Giving it to the shareholders is the obvious answer, but not necessarily the right one.
In Africa, where just about everyone has a mobile phone but only a minority have a bank account, banking on the move seemed the obvious answer to all sorts of problems.
To me the answer seemed obvious but apparently it has led to a lot of head scratching.
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The answer is obvious once you see it, but certainly wasn't before Mr Dornbusch spelt it out.
Maybe that first answer is no longer the obvious answer.
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The answer becomes obvious if you think about it.
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The answer remains obvious: Periodic testing remains desirable.
The obvious answer is they delayed because they knew they were the source of the disclosures.
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The obvious answer is that we were rewarding past performance not incenting future performance.
The obvious answer being a mining company that is going to dig up the ore.
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From an economic perspective the answer is pretty obvious, and it would be the latter scenario.
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The obvious answer was: invest in domestic farming and build up your own stocks.
The obvious answer is to increase its size, but the fund has an inherent weakness.
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The obvious answer is that there is an acute and long-neglected need to upgrade the nation's power grid.
The obvious answer is that perceptions of crime lagged reality for years but have finally caught up with it.
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The obvious answer is that they may switch from expensive property segments into less expensive ones in their home countries.
The obvious answer is that the central banks are trying to solve all the worlds problems via the printing press.
The obvious answer to the question is that the likely make-up of the new Congress would never permit such a thing.
The obvious answer is that the tax code has gotten more complicated, while the IRS has made getting an extension easier.
Bombers equipped with precision-guided conventional munitions are the obvious answer, so long as they have sufficient range, payload and survivability features.
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After several years at Google, it is surprising that Mr. Yegge missed the obvious answer to why Google is not a platform.
The obvious answer is even if Europe went full steam ahead with shale, it still has to import lots of external gas.
The obvious answer: Amazon is making some sort of massive movie-related announcement.
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