The reason any of this matters is that what is being sold is largely a small-business bank - almost two-thirds of its loans are to businesses, especially smaller ones - and right now one of the alleged great scandals of the British economy is the great shortage of choice for small businesses in the provision of vital finance.
The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.
Well, one of the big ones -- one of the big ones is the ability for hedge fund managers and others to pay tax on their income at a capital gains rate.
Having lost their houses - and loved ones in many cases - no one is rushing to horde food.
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Serving as a psychological canary in the coalmine of your life, warning you to re-evaluate the wisdom inherent in following one particular path relative to alternative ones.
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So, you have to pay a lot of attention to overbought and oversold oscillators, and these could be very long-term ones that run from one to three to five months, so that you are buying at the bottom of a relative strength cycle instead of buying at the top.
Potentially, this could allow one resonant-tunnelling transistor to substitute for dozens of conventional ones.
"Those banners outperformed the other ones two-to-one, " he said.
Let me tell you, I am -- like that precious little one right there -- many precious little ones. (Applause.) I am so thrilled to be here, and I am thrilled that I will be coming back here to North Carolina next month for our convention.
The idea behind the credit was a decent one: to target more money at poor retired people than at better-off ones, while keeping down the cost to the Treasury.
The easy gains had already been made: small local lines were now large regional ones, slashing time-consuming handovers from one line to the next that had long plagued the industry.
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Apple has been known to release a major upgrade every couple of years and do minor updates in the in-between ones. 2013 is slated to be one of those minor upgrades year, giving competitors a chance to come out with something mind-blowing.
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According to Lehman Brothers, positive surprises in the third-quarter results are outpacing negative ones by almost five to one.
One example I found interesting is that there are many bigger start-ups poised to acquire smaller ones with interesting products but perhaps weaker sales capabilities.
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Four truckers whose rigs were blown off Interstate 29 were the only ones hospitalized -- one with a punctured lung -- due to this particular tornado, the National Weather Service said.
Nevertheless, one of the easiest criticisms one can make of Apple--that it moves to bump off older models with stylish new ones as often as it can--doesn't hold up this time.
An interest-rate gap is opening between currencies like the dollar and the yen on the one hand, where monetary policy is likely to remain ultra-loose, and higher-yielding ones like the euro on the other.
One of these is known as bypass, or disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying interconnection fees.
One possible function for a modern WPA would be to go to neighborhoods--particularly poor and working class ones--and insulate houses.
In other words, none of the offices that are going to be closed are the ones that taxpayers rely on for walk-in one on one assistance.
What about takeovers by private-sector banks of public ones, a seemingly obvious route to consolidation and one that some private bankers would like to follow?
Today, Fred Wilson, now heading Union Square Ventures, is one of the financial backers of Tumblr, a company he invested in early, seeing it grow to become one of the top 25 sites on the internet and one of the fastest-growing ones on mobile devices.
But I'm one of the lucky ones who has a husband -- and a co-parent -- who wants to be involved.
You will find yourself in the midst of a sensory assault as you soak up the aroma of roast chicken and bratwurst, pick out a colourful gingerbread heart to take home to your loved ones and avert your gaze from the pimply-faced teen who has had one beer too many.
Unlike the larger Kuiper-belt objects, comet-sized ones would be too faint to show up in a single photograph even one taken by the mighty Hubble.
Research has identified at least six possible growth-inhibiting proteins in the spinal cord, and no one knows how many need to be turned off or which ones are most important.
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