• K-Rep clients meet once a week under the watchful eye of a K-rep officer who is making sure that everyone has turned up - with the amount due back that week.

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  • Generally, I prefer a primarily bottom-up approach with a healthy amount of deference to the top-down, regardless of market cap, and I think such a combination works especially well for penny stocks.

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  • The funny thing is, those who are the most resourceful often end-up with the greatest amount of resources.

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  • The new site allows 50GB of free storage upon sign-up - more than twice the amount if the user is signed up for free accounts with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Dropbox put together.

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  • Is it possible that Fox would suddenly vanish from over-the-air antennas everywhere, screwing up countless programming agreements with a near-endless amount of partners?

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  • The volume of oil -- and the amount of chemical dispersants used to break it up -- have created concerns about the long-term health of the Gulf.

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  • What we think would be extremely harmful, because of the uncertainty it creates, would be to create a tollbooth where every two or three weeks you have to collectively with Congress come up with a certain amount of -- certain figure, certain monetary -- number figure in order to fund the government for another two or three weeks.

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  • The 10-year bond attracted bids worth 1.65 times the amount on offer, up from a so-called bid-to-cover ratio of 1.32 in January.

    BBC: Italy's borrowing costs surge after election stalemate

  • There is a significant amount of pent-up selling pressure in our bond market.

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  • Comfortable in the knowledge their couch-potato customers would pony up whatever amount showed up on their monthly tab, cable companies pushed price hikes through like clockwork.

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  • Backed by financial partners who include Gateway's Theodore Waitt, he recently ponied up an undisclosed amount for the near-defunct Pony sneaker brand, with the intention of having his hip clients appear in the shoes.

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  • That allows them to take up an incredible amount for their size, making them attractive for the clean-up of pollutants.

    BBC: 'White graphene' soaks up pollutants and can be re-used

  • There is a huge incentive to under-represent that amount and finish up the transaction with a suitcase full of cash.

    FORBES: India's Real Estate Boom Yields Suitcases Full Of Cash

  • At the death of the first--assume it's the husband--his assets, up to the exemption amount, go into a "credit shelter" or "bypass" trust.

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  • "On paper the subway is a lot faster, but buses are less crowded and have dedicated lanes on many streets -- I end up spending about the same amount of time on the road, " he explained.

    CNN: Beijing commuters feel the squeeze

  • The Nokia 808 PureView is also capable of capturing a mind-boggling amount of small detail -- this is what allows it to offer up to three times lossless zoom on its 5-megapixel images, with enough pixels from a cropped selection to make up an image.

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  • So, they decided on an acceptable amount of resistance that could be added - almost none at all - then hooked up a multimeter and Sorger rode around Boston for weeks, measuring the amount of electricity he generated.

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  • We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.

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  • Decorating is important too, although no amount of frosting will cover-up marginal ingredients or careless baking.

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  • Plus, he says, while U.S. consumption keeps declining (down an annual 2% since 1981, estimates the Tobacco Merchants' Association), the remaining hard-core smokers are willing to cough up any amount to buy butts.

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  • That was the tax-free amount he had to give up when he agreed to break his contract with the Kuwaiti FA, to whom he was contracted to until August 1, to succeed Craig Brown in March.

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  • Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.

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  • Stephen Alambritis, chief spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses, said he was concerned the problems with harvesting could "reduce the amount available to stores - and push up prices".

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  • New York City agreed to the museum's request in 1970 to charge an admission fee - so long as the amount was left up to individuals and the signage reflected that.

    BBC: Metropolitan Museum of Art's entrance fee 'deceptive'

  • Warner suggested that the Spurs and AEG bid would look to offer something to athletics by either adding a "small" amount of seating to the warm-up track or upgrading an existing facility elsewhere, both options he described as "very inferior".

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  • The PVF allows the investor to receive an up-front payment (typically, 75-85% market value) in exchange for delivery of a variable amount of shares or cash in the future, at which time the capital gain is realized for tax purposes and the tax on the capital gain is paid.

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  • Some private equity firms have been accused in the past of taking a gamble with the companies they buy up, by loading them up with debt - something that allows them to reduce the amount of cash they need to invest themselves, and which allows them to deduct the interest payments from their tax bill.

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  • If you needed to, you could take out up to the amount contributed into your Roth IRA both tax-free and penalty free.

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  • If the amount of radiation from the reactors went up 100-fold, to 10, 000 microsieverts, it would still be a very low level, Brenner says.

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