Gervais is in that ornery tradition of awkward customers, and he comes with the considerable built-in advantage of being English, which makes his disdain and sarcasm all the more heartfelt.
Ding added the firm has been "clever and swift" in taking advantage of the volatility in the mortgage market by making short bets to generate profits to offset losses in other areas.
The National Security Strategy calls for an integration of our economic and military power, but DoD has shown it is more interested in taking advantage of cost savings provided by foreign government subsidies.
Khan, undefeated in 16 bouts, will have the added advantage of boxing in front of his home crowd at the Bolton Arena.
The number was increased in February to take advantage of the expected upsurge in travel ahead of the World Cup.
Historically, the U.S. margin of advantage in earnings per worker has been so large that it has allowed us to finance higher amounts of per capita spending on health care than our peers even while retaining an advantage over them in terms of the amount of residual non-health spending per capita we have left to spend on everything else.
Supported by his former partner, who once held a high cabinet post, who assured me there w as nothing wrong in taking advantage of inside knowledge to make an extra buck or two.
That's why the President has put in financial reform and called for a very strong consumer protection agency, the likes of which right now the responsibility is spread out over 10 to 12 different agencies to ensure that people aren't taken advantage of in terms of teaser loans.
In theory, he says, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage in an era of global competition, rapid transport and high-speed telecommunications.
Prompted by the stronger than expected rebound in demand, the company said it plans to open 80 to 95 new stores during the second half of the year in hopes of being prepared to take advantage of continued improvements in the construction sector.
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While Limbaugh claimed that other advertisers hastened to step in to take advantage of the controversy-fueled increase in his ratings, the damage was real.
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Ship operators who own more of their ships will therefore have an advantage in terms of reducing fuel use.
She is one of the most disciplined politicians in the business a huge advantage in the age of YouTube.
D. from Stanford and made his breakthrough almost immediately after starting his own lab in 2004, taking advantage of a 2002 discovery of light-sensitive proteins in green algae called channelrhodopsins.
Their eavesdropping apparatus (which is small enough to fit in a suitcase) was designed to take advantage of a weakness in a particular sort of photon detector in Bob's receiving equipment.
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Traders and active investors who would rather buy than sell short in order to take advantage of any setback in the Asian stock rally may want to consider a leveraged, inverse alternative: the ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 ETF (NYSE: FXP).
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Mrs Clinton has resisted pressure to bow out of the race, despite Mr Obama's growing advantage in terms of delegates and her rapidly dwindling campaign war chest.
"For both Temasek and Standard Chartered, the acquisition represents getting a large foot in the door to take advantage of the emerging middle class in Asia, " analyst Richard Hunter of Hargreaves Lansdown.
He is a volatility arbitrage specialist who trades volatility as an asset class in an effort to take advantage of inefficiencies in the options markets.
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The biggest question for JAL is how it overcomes stagnation in its domestic market and takes more advantage of the boom in air traffic to and from the rest of Asia.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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Only about a fifth of 609 firms in four Asian countries surveyed by the Asian Development Bank in 2008 took advantage of the agreements that applied to them.
Pandora also announced that as of March 2012, Marcello will become deputy chairman of its board of directors in order to take advantage of what has has learned as interim CEO.
It is certainly the case that there are a number of bad actors and armed groups of extremists in Libya who might take advantage of a situation that was brought about initially as a response to the video in question.
Earlier this month the bank reversed its decision to delay paying staff bonuses in the UK to take advantage of a reduction in tax rates coming into effect in April.
But Twitter will probably follow the example of other technology companies, basing its corporate headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of the tax rate (then hiring back-office staff) and setting up another branch in London where it can tap into a wider pool of folks who are highly skilled in software development.
Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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On Wednesday morning, just as Israel was announcing the capture of the Francop, scores of thousands of Iranians in cities throughout the country took advantage of the regime's planned demonstrations celebrating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy in Teheran to protest against the regime.
Ren said Huawei plans to expand investment in Russia to take advantage of the country's background in technology.
Dow Chemical and others have announced a raft of new investments in America to take advantage of low gas prices.
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