Those athletes who do seek financial advice often find it through unscrupulous and opportunistic advisors, accountants, lawyers and agents who insist on taking a cut of everything.

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They quickly learned that they needed to scale back too everything from taking shorter showers to save on water, to holding off on new clothes to using their own money if they wanted extras (like a trip to the drive-thru).

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More subtly, global exchanges disagree about the value they put on everything from food companies to banks, even after taking account of differences in a firm's local prospects.

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Some of you are old enough -- not all of you -- but remember back in the '80s how everybody was saying, oh, Japan is taking over and they're buying everything here and we're on decline?

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We need to do everything we can to ensure that they can keep taking those risks, acting on those dreams, and building the enterprises that fuel our economy and make us who we are.

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Having Unreal Engine 3 taking care of the heavy lifting allowed the team at BioWare to focus on being creative and adding everything they wanted to build into the franchise in past games, but simply ran out of time.

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Probably the media are to blame, for taking up a few marketable clever-clogs such as Mr Dawkins, then encouraging them to comment on everything.

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By taking on a former Microsoft employee that was responsible for leading Windows, Apple would publicly promote and justify everything that its competitor has done for the past 20 years.

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