Rivals like Morgan Stanley have been picking off Merrill's big-producing brokers with upfront offers as high as 190 basis points--approximately two times a year's worth of client fees.
Rivals like Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) have been picking off Merrill's big-producing brokers with upfront offers as high as 190 basis points--approximately two times a year's worth of client fees.
For example, for a product or service that is purchased two versus four times a year, the dilution will be 50% versus 75%.
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Robberies are less costly but more frequent: Most businesses report them either once (29%) or between two and five times a year (38%).
She meets with her students' fathers and grandfathers two or three times a year to address any issues and make sure she still has their buy-in.
As part of the trial cull, researchers have trapped and euthanised sick animals two to five times a year from an isolated population in the south-east of Tasmania.
The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
PayPal Mobile announced a 516% increase in global mobile payment volume over last year, and eBay Mobile reported US purchases were nearly two and a half times what they were last year.
Unlike the old Shuttle program, which had launches a few times a year, scientists could use SpaceShip Two to conduct several experiments a week.
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Current absenteeism rates show a startling 17 sick days a year, two-and-a-half times greater than the private sector figure.
When you allow for these factors, one sees that the per capita income (based on GDP) has grown about two and a half times over this 45 year period.
In Germany yields have turned negative a few times for two-year debt, meaning investors are literally paying the government to borrow their money.
Meanwhile, 27-year-old Edinburgh-born Scotland A international Kelly, who has played 126 times for the club, has agreed a new two-year deal.
With this in mind, Schutz figures a bank whose shares can be had for about one times book value today may well fetch 1.5 times book in a year or two.
In the first quarter there were two-and-a-half times as many cases as last year.
Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring.
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Even the two-year, a pretty safe bet except in the most inflationary of times saw a decline in price, raising its yield to 1.83% from 1.60%.
In a good year, in times gone by, there might have been two or three.
The comparable year of the Reagan recovery, 1984, saw two and a half times that number, 7.2%.
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Just six times since 1949 has there been a difference in winners at the two awards, although last year the DGA plumped for Rob Marshall for Chicago while the Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.
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In all he scored 46 times in 81 appearances for the Hawthorns club, and was holding out for a two-year deal.
The lawyer told the court that in 1974, an 18-year-old boy was killed in north Belfast by two men on a motorbike who shot him a number of times, "that was within a year of the shooting of Miss Doherty".
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"There are probably only two or three times in my career that I started a season with the same performance advantage as I had last year, " Brawn said.
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Yet Chief Executive Joshua Boger brashly predicts that in as soon as five years his firm's 600 researchers will churn out two or three new drugs a year, rivaling the output of the biggest global drug firms with ten times the manpower.
In recent times the life expectancy of a 60-year-old has been going up by one to two years per decade.
England had fallen at the semi-final stage of this 31-year-old tournament five times, including a 13-12 penalty defeat to the Netherlands two years ago.
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