But, the other reality is that he has no dominion over cold, hard numbers.
Yahoo is well placed to benefit from any shift from blind faith to hard numbers.
Government agencies generally decline to release figures, and software firms shy from discussing hard numbers.
Now that the excitement of Apple 's Macworld Expo is over, it's time for some hard numbers.
Here at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, AtheroGenics put hard numbers on that reduction.
Because such hard numbers cannot be guaranteed, countries don't commit ambitiously to this sort of agreement: result, gridlock.
In Cook County, there are no hard numbers to track how many renters may have been affected by foreclosure evictions.
But the claim that the recovery is a fake does not stand when so many hard numbers are pointing sharply upwards.
Either way we will be waiting till we see some hard numbers from both sides before proclaiming victory like some people.
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When you strip away motive, all that remains are cold, hard numbers.
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Before I bring the panel back, I want to show you some hard numbers on the housing situation in California and then nationwide.
If you did something that made a contribution and were able to prove it with hard numbers, rational people would inevitably recognize your success.
When Egyptian journalists pressed Mr. Shafiq's media representatives for hard numbers, the campaign workers demurred, insisting that the official results would vindicate their claims.
MDGs is precisely that they convert high rhetoric into hard numbers.
Bryan Routledge, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, cautioned that the Beige Book contains anecdotal information about business trends, not hard numbers.
When Ethiopia signed on to the Millennium goals in 2000, the country put hard numbers to its ambition to bring primary health care to all of its citizens.
Amazon has always been cagey about giving hard numbers, though.
So I asked if he could provide hard numbers.
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The government will say it has never denied that budget cuts affected growth, but it's not something that the Treasury or the Office for Budget Responsibility have usually put into hard numbers.
Hard numbers are hard to come by because the company doesn't break out its e-commerce business, but the site is in the top ten in terms of visitors to e-tail sites, and its catalog is always expanding.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children claims that a hundred and sixty thousand kids stay home from school each day out of fear, but hard numbers that would identify a trend are difficult to come by.
The Blu-ray and HD DVD battle has entered a new era, as preliminary Nielsen VideoScan stats show the BDA's baby sold more -- a ratio of 100 Blu-ray to every 98.71 HD DVD discs, sorry still no hard numbers here -- since their inception last year.
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We have seen the number of PS3 sold as well as the number of Xbox360 add on drives and while some studios have made claims to having the number 1 selling movie on both formats, neither have stated any hard numbers for those of us keeping track of that sort of thing.
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As the rulebooks have been written, the hard-numbers culture has come to prevail.
But hard and fast numbers, accelerating sales curves, and a large addressable audience need to be something that is settled in the minds of everyone, rather than being based on a few assumptions and extrapolations.
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As for Rooney being worth keeping, despite some recent criticism, his numbers are hard to deny.
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In a business of boast and counter-boast, reliable numbers are hard to come by.
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