This year, the latter group is stepping up to the plate and beginning to place bets buoyed by the strength of current business results, strong balance sheets and their pent-up need to find growth.
Economists and analysts have ignored one brutal reality and continually overestimated the strength of the current recovery.
Its spokesmen credit the current strength of India's economy, expected to grow by at least 7% this year.
Predictions are that 28, 000 jobs will be scrapped, including 16, 000 police officers (almost an eighth of their current strength).
Poland's resilience in the downturn and its current strength owe a lot to private spending at home and a big fiscal stimulus.
Although central banks did not prevent the equity bear market of 2000-02, the current strength of the stockmarket suggests investors' faith in this put has not been eliminated.
If you hear any of them interviewed they will often reference those struggles not as the bad times, but as the inspiration for their current strength and drive.
But paradoxically, should the euro have a troubled birth and prove to be a weak currency, that could also be troublesome: sterling's current strength might then persist, forcing up the relative costs of manufacturing in Britain.
This is also a sign that current market strength is based upon pure speculation based upon a foolish monetary policy.
Today, many would agree that Germany's current economic strength is linked to the belt-tightening and painful measures undertaken in the name of Agenda 2010.
Clinton took the opportunity to criticize the Republicans' election platform and said he was working hard to ensure the current economic strength would continue.
That is because a permanent magnet's maximum strength is dictated by the material it is made from, while an electromagnet's strength depends on the current passing through it.
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One of the main flaws in the current system involves strength-of-field ratings used to determine how many points players earn for good performance.
The debate about the relationship of the stock market to the economy has gone on for many years, and many think that the current stock market strength is an aberration.
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The lagged effect of higher oil prices and yen strength will further reduce the Japanese current-account surplus and ultimately trigger a violent dollar rally against the yen.
Although overall confidence has remained largely unchanged since early July, responses in regard to current business conditions, sales strength, and investment in equipment and software have improved in recent weeks.
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Syria's greatest strength has also been its weakness in the current fight against rebels.
Simmons, who coached Zimbabwe in 2004-05, said the strength in depth in Ireland, who are current Under-19 and Under-17 European champions, convinced him to take the job.
Dan Sullivan's high relative strength stock picks are designed to ride out the current bull with maximum returns.
Washington is concerned that an insurgency is gaining strength in Pakistan and that the coalition's current policy of negotiating with militants is not working.
It isn't enough to compare the spread to its average, Mr. Fridson says, because the average doesn't reflect the current level of default risk, the strength of the economy, the yield on government bonds or the availability of credit.
Set to begin shipping in April of this year, the new bot is said to be 30 percent faster than the current generation model, boasting twice the gripping strength and able to drag larger objects and lift twice the weight of its predecessor.
He spoke to the Ohio audience about his "compassionate conservative" agenda to help out the less fortunate, rebuilding the morale and strength of the military, and protecting Social Security for current retirees and younger people under his partial privatization plan allowing for some investment in the stock market.
Mr. Jeffries is a coalition builder, which is a strength in a district that has become more diverse in its current incarnation.
Instead, the yen's strength is a by-product of private sector recycling of the current account surplus and international purchases of Japanese assets.
Ironically, the current weakness of the dollar, and the corresponding relative strength of the euro might yet dampen inflationary pressures in the euro area.
"Witnesses commented that the political strength of the chancellor of the exchequer was one factor explaining the current power and influence of the Treasury, " said the report.
But you still want to own dividend-paying stocks, consider only those with a record of stable earnings and a high Relative Strength ranking, because those stocks are holding up best in the current market.
The current BCS system uses human polls, computer rankings, and strength of schedule to match the top two teams in the country to play for the national championship, and the process has always been open to criticism.
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