Despite such problems, ministers can point to some positive results from the New Deal.
However the report found some important positive point, with most schools providing at least two hours of PE a week for pupils aged five to 14.
Ironically, one consistent positive point on the GS4 was a the fact that you could turn all of these whizz-bang features off, and push the phone into Easy Mode.
Last year, most global mutual funds had very little in Asia, hence at that point any little positive news could push the market as the funds, having made money elsewhere, returned.
If they fully succeed in this vendetta, it is a major positive inflection point for sentiment towards these properties.
But REIT executives say the outlook is positive and point to strong dividends, cash flow and demand from small to medium-size tenants.
An optimist may point out that the positive variation in the first month of the second quarter could suggest better days ahead.
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Wold says a higher price point would provide a positive offset to increasing costs, in particular for any shift in what it pays the studios for access to their content.
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From Greece's vantage point, these are positive developments.
First Mitt Romney showed his weakness as an executive manager, as the leader of a disciplined team doing the best possible job to meet a crucial organizational goal, the goal of making the Republican convention a positive turning point of his campaign, especially in its single most crucial hour.
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Many economists, Ms Gandhi and Mr Walton point out, find a positive association between growth and self-made billionaire wealth, but a negative one with inherited wealth.
This put the trader on notice to watch the action the following week, as the bullish divergence (higher OBV at point 2 then at point 1) was a positive sign.
But those who hope it is the start of a positive trend can point to a recent change in corporate law in the state of Delaware, which took effect on August 1st, to make it easier to introduce such reimbursement bylaws.
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In reality the central bank will point to recent pockets of positive economic news, already low yields, which would arguably mitigate much of any lead they might take to encourage borrowing and might even spin the positive impact of the U.S. credit-rating downgrade.
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If you make a point of enjoying yourself, your positive attitude will be contagious.
The second worst year was the 2002 downturn, but even then the index was in positive territory at this point, up just 2%.
The rally is working from a starting point of depressing sentiment with potentially positive catalysts that can come from corporate earnings season that starts with Alcoa on Tuesday afternoon.
With this as a starting point, we pull tremendous amounts of positive energies from new ideas and people.
The key point is that the firms reporting these positive consequences are the firms that have chosen to pay this wage.
When it is defined by whether individuals put forth extra effort, from a performance point of view it is a performance positive.
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The Dow Jones industrial average, down triple digits earlier Wednesday, was off 35 points, to 14, 525, while the Nasdaq turned positive with a 2-point gain to 3, 254.
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If you are an outside presenter, involve the meeting planner in finding the action of someone in that audience that is a positive example for each supporting point.
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"If the market can turn positive from the technical analysis point of view, I would take that as a sign that it has discounted the bad news, " says Appel.
Though he had no hard data, his intuition was that increasing humanness in a robot was positive only up to a certain point.
She figures the second half of 2009 will bring some improvement to the big luxury chains, but not to the point of comp sales breaking even or turning positive.
One last thing I would point out, keeping housing prices down is a positive good, in my book.
Shares in Knight Capital fell as much as 8% at one point, before recovering and even making it to positive territory.
Initial impressions of the iPad Mini are overwhelmingly positive, despite the significantly higher price point for its smaller tablet, than its competitors.
What I complain of is not only that this theory in its various forms has unduly usurped the central place in monetary theory, but that the point of view from which it springs is a positive hindrance to further progress.
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