I'll know in about three years what it was like, if that makes sense.
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That makes no sense if you think about businesses trying to maximize their profit from any given transaction, but it makes sense if you remember that customer satisfaction is an important factor in the long-term success of a retail business.
But I think the most important thing though is - we'll do that, if it makes sense, not for the sake of doing it, and that's a trap that we don't want to fall into, we meaning not just us, but everybody in the Sony group.
There was a great, by the way, consensus of economists if that's the measure that says stimulus makes sense.
The idea that this was a data problem makes sense only if you believe bank executives were unaware that a substantial share of their profits came from mis-selling.
Farmers buy inputs and sell crops on a scale that makes sense only if there are world markets for them.
Bonus depreciation and increased expensing expire after 2004 and 2005, respectively--a sunset that arguably makes sense if the point is to stimulate the economy by encouraging more business investment now.
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Still, buying the mortgage paper makes sense if you think that interest rates are going to be fairly stable for a while.
If you want to do something that makes security sense, figure out what's common among a bunch of rare events, and concentrate your countermeasures there.
That means that if they can't explain their methodology and process to you in a way that makes sense and that process can't be used many times--no dice.
If that doesn't make sense, Fisk makes it sound simple.
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"If someone comes in and makes an offer that makes sense, our board has shown that we are willing to do the right thing for our shareholders, " Griffin said.
If they can persuade the German Chancellor that it makes sense, even from the standpoint of the public finances, to balance budgets over a longer time frame, they might actually be able to reach a deal.
Financial expert, TV host, and Sun-In aficionado Suze Orman has a simple bit of algebra that she suggests using to decide if it makes sense to be part of the 250, 000-strong movement of Americans who are deciding to bid goodbye to their houses and good credit in order to recoup their losses and try again at some point (way, way, way) in the future.
This makes sense if you consider the timeline that night (Eubanks was ostensibly just slipping out to buy a soda) and the fact that there was yet another man still in the apartment.
This does only makes sense if for some reason corporations feared that they might have trouble tapping credit markets precisely when they really needed to most.
The thinking in the foreign exchanges is that it makes less sense to punish the dollar if other economies are doing so badly.
This fall in spreads makes sense only if you think (a) that Resona was absolutely the last bank to have troubles, or (rather more likely) (b) that Japanese banks are in such dire straits that they will all be nationalised anyway.
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Ironically, it's only if you think the eurozone might be about to break apart that it makes good sense to buy.
Even if the auction makes financial sense for the government, it might ensure that the Dome's misfortune is remembered in perpetuity.
If you held a portfolio of companies that earn high returns on capital it makes sense to re-invest dividend proceeds into them.
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If you are convinced that higher tax rates are ahead, it usually still makes sense to wait on paying any taxes (i.e. not accelerating income into the current year).
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If the experts tell us that treatment is often successful with older drug users, it makes sense to get treatment.
The timing makes sense, especially if we believe various news reports out of Asia that production on the device has already begun.
By that I mean that foreign expansion is great, so if you have customers in India, it makes sense to hire people there to deal with those customers.
If customers are publicly broadcasting their whereabouts, it makes sense to take advantage of that in a direct way, rather than conspicuously floating location-aware ads on their phone browsers.
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The concern over kids damaging the devices only makes sense if we forget they already get books made of simple paper that have to be replaced constantly because of wear and tear anyway.
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If you can stay with companies that have good growth prospects and are reasonably priced, it makes sense to be beta-agnostic.
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From a Nash point of view, that makes perfect sense, as the elderly are at greatest risk of dying if they contract influenza.
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