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...Betting markets are less predictive than polling, write Robert Erikson, political scientist at Columbia University and Christopher Wlezien, Hogg Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin...
...The MLBPA, meanwhile, has asked to shorten the eligibility window for player free agency — where they can renegotiate their contract or seek a transfer — to five from seven years and raising the threshold...
...McDonald’s acknowledged as much this week, with chief executive Christopher Kempczinski noting that “we’re not seeing a V-shaped recovery in China”....
...“For companies with urgent funding needs, the ability to potentially shorten transaction timetables will also be welcome.”...
...“It shortens your investment horizon. If you don’t know what’s going to happen next year, then you focus on what’s happening right now.” This has proven to be a reliable tactic for retail traders....
...In the longer term, all producers fear the impact of rising temperatures, which could shorten the time it takes to ripen fruit on the vine....
...Overnight, Universal Pictures and US cinema operator AMC said they had agreed to shorten the new movie exclusivity window....
...It refused to let Melrose race through the process and shorten GKN’s timeframe for a defence, but was also quick to make both sides retract unverified statements of shareholder support....
...barely a greeting, in fact, just wave after wave of language, stories whose subject is the same (how she’s been maligned or overlooked, perhaps), and she is not even pausing to breathe, and your breath shortens...
...In short, the Pose method not only has you landing on you forefoot, but also shortens your stride considerably from the days when you were heel striking....
...“Banks are now keen to shrink their balance sheets and shorten the duration of their assets,” says Laurence Monnier, infrastructure fund manager at Aviva Investors. ”This offers investors the opportunity...
...Summly, the app teenager Nick D’Aloisio has just sold to Yahoo, shortens articles to Twitter length. It sounds suspiciously like something that might eventually replace an editor....
...“Each step will cover seconds, but will not shorten the hours. In any event, the evening will come, and the legs will have wound up swallowing – by little, repeated bites – the impossible distance.”...
...“At times of uncertainty, the tendency is for people’s horizons to shorten slightly. You value near-term cash flows and dividends rather than growth in the future,” he says....
...But some critics say their life could be extended by 10 to 15 years, and replacing the vessels with Vanguard-like submarines would shorten the build times, allowing a decision on whether to replace the vessels...
...However, Mr Colao was also seen as the anointed successor of Sir Christopher Gent, former chief executive, and is thought to have left when he did not get the job....
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