Investing is often all about trade-offs and lately plenty of income investors have been trading off quality for yield.
The music has that deceptively dashed-off quality that is characteristic of younger-than-Neil hip-hop performers, punk-inspired rockers and the rare musicians of Neil Young's generation who haven't settled into complacent craftsmanship.
NHS, some of which involve tricky compromises such as the trade-off between the quality of medical care and its cost.
"A lot of people say they are put off by the quality of facilities when they try to go swimming, and this is part of a plan to address that, " Mr Johnston said.
Mr Whelan said the original dispute focused on "quality time off".
"We have reduced the number of train drivers working this year, giving people more quality time off - down to 880 drivers from 1, 100 last year, " he said.
The spike in delinquencies are coming off historically good credit quality in 2004, they note, and the levels of delinquencies aren't terribly higher than they were in the last subprime lending crisis of 1999 to 2000.
For now, only a handful of smaller players nationwide is choosing to embed sustainability into the very DNA of what they do, incorporating environmental intelligence into core business activities with no trade-off in price or quality.
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Additionally, I expect there to be a flight to quality among crowdfunding portals which will kick-off a cycle that allows only the highest quality crowdfunding sites to thrive.
When a website can build consistent traffic off of an expectation of quality, it makes the writer think about the audience before the source.
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For traders who prefer to buy stocks on pullback rather than breakout, the task of waiting for a quality sell-off in Amazon.com may be patience-trying.
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Since taking over as Chancellor in 2007, Ms. Rhee has replaced ineffective principals, laid off instructors based on "quality, not by seniority" and shuttered failing schools.
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Having a lot of low-quality pages hanging off your site will also drag down your overall ranking--even for pages that feature the kind of content Google wants to promote.
Mervyn King's remarks that he wants to see RBS's poisonous and low quality assets hived off into a new so-called bad bank matter - but probably not in the way that seems most obvious.
There's an off-the-cuff quality to the storytelling here -- the movie rewrites its own laws of physics whenever it's convenient to do so -- which by rights should be a bigger problem than it is.
It is a given that these kids will contribute in many ways both on and off the field to the quality of life at their respective institutions and these schools will be the richer for it.
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You can choose to hire 2 quality employees at a slightly higher rate and 10 barely average employees at a lower rate and hope that the skills of the two quality persons rub off on the others.
When using one of the advanced shooting modes such as Handheld Night Scene, HDR Backlight Control or Multi- Shot Noise Reduction, multiple images are taken and combined within the camera to help create the best quality image based off of the shots taken.
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Verizon, the company that first differentiated itself on network quality, is selling off low band spectrum and acquiring high band spectrum.
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Well, some did in a dispute with the quality control managers: or according to another version the quality control managers stormed off in a huff.
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CoupTessa is self-funded and employs 40 people who committed to its valued of high quality, 50% off pricing, elegance, excellence, pride and a passionate interest in learning what women want.
Professor Hugh Pennington was speaking after a report, published in the Sunday Mail, said low quality beef was passed off as lamb in one in three curries tested by the Food Standards Agency.
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Ninian Park's dilapidated demeanour and proximity to the action has certainly added to its intimidating quality that has seen off so many cup giants, a unique trait that Cardiff will no longer be able to rely on.
PwC is still expected to go to trial in a class action claim for overtime by its California audit associates that could blow the lid off what they say about audit quality versus what they really do.
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Counterparties like Goldman Sachs, knowing it could use the bankruptcy laws to force AIG to sell high quality assets to pay off its gambling debts, played them like a Vegas card sharp never losing a minute of sleep worrying that the rube might go broke.
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Digital filmmaking is taking off as a cheap but high-quality alternative to movies printed on expensive film.
" Johnathan Poon, Microsoft's current quality assurance guru, finished off the tongue-lashings by prompting Steve Jobs to "contact Poon if he needed someone to advise on how to improve quality checks.
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You're greeted with a solid plastic box that holds your documents, a branded mousepad, toolkit, T-Shirt and a hand-written quality-assurance sign-off sheet from the person who tested and set up your gear.
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The company line up to now has been that walling off content allows for a sort of quality control, assuring that apps are developed specifically for the unique form factor of its devices.
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