Some characteristics are beyond their control: When the interest rates tick downward, loan applications flood through the door.
There are some characteristics of a nuclear fission reactor that will be common to every nuclear fission reactor.
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Platinum also has some characteristics of a precious metal, but its primary use is industrial, specifically catalytic converters in motor vehicles.
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Great Idea Corp. is a company that may provide a return for investors but may have some characteristics that make it more difficult than usual to evaluate.
Some characteristics work better than others, so play these up.
Box Home Loans has some characteristics that are unique to the mortgage industry, but there are aspects of what Brown and his company are experiencing that apply to us all.
As the two battle it out, each increasingly has assumed some characteristics of the other, with Amazon stretching into Google's realms of online advertising, video streaming, applications and devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Simultaneously, the current generation of young workers and savers has some interesting characteristics on their own.
The authors discuss some important characteristics of the Swedish system that may contribute to the success.
Okay, so network security is not quite as sexy as stealth fighters, but it does share some important characteristics.
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ETFs have some attractive characteristics and provide individual investors an easy way to gain sector or broad market exposure.
Management practices such as lifetime employment and placing workers' welfare first supposedly reflect some inherent characteristics of Japanese behaviour.
McGhee, like McLeish, leaned on Ferguson for advice when embarking on the coaching route and they share some key characteristics.
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Compared to tropical or refined destinations, Clark County, Nevada has some appealing characteristics in the midst of an economic slump.
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In their biographies we can see some typical characteristics of Chechen life.
But growth also brought inflation, which crippled Brazil until the mid-1990s and still accounts for some odd characteristics, such as the country's painfully high interest rates and its disinclination to save.
Although the authors note that the findings in the paper still require further study, they noted some interesting characteristics of each planet, labeled b, c, d and e in the image to the right.
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For most people, the value of their employment exceeds the value of their assets by a wide margin, and this asset has some special characteristics that make it differ from typical items on a balance sheet or brokerage statement.
They assessed the degree of sprawl in each county and then looked at some key health characteristics.
Ciena also has some appealing value characteristics, though pessimists could still argue that it's a bloated beast.
Beijing had some very interesting characteristics: Michael Phelps swam live during prime time, gymnastics was live.
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Some of the characteristics are exactly the profile of your typical embezzler and the profile of the Crundwell case and other characteristics are not.
Then we dig around and look for companies that can exhibit some of the characteristics that give them a real competitive edge in terms of maintaining margins, etc.
But while DARPA's "Terminator 2"-style morphing military robots may still be a long way off, many scientists are already working on robots that exhibit some of the characteristics required.
Volunteer Lenore Snyder, however, said that she did not want to be identified and as a result did not provide her zip code and some other identifying characteristics in her profile.
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Of course Waugh (who, truth to tell, likely never mistook a Bordeaux for a Burgundy in his life) might be faked- out if not flabbergasted by some of the characteristics that crop up in wine these days.
By traditional standards, this company, despite some strong fundamental characteristics, would seem like a dicey investment given that patent expirations are subjecting what had not long ago been around 40% of its revenue base to generic competition.
Some believe that the characteristics of gold, particularly its durability relative to most other commodities, make it uniquely suitable as a monetary base.
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