While part of this is due to the weighting against small projects, it is also due to our low overall level of spending. |
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The strike is the latest step in the campaign against the employers' ten-year freeze of the London weighting allowance. |
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Frustrated Council workers went on strike this week in a protest over their London weighting allowance. |
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The variables selected in Tables 1 and 2 are somewhat arbitrary, and should not necessarily be given equal weighting. |
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At one level the issue of London weighting is simply about the extra costs faced by workers in the capital, notably for housing and travel. |
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Workers are being balloted separately on national pay and the London weighting allowance. |
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A different weighting of the portfolio would dramatically change the situation. |
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Your longer-term strategy should be to build a portfolio that is well diversified and that reduces your weighting in the technological sector. |
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I suggested that we introduce Edinburgh weighting at a recent union conference, but I was shouted down because it was seen as divisive. |
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Most Irish institutions want to have a neutral weighting in all of the largest stocks. |
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Although they are solid, you must take great care not to damage them as this could affect the weighting. |
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The fund manager of an index fund sets up a mathematical model that buys and sells shares according to their weighting in the selected index. |
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They do this by investing in a basket of shares whose weighting is representative of the index overall. |
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Such an approach avoids artificial weighting of variables and emphasizes the main sources of variance. |
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The modes are defined by weighting patterns together with some appropriate restrictions as shown in the following. |
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Historically, property has had a low weighting because it is an illiquid asset. |
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This means weighting the rules of world trade to benefit poor people and the planet. |
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Many contenders for the top positions are apparent in the weighting I have given the 400 best architects. |
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An appropriate strategy for investors might be to identify 10 or 15 of these quality names and invest in these stocks in equal weighting. |
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As a group, equities receive a double plus weighting, bonds a double minus and cash is labelled a zero. |
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The feedback system fails because it gives equal weighting to non-paying buyers and the unpaid sellers. |
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It is a work of perfect weighting that shows that Hodgkin can still patrol the slippery frontiers between abstraction and representation. |
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The weighting of the income thresholds will also target giving medical cards to more children and people with disabilities. |
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He believed that through careful weighting, online surveys could be projected to the national population, and projected accurately. |
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In our global fund, we've never had as little a weighting in U.S. stocks as we do right now. |
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Institutions have started to sell off property because their investment portfolios have a higher than desired weighting in that asset class. |
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London weighting is an extra payment that some workers receive to compensate for the higher cost of living in the capital. |
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A weighting agent adds body to petroleum and prevents the formation of gushers. |
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He said postal workers in London were in line for a 14.5 pert cent basic pay rise and increases in London weighting of up to 12.6 per cent. |
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University workers are pressing for an improvement in their London weighting allowance. |
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The international awards gave equal weighting to strategy, creativity and results. |
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The unions were organising a London weighting battle bus to tour round the picket lines, and pickets were to lobby the department of education. |
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It depends on their relative weighting of the value of order, justice, liberty, and equality in different conditions. |
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Most of the complications are not commensurable and their weighting is often determined by ideological preferences. |
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We performed principal components analysis on the untransformed data using the correlation matrix, thus weighting all variables equally. |
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What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time. |
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The weighting of the company is adjusted taking into account the freely traded portion of the company's stock market capitalisation. |
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Universities boast of their positions in various league tables, lumping together incommensurable metrics and weighting them whimsically. |
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The second component is the weighting system, which is used in calculating the cost-of-living index. |
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The weight share method used is the equal person weighting scheme, for it requires the least amount of information on cohabitants. |
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Critics say this is odd, because mortgage banks' assets are undiversified and many have a higher risk weighting than the bonds. |
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Note: If the comparison of options is too close to call, consider weighting each of the criteria or a cost-per-point approach. |
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If a ratings weighting system is not introduced, we'll be heading toward a stifling of local creation. |
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To ensure that each passport issuing office was represented in the final results, ex post facto weighting was used. |
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To apply the technique of repeated weighting, we used the latest version of the software package VRD developed by Statistics Netherlands. |
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Precision alignment system putter features heel-toe weighting for easy to hit accurate putts. |
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Although the new weighting system would be slightly less consistent, it would on the whole be acceptable. |
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Value scales and weighting schemes are used to indicate a value trade-off between criteria or objectives. |
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It was good that no weighting was introduced, it would have been impossible to satisfy all vested interests. |
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In either case, FW wonders whether The Economist's Big Mac index might need re-weighting for, er, weighting. |
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In the 1980s and 1990s the cult of equity lured many funds into a heavy stockmarket weighting. |
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A simple weighting system can be derived from the recommended breakdown by type of cost. |
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Blast furnace operators also have differing preferences as regards the relative weighting of lump ore in their feed. |
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In fact, equities are considered as a risky asset whose weighting follows the strict rules of the finance committee with regard to allocation. |
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It reflects the weighting of the losses of a number of international subsidiaries for which no tax credits have been utilised. |
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The weighting of financials within the fund continues to hurt its performance. |
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Some issues may be expressed more strongly in one region, which might lead to different weighting of the issue during the synthesis. |
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The X, Y, Z fractions constitute the amplitude shading in each direction according to the cosine weighting of the microphone. |
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These licences were subsequently allocated for weighting based on the administrative region of residence. |
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The second column in table 1 contains the results with a weighting scheme that equalizes the total effect of direct and second-order interactions. |
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The result for the ballot on London weighting was due on Friday. |
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Tenants are themselves undertaking detailed investigations into the suitability of a location and giving this factor a high weighting when deciding on location. |
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The final list was narrowed down with an equal weighting of calories, saturated fat, sodium, and carbohydrates. |
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Unlike last year, I have given a weighting towards recent years and added an item relating to the name of the trainer. |
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So weighting by country year is also likely to produce problems with your data. |
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For these three, weighting for the four other data categories was increased by 2.5 percent. |
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The criteria and weighting remain the same for this year, but the results vary. |
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There are people who are weighing the costs and benefits carefully, and because they're weighting the risks of action more highly than inaction, they wish to stay our hand. |
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Most of the weighting is for qualitative factors such as whether the quality and timeliness of supply could be assured, the effects on other parts of the firm, and so on. |
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We derive some variance estimators that are consistent when the number of sampled units in each weighting cell is large, using the jackknife, linearization, and modified jackknife methods. |
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Significant assumptions used in the determination of fair value may include the discount or capitalization rate, the rate of return and the weighting of forecasted earnings. |
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We guaranteed consistency among the tables by using the technique of repeated weighting. It generates a new set of weights for each estimated table and is based on the repeated application of the regression estimator. |
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Their names may be poles apart on the register banks of most people. But the Caribbean islands of Cuba and the Turks and Caicos have been treated with equal weighting by the FIFA GOAL programme. |
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We apply judgment in determining the most appropriate inputs and the weighting we ascribe to each such input as well as in our selection of valuation methodologies. |
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A slight reduction in the industrial sector weighting was the result of the conversion of one security from a trust to a corporation and a desire by the Manager to reallocate to other available opportunities. |
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The present framework, however, still stops short of the important but complex process of weighting themes and assessing resources that represent themes. |
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The average deviation in the weighting structure vis-à-vis its reference period was thus reduced to 2.' years and the maximum deviation to four years, which is significantly less than the abovementioned seven-year limit. |
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These grids and the weighting for each factor are mandatory and cannot be altered in any way, but do allow for additional information as noted in the italicized portions. |
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This new weighting provides the opportunity for playwrights' centres to have their activities assessed more on the basis of the quality or their dramaturgical process and the results of this process. |
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Sogara, penalized by the very large size of its hypermarkets and the weighting of non-food in its selections, has seen a contraction in its income from ordinary operations. |
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Pending further coordination, the authorities concerned may apply a discretional weighting to the various elements of an exposure, although in the majority of instances a weighting has been suggested by the Commission. |
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For an understanding of the different ionising effects of these radiations and the weighting factors applied, see the article on absorbed dose. |
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The invitations to tender issued by the Centre do not offer much by way of explanation as regards the minimum quality of bids and the weighting of price factors. |
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We've also all gone to heavier weighting on the actual nets. |
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Since the cell-phone-only segment tilts considerably towards younger voters, the land line polls adjusted through weighting. |
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The most pressing issues were the composition of the Commission and the weighting of Member States' votes upon qualified majority voting. |
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We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. |
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When the new measurements are collected, the receiver uses a weighting scheme to combine the new measurements with the tracker prediction. |
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For example a simple ankle orthosis is given the same weighting as a reciprocal gait orthosis. |
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The orchards of peaches with the lush fruit weighting down the dwarfed trees. |
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The British Election Study team have suggested that weighting error appears to be the cause. |
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Criteria representing the most economically advantageous tender as well as their weighting or, where appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria shall be mentioned where they do not appear in the specifications. |
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All we've done here is taken the number of minority groups and their weighting by the population to come up with a rough indicator of the degree of cleavage within a society. |
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As an example, in Kent, mathematics and writing are each given twice the weighting of verbal reasoning. |
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The weighting given to each criterion should be proportional to the risk. |
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But even if bias exists in the system, the remedy cannot be to introduce racial weighting or, indeed, weighting of any sort into the concept of justice for all. |
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Such blocking is subjectively disturbing and thus the spectral presence would indicate that an adverse weighting factor should be applied to the noise measurement. |
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Some people may consider this development to be perfectly legitimate, because it tends to transpose the weighting of each country into the institutions according to the size of their populations. |
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