But his next acquisition is bound to be something that, like WhatsApp, can reinforce Facebook's monopoly goals by adding a feature or service that looks like a budding monopoly of its own, and which comes with a staggeringly valuable social graph, which in this case is WhatsApp's database of users' phone numbers, user names, contact lists and locations.
Now, however, an endorsement could come with a financial windfall, making it all the more valuable.
The jobs are considered valuable perks since they typically come with a stipend that supplements a council member's annual salary of about $90,000.
Traditional pensions are a valuable benefit because they shield employees from market risk and come with a government guarantee.
Some of us might miss the spectacle of the freak — I can even see the confused child in me scouring the women of the cast for my hot mess of choice and coming up empty-handed — but even the most jaded of us Middle Eastern Americans might come out with a valuable lesson.
In David Mamet's 1997 film, "The Spanish Prisoner," he played the possibly duplicitous boss of an inventor who has come up with a valuable idea.
In each case, the investigator concerned was sagacious enough to link various seemingly unrelated facts together to come up with a valuable conclusion.
By describing how he has done it, Mr. Bossidy has come up with a valuable and practical management guide that is must reading for anyone who cares about business, including overly trusting journalists.
Note to self: Turnarounds are tough, but they're doable and hard-earned comebacks generally come with valuable resilience and a dose of humility.
The next year, the great excavator came up with a valuable selection of O'Hara's letters, along with "John O'Hara: A Descriptive Bibliography," which includes even the blurbs that O'Hara composed.
