In addition, the higher your initial benefits, the larger the dollar value of any annual cost-of-living adjustments.
Whether or not this effort has any scientific value--and Venter's rivals will give you an earful on that--it is a brilliant move for a company hungry for capital.
The best, most immediate measure of the true value of the dollar--or any currency--is gold.
Finally, for me, the next debates may help marketers understand the potential value of real-time sentiment for any brand.
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We rely on a third-party payment system that dramatically reduces any incentive for the patient to be a value-conscious shopper in the health care marketplace.
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Is the security of our intellectual property, high-value data, and media operations any less important?
Investors should not buy any mid-cap value ETFs or mutual funds because none get an attractive-or-better rating.
Certainly that expanding, pass-along effect can create value for any kind of organization.
Since the trust purchases the shares at a discount, the beneficiaries can keep the excess value, plus any appreciation, estate-tax-free.
Are 14C-dated records of any value at all (unless wiggle matched)?
Customer service and marketing teams with more insight can deliver more consistent and satisfying, personalized customer experiences, thus helping customers get more value from your products, trouble-shoot any issues, and finally, purchase more products and services.
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One part of Google is busy creating indexes of online information while at the same time filtering out "spam, " which in this context means Web sites whose only function is to make money off the fact you land on them, without providing any sort of "value-added" information in the process.
In the age of the Internet, it is time to recognize that very little is private any more and the value of carefully managed disclosure to a well-targeted group of sophisticated investors far outweighs any real or perceived cost of such disclosure.
Banks lent the money but didn't ask for any interest or repayments -- instead they took a share of any increase in the value of the property.
Over time the value of these companies far exceeds any short-term profits.
Furthermore, the notion that they have the security of a debt instrument is usually a fallacy rarely is there any liquidation value when an early-stage company fails.
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This is all well and good, but it is too forward-looking to provide Netflix with any value today.
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"The future of France in the family of great nations depends on our capacity for initiative - a value totally at variance with an enarque culture based on zero risk and suspicious of any idea of competition or power-sharing, " they said.
After all, there's no guarantee that today's newly market-endorsed art stars will have any lasting value.
Once initiated, they run on auto-pilot without any effort to optimize the value received for the dollars expended.
Having served and defended our nation, veterans are well-trained and highly skilled and will add value to any company.
While that may sound mundane, just ask any real-estate agent about the value of an apartment zoned for the right elementary school.
He said the retailer did not have a different set of standards for its value burgers - found to have been contaminated with horsemeat - than any of its other lines.
If history proves any guide, the Value Investing Congress, a two-day affair at a plush Midtown Manhattan hotel, will move markets.
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You can buy shares at any time at the net asset value, as with open-end funds, but you can only redeem quarterly and not necessarily all your holdings.
In any case, as many speakers argued, the value of short-term measures is limited.
Long-term debt serves effectively to increase the value of a company, making any assessments that take only the stock into account preliminary at best.
The added shares, coupled with Wasserstein's hard-won reputation as a shrewd negotiator capable of extracting the maximum value in any deal, may also be weighing on the stock.
But the authors, unfortunately, have less to say about ways governments large and small can jump-start growth by eliminating existing regulations that no longer contribute any value, but which increasingly slow the very investments in infrastructure for which Hundt and Levin argue so convincingly.
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