The selectors sprung a surprise by picking 20-year-old batsman Jean-Paul Duminy for the one-day squad.
Trading traffic is heaviest in the front month where investors are picking up out-of-the-money calls at every available strike price.
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But Warren Buffett remains a market cheerleader, but of course advocating his life-long beliefs in picking the right, well-researched stock-picking situations.
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Hager is the Swiss-born octogenarian whose high-risk stock-picking style helped him and his followers amass--and then partially lose--a fortune in technology stocks.
To this has to be added the cost of treating health insurance like a utility: regulating prices and stopping insurers cherry-picking and lemon-dropping.
Nonunionized carriers like CNF (nyse: CNF - news - people ) are picking off business with a lower-cost and more flexible work force.
His Buyback Index is up 195% since its inception in March 1997, and The Hulbert Financial Digest rates the newsletter as the number one stock-picking letter over a five-year period.
Enter the Surrender Retreat, a four-day program at Montage in which clients let the experts--the spa staff--determine the best treatments and services for them, rather than cherry-picking from some strange-sounding names on a menu.
Interestingly (at least for a flagship), it appears to be a dual-SIM version, with the mono-SIM version apparently picking up model number GT-i9500 -- a number that would fit in with the series so far.
The way in which Frank recovered from the crash--maintaining his system of picking out-of-favor, undervalued stocks and riding them back up--impressed his young assistant and taught him a lot about the value of patience and persistence--in investing and in life.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) security expert Jesper Johansson says one of the prime directives of password picking--don't write it down--forces users to choose simple and insecure words, since that's all they can remember.
The way these private insurance companies save money is by designing and marketing plans to attract the youngest and healthiest seniors -- cherry-picking -- leaving the older and sicker seniors in traditional Medicare, where they have access to a wide range of doctors and guaranteed care.
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Quirky a notion as a restaurant with reasonable wine prices might be, it's only appropriate, then, that we also gave the value-wine-picking assignment to irreverent, north-of-the-border wine writer Natalie Maclean, author of Red, White and Drunk All Over and editor of the free newsletter Nat Decants.
Rivals like Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) have been picking off Merrill's big-producing brokers with upfront offers as high as 190 basis points--approximately two times a year's worth of client fees.
He served seven-and-a-half months of a year jail term but was arrested again in 1949 after picking up a 16-year-old male hitchhiker.
Chet Atkins, Danny was also - really could play that style of a sort of self-accompanied finger-picking, and it was great to see Danny be all of my favorites rolled up into one.
In the past, Twitter has taken flack for cherry-picking product features from other third-party developers or just acquiring certain developers that make those features.
"--he pauses, picking his words--"for a way of impacting more ... more than a narrow community of scientists.
In the Latin America countries (not including Brazil), Lenovo recorded its first-ever overall double-digit market share, while picking up 4.1 share points year-over-year.
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Or, I wondered, was it possible that Ms. Pipes was simply cherry-picking the data to continue her ever-escalating tirade against the Affordable Care Act?
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Dr Himmelstein worries that market pressures are forcing not-for-profits to adopt the tactics of their investor-owned rivals, such as hand-picking only the healthiest applicants and giving physicians financial incentives to cut costs.
Top executives may like being at the hub of a vast, pulsing enterprise, picking up a moment-to-moment sense of what everyone is doing.
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But if you talk to Cantor Fitzgerald employees now - which the press are not picking up on - every couple of weeks or so, each one of those employees will get a call from the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald to see how they're doing and whether there's anything they actually need.
' Over a dinner of a chicken impaled and roasted on a spike, its head still attached, with fiddlehead ferns and whole sprouting peanuts, the owner of the plantation put a different angle to me: 'Picking tea - it's women's work - it always has been.
Advertisers like Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) are picking up on what attracts guys to cable shows such as Comedy Central's South Park.
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If the specifications are real, the 8X would bear more in common with the Droid Incredible 4G LTE, sharing its 1.2GHz dual-core chip, 8-megapixel rear camera, Beats Audio and NFC while picking up a slightly larger 4.3-inch screen and 16GB of storage.
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The Zii EGG is a developer platform, after all, but Creative says the platform is "market-ready" for picking up by OEMs for production -- hopefully they aren't far removed from shoehorning a 3G chipset in there somewhere as well.
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On day three, a troop of baboons go about their daily grooming and tick-picking tasks with nonchalance, ignoring both the camera-toting hikers and the dollops of yellow foam blowing off the angry sea.
He made his big splash in 1973 with his best-selling takedown of stock-picking, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, in which he illustrated the futility of accurately predicting future stock prices, noting how a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock page of a newspaper could pick winners as well as a Wall Street professional.
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If you knew the market was headed up, picking the best funds to buy would be as simple as picking the riskiest ones--since funds buying high-risk growth stocks do the best during bull markets.
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