My guess: Over a long period his strategy will be good for an incremental half a point a year.
The split 5-4 conservative-liberal bench has the option of ruling broadly or narrowly-- perhaps taking a series of incremental cases over a period years, building political momentum and public confidence in the process.
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But the incremental amount a buyer will pay for a home after such projects are completed is likely to be well below the seller's cost.
And heralding the City Deals scheme - in which more than 20 cities in England are steadily being given new powers over planning and transport - he suggested this could be a model of a more incremental but still radical approach to calls for a new political settlement in England.
But the delivery of those incremental subs into incremental profits seems a reasonable likelihood.
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Life under a government run by the author would be fastidious, incremental and pragmatic: a sort of John Major for the 21st century.
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In this manner, the incremental earnings that a new product category, like the iWatch, could generate would help propel the stock back to previous levels.
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Moreover it leverages the brains and talents of thousands of people, any one of whom might generate either an incremental innovation or a breakthrough idea.
Over two weeks of talks, delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered in Doha, Qatar, will struggle to achieve incremental gains in a global effort to prevent runaway climate change.
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Incremental changes have a more limited, predictable impact.
These relocation expenses are associated with accelerated depreciation of property and equipment, incremental rent during a transition period (the move will occur in the second quarter), and payments related to terminating leases for certain floors in existing buildings.
Which would you rather attach to your company: A new set of wheels to help shift gears with incremental improvements, or a set of wings that elevates performance by addressing the threats and opportunities of an interconnected and morally interdependent world?
That leaked build of Windows Blue is a case in point: it suggests a relatively incremental update to Windows 8, yet some of its revelations are already causing quite a stir.
Moreover, with OS X, Apple has a base of stable, well-understood code that allows it to add incremental improvements, on a regular basis, for years.
It could also indicate a greater number of incremental buyers in the marketplace--a good thing.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
It is a sensible, incremental treaty that will cut America's and Russia's deployed strategic nuclear warheads by about a third, from the current maximum of 2, 200 to 1, 550, and the number of deployed missiles and bombers to 700 apiece.
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The most likely course will be for automakers to continue on a very incremental approach.
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Other options might be a more incremental approach, with the accompanying challenge of the July 2011 timeline.
Executives want the payments company to scale without a high incremental cost while maintaining high service quality.
The Scottish Executive's criminal justice statistical bulletin shows a national incremental growth in drink-driving offences prosecuted in Scottish courts since 1997.
The incremental process involves finding a good vaccine candidate, reassessing and testing the virus, developing seed vaccines and ensuring their safety.
It's a very incremental slowing down of the escalation in projected cost.
Perhaps a few incremental adjustments are made, mending the tattered fabric of the business model, but rarely rethinking it or replacing it completely.
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Moving toward a relative ratings system is not a silver bullet, but it may be a useful incremental step toward smaller, less damaging credit cycles in the future.
Rather they are a nice incremental income flow that is turning out to be larger than he expected when he acquired the machine some seventeen months ago.
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An annual enrollment fee not only provides a significant incremental stream of revenues to the pharmacy chain but also ensures consumer loyalty for the duration of the plan.
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"Everything is incremental, " says a recently departed executive who was told when he arrived that it would take a year for him to understand how to get anything done.
It suggests incremental change rather than a comprehensive solution.
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Mr Schultz, who earlier this year returned to the helm of the company he built into a global giant, deserves credit for trying to return Starbucks to its old approach to innovation, which was all about incremental product variation around a central platform.
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