Smaller firms will likely have to be choosier about their investments.
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Faced with more options, luxury shoppers can afford to be choosier.
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And he has watched Phuket evolve to cater to a choosier clientele.
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For choosier folks on your list, select Anytime Gift Cards are $5 off.
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With all of this in mind, dividend investors will have to be choosier.
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HR departments may be a little choosier and overwhelmed by first quarter duties.
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But with more inventory expected to enter the market, buyers can afford to be choosier.
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Since the housing bust in 2007, lenders have gotten much choosier about whose mortgage applications they approve.
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Younger people, in particular, were becoming much choosier about what movies were worth seeing in a theater.
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But with so many options, households are getting choosier about which digital packages they want to pay for.
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Yet even if investors in the $3 trillion industry are getting choosier, many are still spread too thin.
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Banks were choosier about who they do business with, leaving companies with "unequal access" to banking services, EACT said.
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By contrast, private DNA sites like Ancestry and 23andMe tend to be choosier when it comes to complying with police requests.
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Still, Kinnaman's point — that we need to be choosier about what we recycle — has resonated with environmentalists and waste management experts alike.
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Over the years, as the number of visitors grew and reporters began to litter more casually with their gossip, Dierkes became choosier.
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But despite the big gains in beloved tech and internet stocks, Wall Street's strategists now also favor a choosier stock-picking strategy.
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In recent months and weeks, networks have been getting choosier about when to pivot to the president's rallies during highly lucrative primetime hours.
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But on a corporate level, the fact that SpaceX is private means it can be much choosier about its investors than Tesla can be.
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As a result, it was choosier, says Peter Baer, the founder and chief executive of Strategic Acquisitions, the company Colony contracted to acquire homes.
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Some strategists who've balked at the steep equity prices now recommend a choosier stock-picking strategy — one that prioritizes low debt and consistent income.
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Levies will also be lowered on grocery items such as avocados, orange juice and seafood, as Chinese households become choosier about the food they eat.
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"The industry is becoming more professionalized but also I'm seeing that the customer is getting choosier about what sneaker he or she wants," Mr. La Puma said.
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Bank of America&aposs Kash Rangan says investors in the software industry will have to be choosier in 2020 after huge gains for the stocks this year.
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Bedlam is his priority, Mr. Tucker said, and helping it grow is going to involve "me saying 'no' more often" — being choosier about the opportunities that follow success.
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With one seat of the nine vacant since February, when Antonin Scalia died, the risk of 4-4 ties in tricky cases seems to be making the justices choosier.
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Also, BATS is making its debut during one of the most difficult markets for initial public offerings in recent years, as investors have become choosier, often asking for lower pricing.
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Investors, perhaps seeing it as a way to get into Thiel's choosier, earlier-stage venture arm, Founders Fund, flocked to Mithril Capital in 2012 given its $100 million blessing from Thiel.
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Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Michael Wilson wrote in a weekly report to clients that the brokerage still favors defensive, reliable stock picks and a choosier bias in general as investors look to 2020.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist hedge funds were choosier in throwing their weight around corporate boardrooms during the first half of the year as they managed a smaller cash pile and struggled to beat benchmark returns.
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If you're at a point in your life or career where you feel you can be choosier with jobs, you might be willing to turn down a job where the culture clashes with your personality.
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As weak oil prices prompt a drying up of bank liquidity, some lenders are becoming choosier, taking longer to approve loans or asking for more paperwork, while others are cutting lending or recalling loans, say businesses and bankers.
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Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast figures for just how much copper scrap China is now generating, but the trend must be reassuring enough for Beijing to become ever choosier in what sort of material it is prepared to import.
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But for Kasich to stand any chance of turning what's been a smaller-scale campaign that's been much choosier about where he tries to compete into one with a real shot at quickly racking up delegates, Michigan is where it has to start.
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The decision to be choosier about its fleece partners is, in many ways, entirely in line with most of the company's recent corporate actions, from campaigning against the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the acreage of protected lands to giving its $10 million tax rebate last year to nonprofits.
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The effort to discover how costs can constrain an "honest" correlation between observable signals and unobservable qualities within signallers is built on strategic models of signalling games, with many simplifying assumptions. These models are most often applied to sexually selected signalling in diploid animals, but they rarely incorporate a fact about diploid sexual reproduction noted by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century: if there are "preference genes" correlated with choosiness in females as well as "signal genes" correlated with display traits in males, choosier females should tend to mate with showier males. Over generations, showier sons should also carry genes associated with choosier daughters, and choosier daughters should also carry genes associated with showier sons. This can cause the evolutionary dynamic known as Fisherian runaway, in which males become ever showier.
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There are also some instances where the males of a certain species get to be the choosier sex due to their higher parental investment in the offspring than females; an example where males practice mate-choice copying would be sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna).
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Over time a positive feedback mechanism will see more exaggerated sons and choosier daughters being produced with each successive generation; resulting in the runaway selection for the further exaggeration of both the ornament and the preference (until the costs for producing the ornament outweigh the reproductive benefit of possessing it).
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Hinnies are rare for many other reasons. Donkey jennies and horse stallions can be choosier about their mates than horse mares and donkey jacks. Thus, the two parties involved may not even care to mate. Even if they do cooperate, donkey jennies are less likely to conceive when bred to a horse stallion than horse mares are when bred to a donkey jack.
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These findings suggest that females are choosier when selecting a partner. Trivers (1972) suggested that this was the case due to parental investment. Parental investment refers to how many resources, physical and emotional, that a parent expends on their offspring. As females carry the offspring throughout pregnancy as well as physically giving birth to them, they invest more in the offspring than males do.
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Although males are choosier than females, both sexes exhibit a preference for large mates due to a positive correlation between size and fecundity. Large females produce more and larger eggs and transfer more eggs per mating, while large males have increased brood clutch size and embryo weight. Males also exhibit an avoidance of females carrying high parasite loads, which is negatively correlated with fecundity. The pipefish are not always able to mate with their preferred mates.
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A major factor that OSR can predict is the opportunity for sexual selection. As the OSR becomes more biased, the sex that is in excess will tend to undergo more competition for mates and therefore undergo strong sexual selection. Intensity of competition is also a factor that can be predicted by OSR. According to sexual selection theory, whichever sex is more abundant is expected to compete more strongly and the sex that is less abundant is expected to be "choosier" in who they decide to mate with.
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As the sexes demonstrate a significant investment discrepancy for reproduction, interlocus sexual conflict can arise. To achieve reproductive success, a species member will display reproductive characteristics that enhance their ability to reproduce, regardless of whether the fitness of their mate is negatively affected. Sperm production by males is substantially less biologically costly than egg production by females, and sperm are produced in much greater quantities. Consequently, males invest more energy into mating frequency, while females are choosier with mates and invest their energy into offspring quality.
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Sexual strategies theory, as defined by Buss and Schmitt, focuses on the strategies implemented by both men and women in acquiring mates. From an evolutionary perspective and Parental Investment Theory, males are identified as showing preference for short-term mates, with the sexual strategy aimed to increase the number of offspring they produce, whilst providing limited parental investment. On the other hand, females display preferences for long-term mates and are choosier in their mate, due to the raised parental investment (pregnancy) and want to enhance the reproductive success of their offspring.Buss, D. M. (2008).
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Refer to the accompanying figure in this section. Mating rate: Males generally increase their fitness by mating with multiple mates, while females are on the middle section of the range because they do not favor a particular side of the spectrum. For instance, females tend to be the choosier sex, but the presence of female sexual promiscuity in Soay sheep show that females might not have an established mating preference. However, Soay sheep are a breed of domestic sheep, ergo might not be a subject to traditional evolutionary mechanisms due to human interference.
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Ninety-nine percent of cars donated to Palmer's Vehicle Donaion Processing Center are older, dilapidated cars. Sixty percent of cars donated through the Center will no longer start. Because of his philosophy that he is helping donors as well as charities, Palmer's organization, unlike others, accepts the great majority of them, "no matter how crummy that car might be," and even if the amount generated per vehicle is small. Others of the 10 or 12 large charitable vehicle processors in the country are choosier than Palmer is, accepting only vehicles that generate more profit, perhaps at a used car lot.
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Consequently, they require a mate with attributes that means they will be able to support and provide for the offspring once it has been born. Females are also choosier as they aim to select mates that they believe will stay present throughout the upbringing of the offspring. Although there are differences in mate values between males and females; Buss (1989) also found that traits such as intelligence and health are rated equally in terms of importance by both men and women. This suggests that although there are obvious differences, there are also inherent similarities between the two.
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These colors can be used to the males advantage in attracting a mate. In the species Habronattus pyrrithrix, the males who have faces that are red and non bright green legs are more likely to attract a mate than males who do not, indicating that females prefer males with those particular traits. Although females from the species, Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata, Schizocosa floridana and Schizocosa stridulans tend to be the choosier sex, it is not uncommon to observe males from different spider species such as the Zygiella x-notata and Latrodectus hesperus, to be choosy as well.Bel-Venner, M. C., Dray, S., Allainé, D., Menu, F. & Venner, S. Unexpected male choosiness for mates in a spider.
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Abedus indentatus belostomatid male with eggs on its back Males can be choosier than females. As an offering, males are capable of providing nuptial gifts secretions, which can be more expensive than female reproductive investment, parental care, where the reproductive costs in males are higher than in females because they invest large quantities of resources and time after egg fertilization, and foraging and nesting sites to the females. Moreover, these factors decrease their subsequent male reproductive opportunities, and the availability of males. An example of male parental care can be found in belostomatid water bugs, where the male, after fertilizing the eggs, allows the female to glue her eggs onto his back.
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These pipefish have a polygynandrous mating system, with both males and females mating with multiple partners during a breeding season. Like other species of pipefish, the broadnosed pipefish is sex-role reversed: males brood the eggs and because of their increased investment in offspring are the choosier sex, whereas females compete more intensely than males for access to mates. Females can produce eggs faster than males can brood them, and are limited by the size of the male's brood pouch, which cannot carry all the eggs of a female similar to himself in size. Male brood time is approximately four to six weeks, during which time the male provides oxygen and nutrients to the developing embryos until they hatch.
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Potential customers, who could afford to be choosier in an oversupplied world aircraft market, were concerned about the economics and noise of the unproven propfan engines, though. The frequent major changes in the aircraft's design also discouraged airplane buyers from committing. Boeing neglected to survey the needs of different airlines before visiting them on a road show, so it was surprised by the unenthusiastic overall response to the 7J7 after the airframer had put so many resources into development. However, by May 1987, the 7J7 was on schedule to begin its official marketing campaign on July 1 and to start manufacturing on September 1 of that year. Boeing did attract public interest in the spring from British Airways, which was considering the 7J7 to replace its 35 Boeing 737-200 aircraft.
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Having reasoned that the best-male and many-males hypotheses did not fully explain why estrus must be advertised so prominently, Pagel proposed the reliable indicator hypothesis, suggesting that exaggerated swellings evolved through sexual selection due to the need for an honest signal of female quality (both their likelihood of conception and their genetic quality) as a result of female- female competition to attract males. The hypothesis makes several assumptions: that females compete for access to male mates; that females differ in quality; that the characteristics of their sexual swellings honestly reflect these differences; and that males use certain swelling characteristics to allocate their mating efforts to the highest quality females. Should this be the case, swellings should occur in communities consisting of multiple adults of both sexes, in which males are the choosier sex due to the high mating costs of such groups, and when female competition is at its greatest. Such conditions have been described as "reversed sexual selection", as it is the females that ultimately make the mate choice in most species, and seemingly only this hypothesis that suggests the opposite.
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