My sense from talking with a number of investors is that most place great weight on the concept of a distinctive view, an investment thesis.

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The visionary Austrian-Jewish journalist, Theodore Herzl, clarified and gave political weight to the concept of Jewish nationalism - or Zionism - and a national home for the Jews in Palestine at the first Zionist Congress at Basle, in Switzerland, in 1897.

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The result is a concept car with no unnecessary weight, and one that concentrates on the pure essence of sporty motion.

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This year the concept cars of interest are environmentally friendly, light-weight, fuel-efficient, compact, and incredibly fast.

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In 1968, when Kenneth Cooper, an American doctor, introduced the concept of aerobics, jogging was considered an aberration and weight-lifting better left to the beaches of southern California.

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The bottom line, though, is that the Lib Dems today are voting to delay something that they in their heart of hearts dearly support, namely the idea of fair votes, the concept that everyone's votes should have an equal weight in electing an MP.

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Somewhere between jumble sale and vintage boutique, Kilo Shop (with two locations in the 4th and 6th arrondissements) offers a unique concept: recycled clothing and accessories priced according to the items' weight.

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While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.

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