"The act of savings is fundamentally about understanding that your future self - the person you're saving for - is in some sense equivalent to your present self, " Prof Chen told the BBC's Business Daily.
There is not much time to take decisions about the future of the Colonial Office before it becomes a mere shell of its present active self.
Having built on his inheritance, Thapar insists most of his present wealth is self-made.
Jobs was a presenter, but he was not professional, and he certainly did not present his true self, not even to himself.
The applicants were told to present a financially self-sustaining venture that would be able to scale up to serve the needs of at least 1 million people with demonstrable customer validation through sales or pilots.
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"Gauguin was not present at the supposed self-mutilation, " he told Le Figaro newspaper in France.
The Self-Confessed Independents probably present a slightly more shootable duck than most of the alternatives.
It is tempting to say the reforms have gone further, bringing to Australians a clarity of self-perception not always present in the past.
"If the economy continues along the present course, we will see a self-sustaining recovery in the second half of this year, " he says.
That would bring more self-determination than at present, but not much.
Workers know logically that they need to save more for retirement, but they struggle to forgo present consumption, owing to lack of self-control, an emotional bias.
Given this lack of regulation of consultants, it is not surprising that many consulting firms offer services which present outrageous conflicts of interest and opportunities for self-dealing.
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Although Lloyd's in its present incarnation is a shadow if its former self, its geographic reach and the range of policies that it can offer are still formidable.
Other large tax expenditure provisions that I did not include in this experiment include the earned income tax credit, the child credit, the exclusion of employer provided and self-employed health benefits, and the present law treatment of various forms of retirement income and pension plans.
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There are examples of this kind of influence of technology on self-conception and politics right up to our present day.
Fashion, like automobiles, is one of those social avatars we use to present ourselves to the world and, importantly, create the self we want to be.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
First, while the prosecution was unconvinced by Zimmerman's self-defense claim, he is still entitled to present it to the jury at trial.
Their first conference, where I will have the privilege to present next week, is the reunion of the very vibrant community of self-quantifiers.
Holding a mirror to the candidate, guiding him or her through a process of self-reflection, will help to refine the way they present themselves so that they communicate their unique story, experience and goals in an authentic way.
This is not about self-promotion, but rather how you can be more bold, present new ideas, create a followership, and earn the right to be sponsored at work.
Past that, the rumored -- and self-portrait friendly -- 180 degree tilt-screen is also present, which'll likely give the C3 an edge over its siblings when it comes to composing shots.
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However, unbeknown to Plaintiff, what Spartz would later present as a joint venture agreement turned out to be nothing more than an artifice of self-dealing.
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