They first took stock of the inventory of the few hundred common properties that they owned.
Today, President Obama and I took stock of progress in this vital year.
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When he had finished, he lifted each foot in turn and took stock of the cleanliness of his soles.
But once she took stock of her leadership profile and reflected on her values, she felt able to take action.
As she approached her 65th birthday, Barbara Traynor, of the Albany, NY region, mentally took stock of her six-odd decades.
Pouring himself some coffee, he sat at the table and took stock, his natural analytic bent slowly fighting to re-establish dominance.
The bomb was quite a shock, he says, but when he took stock of himself, he felt OK. So why not cross the finish line?
She took stock of all the connections she still had in the schmatte trade and realized she could make a fine living hiring herself on a contract basis.
The leaders today, in the first formal NAC session, took stock of where we stand, and they made a number of fundamental decisions to make sure that NATO will have the right capabilities.
Looking to take advantage of the bull market of the late 1990s, Orfalea and his partners took stock in the new company with the expectation that it would go public in that feverish market for new issues.
Sure, for a few years after Enron employees lost their jobs, and in many cases most or all of their retirement assets, employees pulled back, took stock (no pun intended) of their portfolios, and lessened their exposure to company stock.
But in this moment, as in so many others like it, when I took stock of their unhappy reaction to what I said, I felt myself at the cold, hard center of a perfect storm: We expect more from technology and less from each other.
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Along the way, I texted friends, received a reminder about an upcoming ski trip and the need to refuel my car soon, considered an ad for a BBQ joint, got a notification about a traffic accident ahead and a recommendation on the speediest route around it, took stock of my stress level, and picked the closest and cheapest parking spot.
If only accounts took better stock of a firm's long-term prospects, they argue, then chief executives would too.
That took the stock market and gold prices off their earlier highs.
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In London we distinguish (perhaps not so much these days but we certainly did when I took my stock broking exams) between flotations and introductions.
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The subsequent rise of mainframes, in which IBM not UNIVAC proceeded to dominate, took IBM stock up over 400 percent over the following decade or so.
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Dragging the tech ETF lower was aggressive selling in Corning (GLW), which took the stock down by more than 10% as part of a multi-day correction.
One of the drivers was the announcement of a special dividend from Costco (COST), which took the stock up in addition to positive news on November same store gains.
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That work came out of the 16th-century Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte, in which traveling actors took on stock roles and interacted with the audience rather than sticking to a script.
Part of a correction that took the stock lower for five out of six trading days, the pullback resulted in a gain of more than 5% over the next five days.
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Similar price action is present in retail groceries like The Fresh Market (NYSE: TFM), up more than 3% on Wednesday after a four-day sell-off that took the stock into technically oversold territory.
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This pullback was part of a four-day sell-off that took the stock to new lows ahead of the recent rebound, a bounce that has sent FB higher by more than 10% in five days.
Shares of Apple have not pulled back significantly since mid-December, when a four-day sell-off took the stock into technically oversold territory for two consecutive trading days and to their lowest closing level in two weeks.
Then, a pullback during which the stock traded lower for three days in a row (the final two in technically oversold territory) led to a rally in McDonalds that took the stock higher for three out of the next four sessions.
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And when 81-year-old Warren Buffett announced his prostate cancer, Berkshire Hathaway stock took a hit.
The stock took several weeks to reach that price and now it has surpassed it.
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The company raised its guidance and as the stock took off in post-market trading.
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Those gains were nearly diminished after the stock took a dive on December 3.
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