There are firms with trillions in assets that are very poor at managing money.
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Economic migration can only be seriously challenged by improving opportunities for the poor at home.
Underwater visibility in the Foyle is very poor at the best of times making identification difficult.
Great investors and traders, like great sportsmen or artists, can be poor at explaining what they do.
In any case, there is some evidence that the rich do better than the poor at linking pay and performance.
Young children who are poor at mentally dividing spoken words into phonemes almost always develop dyslexia later on.
The two portly gentlemen tend toward greed, but they also solicit donations for the poor at Christmastime.
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Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore noted that enterprise visibility is poor at best, with IT budgets being managed closely.
Older BlackBerrys are great communications devices, but are poor at multimedia and at running third-party apps, something the iPhone excels at.
That is not unusual for banks, which generally seem to be run by people who are excellent bankers but very poor at managing stuff.
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Even the modern iterations of growth and value, which seek to eliminate overlap between styles, have proven to be very poor at distinguishing exposure.
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Rohan Pershad QC, 44, had denied cheating the public revenue to pocket the cash over a 12-year period, saying he was "extremely poor at paperwork".
However, the banks are proving poor at handling the complaints fairly.
Nokia has traditionally been poor at communicating its user benefits, especially compared to its American competitors. 15 years of industry leadership lulled the company into arrogance and complacency.
But doctors remain famously poor at rooting out bad apples.
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Since his election on March 13, Francis has put the downtrodden and poor at the center of his mission as pope, keeping with the priorities of his Jesuit tradition.
Other critics, too, have questioned whether computers will really provide the educational boost that Negroponte preaches, in areas where formal schooling is poor at best and absent at worst.
England's strike-rate of 112.7 is better only than India and West Indies and while the latter are simply poor at powerplays India can point to being the best at conserving wickets.
When some of his new Wyoming oil wells caught fire, Anschutz, who was cash-poor at the time, managed to convince the famous oil firefighter Paul (Red) Adair to go there to put them out.
And being very poor at shooting free-throws is a killer in any basketball, and in college basketball specifically, because games will come down to the end, and your team will need to hit free-throws to win.
The gripe about Britain being poor at gestating bold entrepreneurs is an old one: the stereotype is of boffins who are good at generating ideas, but lose out to thrusting Americans when it comes to monetising them.
However, the greatest cost of job interviews is not the wasted time of the interviewer, it is the fact that they are poor at identifying how effective applicants will be if they are hired, and they can easily lead to lawsuits.
Based on the WebDAV standard, Bussmann says the goals are to make it as easy to use as iCloud or DropBox for both mobile devices and laptops (something SharePoint, what many companies use today, is poor at), while also providing the security only an internal, behind-the-firewall network can.
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We started to do some bizarre things, didn't pass the ball and gave away poor penalties at poor times.
Vulnerable children have been put at risk by poor management at Norfolk County Council, says a watchdog report.
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The idea behind the credit was a decent one: to target more money at poor retired people than at better-off ones, while keeping down the cost to the Treasury.
It was a period of turmoil, as the country's president Goodluck Jonathan at first banned the national side for two years after a poor showing at the 2010 World Cup before world ruling body FIFA threatened even harsher sanctions, and the ruler backed down.
Bell, who made a pair in the 2005 Ashes Test at The Oval and went into the match without a century in 31 previous innings at number three, had been moved up the order despite a poor display at Headingley where England were crushed by an innings and 80 runs.
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