But no, I think, for example, in the fourth quarter of 2008 or the first quarter of 2009, you could have just thrown darts and done well.
"Do you imagine for example, in the quarter-finals, looking to the fixtures, the English team in the Champions League competing with Bayern Munich that has an 11-point advantage?
Further examples can be seen for example in the quarter-tone glissandi of Masques I (for two flutes, 1959), which mirror the characteristic pitch bends of the shakuhachi, and for which he devised his own unique notation: a held note is tied to an enharmonic spelling of the same pitch class, with a portamento direction across the tie.
For example, in the recent quarter, the company had revenue under standard rules of $733 million, compared with revenue of $1.9 billion in the period a year earlier.
For example, in the second quarter of 2009, while still in the grip of the Great Recession, nonfarm business labor productivity was 8.0 percent, a five-year high.
Goldman is the leader of the Wall Street pack, and it has an opportunity to set an example in the current quarter.
For example, in the second quarter of 2012, Nokia sold 4 million Lumia handsets running Windows Phone.
For example, in the most recent quarter, the average selling price (ASP) of a Dell machine was down 11%, to $2,350 from its ASP of $2,630 a year ago.
(In more polite company, we'd put the preceding as follows: Amazon's domestic e-commerce business no longer fully subsidizes its international e-commerce business, as it did, for example, in the year-ago quarter; this makes AWS all the more important as it keeps the company's aggregate business operating results in the black).
