Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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Life insurance cash values and personal assets like cars do not count under any of the formulas.
Like cars, they lose a huge proportion of their value the moment they are taken off the shelf.
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Traditional German industries like cars and machine-tools have made themselves fit by shedding hundreds of thousands of workers.
In Brazil, sales of big-ticket items like cars have risen 80% since 2005.
Mobile phones, like cars, are fashion items: in both cases, people buy new ones far more often than is actually necessary.
The minute-long spot showed people acting like cars on the road, walking on the street as a simple piano piece played.
It just gives you better options for future financial decisions on big things like cars, a personal home loan or even investments.
The possibilities for fully driverless, Google-like cars are too important not to have a strong IP portfolio or a vigorous strategy to build one.
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It is a positive sign for an economy that has long been dependent on manufacturing goods like cars and ships for global markets.
But "streaming starts to pose a greater risk to iTunes" over time, as it becomes more ubiquitous and convenient in places like cars, he said.
That means things like cars, windmills and computer networks don't qualify.
As consumer deleveraging continues, big ticket items that fuel economic expansions, like cars and houses, are facing lower demand. (Read No Recovery Possible While U.S. Consumer Continues Deleveraging).
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"I think there are a lot of things in New York that are bad for the environment, like cars and buses, " said Smith, 45, who works in the security field.
Since rising prices would mean money spent now will go further than later, the government hopes to get Japanese to step up spending, especially for big ticket items like cars and houses.
Ms. Mayer praised Mr. Karp for his enthusiasm for entertaining and compelling ads on other media, like TV, that can be "every bit as good as the content" when pitching products like cars.
Here's how the potential crime was supposed to work: Searches for business- and car-related words produced ads next to search results for legitimate pages like Cars.com and the Better Business Bureau's Web site.
The number of Internet enabled phones has already surpassed the number of Internet enabled computers, and their estimates also include connectivity for things not commonly thought of as internet-connected like cars and televisions.
We have great big and small pickup trucks and a growing array of big and small sport utility vehicles and the "crossovers, " which look like sport utilities but ride more like cars and are still evolving.
Some have suggested a more carnal relationship to the product (see this NSFW take from college humor site Jest), but it is clear that like cars and clothing, we see ourselves reflected in our smartphones.
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The new bill will make it harder for individuals to declare Chapter 7, the most common form of bankruptcy, which allows debtors to walk away from their debts, often while shielding exempt assets like cars and homes.
It had a keyboard composed of many rectangular keys that were angled like cars in a parking lot, and a long Next Page button that, as hundreds of users complained, made you turn pages by accident when you carried it around.
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Unlike the more powerful general purpose computing device such as the personal computer or, more recently, the smartphone, embedded devices are typically things like cars or thermostats which are only given a limited amount of computing power and memory to accomplish specific tasks.
"Privacy and identity management become a lot more important, " he says, noting that a recent security alliance between IBM and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) takes things even further, so that the network itself can manage identities of things like cars or washing machines that are increasingly wired in.
Our success as a country in this new century will be defined by how well we educate our kids, how well we train our workers, how well we invent, how well we innovate, how well we build things like cars and engines -- all the things that helped create the greatest middle class the world has ever known.
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The data do not include exotic cars like Lamborghinis or super-expensive cars like Bentleys--though those models certainly do carry high insurance bills.
Likewise motorists and corporations will respond to rising prices by buying smaller cars and exploring alternatives, like powering cars with ammonia or turning coal into liquid fuel.
The cars feature body panels unique to each manufacturer, so they look more like showroom cars.
Like put cars in different spots, move the tables around inside the diner, etc.
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