Many small businesses cannot afford to (a) shut down for a day, (b) renovate repairs or (c) pay the deductible on insurance claims.
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Result: Today in the U.S. 150 million cell users (up fivefold since 1995) talk an average of eight hours a month (up fourfold) while paying a dime a minute (down by a factor of four).
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
Whether you get a marriage bonus (your combined tax bill goes down) or suffer a marriage penalty (you pay more as a couple) depends on various factors.
Firefighters have rescued a woman who fell down a 16ft (5m) deep hole on a country estate in Perthshire.
Less exciting was the bottom line for the second quarter, 11 cents a share, down (yes, down) from 17 cents a year earlier.
Finally, business slows down a little (just a little) at the end of the year for many tax professionals.
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Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is down about 0.5%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is down about 0.1%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is lower by about 0.5%.
Remedy: When we make a major decision such as accepting (or turning down) a job offer, we tend to exercise confirmation bias.
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Opposing Frank is the real-life police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who hunts Frank down with a group of irregulars (that is, honest cops) operating out of Essex County, New Jersey.
They cannot agree on who should bear the cost of today's crisis: should it be creditors (through a write-down), debtors (through austerity) or the Germans (through transfers to the south)?
In 1965, three young members of Mossad Rachel (Jessica Chastain), David (Sam Worthington), and Stephan (Marton Csokas) are sent under cover to East Berlin, to track down a doctor named Vogel (Jesper Christensen), formerly known as the Surgeon of Birkenau, and fly him back to Israel.
They detonate mines from 100-1, 000 metres away with the flash of a camera (sends a pulse down an electrical line).
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American fund managers are also doing well in other Latin American countries, which have either adopted the Chilean approach (eg, Mexico and Bolivia), or gone down a similar route while avoiding mandatory contributions (eg, Argentina and Brazil).
The Nets rank dead last in the NBA in possessions per game (90.5), which is down slightly from a year ago, when they ranked 21st (92.7) out of 30 teams.
Last week a South African group pulled out of a bid to buy the club after the Rugby Football Union (RFU) turned down a plan to relocate to London.
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Among the largest underlying components of GWX, in trading today Corus Entertainment, Inc. ( Toronto: CJR-B) is off about 0.1%, Dundee Corp ( Toronto: DC-A) is down about 0.8%, and Home Capital Group Inc ( Toronto: HCG) is lower by about 1.7%.
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Acting on a million-dollar tip from a dying man in Naples, Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time international intriguer with a Flatbush accent, tracks down a feared global potentate, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), who hires him to do a sensitive job: to investigate Arkadin himself.
Fox was second with "X Factor" (9.1 million, 3.1) down a tenth, followed by "Glee" (6.2 million, 2.6), up 8 percent.
Among the largest underlying components of VEA, in trading today Nestle S A ( OTC: NSRGY) is down about 1.1%, Novartis ( NYSE: NVS) is down about 1.6%, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc ( NYSE: RDS.A) is lower by about 2.4%.
We get flying dragons, a breathless opening sequence in which Gandalf (Ian McKellen) plummets down a belching abyss, and Shadowfax, a flawless white horse who will gallop in from nowhere, though only in slow-motion.
Among the largest underlying components of RWX, in trading today Brookfield Asset Management ( Toronto: BAM-A) is down about 0.3%, RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust ( Toronto: REI-UN) is up about 0.2%, and Brookfield Office Properties Inc ( Toronto: BPO) is relatively unchanged.
This posits that there is a tradeoff between economic growth and inflation: that to gin up an economy a central bank must print more money (which eventually leads to more inflation), and that to bring inflation down a central bank must tighten money (which slows down the economy).
Trish clearly felt (and often stated) that she was dating down and that it was my money (I had a good job) that got me access to her.
It just take a few swipes to get used to, a swipe up from the bezel will show you the running applications application (a true multitasking) while swiping down will bring up a menu screen for the current application.
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Among the largest underlying components of VT, in trading today Apple Inc ( NASD: AAPL) is trading flat, International Business Machines Corp. ( NYSE: IBM) is down about 0.6%, and Nestle S A ( OTC: NSRGY) is lower by about 0.7%.
But it would also raise inflation, recently down after peaking at a (monthly) 3.4% in April.
We could also call this a top down (IBM) versus bottom up (Apple) fight.
Set around a sweet courtyard, hung unsurprisingly with red lanterns, Red Lantern House is located down a hutong (old alleyway).
These can involve closing down takeaways near schools (a shove) or a ban on smoking near playgrounds (a smack).
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