Some sort of value-added or sales tax, by contrast, would be at once more effective and more incendiary.
The challenge will be to route the notifications to the right populations of end users, systems, and things and learn when some sort of value has been created.
One part of Google is busy creating indexes of online information while at the same time filtering out "spam, " which in this context means Web sites whose only function is to make money off the fact you land on them, without providing any sort of "value-added" information in the process.
It remains to be seen if social media applications of this sort are a good value for advertising dollars, but if it is the case, Starz has a big headstart on their competitors.
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It turns out that most of the governments in the world have some sort of stable-value policy, in this way also giving up most, if not all, of any ambitions to manage their economies with money-jiggering.
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This is typically represented by a value link of some sort, either to gold, or perhaps another major international currency.
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The Bank of England, whose job is to maintain the value of a different sort of currency, has been doing rather well since it became fully independent in 1997.
One particular attraction is that businesses supposedly pay the money and thus will roll the costs into the prices they charge for their goods and services, a sort of energy version of the value-added tax.
There is value, albeit a different sort, attached to that sort of frictionless communication.
And high-volume, low-value cement is not the sort of stuff in which you can expand just by exporting.
Academics say the decision is economically illogical because small-scale safety improvements offer best value for money on the sort of financial analysis demanded by the Treasury.
When the network becomes as fast as the backplane of your computer, the computer hollows out, its components dispersing across the Web, its value migrating to search and sort functions.
If those proposing the reform of the financial markets know so little about the financial markets that they can make this sort of mistake: well, what value their plans for reform of the financial markets?
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That, though, actually makes Apollo the sort of stock that would pop up on value investors' screens.
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As computers hollow out, value migrates to the search and sort function.
But some critics contend that some of these mines are ripe for the sort of expansion that could greatly boost their value when times are less tough.
"It's a different sort of sponsorship within football, and I think it represents value given the breadth of coverage, " Masters said.
Step 1 must be to establish some sort of inventory of what assets are under IT management and what value they provide to the business.
In a summary of TARP efforts on Thursday, Geithner pointed out that prime fixed-rate securities, the sort once envisioned as purchases for the program, have increased in value by 40% as liquidity has come back to markets.
Thinking about cars as a platform raises the prospect that someone could produce a sort of operating system for that platform and capture a huge share of the value, as Apple did with its iPod and iPhone and as Microsoft did with personal computers.
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The key to creating value from external data is to get as many people involved as possible using the sort of technologies mentioned in this article.
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Murdoch made what seemed like a sort of preposterous offer for the company, offering two thirds over what was then the stock value for the company a month ago when he made this unsolicited bid.
More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
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