Profit comes from leading customers into new markets, not from optimizing your position in historical ones.

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Speaking of GOOG, if you want to pair respected stocks in the current market with ones that are not, mix in a Powershares QQQ ETF position, where the top holdings along with INTC and GOOG are AAPL, ORCL, MSFT, and AMZN.

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Two ways: Bet on REITs that are potential targets, or buy ones that are especially well run and thus in a position to be buyers of weaker assets.

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By measuring a star's position in the sky, then, and looking for periodic variations in that position, it ought to be possible to detect any orbiting planets, even small ones.

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The new ones (bottles) came at a time when his position was that he was sleeping in the living room next to his mother, or something like that.

BBC: Mitchell's urine habit 'relevant'

While she was at pains in an interview with Kimberly Blanton at the Squared Away blog to point out that women might well be waiting to permanently settle down till they are in a better economic position, she also noted that even today, men are more likely to be the ones getting down on bended knee.

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