Without formal education or valuable skills, it is hard to lift incomes much further.
Likewise, for cash-strapped startups, the idea of getting labor without having to trade liquidity or valuable equity can be too appealing to ignore.
Netflix, at least if you view it one way, has nothing particularly rare or valuable, so will find it difficult to carve out a profit.
Unless it saves our lives or heals what we've broken, most of what is described as health care doesn't make us more productive or valuable to our employers.
Did money or valuable goods change hands?
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Social media pioneers and early adopters learned that not all conversations are equal, relevant or valuable and engaging customers in a public dialog can backfire in costly ways if organizational processes and cultures are not appropriately aligned.
After all, the performance of the Facebook stock, the mistakes of the Nasdaq, the mistakes of bankers or its management team in and of itself should not have any bearing on how good or valuable other startup Internet or technology companies are.
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Item 22: Journalists are prohibited from taking bribes or accepting valuable gifts or favours from sources because it could influence directly or indirectly the content of news reporting.
Together, Dowling and his team of assistants determine whether their paintings, antiques or collectibles are valuable treasures or cheap fakes.
You can place cash, stock, real estate or other valuable assets in your trust.
It seemed fitting to put this issue in front of my Twitter and Facebook friends: Have you made or maintained valuable relationships online?
There is also a locator system, so if you know your phone or other valuable is in the home but cannot locate it, the app will find it for you.
Pushing a button on the Fob or tapping "Find Fob" icon from the Proximo App dashboard triggers an alarm that helps the user locate their phone, keys or other valuable items.
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Big changes include a phishing finder that alerts people when they stray on to a site that tries to trick them into handing over login details for a bank or other valuable service.
Last month the U.K.'s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre issued a major call for vigilance, noting 17 targeted Trojan horse attacks sent by e-mail that "appear to be covert gathering and transmitting of commercially or economically valuable information" from British companies and the government.
You try living with that sort of home life and it would not be surprising if you grew up thinking that you or anything that belongs to you is not valuable or wanted.
An hour spent one way will feel just as valuable (or just as non-valuable) as an hour spent some other way, with no method for discriminating between the two.
Inflation protected securities are more, or less, valuable to the degree that inflation is, or is not, a risk.
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Stocks are more, or less, valuable to the degree that growth rates and interest rates will be higher, or lower, in the future.
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Scams to hide money often involve handing cash or transferring ownership of valuable assets to buddies, siblings, or parents to hold until sometime after the divorce is final.
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But just because this population is an ideal place to mine for bad genes doesn't mean those genes will be found, or that once they are found they will lead to valuable drugs or even genetic tests.
Along with many other valuable or useful things, they were carried off to Baghdad.
Joe's acreage is easily developable, with the rest too remote or simply more valuable as timberland.
Not that there is anything bad, or necessarily less valuable, about managers.
We love ETFs, but they are not all equally valuable or useful.
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As a result, future generations of policy-makers risk missing or misapplying the valuable lessons of the Reagan era for the dangerous period to come.
Given those two insights, the question is whether that thing, service or expertise is valuable enough that some group of people will pay you for it.
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"Until recently these frames were not seen as a valuable or interesting part of art history, " explains Alan Montgomery, head of the Frames Department at Bonhams, the London auction house.
He was a noted expert on the development of diagnostic questionnaires and other assessment measures, and his work was influential in determining whether an assessment method was valuable or should be discarded.
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