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		<title><![CDATA[West Marine Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from Analyst Jeff Blaeser - Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc. Jeff Blaeser - Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc. One on the things to a sales sequential improvement I am guessing that probably looked better than the industry. What percentage would you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:58:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[YRC Worldwide Inc. Q3 2008 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Thom Albrecht &#8211; Stephens, Inc. Thom Albrecht &#8211; Stephens, Inc. Can you give the pre-tax amount of the curtailment gain, you obviously mentioned the earnings per share amount but given the low tax rate I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:45:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown.    .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; }  * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;}  .expansionPic p...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[China Medical Technologies F4Q06 (Qtr End 3/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jinsong Du from Credit Suisse. Please proceed.  Jinsong Du - Credit Suisse   First of all, about the FISH business you shared with us earlier, just make sure that I get the numbers right...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:58:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bilateral Effective Tax Rates And Foreign Direct Investment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper computes effective marginal and average tax rates that account for bilateral aspects of taxation and, therefore, vary across country-pairs and years. These tax rates serve to estimate the impact of corporate taxation on outbound stocks of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment FDI among OECD countries between 1991 and 2002....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asymmetric FDI And Tax-Treaty Bargaining: Theory And Evidence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax treaties are often viewed as a mechanism for eliminating tax competition, however this approach ignores the need for bargaining over the treaty's terms. This paper focuses on how bargaining can affect the withholding taxes set under the treaty. In a simple framework, the authors develop hypotheses about patterns in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aricle emphasises that employee stock option deductions lead to large aggregate tax savings for Nasdaq 100 and S&P 100 firms and also affect corporate marginal tax rates. For Nasdaq firms, the median marginal tax rate is 31 percent when option deductions are ignored but falls to 5 percent when one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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