Some people believe that active funds have an edge over index funds, at least in some categories.
Drilling down deeper, to the city level, could tap the richest veins for some categories in some geographies.
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Five other airlines -- Atlantic Southeast, Comair, ExpressJet, Mesa and Pinnacle -- didn't get an overall grade because some categories couldn't be completed.
She hailed some signs of improvement, noting that HMRC "has tried to be smarter and sharper" and "made welcome inroads into tackling some categories".
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Some categories fared better than others, but none showed an increase.
In some categories, such as textbooks, digital books are growing rapidly.
"There are many things that Google does that concern privacy advocates, but in some categories, they get an A, " said Paul Stephens, the group's director for policy and advocacy.
For example: In some categories, without a price increase, you would need to increase volume 8% to accomplish the same thing that a 4% increase in price would accomplish with flat volume.
In some categories, the most important driver.
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His only gestures in the direction of fiscal responsibility were to propose reforming corporate tax, increasing some taxes on the very rich and extending a freeze on some categories of discretionary spending, all of them tiny parts of the overall picture.
We continue to see wholesale collapse of some product categories that are seeing their functionality absorbed by tablets and smart phones.
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The tariff exemptions have helped some export categories grow as much as 40% a year, creating work apart from the narco fare that keeps neighboring Colombia so busy.
By contrast, wages in the middle and lower portion of the wage distribution have been more stagnant, and for some occupational categories, wages have even declined over this period, particularly between 2000 and 2009.
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You should also consider variables like prescription drug benefits and the number of allowable doctor visits or hospital stays per year. eHealthinsurance.com allows users to compare up to four plans at a time, across some 25 categories and exceptions.
However, that position is dictated by the small number of system integrators who have managed to survive since the Cold War ended in military aircraft, armored vehicles and warships, making any further consolidation a step toward monopoly in some weapons categories.
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In some high involvement categories with longer sales cycles, consideration and loyalty can also play a role, but research has shown that loyalty especially can be misleading.
While long-standing luxury brands will most likely be fine if they deliver true quality and the high level of service well-heeled consumers expect, some other brand categories probably won't survive this new era of non-gratuitous spending.
And some outranked the U.S not only in those categories but also in some areas that would seem to be American strong suits, including venture capital availability, where the U.S. placed seventh and availability of scientists and engineers, where the U.S. ranked fifth.
Some of the server categories include: SPARC enterprise servers, CoolThread servers, x64 servers and high-end servers.
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Footwear, accessories and beauty are some of the strongest categories at retail today.
The BLS breaks down some fields into several categories, like physical therapist aides, physical therapist assistants, and simply, physical therapists.
The company further said that it will reverse some increases in product categories where its market share was eroding.
According to the latest numbers from the Association of American Publishers, revenue for ebooks for some of the biggest categories grew by 41% in 2012.
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Pier 1 introduced a mobile site in September 2012 and has plans to make some new items and categories such as bath towels and bedding available exclusively online.
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He labeled rivals Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry as soft on illegal immigrants for suggesting some leniency for specific categories, such as students or long-time community members.
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The breakdown of spending from a typical consumer is as follows: 7.5 percent on groceries, 5 percent on dining out, 4.5 percent on gas, 2 percent on travel, 1 percent on rotating categories that some cards offer on a quarterly basis, and 0.5 percent on department stores.
And while it is mostly a select group of financial, automotive and insurance firms that have hit consumers hardest with lies, liens and laissez-faire attitudes, the collateral damage in the form of worry and cynicism is affecting all brands in all categories in some way or another.
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