Their bets are usually right on the money especially when it comes to generous frequent flyer deals.
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Cheap rice, cheap petrol, and reliable drinking water, all thanks to generous subsidies.
Last year, wind generated 2.3 % of the electricity consumed in the U.S. thanks to generous subsidies and other preferential benefits.
Prior to the right-hander's first pitch, public address announcer John Frost introduced "Lieutenant Mitch Harris" to generous applause from the red-clad crowd.
China is home to a burgeoning solar industry, due to generous government subsidies for electricity, export incentives, and tariff protections from foreign competition.
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The situation mirrors the "runaway production" phenomenon, where many movies and television shows are shot outside of California due to generous tax credits elsewhere.
For instance, Ford or Chrysler, which have fewer retirees to support, might agree to generous pension increases that they know would be costly for GM to absorb.
European countries such as Germany, Italy, France and Czech Republic have seen a boom in solar power project installations in recent years thanks to generous government subsidies.
We want leaders who recognize that generosity is an investment that pays great dividends: that people respond to generous leaders with loyalty, trust and their best work.
The survival of so many, thanks lately to generous loans from the Bank of Japan, has made it hard for the better ones to earn a decent profit.
The US owes a huge debt to generous, heroic sisters who have dedicated their lives to offering education, healthcare and pastoral provision only to be subjected to an intrusive, inherently hostile process of investigation for alleged doctrinal errors.
And Russia has a strong incentive to rewrite the rules, since it agreed to generous terms for projects like Sakhalin back in the 1990s, when it had no money to develop its resources itself and was desperate to attract foreign investment.
"The USA owes a huge debt to generous, heroic sisters who have dedicated their lives to offering education, healthcare and pastoral provision only to be subjected to an intrusive, inherently hostile process of investigation for alleged doctrinal errors, " says Dr Simmonds.
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Now, four years later, these acquisitions haunt the bank: It is still in business thanks to generous support from American taxpayers, its management fights the one lawsuit after another, and its stockholders bleeding left and right its stocks trading recently near all time low.
There are two ways for a grandparent to be generous to a current college student without having a gift snatched by the college.
When we turn judgment into curiosity, seeking to find the request for help underneath the accusation, we put ourselves in the optimal position to be generous to others and hence more happy and productive.
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The answer is still to be determined, but if our best and brightest firms increasingly author their growth through connections to the state, they'll have nothing to show for it when the truly productive shrug and the once-generous state ceases to be generous.
And while other countries, especially France, claim to offer generous grants to help alleviate translation costs, I personally have never encountered one.
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On top of that, the government decided to provide generous incentives to companies or people who built wind-turbines or installed solar panels.
To reach that negotiating stage, however, the West has to be generous enough to give Mr Khatami a stronger hand than he has now.
Second, the ability of Western governments to offer generous credit guarantees to the Soviets is shrinking, due in part to the outcry of legislative branches of G-7 nations which are appropriately demanding no "business-as-usual" while repression against the Baltics and other freedom bound republics persist.
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Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive Howard Lutnick has finally decided to be more generous to the families of employees who died in the World Trade Center attack.
McCollum said the program appears to be less generous to Floridians than the BP claims process, but "appearances are deceiving, and that is not the case, " Feinberg said.
Based on a partnership between the government which spends relatively little on state pensions and companies which have been funding ample private-sector pensions it seemed to be both generous to pensioners and affordable to taxpayers.
But it also suggests that even societies with a tradition of high taxes (such as those in Scandinavia) might find that their citizens would become less willing to finance generous welfare programmes were immigrants to make up a greater share of their populations.
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Our kind appeal to every generous celebrity reading or have access to information on the Forbes is, we need support in terms of funding, a series of fundraising charity concerts or any other form of support towards the project.
With its combination of dangerous mining and heavy-industry jobs and a legal system that makes it hard to overturn generous verdicts--appeals go straight to the state Supreme Court, which can accept or reject them as it pleases--West Virginia ranked 50th for the third year in a row in the Chamber survey.
The U.S. is one of the fast-growing solar energy markets in the world, thanks in part to the generous federal tax benefits, loans and grants to support solar technology development and deployment.
Solar shares fell some 32% on the NEX in the first quarter of the year and have suffered again in recent weeks, a drop that Prideaux blames on proposals in Germany and Spain to cut generous feed-in tariffs that oblige utilities to buy renewable electricity at above market prices.
Yet, to be generous, it was at least partly a response to the inadequacy of the state police.
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