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...The person said this latter number “better reflects the magnitude of the paying userbase”, and that the number of subscribers continues to increase year-on-year. (Jagex declined to comment.)...
...The perpetrators remain unknown and the precise impact on the result is impossible to gauge — but the episode foreshadowed a new dawn for information warfare and a gargantuan challenge for Silicon Valley...
...The “callous, self-important brute . . . was one of Britain’s worst serial killers”....
...Risks/Opportunities:There are a large number of ‘unknowns’ around the next phase of the lockdowns, a potential second wave of the virus, timing of vaccine, developments in testing/tracing, further government...
...However, mapping those partials to GDP is not straightforward, with our model suggesting that GDP probably fell something like 20% saar for Q1 GDP (a slightly negative y/y)....
...As yet, it is difficult to gauge the impact that the Job Support Scheme might have....
...As a result, M2 growth picked up from 13% in early 2002 to over 20% in 2003....
...The exact reasons for Mahabis’s collapse remain unknown, but its demise shows how the direct-to-consumer model, which bypasses the retailer, for everything from mattresses to razors can be difficult to sustain...
...What’s interesting over the past year, say, in the UK, is that costs have probably risen between 15 and 20 per cent: and some of that is the Netflix effect....
...It’s virtually impossible to model the potential impacts using traditional forecasting frameworks....
...“Do not think the Americans are savages,” he told his wary artists. “On the contrary, they are less ignorant, less closed-minded than our French collectors.”...
...By 1900 the number of dukes and earls had doubled, the number of lords had trebled and the number of baronets and knights quadrupled....
...It did not exist 20 years ago. What happens if you miscalculate the number of copies, if you overprint? You know the reality is, we never have overs. I have such experience....
...What are the key indicators that you follow to gauge such factors?...
...Jing Zhang, unknown Daniel Tenengauzer: According to our models the dollar was undervalued for 2-3 years before it turned in 2008....
...The enormous popularity of satnav bears testimony to the value people place on being able to drive into the unknown without getting lost....
...It has pioneered a model by which investors – not issuers – pay for the ratings they use, addressing some of the conflict of interest inherent in the current model....
...FT: So swifter action in an ideal 20/20 vision universe would have been better?...
...Intel’s systems group simplified its usage of parts in this way, reducing 20,000 different part numbers to 500. Product variability reduction works in a similar way....
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