Under current tax law, in order to bring the foreign-held cash back into the U.S., they would have to pay the difference between the U.S. corporate tax rate and the taxes already paid in local jurisdictions.
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He then examined the relationship between growth and shareholder returns using a measurement known as Jensen's alpha, which represents the difference between a company's stock performance and the return of a diversified portfolio of risky stocks.
Mr Kirkendall notes the striking difference between the government's aggressive prosecution of bosses after the corporate collapses at the start of the century and the lack so far of any charges being brought against former bosses of Wall Street firms that turned out, like Enron, to be houses of cards once their clients lost trust in them.
The deficit is the difference between the public sector's total receipts and its total expenditure over a given period.
First, the critics said that Gonzales didn't understand the difference between being the president's personal lawyer and being attorney general.
The cost of a deemed dividend is also greater today because the difference between the current U.S. tax rate (the highest of any industrialized country) and the average tax rate on earnings of foreign subsidiaries is substantially greater than in 1976.
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And, Adam, as we're about to hear not all parts of South Carolina are doing so well, which is going to raise the question what's the difference between a town that recovers and a town that doesn't?
This was the biggest difference between Odierno's plan and the one Keane and Kagan had pulled together at the American Enterprise Institute.
Wednesday saw him achieve his aim of halving the difference between Italy's and Germany's bond yields.
Modest investments, such as installing scanners in food shops, could eliminate 30% of the difference between Brazil's labour productivity and America's.
This is the difference between today's Mexicans and yesterday's Okies, between the Joads and the Vegas (although Tom Joad was also on the run from the law).
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But the rub lies in how officials estimate economic slack, which brings us back to the difference between the European and U.S. views of the U.S. economy.
The big difference between it and the Incredible S it is launching alongside is that the Desire S will ship with Gingerbread (2.4) from the start, which should be some time in the middle of Q2 2011.
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One number on his Ellington album, "Jubilee Stomp" a treacherously difficult stride piece arranged by Dick Hyman sounded so right that Mr. Hyman's wife couldn't tell the difference between Mr. Thibaudet's version and her husband's.
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Yet the overall cost premium, based on the difference in absolute wages between the U.S. and China, is actually expanding, so labor arbitrage involving China and other low labor cost markets will likely persist.
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That's the difference between being second best in Asia-Pacific (the WEF's take) versus fifth or seventh best.
The key difference between last week's two IT bloopers is that the cyber-attack was exogenous while CBOE's software glitch and subsequent slow response were internal issues.
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The main difference between the thermoacoustic system and Stirling's original idea is that, instead of using thermal expansion of the working fluid to push the piston, it uses powerful pulses of sound.
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It's the key difference between his company and Bristol-Myers, which has licensed most of its cancer drugs from the U.S. government or biotech companies.
The apparent difference between Apple's environmental record and its green rhetoric has prompted ire among some of its competition.
For each comparison, the difference between the U.S. price and the home market price is considered the unit margin of dumping.
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"There was only one digit difference between the GP's number and the member of the public's number, " the trust told the commissioner.
In its latest results, there was a clear difference between the company's performance in North America and in the rest of the world.
One theory for the difference between the Moon's far side and near side is an ancient collision with a second natural satellite of Earth.
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He said the time difference between Gest's Hawaii home and Mr Felder's New York office had made it difficult for him to talk to his client.
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There is, though, a big difference between the Republic's proposed sugar tax and Denmark's fat tax, which also affected protein rich foods such as meat and cheese.
That is nonsense, as can be seen by looking at the current account from the other end: as the difference between a country's saving and its investment.
Mixing up the difference between the country's total accumulated debts and one year's additional borrowing (the deficit) is something politicians - and, yes, even senior BBC broadcasters - do depressingly often.
Back then many experts believed that there would be confusion because of the one-letter difference between Apple's iPad and its digital music player, the iPod.
She says though the methods are the same, there's an important difference between the plays created under apartheid and those from the post-apartheid era.
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