But there is a benefit to concentrating on an area of focus without a goal.
When the dollar falls there is a benefit to us here in the U.S., and when the dollar rises there is a detriment.
FORBES: Currency's Impact On Your Portfolio: Five Things You Need To Know Now
Those that do may argue that there is a benefit to owning more funds in that there is the possibility to capture taxable losses.
The wellbeing and prosperity of Germany is a benefit to all of us, because the wellbeing and prosperity of Germany is a prerequisite for the wellbeing and prosperity of Europe.
In other words, even though analysts are too conservative with their ratings and shorter-term profit forecasts, there is a benefit to paying attention to whether and how the profit forecasts are being revised.
FORBES: Voter Polls And Investing Analysts: Bias Or Inaccurate?
The Ricochet guys are inverse to each other but my own partnering experience suggests that there is a benefit to undertaking business ventures with others who share similar characteristics, if not my personality category.
So if we can be part of the mobility experience and have someone experience a GM vehicle, that is a benefit to us because maybe at some point that person will decide to buy a car.
FORBES: Collaborative Consumption: Should Marketers Be Afraid?
Breedon however has noticed that when payment terms are accelerated at the top of the chain - when for example the government pays promptly - there is a benefit to the supplier dealing directly with the end buyer, but not necessarily to those smaller companies sitting below the main supplier.
"If you're putting on an event that is going to benefit the island and is going to benefit a lot of different people and is going to benefit the cultural life of the island then you shouldn't have to put your hand in your back pocket to fund it, " said Tom.
BBC: A ?50,000 grant is available for creative Jersey people
He also stressed the need for education reform -- offering parents a choice to send their children to charter schools, "which is a great benefit to inner city kids trapped in underperforming schools, " Romney said.
CNN: Romney draws boos from NAACP, support from conservatives
In this case, there is a theoretical benefit to the policy, just like there is a somewhat plausible case for anti-money laundering laws, but presumably we would reject such a policy as too intrusive.
FORBES: Take Your Stinking Paws Off My Benjamins, You Damn Dirty Statist
"So far we've prevented 20 liver biopsies, which is a huge benefit to these patients and to the health economy, " Dr Wright added.
BBC: Liver damage is 'silent killer' cirrhosis patient warns
This is a huge benefit to Allianz, which owns very-low-basis stakes currently worth around Euro50 billion in some of Germany's bluest-chip companies (see table, left).
This is a huge benefit to schools and students.
ENGADGET: Lenovo adopts Chrome OS, intros ThinkPad X131e Chromebook for schools
The government may have already made its point loud and clear by striking the non-prosecution agreements with Fannie and Freddie, Frenkel said, which tell other companies there is a strong benefit to cooperating with the feds and turning over all internal evidence of wrongdoing.
FORBES: SEC Targets Fannie, Freddie Execs But May Not Get Their Bonuses
Also, we all seem to forget there is a huge death benefit associated to this account growing every year of your life that will far outweigh the death benefit for an investment account.
Mr. ARMAND PESCHARD-SVERDRUP (Center for Strategic and International Studies): At least the Mexicans won't touch NAFTA per se in the meeting, but try to make President-elect Obama aware of how integrated the two economies are and how to some extent there is a benefit in working together in trying to strengthen the competitiveness of the two economies vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
It is not always wrong to stop a trial when no benefit is accruing to those on the experimental treatment.
"We need to ensure there is a benefit, not a liability, that we are giving to those seniors, " says Raymond Woosley , vice president for health sciences at the University of Arizona.
It's disheartening to be sure, but there is a way to benefit: Invest in companies that use such statistics in their earnings projections.
For kids who develop a love for reading, there is another benefit that is hard to quantify: a seemingly endless library.
The high-performance NAND memory is expected to be of immediate benefit to a host of NAND-based mobile and consumer electronics applications, especially where there is consumer demand for an extra stretch in performance.
ENGADGET: Samsung and Toshiba double-down on 400Mbps DDR 2.0 NAND flash memory standard
First category: This is he who studies it in order to find out the truth of it, or to know why the Shari'a is preferred over it, or to benefit from it in a way which does not contradict the Shari'a, or to benefit someone else.
The reason they were asked is because in EU law, if you want to advertise something as having a health benefit then the government (which, in this area, is what the EU is) has to agree with you that there is in fact a health benefit.
FORBES: Prunes Are Not Laxatives: Official European Union Ruling
The fact that Mount Stuart is a significant tourist destination delivering benefit to the island year in, year out, is not acknowledged.
"You have to remember that housing benefit is available to a lot of people who are in work and perhaps on low incomes, so for a lot of young families with their first feet on the career ladder this plan could actually knock them off the career ladder, " he told the BBC.
Nonetheless, this is a headline-driven market and gold will continue to benefit on the margin until there is improvement in near-term expectations for Europe and to a lesser extent, the United States.
FORBES: METALS OUTLOOK: Volatility To Continue In Gold Next Week
应用推荐