For the authors, their trade deficits with Cambridge restaurants, airlines taking them to junkets around the world, and Newbury Street clothiers are their certain rewards for trade surpluses run with their employers at HBS, the publisher of their book, and the businesses that pay them consulting fees in return for the kind of advice that would bankrupt most any business if actually followed.
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All I ask in return is an acknowledgment that the kind of politics I favor and argue for in this book is also well within the bounds of the Anglo-American conservative tradition.
There is still uncertainty about when mature car markets will return to the kind of sales seen in the decade up to 2007 (according to IHS Global Insight it will not be for at least four years) and who will be the winners and losers among the big carmakers.
And I note, as I have in the past, that he hopes and believes that there will be at some point a return to the kind of bipartisan support for comprehensive immigration reform that we used to have in this country, led by his predecessor as President, Republican George W. Bush, and the Republican nominee for President in the last election, John McCain, Senator of Arizona.
In the private equity business that kind of return doesn't happen very often, especially with figures as big as these (see table).
With Tuesday's bounce from the previous day's big declines, stocks saw a return to the kind of resilience that has impressed investors in recent months.
Although Tiger did win a tournament late last year, his first victory of any kind in almost two years, a full return to form is far from a sure thing.
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Simply put, kindness tends to return to those who do kind deeds, as Aesop demonstrated in his colorful fable of a little mouse cutting the net to free the big lion.
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Simply put, kindness tends to return to those who do kind deeds, as Aesop demonstrated in his colourful fable of a little mouse cutting the net to free the big lion.
Doing this kind of work you receive something very valuable in return.
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In a belief system inherited from the Aztecs, Mexicans believe their dead are lurking in Mictlan, a kind of spiritual waiting room, and they can return to their homes at this time of year.
It would require big cultural and economic reforms, such as a significant increase in numbers of teenagers choosing apprenticeships rather than higher education, and a return onshore of the kind of component makers that have fled to Asia.
All it takes for you to land that kind of return is a pair of children no more than four years apart, expensive tastes in private schools and family finances that would entitle you to a smidgen of aid when just one attends.
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