He said he was ready to retire and rejected accusations that he made false diagnoses or accepted money in return for signing off on unwarranted benefits.
Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
Mr Umunna suggested the decision to appoint Prof Ebdon had been a "trade off" by Mr Cable in return for rumoured plans to abandon penalties for university students who pay off their tuition fees early.
The Australian struggled for the Robins and was eventually dropped, before making a dramatic return in the play-off semi-final.
Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS - news - people ) and the European Union has ordered the bank to sell off assets in return for the government assistance it is receiving.
One senior official said that if growth does not return in two years all bets are off.
The FDA should put off approving generic knockoffs in return for safety studies.
But there may eventually have to be a trade-off: ending testing in return for building some simpler, safer warheads (based on a previously tested design).
Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.
On October 17th she and her party said they would make no endorsement in the run-off, despite offers from both sides of policies and posts in return.
Williams filed a lawsuit in Texas' Harris County district court May 3, demanding Marzouki return the ring and accusing her of breaking off the engagement in January.
Labour's Mr Jones said he had rejected the offer of a one-off 1% government grant in return for freezing the policing precept.
Gas was also an easy out for Mulva, allowing him to dodge what the gathered crowd of oil executives would have been more interested in hearing: a well articulated plan for ConocoPhillips to return to strength through selling off noncore assets (including Syncrude, some sadsack refineries and even a stake in Russia's Lukoil).
Gordon got off to a horrible start in his return to the majors last month, going 0 for 11 to drop his batting average to .158.
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Individual investors select shares with the highest return and track record, consumers select the bank with the best rates, your pension fund invests your savings in companies with the highest risk-return trade-off, and so on.
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One problem (there are many, many others) is that all kinds of complicated rules shave off so much of the return in those good stock-market year that the protection in bad years comes at a very stiff price.
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Coming off of a 48% return in 2003, and a 25% return last year, Muhlenkamp is up 4.2% in 2005, but the large-cap blend fund has come back with a vengeance in the past eight weeks, advancing 11.2% since April 28.
This year, the negative 37% return from 2008 rolls off the five-year return calendar, so that even if stocks go nowhere in 2013, their five-year average annual return will jump from the current 2% to 12%, by Vanguard's calculations.
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On their return, and with both going off again in the middle of the second set, the 13th seed Ferrer won just three more games.
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They might be better off, in practical terms, taking the secure return from repaying their mortgage.
The shares have delivered a 19% total return so far this year in advance of a spin-off expected to occur Jan. 1.
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Others preferred the old arrangement, devised for the cold war, under which America promised to defend Japan (avoiding the need for Japan to play a bigger military role of its own) in return for the right to station American troops there to ward off Soviet aggression.
Pryce, who made a try-scoring return last week, finished off a sweeping move in the sixth minute, Leuluai ghosted through minutes later, then Sam Tomkins' midfield break set up brother Joel before Gleeson marked his return from a calf injury to make it 20-0 before the end of the opening quarter.
Kerry's remarks in Atlantic City marked his return to the campaign trail after a week off as the nation marked the death of former President Reagan.
Sadly, though, the flag has seen better days, as on the return voyage well-wishers in New Zealand were allowed to cut off slivers of the cloth as mementoes.
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Now, certainly this disaster did not do the shareholders of BP much good, but the point is that, in financial terms, there is an optimal risk-return trade-off to be made.
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Dan Luger wears the England jersey for the first time since his return from a seven-month injury lay-off in a backline which boasts only one other capped player, fullback Tim Stimpson.
That the French have won a fair deal on the third condition may, however, help to fend off charges that the country is gaining too little in return for rejoining NATO's integrated command.
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