• If the sale was solely to realize a capital loss for taxation purposes, the investor will want to re-establish the position after the 30-day period required to avoid the superficial-loss rule.

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  • Even the most superficial stock-taking leads to similar conclusions: Important constraints currently exist on the United States' ability to project power effectively and swiftly over long distances.

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  • This ill-motivated and superficial attack on 20th-century philosophy contains a nice expression of the lasting intellectual difficulty the church faces in the modern world: the statements, one paragraph apart, that the church has no philosophy of its own but that modern philosophy has fallen into error.

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  • Most of the discourse on the Islamic civilization has remained superficial and ill-informed.

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  • By demonstrating that the cultural ideas are not superficial communication add-ons, but genuinely integrated into the way the client does business.

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  • It could be also be argued that the system has so far helped companies to make superficial, time-buying changes rather than the longer-term investments in technology that would allow them to reduce dependence on dirty fuel more fundamentally.

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  • And with the right mindset, you have the opportunity to turn superficial scarcity into long-term abundance.

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  • The ads abjured the traditional, superficial kind of fashion-industry images of stick-thin models with perfect hair and perfect skin, instead celebrating women who were not aesthetically ideal.

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  • Reality star Heidi Montag's self-produced debut album Superficial sold fewer than 1, 000 copies in its first week.

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  • It feels unsafe to us to put our fate (even just our professional fate) in the hands of someone who makes superficial, biased, or self-promoting judgments.

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  • The problem is that many firms are doing what Federer appears to be doing: going gung-ho on the more superficial and preparation work, but not aggressively following through during crunch time.

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  • This stuff now seems superficial when seen against the more free-spirited, Zen-like pictures that European collectors have acquired in the second half of this century, a freer-spirited time for the West.

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  • If self-destruction weren't seductive on some superficial level, then no one would ever need rehab.

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  • But wearables are superficial by nature and cannot provide the level of in-depth data of embedded sensors being developed for the body.

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  • Washing does not involve a superficial flick of the flannel, but a vigorous all-over scrub, often with an extremely rough nylon towel.

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  • The superficial appeal of such a cynical gambit may prove short-lived, however.

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  • When one member of staff went to investigate the fire alarm, he was attacked by the 16-year-old with a knife and sustained a superficial cut to his left ear.

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  • They also travelled to relatively prosperous communities - Salisbury and Trowbridge - and recorded how "high levels of superficial civility... often hid deeper, covert incivilities" such as domestic violence, racism and prejudice against younger residents.

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  • In superficial ways, little has changed inside the 60, 000-square-foot financial room in CBOT's art deco building.

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  • Despite the best efforts of critics led by Republican Whip Jon Kyl, the Senate's truncated lame-duck deliberations were, by and large, superficial and uninformed.

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  • "And then I'd try to make it more human" by getting away from their superficial disagreements and appealing to their shared concern for the well-being of the country.

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  • Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures.

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  • JGB-market crash may have risen sharply recently, despite the superficial calm.

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  • My one shot at fame had been cruelly stopped short, but somehow I knew that such matters were superficial on a weekend when 25, 000 people gather in a spirit of generosity and good humour - even in the face of an English summer.

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