Gordon's firm helps wealthy investors use complex trading strategies to trim their tax bills.
Instead, they use complex phrases to communicate simple concepts because they are under the delusion that this makes them sound more professional.
Booth did not use complex statistical models to decide whether streets should be classified as poor or wealthy, and neither does The Economist.
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The investment banks and hedge funds that account for a big chunk of the day's trading volume use complex strategies that leap across national borders and asset types.
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Sujit Kapadia of the Bank of England is trying to model the web of interdependencies created by the use of complex derivatives.
That's because major chains typically use a complex web of suppliers in countries such as Bangladesh, which often contract business to other factories.
For example, shopping for groceries can involve the use of complex mathematical formulas when people truly challenge themselves to buy the most groceries with the least money.
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Other U.S. firms including Facebook and Google are known to use similarly complex methods of moving money out of Britain and into countries with lower tax rates.
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Others use more complex formulas, but in essence all these tests are an attempt to guestimate how much income retirees can take each year without outliving their assets.
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The early Pacific Andes business model--seed others' fishing fleets and then use a complex network of sourcing and transshipping (acting as middleman between catch boats and markets)--left it seemingly in cahoots with what amounts to ocean poaching.
Authors Guofo Zhou and Yingzi Zu use some complex math based on the random-walk theory to show that the odds of watching half your liquid net worth evaporate are roughly similar to those of another major life event: death.
Adding to the risk (and also to the prospect of rich payoffs, or so Harvard's money managers hoped) was the fact that, thanks to its use of complex derivatives, Harvard had actually "overinvested" in risk investments to the tune of 105%, as Forbes puts it.
Recently, technology provider IFS Corporation did a survey on ERP users in manufacturing ( Does ERP Mean Excel Runs Production?) Their surprising results showed that new employees (especially under age 40) were very unlikely to take a job with a company if they had to use a complex (usually vendor supplied) interface to a legacy application.
Mr Everett defended the Swanwick centre and said staff were learning to use a very complex new system which was unequivocally necessary.
From setting up central offices in low tax havens such as Nevada, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands, to its use of a complex tax structure known as "The Double Irish, " Apple has relentlessly exploited legal tax loopholes.
Clickfree's entire lineup of products is designed for the 85 to 95 percent of computer users who, research shows, fail to regularly backup content on their PCs because they do not have the time, desire or skill to install, set up and use confusing or complex software and hardware products.
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Clickfree's entire lineup of products, from the Transformer Cable to Clickfree portable backup drives and DVDs, are designed for the 85 to 95 percent of computer users who, research shows, fail to regularly backup content on their PCs because they do not have the time, desire or skill to install, set up and use confusing or complex software and hardware products.
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Such products use apps or websites for complex interactions, which allows the devices themselves to have limited, easy-to-use controls.
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The ability to use Watson to answer complex questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence has enormous potential to improve decision making across a variety of industries from health care, to retail, telecommunications and financial services.
The ability to use Watson to answer complex questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence has enormous potential to help improve decision making across a variety of industries from health care, to retail, telecommunications and financial services.
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But teaching unions argued banning calculator use in the tests would risk pupils' ability to use them to tackle more complex mathematical problems.
We thought that if we could build something that would be effective for event tickets, we could use our technology for other complex categories.
Companies already use rapid incrementalism to solve complex supply chain problems.
Researchers can use this information to create complex grids and webs that map an individual's personality and that can be used to compare it with others'.
And even the casual beach volleyball players and sometime indoor coaches admit they might have mastered the simple hitting and scoring system, but the complex signals players use, with their hands placed behind their bottoms, remain a tantalising mystery.
Views can be very complex, and can use a built-in MapReduce facility to process and summarize results.
People tend to use and recommend tools that are easy to use and avoid tools that are complex.
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The sentences should be complex, with the use of subordinate clauses and writing adapted to "suit audience and purpose".
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