If you are a growth investor, your primary screen should provide you with a list of companies that are in the
growth stage of their life cycle, not mature cyclical firms.
Sometimes in families and relationships the way roles were once defined no longer fit as individuals begin to grow and change and move through
different stages of the life cycle.
At
various stages of their life cycle many species of fish and invertebrates take advantage of the cover and high productivity of the mangroves to enhance their survival and growth.
The front develops during the
later stage of the life cycle of a frontal depression and is so called because of the associated occluding (shutting off) the warm air from the Earth's surface.
Enhancing such an interaction, perhaps in combination with other therapies that attack the virus at
other stages of its life cycle, could give the immune system the opening it needs to overcome an infection.
The prohibitin - free parasite was already struggling during the liver and
blood stages of its life cycle, but the final blow was dealt when it tried to infect another mosquito: it failed to do so.
The youngest working generation [age 18 - 34] has it the worst, as chillingly articulated by Pew's Millennials in Adulthood survey: «Millennials are the first generation in the modern era to have higher levels of student loan debt, poverty and unemployment, and lower levels of wealth and personal income than their two immediate predecessor generations had at the
same stage of their life cycles.»
The parasite is commonly called «heartworm» because the adult
reproductive stage of its life cycle resides primarily in the pulmonary artery of its host where it can live for many years.
Owners of the tiny egg - shaped device were required to pour hours of energy into making sure their pet received constant attention, was fed adequately, and given enough sleep so that it could «evolve» into the
next stage of its life cycle.
In the
occluded stage of the life cycle of an extratropical cyclone, when cold air west of the surface low - pressure centre advances more rapidly toward the east than cold air ahead of the warm front, warmer, less - dense air is forced aloft.
The parasite can persist for decades in the body because of the nematode's unique ability to reinfect the host, repeatedly going through the
early stages of its life cycle.
Individual and group premarital counseling, community marriage policies, and mentoring programs for couples at
various stages of the life cycle should be seriously expanded.
In comparison, during the
late stages of its life cycle, the parasite actively digests the haemoglobin in infected blood cells as its primary energy source.
We were more focused on the genetics — the livestock breeding of salmon for the normal traits of survival at
certain stages of the life cycle, productive growth and feed conversion, and egg production.»
While the allocation of scheduled payments between principal and interest changes over the life of the mortgage, extra payments go entirely to principal, no matter
what stage of its life cycle the mortgage is in.
«My career highlight is being able to bring my experience as a pharmaceutical executive to startup companies — just the whole notion of building management teams, helping grow a business as it develops through
different stages of its life cycle.
«True innovation,» we're told, «means considering what happens to a product at
every stage of its life cycle.
Finally, you must intentionally build systems and processes that allow you to deliver such a wonderful experience that your customers have little choice but to rave about your company and its services to their friends, neighbors and colleagues at
all stages of the life cycle.
To fully understand how the peer benchmarking process got broken so fast, it helps to understand the history of stock options because options have become such a huge component of most CEO pay packages (even though large grants of options best fit companies in the «venture capital»
stage of their life cycle, as compared to the more mature parts of the cycle - too often large grants are given to CEOs of mature companies).
There are various ways of defining
the stages of the life cycle of a marriage.
For an illuminating account of
the stages of the life cycle in women's experience that is influenced by process thought, see Washbourn, Penelope, Becoming Woman: The Quest for Wholeness in Female Experience (San Francisco: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1977).
The survey follows hot on the heels of news that the influential American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has given its resounding support to meat free eating, saying diets containing zero animal products could be «nutritionally adequate [and] appropriate for
all stages of the life cycle».
It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at
all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.
If you've got budding entomologists in the family, you'll want to spend several hours at Nicholas checking out butterflies in different
stages of the life cycle.
And remember that the American Dietetic Association states that «Well - planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during
all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.»