For example, you don't maintain a specific balance in your account.

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"We look at the athlete's specific profile, his specific muscles balance or dominance patterns, and then we design a neuromuscular training program that helps him avoid injuries, " Hewett says.

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The key is to tiptoe carefully into a diversified group of high-yield names with specific maturities whose balance sheets are good and whose price moves, based on interest rate fluctuations (called duration), will be muted.

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Within the 24-year period, 67% of the years show negative net annual specific balances, with a cumulative mass balance loss of - 10.50 m water equivalent (w.e.).

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This creates very specific planning needs, as it is important to balance generating a consistent income that must last, in some cases, for up to 30 years with the risk of exhausting funds prematurely due to overspending or of loss due to poor investment choices and market performance.

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The safe companies have strong balance sheets and have had very little company-specific bad news.

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In particular, in order to accelerate the removal of non-performing loans from their balance sheets, banks are further asked to take specific measures to dispose, in essence, of half of such loans within a year and a large part (around 80%) within two years.

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For example, where there are many deposits to a bank account, some of which are allegedly structured and some of which are not, and there are many withdrawals from the bank account, so that the account balance turns over frequently, it is impossible to trace the balance in the account at any given time to one or more specific, allegedly structured, deposits.

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Swaps allow investors to tactically change or rebalance their portfolios for a specific period of time without having to transfer title to the assets currently on the balance sheet.

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