Still, she sees projects like In-Q-Tel's as confirmation that virtual worlds have value for serious organizations.
In business, innovation is the act of applying knowledge to the creation of new processes, products, and services that have value for at least one of your stakeholder groups.
"We cannot forget that Made in England and Made in Great Britain have value for consumers in this country, but probably more so around the globe, " said Mr Williamson.
However ineffective, policy discussions in the immediate aftermath of a trauma do have psychological value for the discussants.
This has all happened because of individuals and enterprises on the ground that have created value for the American consumer, and in turn fueled our economy.
MOOCs also have promotional value for participating colleges and universities.
This information could have conservation value for the penguins.
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But one has to wonder, at what point does the sacrifice cease to have any value for the advancement of science and simply become the pursuit of hardship for its own sake?
The rewards for success may have long term residual value for the proprietor and the community.
Citi shares have traded for less than book value for the better part of five years.
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Yet as a practical matter, the lunch might have a huge value for the donor.
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Thoroughly assess your situation, so that you can negotiate aspects of the termination that will have the most value for you.
Still, Morgan says, indexes do have value, even for money managers.
So I can be confident that knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 will continue to have some value somewhere for the rest of my life.
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But if Wal-Mart either raises the quality of Chinese imports, or implements their standard return policy (or both), then South Africans will have much more value for the money they spend.
"Whenever we bid for a contract, we have to bear in mind the interests of licence-fee payers and we always have to seek value for money, " the BBC said in a statement.
Their data show that large value stocks have returned 10.8% per annum compared with 8.7% for large growth stocks, and small value stocks have returned 13.9% versus 9% for small growth stocks.
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Consumers, therefore, have every incentive to get the most value for their money, so providers have made every effort to make the operation more affordable.
In short, this proposal would have generated substantially less value for Yahoo!
Growth and profitability has declined, as consumers have searched elsewhere for value.
Investors will have to look for value, stocks trading below their peers, but do so only if the company has the market and the wherewithal to withstand a downturn.
The Audit Office told the board "a greater emphasis" could have been placed on value for money considerations and that the documentation it reviewed "did not justify why a senior and junior counsel were required".
From the initial phases of his model, you could discover value by accident when you do not have a plan for the type of value you receive but on experimentation discover something useful.
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If we are going to debate value for money, we have to decide what we value.
For a sports biz journalist, industry conferences are fun, and have their value as networking tools and for an occasional small piece of news.
He said the retailer did not have a different set of standards for its value burgers - found to have been contaminated with horsemeat - than any of its other lines.
Their eggs have no monetary value and will have been taken by egg thieves for their own collections.
"The biggest danger is that if you're generating trial for a brand and people are actually going to a restaurant or a spa or buying a product, and it doesn't fulfil a value that's higher than they have paid for it, that could dilute or denigrate the value of the brand, " he says.
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Ultimately the pricing is a function of the demand and value that customers have for that service.
But Simon Bowen, chairman of the Technium Steering Group in Wales, says the techniums have proved to be good value for money.
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