People often compare the higher education and health care markets.
One method analysts often compare is the valuation recovery ratio.
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Information in these areas is often confusing, difficult to compare, and varies among markets.
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These benefits are often discounted in studies that compare earnings of civilians and veterans.
Ramezani used this measure to correct for the fact that high-growth companies also tend to collapse more often, making it impossible to compare portfolios with different growth characteristics over a number of years.
Timing and context is everything in sports, and changes to the game and rules and technology often render comparisons moot (how you compare between eras in a sport like tennis, for example, where players once used wooden spatulas compared with the carbon-fiber lightsabers they use now, is beyond me.) After a while, it becomes clear that these "greatest ever" debates are more about the provocations than the resolutions.
When big, controlled clinical trials designed to compare two medicines emerge, the results often resemble what Graham managed with a supposedly less-sensitive study.
This concept, which appears on the surface to be quite benign, is typically used to compare the costs of acquiring a customer (often referred to as SAC, which stands for Subscriber Acquisition Costs) with the discounted positive cash flows that will come from that customer over time.
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Still, Mr. Newnam says he prefers talk of TV minutiae to that of viral videos, which often cause guests to whip out phones and laptops so they can compare YouTube clips.
Not only are these shops better skilled to measure you and assess your needs, they often sell more than one brand of custom bike and can help you compare.
Furthermore, diversified firms often report EV only for their life divisions, making it harder still to compare companies on a consistent basis.
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And politicians in India, often cursed by their constituents for flocking to disasters to show their concern, compare rather well with a US president whose first big gesture after Katrina's damage became evident is to cut a five-week vacation short by two days to give the matter his full attention.
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Computer makers, for example, often sell many different models, in countless configurations, in part so that it is hard to compare their machines with those of rivals.
Previous work has shown that parents and offspring can often be paired from the smell of such T-shirts, so the judges were asked to compare the scent of each child's T-shirt with that of two T-shirts worn by men, and identify the shirt that had been worn by the child's father.
Small cities often look appealing because of high average incomes, but a city with a MAC population of 150, 000 cannot compare with cities that have more than 1 million MAC consumers, even if the latter have lower average disposable incomes.
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