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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
The stock took a bit more of a beating than most following last week's market plunge, but MEE was already retreating from overhead resistance in the 54 region when the worst happened.
The stock of CONMED took a hard beating earlier this month, after the company took a significant cut to fourth-quarter and 2009 sales and earnings guidance, due to a stronger dollar and reductions in hospital spending.
And there is evidence that previously bearish and pessimistic investors who took money out of the stock market in 2009, 2010, 2011, and right up until mid-year last year, long after the new bull market began in early 2009, are now pouring money back in.
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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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Buyers took advantage of the retreat, and have sent the stock higher, with NLS closing up for seven out of the last eight trading days.
Meanwhile, the outflow of money from U.S. stock mutual funds that took place at a startling pace last year and most of this year, even as the impressive new bull market in stocks began and continued, did not reverse to inflow until October.
The value of the Turkish lira took a pounding, as did the main index of the Istanbul stock exchange.
Entertainment industry analyst Hal Vogel thinks it took some of the air out of a stock that had gotten a bit overvalued.
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As was discussed on Friday, the idea of circuit breakers for individual stocks to prevent the type of volatility that took down the stock market last Thursday, is now gaining traction.
It got convertible preferred stock in the combined company and took two of seven board seats, 32.7% of voting rights, and an option to convert its holdings into 32.7% of Solo Cup common.
Most of the airline industry stock prices took a dip with chatter flying over whether or not there would be an AMR bankruptcy.
But perceptions about index funds changed during the stock market decline that took place between the spring of 2000 and October of 2002.
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"Because the stock market took such a hit, the amount of income that we thought we were going to get was a lot less, " she says.
The post-IPO quiet period over, analysts for the investment banks that took Kayak Software public picked up coverage of the stock this morning with mostly lukewarm ratings.
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The prospect of a price war took AMD's stock price down 7% in one day in March.
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