• We all tend to be rather unrealistic in our project planning and for instance consistently underestimate our completion times.

    FORBES: People always finish projects behind schedule and over budget - but here is some help

  • And for instance, last time the Japanese were very happy that I under-predicted their performance, both in gold medals and total medals.

    NPR: Using Economics To Predict Olympic Medal Standings

  • And for instance, some of the ideas that have been out there as relates to what we need to do with Iran are things that we are already doing -- whether it's applying sanctions, whether it's having a very robust military presence in the Persian Gulf region, or whether it's speaking out for and sanctioning the Iranian government on human rights violations.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Whenever this burgeoning religious observance began, it's now visible across the Muslim world in the increasing number of women in the street wearing head scarves, the number of Islamist parties that have made electoral gains in recent years (in Morocco and Egypt for instance), and now, in an increasing appetite for Sharia finance.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Fred Goldberg, a former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service who is now a partner at Skadden, Arps, introduced him to the crowd, pointing out that, over the years, Citi has taken many initiatives designed to encourage entrepreneurship and thrift in impoverished areas, setting up lending programs for mom-and-pop stores, for instance, and establishing savings accounts for the children of low-income families.

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  • But in some key repertoire for the Philharmonic, Bruckner and Schumann for instance, he is an unknown quantity.

    ECONOMIST: Why Berlin��s musicians don��t need a maestro

  • Over time, communication improved between the farmers in Awo and other villages about how to capture more soil and water for instance, by changing the shape of the dams and reinforcing them.

    UNESCO: Title

  • Some notable artists - Adele and Coldplay for instance - have kept recent albums off the service, and there is still a job to be done before the music business as a whole learns to love Spotify.

    BBC: Spotify goes apptastic

  • It is a country that needs much more than Olympic medals - education, health and infrastructure for instance.

    BBC: India's Olympic performance

  • And, for instance, the ag appropriations bill cuts back deeply on the CFTC.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "And love for instance, love was something you did for nothing, you did something for nothing, it comes from there, " she added.

    CNN: A short history of tennis: Henry VIII to Federer the great

  • Those on the market now are chiefly for comfort and stimulation: for instance, the Snuggling Ifbot, which lives in an astronaut suit, chats about the weather, sings and plays quiz games.

    ECONOMIST: The grey market

  • In the past, enlargement of the EU has often been politically driven used partly to consolidate democracy in Greece, Spain and Portugal, for instance and political objectives are once again central as the EU prepares to extend eastwards.

    ECONOMIST: Growing and slowing | The

  • The winners included some unexpected brands Buick and Jeep, for instance and the big losers included some well-respected Japanese brands, not just the cast-off American brands like Pontiac and Saturn that are headed to the junk heap.

    FORBES: The Surprise Winners (And Losers) In The Fight For A Spot In Your Driveway

  • Well there will be literally billions of pounds of investment, which we'd already planned, but what we're making sure is that the ones which stimulate growth most effectively now and help for instance employ young people, young men who at the moment can't find a job, that they are given real priority.

    BBC: Transcript of Nick Clegg interview

  • You can get an emergency copy of Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, for instance, and pay almost exactly what Amazon.com charges for a copy sent via the U.S. Postal System.

    CNN: Web shopping for the very impatient

  • For men 35 and younger, for instance, the qualifying time for Boston is 3:05 or faster, which for most amateurs is lightning fast.

    WSJ: Two Explosions at Boston Marathon Finish Line

  • Wildly exaggerated claims of detainee abuse, factual misrepresentations regarding conditions of confinement and interrogations (for instance, waterboarding was never used there) and false portrayals of most detainees as innocent goat herders sold for bounties helped create such an internationally controversial symbol.

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  • China and India, for instance, have been growing by around 7-8% and 5-6% respectively for many years.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Instead, it thinks Japan must embrace structural changes: to its tax and banking systems, for instance, and to its labour and capital markets.

    ECONOMIST: Japan��s economic policy

  • Yet in some areas of the country where the service is available university towns such as Boston and San Francisco, for instance, and rich suburbs full of wealthy nerds more than a quarter of Internet users have now switched over to cable.

    ECONOMIST: The battle for the last mile

  • Amazon.com and Ebay, for instance, are down 32% and 34%, respectively, from their 52-week highs.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • Its porosity makes it unsuitable for wet zones like bathrooms and kitchens, for instance.

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  • Sales of computers, insurance and holidays, for instance are done more and more over the phone.

    ECONOMIST: Call centres

  • Scroggin's 42-page checklist includes the option to have heirs tested not just for illegal drug use but also for consumption of alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, for instance.

    FORBES: An Estate Plan Worthy Of Scrooge

  • Matsushita prides itself on its close work with this club, helping to improve training and quality control, for instance, as well as running insurance and pension programmes for workers.

    ECONOMIST: Business-to-business in Japan

  • Last August and September, for instance, Mexicans with connections to separate blogs and websites campaigning against cartels were killed.

    FORBES: Anonymous Seen Backing Down From Drug-Cartel Attack

  • Memphis and Indiana, for instance, both have two stout wing defenders and enjoy evenly divided scoring outputs from their rotations. (The Pacers had five different leading scorers in the six-game series with New York.) Conversely, the Knicks relied heavily each night on Anthony and Smith, neither of whom is great defensively.

    WSJ: One-Dimensional Problems

  • Although it has a few basket-case countries, it also has (in Scandinavia and Germany, for instance) some of the world's strongest and most competitive economies.

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  • Instead of employing housemaids and cooks, for instance, busy householders buy the output of workers chopping and bagging salads and cooking ready meals.

    ECONOMIST: Domestic labour

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