In our office, we don't really give higher value to one thing or the other.
Inflation means giving a higher value to the same thing that once had a lower one.
"The public perception is that the Pocantico Hills is smaller and more intimate, and has higher value to homeowners than the larger Tarrytown district," said Mr. Hochberg.
"By moving locals out in the name of tourism, the land can be sold at a higher value to developers and to attract commerce; the local government can make a lot of money that way," he says.
For example, a rule on the high bar gave a higher value to a full-twisting one-armed giant swing, called the Zou Li Min, named for the Chinese gymnast who first used it in the 1990's.
These energy sources have been sequestered deep in the earth for millions of years, and they hold a higher value to society than just digging them up and combusting them in our homes and cars.
Finally, I always sprinkled the dollar- and fifty-cent-book shelves with gems of higher value to cultivate the feeling of treasure hunting that draws so many people to bookstores in the first place.
There is the "endowment effect" – people attach a higher value to goods they already own than to identical goods that they don't.
Similarly, if they considered themselves serious shoppers, respondents gave higher value to a not-quite-completed mock-up of a box of blueberry cereal than to a completed one when asked to assess the prospects for each.
Some analysts have argued that the Fairfax group's bid which equates to $9 a BlackBerry share is too low and that a rival bidder could assign a higher value to BlackBerry's corporate business and other assets such as its patent portfolio.
Over time, a unified JPM will face stricter capital requirements, and so higher costs, than smaller outfits—or than its broken-up self.Goldman assumes a JPM stripped of the benefit of scale would gain from investors attaching higher value to its component parts consumer banking (including credit cards), corporate and investment banking, and commercial lending.
