have reaped all the benefits of their spendthrift behaviour, knowing that most of the bill for the party would be picked up by other eurozone members.
But he has good years and bad years, and so far this year, he hasn't been on his game yet, so there's a lot of tension whether Alan Webb will come through at the trials.
Morgan, is that the companies are distracted by the difficulties in finding a good fit between existing production facilities, rather than focusing on non-production-related expenses, which eat up most of their margin, even in good years.
Both men had good years in 2012.
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"This country, whose workers have done so much to create National Semi's huge profits in the good years, are entitled to expect a clear commitment to Scotland from the company now that times are better", said Mr Speirs.
You have to pay for protection on the downside in good years, but the premium for this insurance policy is not particularly high if you believe, as I do, that we live in a world of heightened Knightian risk.
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