The objective is to determine a safe assumption for investment returns, and a safe level of income or withdrawals from savings each year to sustain a desired lifestyle the rate at which it is safe to withdraw golden eggs from the goose.

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For their part, the insurance providers say issues like income and education are used as objective actuarial measurements to help determine premiums and do not imply deliberate demographic discrimination.

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The main objective of the survey is to determine the extent of content preservation, digitization projects, material at risk and general archive practices within broadcast institutions in Southern Africa, within the broader goal of ensuring that sound and audiovisual collections are properly stored and preserved for future generations.

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Business leadership must learn from the Prussians that at times of defeat, great innovations and rebounds are fueled by aligning employees to the overall objective, the context of their mission, and their purpose while freeing them to determine how best to achieve their mission.

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When you are charged with the care and feeding of talent you must help them determine their contribution to group success if objective data are absent.

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The education reform movement is hard at work finding good ways to measure success, and determine universal and objective rules for how people should be hired and fired, and figuring out what kinds of certifications should be required, etc.

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Once I find a market that I think has a high probability of going up or down, then further work must be done in order to determine an entry level, potential stop, and price objective.

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