Shell is predominantly involved in downstream oil production and any hardening of refining margins could lift bottom line profits. |
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How do you use it with people who are responsible for the bottom line of a company account sheet? |
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Those extra pennies you've been paying at the pump are making a difference in the bottom line for big oil. |
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He agrees with IAG that it's the bottom line rather than hourly rates that counts. |
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For this author, it was apparently easy because he had a bottom line which he was going to defend on all accounts. |
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Shalikashvili's bottom line is precisely what I kept finding in the people I talked to. |
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When you lay out your expectations, your bottom line, then you give the man a concrete thing to respond to. |
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The bottom line is that referees are no better or worse than they've always been. |
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The bottom line remains that women should consult their doctor and weigh pros and cons before deciding on treatment. |
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Of course, we are taught that integrity is an important value and is, in fact, the bottom line of morality in society. |
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But it seems to me far from clear that her argument for that bottom line works here. |
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I wouldn't begin to guess what went on in his mind or what his bottom line was. |
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The bottom line should be accountability and credibility, not affordability. |
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Now, while there were a lot of interruptions, each side did have a chance to get across their bottom line. |
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A cost benefit analysis is also necessary in this matter but the bottom line will remain free choices to consumers. |
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But the bottom line, just to be clear, the bottom line of all this for you is in the end self-interest. |
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Professionals who do not add to this bottom line are considered superfluous to schools. |
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The bottom line is that both approaches would be unscholarly, and simply inadequate. |
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The bottom line is that while there are good people out there working hard and unselfishly for charitable causes, there are also some cowboys. |
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Though the bottom line for the networks would likely be significantly reduced with less advertisers investing in each hour of their day. |
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The bottom line is that both sets deliver solid sound quality, although the E1C does deliver better detail in the high midrange. |
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The bottom line is that another crisis is brewing and again it revolves around healthcare. |
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The bottom line is the common risk factors really are carrying the brunt of the burden. |
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The bottom line is that the dollar has lost all concrete, dependable, verifiable support. |
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Mr Fitzgerald said the airport has to tailor a commercial structure to achieve viable bottom line operating costs. |
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The bottom line is that the scam does not let the user video chat at all, but simply entices them to fill out a number of surveys. |
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I am sceptical that there will be basic bottom line protection for the deportees such as non-refoulement. |
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The carnage had a huge cost in terms of lost business, but it worked wonders for the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that employers expect you to have some sense of what you want to do in terms of career goals. |
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Sadly the bottom line is that she spends a lot of money with us and by virtue of that we have to accept her obnoxious visits. |
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They should have looked at the bottom line and said civilisation was not worth the candle. |
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The bottom line of what is being said here is still why can't women be more like men? |
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The bottom line is that in a confrontation with an automobile a cyclist will always loose, and you do not have eyes in the back of your head. |
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The bottom line is that it will cost more to keep warm this winter, whether you heat with natural gas, electricity or home heating oil. |
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But the bottom line is, that karate, allows you to use your hands and feet as weapons, and to strike much more quickly than you can with a sword. |
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In a city where greed is good, it makes a refreshing change but the bottom line is that success is expected to continue regardless. |
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Many options exist for charitable giving that can affect your tax bottom line. Some options can reduce estate taxes too. |
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Without huge overhead costs, each extra dollar of revenue sees more profit fall to the bottom line. |
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If you manage your overhead costs properly, you will impact directly on your bottom line cost base. |
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Environmental management can achieve efficiencies in how we operate at a business level, with resulting bottom line benefits. |
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The bottom line is that on some level, I feel like I'm cheating on my husband, but obviously, there's nothing sexual between my friend and me. |
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The cost of diverting waste can play hob with a private company's bottom line or a community's operating budget. |
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The loss of star programme hosts could dent Commercial Radio's bottom line, say Hong Kong advertisement buyers. |
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Today's media is awash in advice for business managers, tips on how to command underlings, sway bosses and squeeze a bottom line. |
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We could go round in circles apportioning the blame, but the bottom line is that we've failed to meet expectations. |
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Big fat CEO paychecks not only hurt an employee's bottom line but a company's bottom line too, according to a report. |
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They all seem to be ruled by the Accountant's pen and the bottom line nowadays. |
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That's the bottom line city councillors were faced with this week as they continued along the 2004 budget path. |
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The bottom line is that athletes need to clean up, start facing the music and actually start acting like role models. |
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To remain competitive and to endure, museums are forced to continuously focus on the bottom line. |
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But the bottom line is that as long as questions persist, she will remain caught between two stools. |
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The bottom line is that the Government dividends impact directly on programme quality. |
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The bottom line is that, in general, we don't trust people other than ourselves. |
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How big does a business or a concern have to be though to get that bottom line impact? |
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The bottom line is that we are all being fleeced and are being conditioned to accept less and less every year and pay more for it. |
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For Bosch and many big professional investment institutions, good governance adds to the bottom line of creating shareholder wealth. |
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What extraordinarily powerful intangibles professionals leave off the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that she believes in a secular government and she is backed and advised by a group of secular intellectuals. |
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But it's not hard to see why this funding bottom line is the main point of contention here. |
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The bottom line is that on the table, a salad should look cool and fresh, inviting and attractive, says Mr. Jacob. |
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Let me unpack a bit, because I know this sounds polemical, since I am clearly stating a bottom line. |
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The forearm is nicely rounded and the use of a flush fitting, six-round, metal magazine keeps the bottom line clean and uncluttered. |
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After a brutal price war in the late '90s, many have become more focused on the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that health clubs have not done a good job of bringing the deconditioned population into a fitness facility. |
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When it comes to gifts the bottom line is to exercise gingerliness, high esteem and fervency heedless of the item or its price. |
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The bottom line is as long as health care is a purchasable commodity, women will not be getting the care they need. |
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In this age of ecological devastation, the bottom line in evaluating a technology is whether it is sustainable. |
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I'm not saying people should go around purloining things, but the bottom line is, it isn't murder. |
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In this session he discusses the problems and solutions of managing eContent to realize savings that directly hit the bottom line. |
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They explained how financial rules and accounting practices could be used to allow a company to grow its bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that a shock deflation will put many people out of work and discombobulate the economy. |
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The human element disqualifies science from the equation, and the bottom line is, the only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain. |
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The bottom line is that the IFA is content to avoid what it considers to be a divisive issue. |
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But the bottom line as far as she is concerned is that builders and developers have been abdicating any responsibility in this area. |
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It doesn't matter if you're dealing with an Arabian, Quarter Horse, Paint, Mustang, or Hanovarian the bottom line is that they're all horses. |
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Investors want businesses to concentrate on pumping up the bottom line and lifting stock prices. |
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The bottom line, regardless of whatever language experts would like to use, is that the Zambian economy should produce. |
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The bottom line is, even if you work out every day, aerobic exercise can only take the body so far. |
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But the campaign to Africanize cyberspace is not all about the bottom line. |
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It's obviously very difficult, but the bottom line is, they want to get people out of the actual buildings, just to be on the safe side, Kitty. |
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If the financial bottom line was the only measure of the companies' worth, there would probably be no argument. |
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The bottom line is that the recovery no longer depends on the temporary lift from tax cuts and refi money. |
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The bottom line is that it is amateurish and will threaten the safety of our children. |
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The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless. |
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The bottom line to this week's two-step is that Zoellick and Lamy have a long road to walk before they get back to Doha. |
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The bottom line in such argumentation was reminiscent of the objective of all despotic regimes to genuine political participation. |
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How do you decide the bottom line, when people's lives or the world economy, are at stake? |
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The bottom line is to make sure you're providing your body with adequate amounts of macronutrients at the appropriate times. |
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The bottom line is the original house was old and it was time to replace it. |
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All sarcasm aside, the bottom line here is that the film just doesn't work. |
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The bottom line was that the chances we created were very good but we didn't get enough goals or shots on target. |
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The skaters may be placed in the correct order, which is all that counts at the bottom line, but the marks are now totally meaningless. |
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Many companies massage their bottom line earnings per share figures following acquisitions. |
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The bottom line is society hasn't opened up much to accept this kind of thing. |
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At issue is a megabuck Pentagon jet deal that could go a long way toward shoring up Boeing's bottom line. |
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Why not tickle their impulses and your bottom line by carrying and displaying unique giftware and stationery items? |
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The bottom line is that the Tobin tax has a highly respectable intellectual heritage. |
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I think that you will agree that we have taken a belt and braces approach in attempting to guarantee your worst case bottom line profit. |
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The bottom line is that shake-outs of the content management and enterprise portal markets have long been predicted. |
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The bottom line we feel is to ensure a speedy delivery of maize to millers so that production operations are not disrupted. |
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At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line. |
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The insurance industry may be the first corporate sector to go Green, forced there by the unarguable evidence of its own bottom line. |
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Whoa, I said aloud, trying to uncross my eyes, what's the bottom line here? |
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It's an unending, excruciating process, but essential to Toyota's bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that we must see action, not more mobile police stations or eye-in-the-sky units. |
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Last week, Seagate announced plans to slough off close to 3,000 workers, hoping to improve its bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that U.S. auto manufactures are not competing well against foreign nameplates. |
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In an economic slump, business costs that were once low priority take on new importance for the bottom line. |
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The bottom line will also benefit from the depreciation in the dollar and nascent signs of firmer pricing power. |
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But not all travelers are as savvy with math and could use some help figuring out the bottom line. |
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Actually, today, just five corporations own almost the entire record business, where numbers are the bottom line. |
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Some of these events can have a major impact on the bottom line, either currently or in the future. |
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For those with their eye on the bottom line, U.S. rates of productivity have fallen behind those in Europe. |
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Now we're up closer to 80 cents, and that does take a fair bit off the bottom line for the Australian winery. |
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It seems that these businessmen on the chamber are looking after what they look after best, the bottom line. |
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Then, he subtracts that average from the bottom line, ignoring the actual charges. |
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This will give us a weapon in attempts by management to compromise ethics in the name of the bottom line or proprietors' interests. |
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He added that if taxpayers had opted for their notice of assessment to be quoted in Irish pounds the bottom line would still be given in euro. |
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What we have is a Press controlled by owners interested in the bottom line, and taking credit for not interfering editorially. |
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What ultimately matters for them is the bottom line of the balance sheet, rather than a duty to serve. |
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I scanned the paper quickly and unhesitatingly signed on the bottom line. |
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I doubt he would be woofing about him missing the shot because the bottom line is that the guy outplayed him to steal the ball in the first place. |
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When the company unveils its full-year results on Monday, investors will be looking for signs that the recent stock market revival will feed through to boost the bottom line. |
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As long as this remains the bottom line, everybody will respond to it. |
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And finally there are the salespeople, who may not know that much about the math, but know how to talk a persuasive bottom line. |
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This is now becoming a season of excuses from players and managers and the bottom line appears to be that the poor luvvies on the field have run out of puff. |
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The bottom line, Gary, is that no database is goofproof, not even in the video rental business, with your simple task of keeping 20,000 titles and 20,000 customers straight. |
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In the academic confines of museums, such talk of marketing and the bottom line qualifies as gauche. |
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While some critics say it took too long for the president to come to this bottom line, others say that he seemed to rush the proposal out with a sinister motive. |
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I know you've been going through a lot of the different legal angles, but the bottom line is their best hope right now is with the eleventh circuit court of appeals. |
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But the bottom line is that the foundations of secularism and equality before the law that Nehru laid have withstood the worst of onslaughts on them. |
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The bottom line is I made a series of poor choices and overestimated my ability to recognize, react, and recover from a poor autorotation flown by my copilot. |
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Second, good management can make a telling difference in the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that the ICC, like all multinational institutions, is primarily a diplomatic and political body. |
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The bottom line is that your classmates don't care how you get it out of your system, just as long as you do it when they're not forced to listen to you. |
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Through political protest, social movements capture the world's attention, thematize injustice, and articulate visions of freedom and equality beyond the bottom line. |
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The bottom line of business in a free enterprise system is money. |
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The businessman in him remains solidly focused on the bottom line. |
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The other companies to jettison Deen were more interested in their image than the bottom line. |
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Within these broad divisions, of course, there are secondary and tertiary subdivisions, the bottom line being the analysis of any given historical decade or century. |
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The bottom line is we would dearly love some government assistance there. |
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Running tourists alongside merinos has saved many a cockie's bottom line. |
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There is no doubt that cost savings are being made and getting through to the bottom line of company profit and loss accounts but, inevitably, it is not all plain sailing. |
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So it could be argued that bottom line financial considerations were the main determinant of the four times a day musters and headcounts held in Villawood detention centre. |
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Whose responsibility is it to ensure that the new manager who is going to learn this new different job has the bottom line level of training, experience? |
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Because many companies rely on stock options to pump up earnings, she takes a hard look at how the cost of options and their dilution to shareholders decrease the bottom line. |
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Getting big weeks from cheap players not only will boost your points total but will increase your team's bottom line as the dollar values for those sleepers rise. |
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The bottom line is that I don't believe any of the Monday morning quarterbacks who now claim that they knew back then that Foreman matched up favorably vs Frazier. |
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The bottom line is I'm just thankful to be in this position. |
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Unchallenged by a competitive industry and unmotivated by a bottom line, federal workers often work fewer hours. |
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The bottom line is that if you have an uncontrolled accident and release, then MOX fuel will raise your health and safety risks. |
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Our finance people, for example, are expert in fiscal matters, but we tend to forget that it takes more than a bottom line to make the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that Ebola is terrible and the world is not doing enough. |
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It would appear that when it came to the bottom line, Washington was not overflowing with sympathy. |
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We know that Les Moonves, like any good chief executive, cares about the bottom line and making a bundle for shareholders. |
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That decision that has affected Dell's bottom line, and so caused the Wall Street wallies to conclude that the bottom was dropping out of the PC market. |
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The bottom line is that TV can reap tremendous rewards for your small business, but you have to be willing to be patient and have the war chest to back up that patience. |
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The bottom line is that it has presided over the largely unnecessary slaughter of 7.7 million animals, yet it cannot confirm foot-and-mouth has been eliminated. |
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The benefits of remotely accessing your PC from the road are numerous, but the bottom line is that it enables you to use your computer from the road like you never left home. |
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Chamberlan adds the bottom line is still quality, and always will be. |
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The bottom line is that the state will continue to evolve from the traditional welfare role towards an agent of modernisation and structural reform. |
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This is the bottom line of revolution, and the very alphabet of liberalese. |
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In triple bottom line analysis, this can be seen as degrading capital on which the nation's economy ultimately depends. |
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The bottom line is that their delusory steps would increase tensions and complicate matters during the talks. |
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Deburring the hubs proved to be more expensive and time-consuming than planned, decreasing efficiency and affecting the bottom line. |
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I guess this is the influence of our HMO masters who look to this kind of fee splitting to help their bottom line, which is their priority. |
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Network news divisions now make lots of money, and newsmagazines lead this drive toward the bottom line. |
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Since then it has grown to 4,000 but I think the bottom line is freemium publishing in Birmingham is only just getting started. |
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But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions. |
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The bottom line here is that the Journal is no house organ for the Anglican Church of Canada. |
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The bottom line with Dispensationalists concerns the end-times and, specifically, the pre-tribulation rapture. |
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The bottom line is that there simply are not enough hours in the day to finish all there is to do. |
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The bottom line is that improper spending is a burden on taxpayers, but costs all Americans through misallocation of resources. |
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On the contrary, hiring people with idd is good for the bottom line. |
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But the bottom line here was that a producer with an ear for top tunes helped mould Blondie into chart-topping world-beaters. |
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Deft management of these assets will also affect the corporate bottom line by saving a significant number of man-hours in inventory and planning. |
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The importance of WFM is reflected in a credit union's financial bottom line. |
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In Q1 2010, 38 new customers selected Xactly solutions to begin incenting the right sales behaviors and impact bottom line results. |
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Employers are becoming more and more aware of how integral getting the work-life balance right is to the company's bottom line. |
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This theory is the basis of triple bottom line accounting and is further developed in ecological economics, welfare economics and the various theories of green economics. |
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With the help of QualPro's MVT process, AAFES has been able to significantly improve its bottom line allowing greater benefits for our troops and their families. |
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The bottom line for current portal vendors is that HTML-based presentation frameworks simply don't work for Web service and Web application delivery. |
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The situation with the Ukrainian and the Cuban is just a tiny piece of the jig saw and the bottom line is that the world's top boxers will be in Beijing. |
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The bottom line here is that cancer immunotherapies will revolutionise cancer treatment and the fortunes of the companies who bring effective and safe products to the market. |
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Should we maximize the bottom line at the expense of patient care? |
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Whether it's a traveler's check, money order, or credit card, the bottom line is that we sell it to the public as a product, but it's really money. |
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The bottom line is that the drop from the stock's current perch to its 10-month moving average is far too much of a drop for this thrill-seeker to tolerate. |
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Of course, the money-grubbers in Government and at the ECB were never going to understand an argument which didn't focus solely on the bottom line. |
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The bottom line is that the Advanced ACCU-CHILL BI system can reach protein equilibration temperatures faster and with shorter cycle times than conventional systems. |
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So how can you produce an e-newsletter that boosts your bottom line? |
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They were built on a healthy bottom line and a willingness to fight their corner tooth and claw, not offer a supportive shoulder to the less wealthy. |
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The bottom line is that 50 naked souls, from all walks of life and corners of the globe, descended for a two-day, birthday suit bash at Birmingham's only naturist hotel. |
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