Those of us of a more empirical bent maintain that the evidence argues for a much lower value.
The self-insurance against financial fragility is part of a more general bent towards precautionary saving in the developing world.
Some countries that have practiced state-sponsored capitalism have had some success, but these countries have a more capitalistic bent, he said.
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The firm has been taking a more speculative bent in recent years, growing its shale assets dramatically as prices slowly crept up.
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At various points during the week, the statue is clad in one of hundreds of costumes that add an even more humorous bent to an already-funny statue.
For students with a more creative bent, the emphasis will be on blending technical know-how with top-notch communications savvy, according to Susie Hall, President of Vitamin T, a creative staffing agency.
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On the day that Germany's foreign minister was winging his way to Washington this week to question the Americans about their bombing of Baghdad, state prosecutors in Frankfurt launched criminal investigations into his past relations with other no less questionable bombers of a more revolutionary bent.
Given the sorry state of American savings, it is not surprising that regulators, politicians and financial experts have been much more vocal than Bent, railing against his new 401(k) debit card invention.
Britain, for example, tried for two decades to channel many of the less academic school-leavers into polytechnics that had been set up to provide degrees equal in quality to those offered by the universities, but with a more technical and vocational bent.
Still, U.S. and other negotiators defer to Russia and other parties bent on delaying more effective international action.
As analysts survey the inflation "hawks" and "doves" on the Fed board, Greenspan, who embraces theories of a technology-driven New Economy, is seen as having a more lenient interest-rate bent than Clinton appointee Laurence Meyer.
Those men really wanted clear, singing prose, much more than rules, and they bent rules accordingly.
But I think Michael's got to do a bit more to convince Capello than Darren Bent has.
Corporate customers, who account for 84% of all tech spending, used to go along with this bent, but no more.
With his pledges of income equality and more jobs, Mr Kilicdaroglu seems bent on appropriating the role of champion of the underdog from AK, so eating into its traditional base in the shanty towns that encircle the big cities.
He sees Data as his equal, an android whose positronic net is bent on being funnier, more colloquial, more likable, more emotional.
More than ever, it seems, the digital artists who produce today's computer-generated blockbusters are bent on recreating a vision of reality that is likewise more vital and compelling than everyday life.
The way distant light is bent around galaxies hints that they should have more mass than can be seen.
For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence -- not terrorism, not mindless killing -- but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.
Redmond's already hinted pretty strongly that it's hell-bent on bringing the acclaimed Zune media experience to more devices including its Windows Mobile handsets -- something we hope to see unveiled in Barcelona.
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If you're on a mobile device, your arms are bent by your side and your back hunch is even more profound.
Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.
But with the commission's fiscal rules now bent out of shape, the onus to find an answer will fall more squarely on Mr Trichet.
It includes a prime minister genuinely bent on reform (not, like his predecessor, Viktor Chernomyrdin, more concerned to keep the status quo) and a clutch of robust reformers in key posts.
The alloy mount is lighter and more durable than a steel one, but it can't be repaired if seriously bent.
It was Bent's 20th goal of the season and he would only have to wait six more minutes to notch his 21st.
Quoted in the article is civil engineer David Radcliffe, who claims that employees will never be more than a two and a half minute walk away from each other, which, along with the bent floorplan of each building, is intended to create opportunities for innovation through "casual collisions".
But she snaps out of her dreaminess to become an impulsive young woman bent on revenge, hacking at her hair with her sword in the hope that she will be taken more seriously by the men whose world she has chosen to share.
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