General Motors has long suffered in trend-setting California because its cars have been anything but trendy.
Again, speculators in both disaggregated and legacy reports in the platinum group metals further extended the net-long positioning, setting fresh records.
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The larger goal of China's focus in IoT, analysts say, is to win a fight Beijing has long been losing -- setting international standards for new technology.
The company has been buying up large collections of rental apartment buildings on the cheap from German city councils and manufacturers, now unwinding the decades-long practice of setting up workers and the poor in subsidized housing.
It is range-of-the-moment, while rebuking others for not setting the preconditions for long-range planning.
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Setting a long-term deficit cap, as permitted by a recent constitutional amendment, will be another big task.
As often happens at the beginning of the year, many entrepreneurs (including myself) are engaged in year-long business planning and goal setting.
"We commend these banks for strengthening the link between compensation and business integrity, which is central to creating long-term value, and for setting new standards of disclosure, " he said.
"The government must recognise the significant role the private rented sector is playing in bearing the brunt of this recession by increasing funding for advice and support services, and setting out a long-term vision for the sector, " she said.
Two weeks ago, the estranged brothers called off their long-running feud and scrapped a contentious non-compete agreement, setting the stage for the revival of a potential transaction.
But he and his team are right back on form and, after an hour-long session which started in daylight but finished under a setting sun with the floodlights on, the 24-year-old landed his 17th career pole in 52 races with a lap almost 0.7 seconds quicker than second-placed Vettel.
Ruby is setting the table for long-term growth, plowing cash into new restaurants and store improvements.
As investors, we need to be patient for growth, and understand that investment in growth is a long-term stock catalyst, and NFLX is setting up its business model to be even more profitable in the future.
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Crucially for the team's long-term Test prospects, Zimbabwe has managed to break out of its default setting during the six-year exile from Test cricket that ended two years ago of fielding a spin-dominated attack.
Friday's four-hour long Olympic opening ceremony may have kept audiences away from the cineplex, as a record-setting 40.7 million people stayed home to watch actors Daniel Craig and Kenneth Branagh help kickstart the London games.
"We know that the best way forward is the setting of strategic priorities and the long-term funding of projects, " she said.
She likes the idea of setting short-, intermediate- and long-term goals.
But his legacy in England will be his long list of hard-to-explain stunts, from setting off fireworks in his bathroom to his unscheduled appearances in Manchester-area schools.
In particular, observers look for Fed officials to discuss what to do when the program known as Operation Twist ends, as well as to discuss setting numerical targets to signal how long policy-setters will keep the target federal funds rate at essentially zero.
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Environmentalists typically use the same sources, but, as Mr Lomborg lays bare, are much less scrupulous about setting short runs of data in their long-term context, for instance, or about quoting ranges of data, where that is appropriate, rather than whatever extreme of any given range best suits their case.
Armstrong has long denied using performance enhancers during what had been a record-setting cycling career.
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As for the crudities of hot-metal typesetting and letter-press printing, all these have long been superseded by electronic setting (in which a 1970s managing director, Ian Trafford, was a pioneer, and made The Economist one too), and by the stunning quality of modern offset printing.
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That agreement, setting out the extent and nature of America's long-term military assistance beyond 2015, is aimed both at calming Afghan fears of abandonment and at sending a message to the Taliban.
Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.
Thus, those states claiming that they are cutting fat and waste are actually setting the stage for the impoverishment of their citizenry and a long-run decline in the revenues available to pull themselves back out of this hole.
Recommendations to "transform the culture of learning" across the county, include the long-term partnership with a London borough, routine collaboration across and beyond Suffolk, setting up a Suffolk Partnership for Excellence in Learning.
Mr Carney said the bank's long-time policy of targeting inflation had proved successful in both the UK and Canada, setting a "high bar" for any alternative policy.
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In the quarters ahead, the stage is setting for a continuing rise in occupancy rates and perhaps the early signs of long-awaited rent increases.
As Khan explained how his team is setting up its network, it reminded me that those who are discounting the long-term value of entities such as the Khan Academy and Knewton, an adaptive learning platform, may be making a significant mistake, as both are positioning themselves to make a run at being the learning platform of the future.
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