Most of them are, but they have been splitting the difference for years between value (i.e. price and positioning) and volume (i.e. percent of inventory sold).
Whether on a micro (i.e. personal job security) or macro (i.e. overall economic health) level, doubt in the employment environment breeds uncertain and hesitant spending patterns among consumers.
Once I became suspicious about the King mask e-mails, I started questioning every e-mail I received.
Similar price pressures are being experienced in the industrial (i.e. aluminum and copper) and precious metals (i.e. gold and silver) markets.
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Best Buy gives them an opportunity to move on from being a brand of substance (i.e. makes good phones) to one of emotion (i.e. connects with customers).
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Structurally, hedge funds may be set up either onshore (i.e. in the market in which the investors are located) or offshore (i.e. in a different market).
If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).
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The extraordinary cinematography inside the barrel of this legendary wave has equally inspired many a grommet -- i.e. beginner -- and swelled the breasts of old-timers lamenting that summer -- i.e. youth -- does end.
For some it motivates them to go for the grand slam (i.e. nothing to lose), for others it makes them too laid back about actually getting the product rolling (i.e. having comfort of newfound money).
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This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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And I would say one thing to Congressman Issa, Plaquemines is spelled P-l-a-q-u-e-m-i-n-e-s.
One in two people online in Europe has asked someone out on a date via e-mail and excuses such as 'I lost your e-mail' are increasingly being used to avoid unwanted attentions.
By allowing banks to hold only 1.6 percent in capital when investing in triple-A rated securities (e.g. tranches of subprime mortgages) or lending to sovereigns (i.e. like Greece, Italy and Spain), the regulations implied an authorized leverage of 62.5 to 1.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
Verification took a full 25 seconds to timeout (compared to 5-15 seconds to grant access at lower levels, depending on lighting conditions), so using this app requires p-a-t-i-e-n-c-e.
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Can I do it, i.e. feasible for me?
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Then I put Metro (i.e. the new UI which officially has no distinct name) on the right-side display, where it deals with all incoming information -- email, calendars, Twitter and other glance-worthy stuff that shouldn't require any mouse activity.
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I.e. anyone can call them, e-mail them or tweet them with questions about the Swedish language.
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Six months after graduation, I have found the job I was dreaming of, i.e. an in-house corporate communications function with regional responsibilities in Latin America for a multinational company.
After I get home from the conference, I e-mail my former supervisor to ask him about opportunities at his latest company.
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And this is not the only context and project where I have had such experiences, i.e. it is not just a French thing.
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Partly because I was curious and partly because I have a masochistic streak, I recently e-mailed the people we had swapped with to ask what they thought of our place.
This was not as easy as I had hoped, fiddling between credit card and phone with freezing cold fingers, but, by the time I got on the intercity to Geneva I had an e-ticket and I proudly showed it to the conductor.
This was the early days of e-services and I was beginning to get emotionally wired into e-mails and other web services.
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Earlier this year, in a Forbes issue focused on the burgeoning consumer genetic industry, I wrote a small piece on the possibility for surreptitious DNA testing, i.e. someone sending your genetic information to a DNA lab without your knowledge.
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"I was sort of upset that I didn't get any happy birthdays on FB, even though I got e-mails, texts and phone calls, " says photo editor Victoria Reichelt, who eventually figured out that her Facebook friends didn't even know about her birthday, since she'd removed that information.
On return to my unit I was placed under arrest to be charged with rendering myself unfit for duty i.e. suicide bid.
Unfortunately, this is not what I see is happening as unemployment remains high and wages are not growing (i.e. disposable income generally has not been able to keep up with the commodity-induced inflation).
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Of the problem you list, the two I worry about most as a psychiatrist are the suicidal thoughts and the psychotic symptoms (i.e. hearing voices).
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