When firms compete for the right to obtain access to more spectrum, we know that only the one most confident in its ability to provide a valuable service to consumers will augment its bid.
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In 2010, Mitt Romney's tax rate bobbed and weaved its way below 15% -- and we know that only because the public had to pry his return (he has released only a full one) out of his clenched hands.
We know that the only rational objective for most long-term investors is to earn a real total return after taxes and inflation.
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So -- but the one thing that we know is that Santa only comes to your house after you're fast asleep -- you know that, right?
"We know today that only 50% of women with health care benefits are getting screened, " said Brinker, who said the task force was clumsy in the delivery of its message.
"All the England players want to take our games to the next level and we know that if only a few of us raise our games, we will be beaten, " she said.
Following the match the draw for the semi-final round was made and we now know that only one of Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea can make it to the Wembley final in May.
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Beyond reliable financials, we know that businesses are only as strong as the people who work at them.
His laws proved so alluring that modern science is still unravelling their consequences, though we now know that they are only approximations.
We want and need to have economic growth as that is the only way we know of to reduce population growth (quite apart from the fact that we also need it to abolish human poverty, something of a desirable goal).
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Do we know that the current owners only became owners because they knew more about football than everyone else?
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When the bite finally does come, and the sea-soaked battle rages, we know that it's only a matter of time before the man or the fish gives up.
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Even if Scott had failed to obtain a highly recommended preventive service such as colorectal screening, we cannot chalk this up to his being insured since we know that Americans on average only receive about half (54.9 percent) of medically recommended preventive care services.
But we still do not know, we can only hope, that those new things would justify the costs of building such systems.
We all know that Twenty20 is the only part of the sport that is growing in its attendances.
We all know that change is the only constant in life and nowhere is that more true than in the workplace.
At the same time we know that emotionally, investors can only go so far, and it varies from investor to investor.
"We know only too well that we are once again in another competitive group, " said the Wales and British and Irish Lions lock.
We know only too well that we need to add to the first-team squad but at this moment in time there is a limited amount we can do until the takeover is completed.
Our success will also require freeing ourselves from the dangerous dependence on foreign oil by building a clean-energy economy, because we know that with this will not only come greater security and a safer environment, but new high-paying jobs of the future to replace those that we've lost.
We now know that willpower is a finite resource, and we only have so much willpower to go around.
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This does not mean that it does not work for these conditions, only that we don't know whether it does.
Fourthly, we know that successful peace processes are our only chance of escaping the circle of violence.
Secular Humanism is not even good science fiction because as we all know only the Scientologists have that.
We now know that the UK grew by only 0.7% in 2011, and the latest IMF forecast is for growth of 0.8% in 2012 - half what was forecast in September.
"Not only do we now know that there was widespread abuse by clergy, but more damaging was the way bishops systematically covered up that abuse, " he says.
If he came to Iowa, he might know that not only are we putting out these windmills, but, increasingly, they're made right here in Iowa, made here in America.
But it is certainly reassuring to know that not only do we have the talent and expertise right here at home - but also that they have been so publicly acknowledged.
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