With hundreds of distinct macro announcements released every month (see The Quant Investor Almanac 2011 for details), it becomes easy to build a billion-dollar global macro hedge fund that is consistently profitable.
We can at least partially peg this downturn to a shift in the amount of hardware that Motorola Mobility has been putting out as of late — after pushing out the Droid RAZR HD and the Droid RAZR Maxx HD late last year, there was a distinct lack of hardware announcements coming out of the popular phone manufacturer.
If genuine, the announcement suggests a distinct split with the insurgents' core leadership.
Truman's announcement marked a distinct shift in U.S. foreign policy.
Even though many analysts have focused on the positive announcements, those were a distinct minority.
In these locations, there are distinct foreground events - such as announcements, crowd sounds, cars passing by, conversation, which when segmented and randomly shuffled can result in very abrupt changes between adjacent segments.
149 announcements were published on ten distinct dates with no transactions performed.
But an announcement at E3 really is a distinct possibility, whereas last year it was really only a distant hope.
The deal follows Salesforce.com's announcement last month of Social.com, which was distinct from the social media ad campaign capabilities that it gained with its acquisition of Buddy Media.
But something important has changed in the intervening time, leaving the impression that the day of Mr. Putin's first announcement, Sept. 24, will be the dividing line between two distinct periods in Russian political life.
Language became a particularly important symbol of renewed ethnic divisions, as Croats in particular strove to make their version of Serbo-Croat as distinct as possible from Serbian, inventing new, distinctly Croatian coinages for words like announcement and aeroplane.
