And you can see if that number's going up or it's going down, and based on when it's going up or how far it's going up and how quickly it's going down, you can predict when they may outgrow it or whether they will outgrow it at all.
Forget the gentle-paced table tennis played out in a mate's garage or down the youth club, the first to 21 points quick to gloat about his or her superior talent.
Instead it is getting 30 days to secure a potential tie-up with Italy's Fiat or shut down.
But there are periods when it either loses money because the market's down or it underperforms the market.
If the signal falls somewhere between integers, it's rounded up or down to the nearest one (known as quantization).
The model indicates that 77% of companies have what RiskMetrics terms "aggressive" pay profiles, meaning the chief executive's paycheck moves up or down more than 10% if the stock moves up or down 10%.
If something gets in the way of the door--a person's foot or a roof panel that's hanging down--the electric motor that closes the train door has to work harder and produces more current.
Forrester sees European tech spending down 7.7% in U.S. dollars this year, or down 2.5% in local currencies.
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Or in motor cars: should we be whooping for Jaguar Land Rover's global success, or toning it down because the owner of the group is Indian Tata?
"Nobody's sending missile technology or weapons down to Cuba, " he says.
And so I promise you this -- whether it's me coming down here or my Cabinet or other members of my administration -- we will not forget about New Orleans.
For those athletes that will have a drive - whether it's down to ExCel or the O2 or across to Wembley or the rowers who have a drive to Eton Dorney - you have to have absolute confidence that the transport system will get you where you want on time.
By then, either the UK's ambitions on the global stage may have to be scaled down, or the UK's armed forces may need more resources to fulfil those tasks.
Atop the controller sits an infrared sensor which activates a game's zoom in or scope function when it detects a user's looking down the barrel.
He spent the next two days in the bushes outside Mr. Ammann's apartment, sitting in his friend's favorite bar or driving up and down his street.
His goal is to create molecules unknown to nature but adept at serving humans by absorbing environmental toxins, fighting cancer or extending Moore's Law down to the atomic scale.
While friends and family may be afraid to comment on a child's physique or put the excess weight down to "puppy fat", a doctor should not ignore tackling the issue openly with parents who may be in denial.
Here's the vicious financial logic: if the only way to take the eurozone's debt crisis down a notch or two is for the resources of the bailout fund to be increased, that would mean Germany and France making greater financial commitments to the fund.
During summers at the Homestead, you can opt for a meal in the formal dining room, head to Sam Snead's Tavern down the road, or do as most seem to: just hang out at the barbecue on the great lawn, mingling with your fellow guests.
He couldn't care less about the quality of management inside his companies (how do you quantify that?) or about who will win U.S. presidential elections or whether hemlines are headed up or down.
He will not face a significant challenge either from within his own party or from any other party no matter how he comes down on issues like Alon's appointment or the Court's radicalism.
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Britain's FTSE 100 share index was down 110.10 points, or 1.7%, at 6, 522.70 points, France's CAC-40 fell 100.67 points, or 1.7%, to 5, 977.87 points, and Germany's Dax index of 50 leading shares was down 189.78 points, or 2.4%, at 7, 730.05 points on Wednesday afternoon.
Citigroup's Sandy Weill will either go down as Wall Street's savior...or Wall Street's goat.
Under that authority any trade agreement the U.S. negotiates must be voted up or down without amendments by Congress.
Do you think that it is still within people's control to stop it or slow it down?
It's probably much better when it's collecting signals or looking from the satellite down at missile sites.
Did President Putin of Russia indicate any desire on Russia's part for Assad to step down or to leave power?
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