Basically, shareholders use a stock's market value to judge how well a company's management is doing.
In a hearing scheduled for mid-January, Bernick will try to persuade a Delaware bankruptcy judge to value as worthless tens of thousands of claims stemming from lawsuits against Grace, which used asbestos in spray-on fireproofing and Zonolite insulation and other fireproofing products.
In reality, the greenback has value only to the extent that financial markets judge it to be a reliable store of that value.
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It's also difficult for Warholian celebrities to judge their own value as entertainers.
If this deal leads to Vodafone acquiring both Vivendi and Mannesmann, Mr Gent will probably judge it good value.
But the FASB ruled that they should be expensed immediately, because their future value is too subjective to judge reliably.
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We live in a world where people are quick to judge others and value them based on perception rather than reality.
What is needed is a way to analyze information automatically (or at least semi-automatically, with some human review) to judge its business value.
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To retain assets that can judge their own market value so finely, firms need intensely creative compensation strategies.
It is essential that the government ensure that contracts are transparent so that we can judge whether they are good value.
For example, a judge may rule that any decrease in the value of a business was a result of the recession and had nothing to do with the actions of the managing spouse.
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Any judge in any similar dispute must not leave that value out.
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"I want to tell the court that what I did was wrong and illegal and I want to say I'm sorry, " Mr Li told district judge Leonard Stark, although he disputed the retail value of the software he stole and sold.
Asked if it was "good value for money" - he said "that's for others to judge".
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It is too early to judge the exact cause of this sharp fall in Google's apparent value.
Properly done Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) adjustments are very complicated, but if we judge by 2011 IMF figures than roughly speaking we should boost the nominal value of Russian wages by about 28% to capture their actual purchasing power.
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Have a series of complex patients reviewed, analyzed, and then offered a management plan from Watson vs. several cancer experts, then judge which recommendations are more helpful to physicians and patients (based on perceived value by the recipients of those recommendations or, ideally, by treatment outcome).
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So he describes Grey's visits to Mormon settlements, his identification with the Navajo cause and his fishing expeditions which, to judge from some rather risible photographs, resulted in the occasional enormous catch, though producing little of literary value.
In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit a certain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.
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