There are few investment products, whether traditional or alternative, discretionary or systematic, fundamental or quantitative, whose performance cannot be analyzed through this framework.
Such visits, while usually seen as appropriate, may also be regarded as discretionary since other alternatives exist that allow earlier care to be delivered for an emerging condition and potentially prevent the need to visit an ED.
Senator Wicker has been supportive of Republican budget alternatives that rein in discretionary and long-term entitlement spending.
Provided with plenty of comparable alternatives, and facing plenty of discretionary purchases, they'll choose to patronize the brand owned by the company they hold in higher esteem.
Priority will be given to individuals without alternative sources of support (e.g. discretionary funds).
Some argue she should not be taking discretionary decisions but others argue there may be no other alternative in the event of political deadlock.
Most of its clients' discretionary assets are in global equities, tax-exempt fixed income and alternative investments.
(G, I, 65 89) That a benefit generated this degree of attachment, even among those who had alternative means of making at least essential, if not discretionary journeys, suggests that the value of the pass went beyond either the financial benefit or its role in accessing basic determinants of health.
Two alternative ways were employed to alleviate the problem of low discretionary power of DEA: fixing some of the outputs to the same level in different silvicultural systems and restricting the ranges of multipliers in the DEA model.
The theory for measuring efficiency of producers has developed alternative approaches to correct for the effect of non-discretionary variables in the analysis.
Further contributing to the 'hollowing out' of public sector policy capacity are such features of NPM public-sector reforms as privatization, the devolution of functions and expertise by government departments to alternative service delivery systems or supra-national institutions, and limitations on the discretionary roles and functions of senior public servants (Rhodes 1994).
