Edwards is a self-made oil billionaire who was earlier than most in appreciating the opportunity of extracting sulphurous oil from sand in northern Alberta.
"The amygdala's involved in appreciating dangerous situations in the environment and generating an appropriate response to danger, which is probably fear and escape, " He says.
For years they enjoyed their off-season vacations, paid the mortgage out of rental income, and got a tax break, all while building equity in an appreciating asset.
America's Treasury says that because of the higher inflation rate in China, the yuan is in effect appreciating against the dollar by more than 10% a year.
Across the former euro area, there would be a wave of bankruptcies as firms suddenly found themselves either owed money in a depreciating currency or owing money in an appreciating one.
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Over a year or more, forex is typically stable to appreciating in countries like Brazil, Chile, China, and Russia, to name a few.
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As you know, and those who -- in the financially oriented press know, the -- China has moved some in terms of appreciating its currency.
He blames bad marketing for many of F1's mishaps in the US. He's confident social media and the internet will result in more Americans appreciating European-style racing.
The more valuable asset that is appreciating in value can borrow more at a more favorable interest rate than the less valuable asset that is falling in value.
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After rising 7%, the yuan again stopped appreciating in early August as the world economy threatened to come unglued and as investors fled the euro for the dollar, which rose sharply on a trade-weighted basis.
"Good surgeon, " nods the man sitting next to me in the cafe, appreciating the designer-draped, tanned and toned Barbie doll who is stilt walking past our table.
Boutique operational ranches have also performed relatively well, appreciating modestly in value every year on average over the past decade with the lone exception of 2009, when values dipped slightly.
On the whole, the standard of critical writing is high and does what the best criticism ought to do, encouraging you to enjoy the beauty of the text in question while also appreciating its value.
Because of their quality and rarity, the early modernists' works are appreciating steadily: In 1996, for instance, a painting by Anak Agung Gede Sobrat fetched 11 times the estimate at Christie's auction in Amsterdam.
Like many Russian companies, Yukos knows that it needs to change, although without appreciating the pain involved in doing it properly.
But this total disguises the extent to which Asian central banks have been collecting dollars in order to stop their currencies appreciating against the currency of their export market of choice: America.
Appreciating communication requires a shift in focus to encompass not just the known and predictable, but the unknown as well.
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She acknowledges that she has to be better at appreciating Greg's difficulties in juggling both child care and unpredictable work.
The Francisco Sub with chicken, corn, mayonnaise and soya sauce was introduced in a period when Beiruti palates began appreciating Asian food.
Others reside in open cosmopolitan communities tolerating or even appreciating difference.
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When private investors have little appetite for American assets, as in 2003 and 2004, central banks buy a lot in order to stop their currencies from appreciating too much against the dollar.
Yet in 2005, after a year of steadily appreciating oil prices, that number was 3.3%.
Training, encouraging and appreciating those that deal with customers in a volatile environment is often underfunded and overlooked.
The national bank vowed to intervene in the currency markets in order to prevent the Swiss franc from appreciating further against the euro.
Shortly after, the Swiss central bank announced it was cutting rates and injecting money in order to control the Swiss franc, appreciating strongly given European weakness.
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But it also puts a burden on many industries (by making exports dear) and, if demand in the economy is already deficient, an appreciating currency can make a slow-moving economy stall altogether.
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The USDX measures the value of the US dollar against a basket of currencies that includes the euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and the Swedish krona exactly the currencies that China is most likely including in its own basket and which are now appreciating as a result.
Understanding and appreciating my Somali heritage while also taking part in my distinctly American upbringing, I have been able to take the best of both those cultures and create one distinctly my own.
The company reported a 38% slide in profit for the last quarter of 2010, as the appreciating value of the Japanese yen weighed on sales.
But it is one of the most notable cases of overheating, with creeping inflation, a quickly appreciating currency, and a bubble-like behavior in its labor markets.
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