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This strategy also results in unanticipated, or " windfall " profits: If the contract is purchased forward twelve months at $ 100 and the actual price is $ 150, the refiner will take delivery of one barrel of oil at $ 100 and the other at a spot price of $ 150, or $ 125 averaged for two barrels: a gain of $ 25 relative to spot prices.
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Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.
Decomposition, simplification, or slowing of multijoint movement may also be an effective strategy that therapists may use to improve function in patients with ataxia.
Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.
In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.
During the Reagan administration, conservatives also supported the so-called " Reagan Doctrine " under which the U. S., as part of a Cold War strategy, provided military and other support to guerrilla insurgencies that were fighting governments aligned with the Soviet Union.
Cyborgs have also been present in real-time strategy video games.
Commodore also retreated from its earlier strategy of selling its computers to discount outlets and toy stores, and now favored authorized dealers.
She is employing a rhetorical strategy by writing against the grain of her meaning, also known as antiphrasis.
Bloom also researched mastery learning, an instructional strategy in which learners only advance to a new learning objective after they have mastered its prerequisite objectives.
During practice at Le Mans in 1967, in an effort to preserve the highly-stressed brakes, Gurney developed a strategy ( also adopted by co-driver A. J.
The hedge fund's prospectus, also known as an offering memorandum, offers potential investors information about key aspects of the fund, including the fund's investment strategy, investment type, and leverage limit.
The term " game " in improv can also refer to the Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's concept of the " game of the scene " as a teaching technique and strategy for improv and sketch comedy.
Results of these tests are an objective measure of an athlete's fitness ; however, weight, technique and team coordination also impact performance in a boat, thus assembling a crew based purely on erg scores is not an optimal strategy.
Mandarin Oriental also embarked on its strategy to double its available rooms and capitalize on its brand.
Later anarcho-pacifists have also come to endorse to non-violent strategy of dual power.
In programming language theory, lazy evaluation or call-by-need is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed ( non-strict evaluation ) and which also avoids repeated evaluations ( sharing ).
With a new management team in place, Lycos also began divesting properties that were not core to its new strategy.
One strategy to keep prices high and to maintain profitability was for producers of the same good to collude with each other and form associations, also known as cartels.
This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.
This is also frequently found in real-time strategy games such as Dune 2000 and Emperor: Battle for Dune.
The epithet parthénos (), whose origin is also unclear, meant " maiden, girl ", but also " virgin, unmarried woman " and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.
Passive management ( also called passive investing ) is a financial strategy in which an investor ( or a fund manager ) invests in accordance with a pre-determined strategy that doesn't entail any forecasting ( e. g., any use of market timing or stock picking would not qualify as passive management ).
Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy ; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Persian prince Cyrus, the son of Darius II.
strategy and results
* A review of survey results and prioritisation of the various intrinsic, instrumental and institutional values to provide a clear basis for a 10-year strategy
Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.
Applegate, Jacobson and Sleator observed a pattern in their results, and conjectured that the first player has a winning strategy when the number of spots divided by six leaves a remainder of three, four, or five.
For example, if your data contains long lengths of repeated bytes, the RLE ( run-length encoding ) strategy may give good results at higher speed.
The Germans seem to have seen more clearly the need to make all branches of the Army as mobile as possible to maximise the results of this strategy.
The South Korean government's strategy is quickly yielding results and despite predicting that farmland is shrinking on the country, the government announced in August 2009 that South Korea would enjoy a 10 % increase in rice production in 2009, the first since 2005, and the government has begun purchasing large quantities of rice to keep prices stable.
Business rules tell an organization what it can do in detail, while strategy tells it how to focus the business at a macro level to optimize results.
Responding to the news, Chris Gibson-Smith, the LSE's chairman, said: " The Exchange ’ s strategy has produced outstanding results for shareholders by facilitating a structural shift in volume growth in an increasingly international market at the centre of the world ’ s equity flows.
As the result of the new strategy the operating results came close to the positive value-in 2010 it reached-USD $ 593 thousand comparing to-USD $ 10 798 thousand in 2009.
These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to encourage and ultimately create successful results.
This strategy often results in the player gaining a large advantage against their unsuspecting opponent.
While this state-led strategy had some positive results, emigration remained high throughout this period, with up to 75, 000 leaving for Britain in the late 1930s.
These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to create successful results.
Furthermore, the appearance of recency in Expriment 2 suggests that recency results from a retrieval strategy that failed to develop in Experiment 1 because some lists were not tested immediately.
The question of whether results from a particular study generalize to other people, places or times arises only when one follows an inductivist research strategy.
* Interbrand, a brand strategy agency, draws upon financial results and projections in its own model for brand valuation.
This " expected gain " strategy results in wiping out in about 61 % percent of turns in which reaching the end of a column is not a factor.
In database searching, a thesaurus strategy is to use multiple iterations to search for related words and generate results.
After analyzing the results of the first experiment, he determined that had a participant entered the tit for two tats strategy it would have emerged with a higher cumulative score than any other program.
* Data, Outcomes, and Quality – Demonstrating Results-Realize an integrated data strategy that informs policy, measures program impact, and results in improved quality of services and outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
The paper claimed that the new strategy had produced significantly improved financial results.
The dynamics of strategy and performance concerns the ‘ content ’ of strategy – initiatives, choices, policies and decisions adopted in an attempt to improve performance, and the results that arise from these managerial behaviors.
" He joked with the men, calling common soldiers ' brother ', and shrewdly presented the results of detailed planning and careful strategy as the work of inspiration.
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