Even stock prices--which are supposed to reflect the future earning power of the companies they track--don't do a consistently good job of calling a crash or a recovery.
Sageworks doesn't track 12-month trailing quarterly data, which is why we didn't look at sales and income growth rates thus far in 2008.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't specifically track child-sex-abuse arrests.
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Drawbacks most center around the less predictable factors -- Barefoot 3 doesn't have an established track record for reliability, and the pricing isn't always favorable against high-end peers like Samsung's SSD 840 Pro.
In front of the school on Wednesday, as students exercised in their blue-and-white track-suit uniforms, 18-year-old Zhang Tianyu said he wasn't deterred.
The ruling listed the items as two T-shirts, blue Nike track pants, boxer shorts and stationery from the hotel.
He saw himself ridiculed as a lame duck as soon as House leaders decided they didn't have the votes and pulled fast-track off the floor.
Mr. Anand wasn't present Tuesday at the special fast-track court where proceedings resumed briefly for the four surviving men accused in the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in December.
Since none of the five PCs we own has two VGA-out video ports (and we couldn't be bothered to track down a DVI adapter), we ended up hooking the DS-1500 up to both of our Media Center PCs.
At the same time, one argument made against reform--as though Congress' poor track record with other "reforms" isn't enough reason for lawmakers to leave it alone--is that with health care compromising 16% of gross domestic product, reform here could be particularly harmful to the broader economy.
Godrich, who has short dark hair and wore a red Lacoste track jacket over a dark-gray T-shirt, looked a bit like a rugby player.
"They simply aren't very good at covering their tracks -- you can track the IP address and see it came from another airline's corporate office, " he said.
In the meantime, developers will likely be venting -- and won't even be able to track that rollercoaster of emotions anymore.
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Congress has given the brokers a reasonable period (probably until the end of the year) to begin tracking what payments are real dividends and what ones are the in-lieu kind, which they don't track now.
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To ensure that tax reform gets a fair hearing, he says Republicans plan to create a "fast-track" authority so that the compromise doesn't get bogged down in committees and is assured an up or down vote on the House floor.
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Trade organizations find file-sharing data so hard to track that it isn't even included in their official piracy calculations.
Beyonce admitted she sang along with a pre-recorded track at the inauguration, saying she hadn't had time to rehearse with the orchestra.
We didn't have a motocross track or snowmobile handy on the show floor, but in-hand it felt every bit the ruggedized, compact device that its advertised to be and the LCD was decently viewable.
His parents were at a track meet for their 15-year-old daughter and didn't see the news that night.
Food inspectors, air-traffic controllers, specialists who track down loose nuclear material wouldn't get their paychecks.
Needless to say, however, those aren't the only models in the 3000 series, with the even higher-end Radeon HD 3850 and 3870, and 3850 X2 and 3870 X2 dual-core models, apparently also on track, though there doesn't seem to be any word on a release for those just yet.
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They went onto a fourth round and HD DVD almost knocked out Blu-ray with his TrueHD surround track but, alas, there isn't any TrueHD compatible devices yet so it turned out to be a draw.
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Austin has operations by Freescale Semiconductor, which has a long track record with General Motors and ActaCell, started as a spinoff from U-T, which is developing the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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Additionally, Facebook's poor stock-market performance could lead some funds that follow the index, but don't track it precisely, to purchase less of the stock than they might otherwise have.
Connor Gillaspie hit a long fly ball that left fielder that Shane Victorino couldn't catch over his shoulder at the warning track, and it bounced over the wall for a run-scoring ground-rule double.
Regardless of how good it looks on paper, a state or big-city agency won't be willing to take a chance on a vehicle with no track record, said Detective Mary Wheat, spokesperson for the Portland, Oregon, police department.
These aren't people who weren't homeowners, who didn't have a track record and the data also revealed that roughly 80 percent of these folks are making on-time payments.
Although others didn't, I accepted the analysis offered by the Paul Nicholls team with regard to the unsuitable track (right-handed and winter ground) and his fitness, or lack of it.
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