DuPont, it seems, took the shorter end of a short stick.
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Worse still, in a desperate attempt to make the weekend, McIlroy gave up on his new sponsor's putter the Nike Method and went back to his tried and trusted short stick, one designed by Scotty Cameron and made by Nike's archrival of the golf manufacturing world, Titleist.
Investors seeking short-term alternatives to cash should stick to short-term TIPS, preferably those that mature within five years.
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So in short, desktops will stick around for a while, as YCharts told you earlier.
Some gear qualifies for very generous tax treatment while other investments get the short end of the stick.
Given a stick too short to be useful, and a stone of the right size, they chose the stone.
People don't mind paying their share as long as they know they're not getting the short end of the stick.
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The laws of physics necessitate that somebody or some thing is going to get the short end of the stick.
This has sparked a quick reaction by many parties that considered they are getting the short end of the stick.
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Investors who were sold the high yield, good credit story for emerging markets are getting the short end of the stick.
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Gaming is an adult hobby now, and we adults get the short end of the stick compared to our youthful counterparts at least when it comes to managing time.
Investors seeking longer-term protection against inflation should also stick with short-term TIPS. Even though long-term TIPS might offer higher real rates of return, they are much more volatile, Mr. Friedrich says.
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He has admitted asset bubbles are a negative side effect, or a cost as he puts it, of low rates, and has acknowledged savers are getting the short end of the stick.
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"Unless a plan is doing well on everything, patients are getting the short end of the stick, " says Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group and an author of the report.
The problem is the archaic business model which allowed free reign for distributors and marketeers to reap increasingly larger profits for the "middle men, " while creators often got the short end of the stick.
The most notable statistics show that sales of a game are split 70-30 between the developer and Steam, whereas retail copies are 70-30 the other way, with developers getting the short end of the stick while retailers take a bigger chunk of the pie.
Despite the rapid and incremental pace of innovation, devices have gotten the short end of the regulatory stick.
He lives with his wife and baby daughter in a mud shack so small that, if he were not so short, his feet would stick out of the door when he lay down to sleep.
Those who get the short end of the tax stick today will use all of their influence to drive down rates and, if they can get away with it, convince Congress to add a beneficial tax break or two.
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The Fed is expected to stick with its plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent.
In short: Steve Jobs convinced us today to stick with a new iPhone for two more years and not buy an Android device.
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