Past returns are no guarantee of future returns, but they can sure make one look good.
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To make forecasts look good, managers aimed for big, currently existing markets rather than for small markets needing some nurturing.
Last December, Congress pushed through a whole set of changes meant to make them look good on Election Day things easier for taxpayers.
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You cannot read it without helping the man financially but the back cover alone has a hilarious attempt by Archer to make himself look good.
Schmidt is able to focus more on his duties of pushing the company forward because he can depend on talented people to make him look good.
But heading into the election, those who want to get reelected are going to do all they can to make things look good, heading into the election.
Or could it be that stock pickers are keen on the euro because they hope it will make them look good even if their instincts are not so deadly?
But if Mr Lo really wants his new, more scientific technical analysis to catch on, he may need to find a way to make it look good on the telly.
Von Trier is as prickly and arrogant as you might expect, but you begin to wonder if his attitude is part of a plan to make Leth look good in contrast.
The factor builder returns the answer that trend-following has not been particularly efficient when cross applied to FX assets in general (though you can data mine to make it look good as most technical analysis books do).
Every iProduct is a veritable blank-slate, one that each user can fill with their favorite songs, bands, photos, applications, and any other signifier of their individuality that can be transferred to a digital file, and make it look good, neat, and organized in the process.
He said the pressure he used to feel to make her look good amid her high-school friends has now boomeranged: These days, she would be irritated if he bought her a pointless trinket rather than devoting the money to the budget of a household project like redoing the den.
Create as many allies as possible with surrounding businesses, create a notice board that allows your community groups and other businesses to advertise special events, design giveaways that make them look good to their customers by offering a freebie at your business, aim to keep the customer in the local area for all their needs.
Looking at the pictures in our sample gallery, you'll be hard pressed to pick out any softness, because they've been shrunken down to a mere 800 x 600 pixels in size, a situation that's mirrored when viewing pictures on the phone, so you can definitely see HTC's motivation for optimizing its software to make things look good at lower resolutions.
This veteran uses DCDi by Faroudja to give your DVDs that extra little bit of information to make them look as good as possible.
This is only one example of how managements are frequently encouraged--or even forced--to make business decisions whose only purpose is to make the numbers look good, irrespective of the long-range impact.
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With film cameras, there are a limited number of shots on a roll, and thus only a certain number of chances to make the photo look good (without racking up some pretty serious film costs).
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The latest development "may or may not" matter to voters, but Ms. Warren's changing answers don't make her campaign look good, said Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
In fact, compare the fine Michael Dell received to the income he earned based on stock options gains, and it would seem there is actually an upside for a CEO to play earnings games in order to make their businesses look good to Wall Street.
The record business, someone once observed, was invented to make the movie industry look good.
Worth noting is that these tips will make a good business look better and a bad business look terrible.
Without a strong center, the shell of whatever else was cobbled together to make the show look so good will collapse.
So we are grateful not just to you but all of the thousands of people in your agency who make us all look very good.
For example, Goldfayn illustrates why public relations needs to be involved at conceptualization, not at the end of the process, trying to find ways to make a bad product look good.
All of a sudden, it seemed that there was a conceptually easy way to make a single website look good on multiple screen sizes just worry about the pixel width of the viewport.
But Gnutella, along with new hardware that will make films look almost as good at home as they do in theaters, may soon move enough files to drown out the loudest whines Hollywood can muster.
Once I understood the source of my discomfort, I resisted the urge to drop a name or tell people I had just given a talk or written a book or something else to identify a solid role for myself that would make me look and feel good.
If I have a good day, I look at how I could make good days even better.
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