It is zero-sum in nature, i.e. it has little value to society.
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Despite repeated efforts to use premium Time Warner content to drive subscriptions, the link with the entertainment assets has proved of little value.
Unlike Afghanistan, which has opium (and Iraq which has oil), the Horn has little of economic value to fuel a war: its frontline, after all, can barely keep a cow alive.
The spokesman said the land "currently has little ecological or landscape value".
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Gardner can be underrated at times because he has little power and his value comes from his eye, his speed, and his defense qualities that aren't always the easiest to quantify.
If the Durham team's figures are used to adjust grades, the real value of newly minted A-levels has fallen a little compared with their face value every year since 2003, as slightly more students choose easier subjects over hard ones than did the year before.
Markets are moved by sentiment that has little to do with the underlying value of individual corporations.
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In a fraction, if the denominator drops a lot, the numerator only has to increase a little for the value to go up big.
But the tactic has a mixed record: little value in the Balkans, largely ineffectual in southern Iraq, more useful when protecting Kurds who had their own military forces.
Gold says that while the company has made good money on phones in the past, competition has become so rampant that there is little value proposition to buying one at RadioShack as opposed to anywhere else.
This suggests that the value of a college education has little to do with learning.
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Much of what consumers collectively place great value on in the marketplace has astonishingly little to do with intelligence as we understand it.
Mr. Obama's has blocked exploration and production on significant areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, and the few leases he has put up for auction contain land that is of little value to drillers.
And in a little notice change, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has greatly expanded the value of the existing no-bid contracts.
By dragging the bidding out, the board has, in essence, done little more than ensure a lower buyout offer and less value for shareholders.
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This both increases the volatility of equity returns and transfers value from debt to equity in the presence of default risks but has little to do with the Modigliani-Miller theorem in which default risk plays no part.
"It gives the clunker a little bit more value in terms of trade-in, " said Wood, who has no plans to trade in his 2007 Mercedes.
Under the management of the Federal Reserve, the value of our paper dollar has fallen 80% in the past 40 years and fluctuates daily providing little trust in what it will be worth a year from now.
They demonstrate the value the agency has brought to the client and, in this metric-conscious world, there is little better than that.
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