Shumlin "did take a little bit of advantage of Jerry, " said Dodge's longtime friend Bernie Corliss.
Price and technology, traditional levers of advantage, have become merely the table stakes for entering the game.
Ironically, perhaps, the investors of Advantage Partners seem to have lost this bet.
Pistorius's success Saturday will likely also extend the debate over whether his high-tech blades actually provide some sort of advantage.
While custom boots have always been better, traditionally you had to make choices among the three key areas of advantage: performance, comfort, and warmth.
Just like with regular literacy, financial literacy can empower you to take full advantage of the opportunities available to you instead of being taken advantage of by those without your best interest at heart.
In the case of abortion, he calculated that, since he could hardly renounce his pro-choice identity, he could at least neutralize it, and possibly even gain some measure of advantage, by straightforwardly owning up to it.
The choice of white privilege as the denominator in this idea is a decision to accuse, not just of advantage or even immunity, but also of the due expectation of prerogative, and thus to charge with complicity, to impugn the natural moral consciousness, against proof to the contrary, of those so designated, simply by the color of their skin.
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Historically, the U.S. margin of advantage in earnings per worker has been so large that it has allowed us to finance higher amounts of per capita spending on health care than our peers even while retaining an advantage over them in terms of the amount of residual non-health spending per capita we have left to spend on everything else.
It behooves society to nurture and support college students instead of taking advantage of them.
Harrah's countersued and accused the other directors of taking advantage of their position to grant two members generous stock options.
Most recently it has been eyeing the American steel market in the hope of taking advantage of the weak dollar.
For Asashima the question is simple: "It's a matter of taking advantage of the wonderful, regenerative capability of life, " he says.
Regardless of what happens, we wouldn't put it past hackers Android programming aficionados to come up with a way of taking advantage of this.
Part of the advantage of 3D printing is the ability to make a variety of individually customised parts at a similar cost to making multiple, identical replicas.
And that negates some of the advantage of their initial cheapness.
It seems like a relatively low number -- in terms of taking advantage of all the programs that he's put out there so far, the financing.
Yet until we lift the stigma and penalty attached to flexible work arrangements, we can anticipate that workers will be wary of taking advantage of them.
The 33-year-old McLean, who is based in Cape Town, made the most of his advantage of knowing the course to card seven birdies in a bogey-free round.
One last detail: Johnson is a fictional character I made up for pedagogical purposes, to entice my business students to debate the appropriateness, or inappropriateness, of taking advantage of consumer frailty.
"There's a belief that they have that the criminal groups do sort of take advantage of the media and the attention in order to create fear, basically, and therefore space to act with impunity, " Wilson said.
Ten months on from the UK's decision to take IT specialists off its list of occupations suffering a staff shortage, UK IT contractors are accusing firms of taking advantage of a loophole to keep hiring foreign staff in place of British ones.
But they can help farmers and ranchers become more easily aware of the kinds of assistance available to them, and they can simplify the process of taking advantage of these options so relief gets to the people who need it as efficiently as possible.
The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
Anyway, into his third cocktail or so, this guy, in the spirit of taking advantage of people unsophisticated enough to borrow at those rates, wondered if consumers could be persuaded to borrow against their Visa at 19.6% and to then invest in a bank-managed mutual fund, yielding in the single digits.
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The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital (nyse: JNS - news - people )--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
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