The fund's stock-picking process includes a scan of companies growing faster than their peers, a risk evaluation of balance sheets and the stability of cash flows, and a hard look at valuation, to see if a stock is worth the price.

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This year, children also had a role in the judging process with 400 school pupils picking their favourite book.

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The quartet are part of an eight-strong group who have just graduated from 848 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton, picking up their "wings" in the process.

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Customers began to shift accounts to other credit-card firms, a process that requires little more effort than picking up the post in the morning.

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You can blame the initiative process and the uneducated voters who try to vote themselves rich by picking their own pockets.

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Picking an enthusiast like Dr Cline also could suggest that climate was being taken seriously by the Copenhagen process.

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