The second half of the year should see an improvement in the margins in the absence of one time investments associated with the product launches and a higher price that is typically associated with a model upgrade.
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One of them is an assumption that the market trends higher over time.
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It also stated that higher fuel costs, on top of a slew of one-time charges, are expected to damage full-year earnings.
Single-family home prices are only higher because institutional investors are buying up distressed properties, one at a time and in bulk, as fast as their flash cash can fly.
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This was just one of the many advantages Dell enjoyed during this time, which enabled it to charge higher prices and make PCs at a lower than industry-average cost.
Profits for the quarter were 66 cents a share, ahead of the Street at 58 cents, and were even higher if you back out 7 cents a share in various one-time charges.
Estimates have broadly come down in the past sixty days, with only one estimate going higher in the past month, compared to five lower in the same time period.
Chief Executive Reed Hastings, who boasted on the social-media site that the streaming-video company had exceeded one billion hours in a month for the first time, sending the firm's shares higher.
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After several hours, including a lot of time with a Blackberry technician and after following the instruction he got from one of the higher-level engineers at RIMM, I had to give up.
One example is grade inflation, the tendency for comparable academic performance to be awarded higher grades over time.
While Facebook is the number one site U.S. mobile users spend time on line, mobile usage of the social network is even higher in most emerging markets, Facebook Vice President of corporate development Vaughan Smith said at the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley in San Jose on Friday.
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Users always seem to adjust to higher prices, but the global economy has limits to how much shock it can absorb at any one time.
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While JDate doesn't publicly release its algorithms, at the time of my experiment I observed that the more popular profiles come up higher in search results, allowing one to get a quick-and-dirty ranking of who's hot (or not).
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