He associates the great auk with the mythical roc bird as a method of formally returning the main character to a sleepy land of fantasy and memory.
In practical terms, it's a method of calculating your return on investment, or ROI, for a project or expenditure.
Those major differences aside, Redfin is eyeing a similar strategy in terms of "exits" as Trulia and Zillow have — namely, filing for an IPO at some point as a method of providing a return on its $46 million total venture capital investment.
Indeed, because of the tax code, many corporate finance officers will argue that share buyback programs are a more efficient way method of returning profits to their investors than income-taxed dividends.
So are stock buybacks, the other widely used method of returning cash to investors.
The method of return-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (R-PAGE) was used to determine the general presence of viroids in the test samples.
Ms. Reno said she had notified the relatives that the meeting with the psychiatric team would be used to consider the least stressful method of returning Elian to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez.
So which method of returning cash to shareholders is superior: paying dividends or buying back stock?
Such considerations should make it clear why the writer does not regard open-market purchases as the best method of returning corporate cash to stockholders.
They categorized them into five types, viz., net present value methods, rate of return methods, ratio methods, payback methods and accounting methods.
Although this is a cumbersome method of providing return postage, we wanted to see if eliminating postal costs that might be a barrier for some respondents would have an effect.
