• So this process means that in some ways the winner will not be the bid that is thought to be the best, but rather the one that is considered least bad by most of the voters.

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  • Obviously the three rising interest rate environments that we have discussed here are not the only possibilities, rather the ones that believe are most likely to happen in the next few years.

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  • It is not always the case that the team who scores first wins, but rather the team that can successfully handle the emotional turmoil of giving up a goal, relinquishing a lead, or trying to hold on to a lead.

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  • And that can end up costing the company rather that making it money.

    FORBES: The world freaks out over Facebook's new privacy settings

  • "Buckets for the Cure" website states, albeit at the very bottom, that individual consumer purchases will not directly increase the total donation -- rather that the money is determined by purchases of buckets by KFC restaurant operators.

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  • Tim Mathis, the author of the LBP report adds that he is not trying to pull the plug on the industry, rather proposes that the credit be capped or limited so that funds from the state can be allocated to other resources instead.

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  • It is therefore quite unlikely that prosecutors will find particular officials behind the leaking but rather that Obama officials gave Sanger some small fragments of the Olympic Games story that he was then also able to piece together with the help of his Israeli and European sources, as well as experts on cybersecurity.

    CNN: Obama leak 'scandal' is wildly overblown

  • "I got the impression that the course had been set up rather hastily and that the leader of the course was not in complete control, " he said.

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  • The case highlights the rather strange way that the EU decides how much to fine companies that breach the rules.

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  • The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has scheduled a Jan. 27 hearing to comb over one of the most controversial aspects of the rescue: the fact that credit derivatives counterparties to AIG, including Goldman Sachs and other large U.S. and European banks, were paid off at 100% on the dollar rather that settling at a discount, which is what would have happened if AIG entered bankruptcy.

    FORBES: Fed to GAO: Go Ahead, Investigate

  • Looks-wise, the hardware's largely unchanged, aside from the bigger footprint and a screen ratio that appears closer to the iPad competition, rather than the widescreen shape that arrived on RIM's first tablet.

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  • The road petered out in an area with little valleys, ridges, hills, and peaks, but it was not the contours of the land that created the uneven surface but, rather, the layers of things that had been thrown away: everything that the consumerist city had used up and expelled so that it could immediately enjoy the pleasure of handling new things had ended up in this unprepossessing neighborhood.

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  • Ross Goobey, head of the ICGN committee looking at executive pay, said that a statutory body was not the answer, rather that shareholders should determine appropriate levels of remuneration.

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  • The problem is that it gives credit to schools that attract the best students rather than schools that take poorly prepared students and help them get ready for the next stage.

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  • The real stars of the show weren't the multinational corporations, but rather the startups that couldn't necessarily afford the astronomical fees required to set up a booth at a show like this.

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  • Mr Segev is weaker when he ventures to make bigger historical judgments, such as the novel claim that it was the Arab revolt before the second world war, rather than that of the more powerful and more desperate Jews after it, which made Britain give up on Palestine.

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  • As to the future that rather depends on what the actual problem is.

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  • My short answer to that is no, for the rather obvious reason that he's already the Governor of a G7 central bank whose approach and policy target is pretty similar to ours.

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  • In the sense of project finance, and over standard time horizons, it is the norm rather than the exception that transport projects do not pay for themselves.

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  • Yet the ostentatiously ludicrous Mr West has undoubtedly helped to attract bright students to Harvard in the same way that the rather more serious Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith once did.

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  • These images evoke stories about the humanity of that horrible day rather than incite the fear of that the perpetrators sought.

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  • But at times during his managerial career he has given the impression that it is his own personal journey rather than the team that matters.

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  • The number is based on the rather benign assumption that in six years the growth of total retiree health care costs will taper off to a mere 5% a year.

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  • Media commentators hammered Gore who later admitted he mistakenly gave the impression that he had played a part in the invention of the Internet rather than in legislation that made it easier for the inventors to come up with the technological breakthroughs.

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  • It has a much better chance of changing the mind of a designer who uses only a snippet of the stuff rather than that of a company built around the fur industry itself.

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  • Not at the expense of ignoring the innovative, rather that we make sure we build innovation on to solid foundations and that, finally, people across the world get access to the health care they need.

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  • The first is that the investors who missed the 30 worst days, rather than the 30 best over that 15-year period would have earned a return of almost 21% per annum, or more than two-and-a-half times the return of the buy and hold investor.

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  • The government is concentrating on housing, homelessness and truancy but it acknowledges that the problem goes rather deeper than that.

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  • To be sure, innovation has thrived in these settings, but it has been the sort of process improvement innovation that makes existing industries function better rather than the type that creates new markets, caters to new consumers, or pioneers new business models.

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  • It is these seemingly mundane issues, he argues, that are the stuff of daily life rather than the political dramas that preoccupy the media.

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