"Canceling an unproductive summit is better than having an unproductive summit," Ayres said.
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If you're constantlycomplaining, you're not only bringing everyone else down, you're being unproductive and making everyone else more unproductive to boot.
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Unproductive cultures take rootWhen employees are stressed, disengaged, and unproductive, their problems are typically blamed on poor organization or time-management skills.
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"It could be a long and unproductive meeting, or it could be a short and unproductive meeting," he said on Fox News.
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Culling unproductive businesses would mean less spending and fewer jobs.
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Instead, the commissions have created a bloated and unproductive sector.
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The rentier model is exceptionally generous, but it is unproductive.
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Get ready to be very unproductive in a month's time.
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The House of Representatives remains dysfunctional and unproductive as before.
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Unproductive, untaxed foreign earnings make that kind of merger tempting.
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Expressing my outrage, every time, is unproductive and personally exhausting.
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Will it lead to more traffic accidents or unproductive workers?
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Checking the value of cryptocurrencies constantly is unproductive, Kets said.
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Life is about to get insanely unproductive, and I love it.
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You don't even know how unproductive you're likely being without them.
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Cuervo's expressions of anger are, if taken at face value, unproductive.
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I leave the office feeling unproductive and with a pounding headache.
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It channels funds to tiny, unproductive businesses, often with no employees.
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Yes, this familiarity can often breed disdain (and unproductive Facebook battles).
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Clinton's concerns but that voicing frustrations was unproductive for the party.
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This is because people who are mentally ill become seriously unproductive.
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Another discussion, about how to treat heroin addiction, was equally unproductive.
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Efficient businesses are taxed and penalised, while subsidies help sustain unproductive ones.
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It's easy to shade the third party, but it's misguided and unproductive.
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That's a narrow and unproductive way to assess the evolution of anything.
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If we weren't on our devices, we'd likely do something similarly unproductive.
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There's no question that the "war on marijuana" is overblown and unproductive.
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The contrast goes to show how generalizations can be unfair and unproductive.
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Yet in a weaponized information environment, crowdsourcing appears unproductive and even ominous.
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Because it's true: at a certain point, overworking really does become unproductive.
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Instead, we have a familiar and unproductive consensus that it's morally unacceptable.
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Yet the 2017 legislative session ranks among the most unproductive in years.
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Still, there were signs of preparations for a long — if unproductive — night.
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But there are times that this advice can be unproductive at best.
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Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days — which inevitably create a successful life — in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life.
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I also want to break that stigma of the stoner stigma—unproductive, unsuccessful.
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" It would have been unproductive to say, "No, I think it's 12 years.
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Congressional aides, however, said the discussions have been low-level and generally unproductive.
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Macy's, for one, is trying to make money from its unproductive real estate.
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But, the effects of this unproductive debt pile aren't just evident in Japan.
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According to the Swedish government, the call ended up being unproductive at best.
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After several unproductive exchanges, Wallace hits on the idea of quoting retired Adm.
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Producers have already been rationalizing resources and mothballing unproductive wells to reduce expenses.
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Merriman, 34, retired in 2013 after two unproductive seasons with the Buffalo Bills.
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Both were unproductive ways to avoid dealing with depression, but were effective escapes.
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For centuries, empty white pages tormented unproductive writers, as motionless cursors do now.
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"This is a monument to corruption and mismanagement and unproductive spending," he said.
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That's because there are two kinds of anxiety: productive anxiety and unproductive anxiety.
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Rogen: That weed makes you lazy and unproductive and unmotivated or emotionally detached.
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The distinction that I would make is between being intentionally and unintentionally unproductive.
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Because the reality is that some people are feeling super shitty and unproductive.
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Critics could even argue that a number of bitcoin transactions are facilitating unproductive activity.
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This is also unproductive, as it makes it harder to benefit from other's failures.
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"To plant bamboo on unproductive land and eroded soil is very feasible," he said.
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I no longer have to endure unproductive meetings or put up with nefarious colleagues.
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As unproductive industries grew faster than productive ones, the overall figures were dragged down.
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But dismissing your relative's comments as a "generational difference" is unproductive, because words matter.
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Depending on how the plan is executed, it could prove inefficient or even unproductive.
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A third of all meetings in America are unproductive, according to a 2013 study.
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This Congress has been the most unproductive and ineffective in our nation's modern history.
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Years of touring had made me a taught nerve, our writing forced and unproductive.
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I think quarantining people coming back from high-risk countries today is largely unproductive.
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By injecting carbon dioxide into an otherwise unproductive well, oil can be economically extracted.
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Keeping lots of capital trapped in unproductive businesses has served to reduce productivity growth.
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I ate until America could promise my own body was tragic, in unproductive ways.
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He called her behavior "unbecoming" and argued Pelosi tried to make the gathering unproductive.
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Unproductive meetings, bad leadership and poor communication in the office are no laughing matter.
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I think it's one of the best things in the world to be unproductive.
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Most importantly, she recognized that doubling down on the wrong job choice was unproductive.
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This has led to a peculiar and singularly unproductive fight within the climate community.
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The more spent I am, the more unfocused and scattered and unproductive I become.
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One study mysteriously calculates that the nation wastes more than $37 billion in ''unproductive meetings.
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Since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported to make up the shortfall.
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Soft loans, subsidies and bail-outs keep them afloat, protecting unproductive jobs at vast expense.
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So I attempt to write my fifth and final chapters for two very unproductive hours.
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Underlying the bouts of hunger are a changing climate, increases in conflict and unproductive farming.
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Those were unproductive, but bots are still around and a key part of Facebook Messenger.
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That allows capital to be moved away from unproductive outfits and towards more productive ones.
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In India, the world's biggest milk producer, about 3 million cattle become unproductive every year.
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Because America can't let it go, we get his unproductive sparring match with the president.
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We have long been opposed to this vitriolic, unproductive, race baiting, and divisive White House.
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She believes that many students who could be great learners fall into unproductive learning habits.
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Petro's pledge to buy unproductive land to give away to poor farmers has sparked concern.
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In India, the world's biggest milk producer, about 3 million cattle become unproductive every year.
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We also agree that generational labels quickly become unproductive when they turn into overgeneralized caricatures.
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They suck up time and are often unproductive or don't yield the results we expect.
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Such missives are unproductive and unhelpful in sustaining comity between the Committee and the Department.
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It turns out Sanders, like many of his followers, is an unproductive leech to society.
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Many people complain about how meetings can be unproductive or derail your day's work flow.
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The research found that big U.S. companies are wasting millions of dollars on unproductive hours.
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Above all, reducing unproductive economic overhead would increase American competitiveness and thereby raise wage rates.
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It's the kind of unproductive, pointless job capitalism makes up just to keep people miserable.
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It drives costs down by eliminating unnecessary friction and unproductive steps in the install process.
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Don't make it harder by drowning yourself in negativity and unproductive, unhelpful thoughts, too. 8.
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Oil wealth has hidden a woefully unproductive economy, and fuelled Islamic ultra-puritanism around the world.
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You spent the morning feeling unproductive, but it had nothing to do with your actual work.
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In its current state, our national conversation on this issue is too polarized, toxic, and unproductive.
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Twitter is for amplifying the worst of us: shameless self-promotion, baseless speculation, and unproductive meanness.
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This is interesting material, but it feels like sitting in on a particularly unproductive therapy session.
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Meetings ran overtime, decisions were endlessly revised, and the president spent his time on unproductive tasks.
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Both are relatively unproductive, and can be made more productive, while still performing their current roles.
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Thille has found that many students could be great learners but fall into unproductive learning habits.
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Excessive public self-congratulation makes it more difficult to backtrack later, should subsequent talks be unproductive.
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This is a powerful form of groupthink — and it's a reason meetings are often so unproductive.
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Turns out robots can shade humans, and when they do, it makes us sad and unproductive.
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Beyond this, there are specific policies that reduce or eliminate unproductive meetings:No meeting without an agenda.
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Far from being unproductive, in 2014, the consortium sold just one of its classified verticals — cars.
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His tax changes would raise duties on dividends, eliminate loopholes and hike charges on unproductive land.
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If that's the case, then it would be unfair and unproductive to penalize the company severely.
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Unproductive, old cows are routinely abandoned by their owners on the streets or at cow shelters.
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Allowing that the historical evidence is not always easy to interpret, he avoids unproductive contentious debate.
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And with polyphasic sleeping, you can stop spending so much damn time unconscious, and therefore unproductive.
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While well-intentioned, science suggests a move toward open offices will leave employees stressed and unproductive.
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"Meetings without someone clearly responsible run a high risk of being directionless and unproductive," he writes.
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Corporations lost $6.3 billion in unproductive hours last year because of March Madness, according to WalletHub.
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The tactic has grown more popular as voters become more polarized and Congress is historically unproductive.
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And I think any effort at using that language to title another parallel movement is unproductive.
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The high-stakes nature of such tests is also all but guaranteed to spark unproductive anxiety.
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And right now, some of us who are in this are being made to feel very unproductive.
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Get it wrong and you run the risk of an unhealthy, unproductive workforce — and risk your reputation.
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But if you are at work and suffering, the likelihood is that you will be unproductive regardless.
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The result is creating an "unproductive exchange that could hinder children's opportunity for learning," the authors said.
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Businesses that build up "deadwood" out of fear of removing unproductive employees can never achieve sustainable greatness.
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High wage settlements, agreed between unions and employers, make it hard for unproductive workers to find jobs.
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The first is that it becomes harder for firms in unproductive industries, such as hospitality, to expand.
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Some jobs derive their bullshitness from involving long stretches of dead time; others are busy but unproductive.
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Consider Hierarchy & Roles On teams where debate becomes unproductive, drawing lines around areas of responsibility can help.
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Then, there's the way Mensez has handled criticism — by insinuating that periods make women distracted and unproductive.
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Resist the temptation to say something snarky or blame-y, because it's just unproductive, says Dr. Zeising.
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Not only that, but Bam said he was sitting around doing nothing in rehab and feels unproductive.
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It would feel unproductive (though admittedly cathartic) to display cruelty as cruelty, a thing that simply exists.
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Realizing how much we compare ourselves is a necessary first step in stemming unproductive self-disparagement. 3.
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The Wikipedia page for "Congressional staffer edits" notes a history of productive and unproductive behavior from Congress.
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"90 hour work weeks are truly unproductive and dumb," said Pillars of Eternity game director Josh Sawyer.
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"Also, a lot of the agriculture that gets done in the Amazon is very unproductive," he said.
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To the Editor: Mark Lilla disparaged an important element of the Democratic Party's platform, to unproductive effect.
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" Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, Romney's niece, also called the op-ed "disappointing and unproductive.
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"Forest land is considered unproductive, as are the people living there," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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By the numbers, Maine workers are unproductive, and low unemployment makes it hard to find good help.
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Those traits can be really productive together, but if they're not well balanced, they can be unproductive.
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As for Hollywood predicting Trump won't last 4 years ... it's clear Rubio thinks it's an unproductive exercise.
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You may be surprised to learn how common work behaviors actually make you unproductive, stressed, and unsatisfied.
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But those talks were unproductive, even as Mr. Cohen agreed to appear publicly before another congressional panel.
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Yet criticism of these videos typically shames the individual sorority girls for their efforts, which is ultimately unproductive.
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White House moving quickly on executive actions Still, a disorganized White House doesn't necessarily mean an unproductive one.
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Shutting unproductive stores is fraught with peril: shops risk losing their customers to competitors, both online and off.
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My day is going to be full of meetings, so I strap in for a long, unproductive day.
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Farmers are increasingly unwilling to expand their herds, as it is hard to get rid of unproductive livestock.
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Yet agriculture accounts for less than 43% of GDP, which means that rural labour is still extremely unproductive.
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On Monday, after a recent round of unproductive contract negotiations, union members decided to take more drastic measures.
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Bandersnatch's vision of the artist's way is appropriately pessimistic, but it does have its own unproductive dead ends.
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At another moment, the open office is the loudest, most annoying, distracting and unproductive environment one can imagine.
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"Today's latest effort to relitigate the special counsel's investigation remains unimpressive and unproductive," he said in a statement.
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When farms become unproductive, because the plants are old or unhealthy, farmers typically clear new forests for planting.
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Garcia favors land reform initiatives already in place that redistribute land classified as "unproductive" to the rural poor.
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The falling pound and rising inflation that followed the Brexit referendum make a devaluation of the pound unproductive.
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So were hundreds of thousands of others who previously toiled in safe, dreary and unproductive state-backed jobs.
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Currently, the constitution and other legislation protect 90% of spending from cuts, no matter how unproductive it is.
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Given this, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel's Twitter response calling Romney's opinion piece "disappointing and unproductive" is no surprise.
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A third of those meetings are unproductive, costing companies $37 billion a year, according to a 2013 study.
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Sixty-five percent said meetings stop them from finishing individual work, and 71% consider meetings unproductive and inefficient.
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The pushback: Wilcox told me Pruitt ended the all-hands meetings because they had grown unwieldy and unproductive.
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The narrative we often hear about Congress is that it is unproductive and unable to tackle major issues.
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I see couples whose unproductive fights over the dishes or in-laws are virtually unchanged, 17 years in.
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"You go from a really lush tropical forest to a completely unproductive cattle pasture almost immediately," says Bruna.
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Did that timeline offer the luxury of tending to unproductive distractions like scanning the news and refreshing Twitter?
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Especially considering they would be unproductive 90 percent of the time and for use only as a backstop.
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But the director Rubén Polendo's unproductive, experimental staging is mostly just talking to itself, sidelining a larger conversation.
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He was eventually dropped by his Stasi handlers, who noted in his file that he was proving unproductive.
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People will not tolerate a leader who shows favoritism to allow bad behavior, excessive absenteeism or unproductive presenteeism.
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However, Hill purely stooped to his level and acted on her feelings in an unproductive and impulsive way.
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He is now proposing to promote agriculture by purchasing unproductive plots of land and redistributing them to the landless.
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Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen isn&apost getting much traction for accusing the press of "irresponsible and unproductive" misreporting.
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The next two days were some of the most unproductive work sessions I've ever had to put up with.
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Nowadays, we tend to take every "unproductive" moment and fill it up with stimuli so that we're never bored.
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Another could now use the otherwise unproductive hours of darkness to sew, which meant additional income for the household.
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And while summer is often considered a poor season for fundraising, it's not as unproductive as you might think.
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They had recurring nightmares that kept them from sleeping, and all-day anxiety that made them unfocused and unproductive.
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It's unproductive since there's literally nothing we can do about it, but he snuggles me until I fall asleep.
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An insane multiple exchange rate keeps unproductive state firms alive (by giving them almost-free money) while robbing exporters.
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"Terminals spend a lot of time making unproductive or undesired movements," co-founder and CEO Alexandra Griffon told me.
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This tendency can often lead to anger, insecurity, and unnecessary emotion that makes conflict painful, relationship threatening and unproductive.
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Low interest rates had probably played a role, by keeping some heavily indebted, unproductive 'zombie' businesses alive, Haldane said.
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Swiping through Tinder can sometimes feel like an endless, unproductive feedback loop — unless you happen to come across Jesus.
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By moving from unproductive paddyfields to better jobs in factories and shops, they have made themselves and China richer.
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This is reckless and unproductive—unless the aim is to provoke Iran into providing a pretext for military intervention.
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Often, if you are feeling unproductive, it's because you weren't working on a central task in the first place.
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Mexico and Canada have vowed to continue work on NAFTA after an unproductive fourth round of negotiations in Washington.
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But Price, though obviously shaken, did not ask us to follow her down an unproductive rabbit hole of anger.
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If Amazon buys Target, it also acquires its unproductive or less profitable stores and would be stuck managing them.
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Those efforts, as well as Mr. Trudeau's earlier attempts to win over Mr. Trump and his advisers, proved unproductive.
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The revelations sparked public protest, a congressional reform effort, and several lawsuits, especially because the program was apparently unproductive.
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After "Nowhere to Hide" he had an unproductive American sojourn, which led to a six-year gap between pictures.
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In fact, over time the increased borrowing for unproductive tax cuts could depress growth by driving up interest rates.
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However, the current trend in screen time management is not to approach all screen time as unproductive and unhealthy.
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To the extent that U.S. professors didn't produce anything measurable, we came to be characterized as unproductive, even parasitic.
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Consider the unproductive moneyed class which instead of investing in real businesses buys urban land and sits on it.
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He is also making it harder for those who support his agenda to defend his unpredictable and unproductive actions.
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"I think people are starting to realize that that would be a pretty messy and unproductive process," said Sen.
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On the other hand, officials worry that providing too much detail would cause conversations to devolve into unproductive nitpicking.
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"Until we can talk about the real sources of that instability, talk is going to be unproductive," he added.
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"It's bad for Ethiopia's economic development because they become lazy, unproductive, and their health will be affected," he said.
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He was so unproductive for the Rangers after they won the Cup that Smith traded Matteau to St. Louis.
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The RBI urged states to cut "unproductive" expenditure and boost non-tax revenues to improve the quality of fiscal consolidation.
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Multilateral bodies such as the NATO-Russia Council that were formed to encourage regular cooperation have become stagnant and unproductive.
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It might feel like unproductive time, but don't get down on yourself if you wanted to make some significant moves.
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The crises in the periphery of the euro zone were reflected in deficits caused by a surfeit of unproductive spending.
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She met with her elected officials, including Keith Rothfus, then a member of Congress, but she found their encounter unproductive.
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And while sometimes these restrictions move in extreme and unproductive directions, often we have achieved great advances in our knowledge.
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Multiple Terminations Part of the organization's drive for growth has been a tough stance toward workers considered unproductive or disloyal.
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I think Zoe succeeds at establishing a dialectical relationship between what she calls "productive" and "unproductive" bodies in the installation.
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His campaign says he&aposd dramatically increase taxes on unproductive lands to encourage landholders to sell them to the state.
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His plans include taxing unproductive land and summoning an assembly to rewrite the constitution, both of which scare the rich.
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"The seizure of unproductive assets is a common practice under the ruling PSUV government," he said in a research note.
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"Sometimes, these things we do out of habit are unproductive and make us feel guilty about feeling lonely," she says.
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This was an early example of how the image-based media transformed our politics, and in almost universally unproductive ways.
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You'll save yourself some pain, and the reminders will keep you from getting distracted and drifting off into unproductive territory.
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According to a chorus of marriage promoters in the 22015s and 237s, singles were lonely, unhappy, unproductive members of society.
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An example of corrective coaching is a discussion to modify an unproductive behavior, like being late to work too often.
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I was remarkably unproductive all day, taking frequent social-media breaks when I really should have been writing or researching.
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And to be sure, there are absolutely times when fans express their anger in unproductive and even willfully destructive ways.
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One strategy might be to wait until the next time he makes an unproductive complaint — and call him on it.
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"I hope you will work with me and the minority members to avoid an unproductive and chaotic hearing," Jordan wrote.
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This "ACE cough" can start immediately or even months after beginning the medication, and it is typically dry and unproductive.
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In other words, a one size fits all approach will not only not work, it would probably be uniquely unproductive.
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She said Hudson's Bay will exit more than 300 "unproductive" brands and add roughly 100 new brands to its portfolio.
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The challenge: Much of the increase private debt may have been invested in unproductive projects that drag down future growth.
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On day one the person often runs a fever and experiences muscle pain, fatigue, and a dry or unproductive cough.
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We also have that internal voice that says we are being lazy, unproductive humans because we haven't left the house.
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He couldn't listen to music while he worked because the software saw YouTube as unproductive and would dock his pay.
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" The big energy companies have the resources to help solve climate change, Mr. Blatchford added: "Demonizing them is seriously unproductive.
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That means avoiding an unproductive tax that would land hardest on Main Street investors and savers, while producing little revenue.
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" Earlier in the month, Novak criticized U.S. sanctions on Iran as "unproductive" and "wrong," and said there "will be consequences.
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I don't think the G-team will ever have to worry about their employees watching the clock and being unproductive.
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It's unproductive and generally demoralizing — they are trained adults who show up to do what they know how to do.
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In fact, unproductive workers during March Madness amounted to an estimated $6.3 billion in corporate losses last year, WalletHub said.
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This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do profit makers (emphasis mine).
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The risk is that Guyana's petrodollars will be squandered on more sugar subsidies and pay rises for the unproductive public sector.
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One female lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party wrote this summer that LGBT couples were "unproductive" because they didn't reproduce.
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The building makes it hard to hold larger conversations, which means less useful group thinking but also fewer unproductive mass meetings.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Jeremy Maclin came to Baltimore looking to bounce back from an injury-marred, unproductive season in Kansas City.
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His reasoning actually makes sense: The more people attend a meeting, the noisier, more chaotic, and generally unproductive it will be.
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After surviving two overdoses, he now works in harm reduction in Austin, TX. "We're not unproductive members of society," he says.
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The Trump administration held an unproductive meeting with members of the games industry, then released a supercut of violent game moments.
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In addition to adopting healthy habits, avoiding detrimental habits—like negative thoughts, unproductive behavior, and self-destructive emotions—is also essential.
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I think this is shortsighted, unproductive, and not appealing as a vision for what we want to be as a society.
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It also helps explain how America came to be locked in such long and largely unproductive conflicts in the first place.
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Or they were a mob, a bunch of unproductive agitators against whom the state had to take strong measures—la foule.
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But when you have a bad or problematic morning, it's tough to recover, and your day can become stressful and unproductive.
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He meant that optimistically, but it's not necessarily a comparison Kurds should cheer given the bitter, unproductive status of Brexit negotiations.
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With every high-profile data breach and emerging global terrorist threat, public discourse on cyber security becomes increasingly polarized and unproductive.
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To tackle that overcapacity, state subsidies need to be dismantled in China and unproductive manufacturers taken off the market, Mittal said.
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I still felt unsafe for the next month and was completely unproductive: unable to read, write, or do anything but worry.
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I have a hard time typing what comes next: I spent 45 hours and 38 minutes on things I'd labeled unproductive.
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While attacking the president might be popular among Mr. Trudeau's supporters, the government believes it could have harmful and unproductive consequences.
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And smoke breaks—unproductive time during which workers could bond—were eliminated, with nothing but more work to take their place.
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"I think it is destructive and unproductive to be pushing out leaders or members who have been very effective," Collins said.
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Just give her all the Oscars already so the rest of us can get back to squandering our mediocre and unproductive lives.
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America, he says, suffers from unfair trade deals and unproductive immigrants, both of which take jobs from Americans and weaken the economy.
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"Vitally important is the fact that Fed policy will stop short of persistently cutting rates into the unproductive arena of negative rates."
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Competition was something that happened somewhere else—in the "mom and pop" sector of the economy, where unproductive businesses battled it out.
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McAleenan also told Holt that while the policy resulting in family separations had a deterring effect, the surrounding controversy rendered it unproductive.
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That set off an unproductive game of phone tag between the two of them, according to two people familiar with the conversations.
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Drastic last-minute moves on both fronts — moves that invoke contradictory themes — are confusing and likely unproductive from a foreign policy standpoint.
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More than money is at stake: this largesse has disguised how far the economy is chronically unproductive and dependent on foreign labour.
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During her first term, in 290-21988, she spent extravagantly and unwisely on higher pensions and unproductive tax breaks for favoured industries.
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And working longer hours means working more unproductive ones; there's a diminishing marginal return to extra time at the office or factory.
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Macy's, whose profits have been shrinking for more than a year, said it would intensify cost cutting and monetize unproductive real estate.
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Ultimately, the "marketplace of ideas" is a confused argument that promises the triumph of good ideas while delivering ordinary and unproductive provocation.
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"She would be just as unpredictable and unproductive as Trump if she were to become president, and who needs that," he said.
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Unproductive meetings are usually caused by having too many people in the room, not having an agenda, or simply meeting too often.
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"We're getting pretty close to the election so at some point [impeachment] becomes a pretty unproductive conversation within the party," he said.
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The rewards of such "unproductive" labor cannot be quantified, and its measure can be taken only in the well-being of others.
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Keeping unproductive cows isn't feasible in an industry in which sinking prices and low wages force the steady closure of farms nationwide.
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It was very unproductive, and we let our tempers get the better of us before we finally walked away to cool off.
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The discussion that follows is unpleasant and unproductive; at one point, Corinne storms off set and returns with a glass of champagne.
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It pledges 50 billion euros of extra public investment in new technologies, offset by 50 billion euros of cuts in "unproductive" spending.
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Instead of haphazardly multitasking, which is wildly unproductive, you're prioritizing and giving your full mental attention to the most important things first.
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The direct and indirect financial, logistical, or weaponry support for rebels and terrorist organizations is unproductive and synonymous with playing with fire.
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Vox Slack on Friday is probably like a lot of office Slacks on Fridays: The chatter there can get a bit … unproductive.
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We cannot continue to support a system in which almost 2 million people remain idle and unproductive for extended periods of time.
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If confirmed, we look forward to both Rob Jackson and Hester Pierce putting forward proposals to end this unproductive enrichment of shareholders.
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Anger.We tend to think of anger as an unproductive emotion that can lead us to behave in ways we might later regret.
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Sheriff Jim McDonnell initially told the Times that the messages were "divisive and unproductive" but that he had no plans to discipline Angel.
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In the final analysis, it was a failure with investors and corporations making unproductive investments such as stock buybacks and maintaining cash overseas.
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If the last face-to-face meeting among Democrats and President Donald Trump is any guide, the discussion could prove tense — and unproductive.
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Critics say the problems are caused by currency and price controls, unproductive state-run companies and a vast expansion of the money supply.
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I decide it's unproductive to just lie there, so I go into the living room and work on my laptop for 30 minutes.
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Norilsk held its annual strategy day on Tuesday and reported it had released $3 billion of unproductive capital over the last three years.
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I'm saying that right now — it's a huge issue, it's unfair...it's unproductive, and at the same time, it threatens to split us.
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To do that, though, it has to restructure zombie industries riddled with massive, unproductive companies that are using debt to pay down debt.
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Businesses using such technology are surely part of Britain's "long tail" of relatively unproductive companies, which hold back the economy's overall productivity growth.
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She argues that a self-optimized, purely mechanistic approach to life discounts the juicy stuff present in the unproductive moments: poetry, nuance, serendipity.
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In many ways, after a largely unproductive first seven months in office, Trump is again becoming what he has always been — an outsider.
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On the managerial side, 71% of managers felt their meetings were unproductive and inefficient,according to researchersfrom Harvard Business School and Boston University.
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"I hit a low where I could tell the burnout and fatigue was making me unproductive, and more than that, unhappy," she recalls.
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US Soccer said the team's counsel "took an aggressive and ultimately unproductive approach," but they remain "undaunted" in their efforts to continue discussions.
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Posner observed that his theory treated unproductive people as morally irrelevant (or worse) and viewed social resources expended on the poor as wasted.
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But number of studies have that without these brain breaks, we're more prone to becoming unproductive, unimaginative, short-sighted, narrow-minded and disconnected.
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" He said the candidate's remarks about Curiel and on Muslims are "unproductive," adding that Trump should recognize, "He shouldn't have made those comments.
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And by that time, AI will likely have improved by leaps and bounds again to the point of rendering such a study unproductive.
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I picked up a single use packet to help me dig into the work that had piled up during my unproductive caffeine withdrawal.
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But burning the candles at both ends makes you unhealthy and unproductive — instead, rejuvenating and resetting can actually make you a better CEO.
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"I take more than 50 flights a year yet I still love airports, despite how unproductive time spent there normally is," he said.
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Iran, North Korea and Syria, to name a few, are far more vulnerable than we, and yet we approach them with unproductive caution.
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Hitler was particularly taken with the economics lecture of Gottfried Feder, who taught him to distinguish between productive (national) and unproductive (Jewish) capital.
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The city's woes represent a broader problem: There are too many unproductive, debt-laden factories that are losing business as China's growth slows.
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Mr. Trump, experts said, is correct that talks with North Korea — whether conducted by Democratic or Republican administrations — have been costly and unproductive.
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Mondays are pretty unproductive because we head to lunch right after our morning meeting and the afternoon is dedicated to employee learning time.
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It is very hard to say that the shedding of inefficient, unproductive, and low-wage manufacturing jobs was a minus for East Germans.
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He became the sixth overall pick in the 1996 NFL draft but his career was beset by unproductive play and off-the-field problems.
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You leave people undervalued, unproductive, you incentivize them to marry the state and that you leave them with an incentive to become socioeconomic supplicants.
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But the Senate isn't ready to take up the issue after a thoroughly unproductive immigration debate in February, followed by months of radio silence.
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Primavera criticizes western nongovernmental organizations for advocating conservation policies that would make it so mangroves are completely off-limits, which she argues is unproductive.
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" Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel also criticized Romney, saying on Twitter his essay was an attack on Trump that was "disappointing and unproductive.
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This could hurt their progress in the long run, as consumers will ignore their advances, having recalled their earlier stilted interactions and unproductive trials.
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We routinely procrastinate, make poor investments, waste time, fumble important decisions, avoid problems and rationalize our unproductive behaviors, like checking Facebook instead of working.
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When people keep bad thoughts held in their minds and they don't put them on the table, it's very inefficient, and it's very unproductive.
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Asset quality continues to be one of Metrofinanciera's main weaknesses, in terms of non-performing loans (NPLs), foreclosed real estate, and other unproductive assets.
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You might find that you're more cranky and unproductive for a few days after, or straight up resemble an extra from The Walking Dead.
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Heated discussions can leave employees frustrated, distrustful and unproductive, says Audra Jenkins, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Randstad US, an HR consulting firm.
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Keeping to your schedule ensures that you work when you're the most productive and that you rest during times that would otherwise be unproductive.
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A great way to correct this unproductive thought pattern is to list the specific things that actually are going wrong or not working out.
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But analysts and economists have questioned the ability of Saudi Arabia's bloated bureaucracy and unproductive native work force to meet the plan's aggressive targets.
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Now, on the heels of a tense and unproductive fourth round of NAFTA renegotiations, Washington's hostility has become a major political factor in Mexico.
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"In order for this Council to have any credibility, let alone success, it must move away from its unbalanced and unproductive positions," Barclay said.
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At the time, Poe dismissed the group as unproductive, saying, "They'd vote 'no' against the Ten Commandments if it came up for a vote."
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But after a few minutes of scrolling through your Facebook feed turns into a few hours, you can end up feeling unproductive and unhappy.
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Notably, TappCar recently expanded into Calgary, a major Canadian city that Uber pulled out of after a long and unproductive squabble over city bylaws.
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But it eventually became clear to me that burning the candle at both ends of the stick was not only unhealthy, but also unproductive.
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It's a dispiriting mess and waste of talent, sunk by a lack of focus, misguided choices and insistently unproductive, at times incoherent clashing tones.
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But if you constantly feel compelled to take on every task that comes your way, you'll find yourself pressed for time, stressed, and unproductive.
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Not only is this unproductive and divisive, it simply isn't the right way for families to make decisions for the health of their children.
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That's the beauty of Mouffe's agonism: By legitimating clashing arguments and welcoming them into the political fold, unproductive antagonism becomes constructive, and compromises emerge.
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The rich will try to dodge it, and some of the money it brings into circulation may eventually go back into economically unproductive savings.
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Have a good morning by avoiding the common mistakes that people make after they wake up that set the stage for an unproductive day.
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The combined effect of extremism and an unproductive rent-seeking elite is that Pakistan has one of the lowest investment rates in the world.
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Keeping to a schedule ensures that you work when you're the most productive and that you rest during times that would otherwise be unproductive.
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U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil industry are unproductive and there will be consequences to such a move, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told CNBC.
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Op-Ed Contributor COLUMBUS, Ohio — Americans are relying on leaders in Washington to fix health care, not engage in yet another unproductive partisan standoff.
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The timing of that announcement was awfully "curious," said Mr. Newsom, who stressed that negotiations over the standards have been largely unproductive for months.
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If the hours in the transatlantic air become unproductive, then the worry for carriers will be that executives may simply decide to make fewer trips.
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U.S. drillers have harnessed new technologies and continue to lower costs and increase efficiency as they retrieve oil from areas once thought to be unproductive.
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The interview ended on a predictably unproductive note of hardball when Glor tried to make some news by getting Trump to talk about Robert Mueller.
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Fridays are notoriously unproductive, but with a little focus and prioritizing, you can start your weekend stress-free and be ready for the week ahead.
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Fitch considers that despite this improvement, Metrofinanciera's loss absorption capacity continues to be pressured by the high level of unproductive assets on its balance sheet.
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"People becoming less reliant on proximity to cities is just one example of the impact of removing the burden of unproductive travel time," says Levenstam.
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While the neoclassical economists broke with the labour theory of value, they did not depart from their predecessors' view that government was necessary but unproductive.
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But currently, West is not the president, or even a politician, and it feels both unproductive and unfair to hold him to such a standard.
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Being reduced to eight Supreme Court justices after the death of Antonin Scalia doesn't necessarily mean the court is doomed to months of unproductive gridlock.
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Without something tangible to point to at the end of the day, they feel unproductive, not realizing that productivity means something different for a leader.
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Warmer temperatures may render half of all land used for high-quality coffee production unproductive by 2050, according to a 2015 study in Climatic Change.
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For decades, Wall Street has made money by charging typical savers high fees for excessive, unproductive trading on 401(k)s and other financial accounts.
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The closed-door meeting, by all accounts unproductive, was purportedly part of the White House's response to gun violence in the wake of the Feb.
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It helped modernize the Mexican economy, providing jobs for the many workers exiting an unproductive farm sector under pressure from a variety of economic forces.
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"There's this 13th round of negotiations that are supposed to occur in Washington next month but I expect them to be unproductive," he told Hill.
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Other than describing the American newspaper classified consortium as "unproductive," Dr. Anand does not contrast the respective approaches and experiences of Schibsted and The Times.
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Tearing up existing trade agreements and retreating behind high tariff barriers — as Mr. Trump, and perhaps Mr. Sanders, would have it — would be immensely unproductive.
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The United States Department of Justice has also raised concerns about the Afghan attorney general's performance, citing corruption and "unproductive, corrupt and patronage-laden" practices.
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The bot is also a task master, using a Chrome extension to scold you via gif if you stray to an unproductive website while working.
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The sophomore L. J. Scott was effective, with 139 yards on 22 carries and a touchdown, but the rest of the offense was mostly unproductive.
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The problem with stop-and-frisk (and the legal objections to it in New York) lay with the much larger universe of essentially unproductive stops.
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Mexico and Canada are vowing to continue work on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after an unproductive fourth round of negotiations in Washington.
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AM View talked with The Hill's Reid Wilson, who found GOP state officials uneasy about an unpopular president and an unproductive Congress heading into 2018.
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"Harbour's business model is to purchase unproductive residential properties and sell them to other people who will make them productive again," the lawyer, Jacqueline Mallett, said.
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"When people keep bad thoughts held in their minds and they don't put them on the table, it's very inefficient, and it's very unproductive," he said.
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Larsson wants to eliminate a large amount of unproductive products and focus on selling high-quality merchandise through its primary brands Ralph Lauren, Polo and Lauren.
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And I knew that these thoughts were unproductive and a product of a part of my brain that wasn't "me," but I still couldn't shake them.
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The workforce is woefully unproductive—no surprise given the abysmal state of India's education system, which churns out millions of adults equipped only for menial work.
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And this week is especially unproductive because of all the (fun!) holiday interruptions, so I'll probably work the equivalent of three full days to catch up.
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It's his job to make sure that more time is spent making phones rather than wasting it on unproductive distractions, like roll calls and ID checks.
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It also means a need for a laser-like focus on execution to deliver on the infrastructure and tax plans promised and more, without unproductive distractions.
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Coming fourth in global production of steel is not something to fret about—unless the government is wasting money on unproductive plants to achieve that result.
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I spend a lot of time doing that and sometimes it is pretty unproductive, but I find it enjoyable to think about business or investment problems.
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Despite these tangible benefits, one of the largest obstacles preventing biophilic design in the workspace is the perception – or misperception – that working in nature is unproductive.
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The weak earnings are likely to increase pressure on European banks that have struggled to cut costs and overhaul unproductive businesses following the global financial crisis.
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DIY creators, inventors, and artists depend on inspiration, borrowing, and even copying, and it would be unfortunate and unproductive to deem that work wrong or illegal.
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These statistics are the strongest evidence that China is headed for a period of significantly lower growth, as its economy is weighed down by unproductive debt.
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It would also dial down tendencies that lead to massive resources ploughing into unproductive uses, resulting in over-capacity and excess production flooding into international markets.
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They wanted to avoid tit-for-tat actions — something they view as unproductive, economically perilous and detrimental to the increasingly fraught relationship between the longtime allies.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Pelosi had "stormed out of the meeting" to make it "unproductive" and "political" in a moment of crisis.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has harsh words for the Trump administration's move to end the legalization of non-medical marijuana — calling it both backwards and unproductive.
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"I think people are starting to realize that that would be a pretty messy and unproductive process," Johnson said of the idea of bringing in witnesses.
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The public health debate around harm reduction has been "stunningly unproductive" and one that has been in a "complete and total stalemate" over decades, Zeller said.
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"Also, by taking away unproductive branches, we limit or eliminate plagues or diseases," Ricardo Zapata, a coordinator for the cacao-pruning initiative in Ecuador, told me.
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"When President Trump says that, it's disparaging and unproductive," said Jefferson County GOP Chair Sallie Bryant, who hails from the most populous county in the state.
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Before you've even realized it, meetings have transformed from organic discussions to a plague of unproductive check-ins that overshadow the daily work of the company.
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"Our position remains that this is unproductive, this is wrong," Novak said when asked about the possible impact U.S. sanctions on Iran's oil industry could have.
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Rodriguez also challenged the allegations that marked his company as unproductive, saying ADP had far outpaced the index and Ackman's own fund in terms of performance.
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But it's meant a largely unproductive half year that could have been better spent stabilizing health-care markets with the tools available under the current law.
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Top economic adviser Gary Cohn announced his resignation on Tuesday, after he was unable to convince Trump that imposing tariffs would spark an unproductive trade war.
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And so in many ways, I find it unproductive to even attempt to get into discussions about who has it worse, because everything is contextualized and relative.
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So here's a handy little guide of the worst and most unproductive forms of online discourse: The attacks on AOC's transpo choices are hardly a new tactic.
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For example, it recently announced plans to drop out of unproductive markets like Japan and Indonesia, while at the same time expanding its product lineup in China.
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It's conceivable that negotiations between a Trump White House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi would end up being unproductive in a way with no precedent in American history.
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Veblen, though, saw the rich as a largely unproductive class of capital-owning moochers, who profited off the useful labour of working people (hence the "leisure class").
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An unprecedented accumulation of unproductive government debt that is fueled by a massive increase in the global base money supply is a perfect recipe for worldwide stagflation.
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Stock buybacks have gotten a bad name in many precincts over the past few years, decried as unproductive "financial engineering" that detracts from corporate investment in growth.
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All of our quirks and idiosyncratic features have no use, as they can either not be numbered or would just make us look messy and thus unproductive.
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The algorithms have been able to uncover unproductive behaviors, such as salespeople not spending the right amount of time at certain phases of a deal, for example.
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More broadly deukhu were assumed to lead idle, unproductive lives, shut away in dingy flats playing video games or scouring the web for their next frivolous curio.
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The Obama administration has gone "from calling settlements 'unproductive' ... to something close to accusing Netanyahu of willfully destroying the two state solution," he told me by email.
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Policymakers must take what we learned in welfare reform, expand it to all welfare programs, and finance this through the reduction of wasteful and unproductive public programs.
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In 2001, Bharat Gold was forced to cease operations due to mounting losses, the result of a large, unproductive workforce and dated, economically unviable methods of mining.
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So, reforestation has to be a delicate process, one that often (on local levels) involves identifying lands that are unproductive and will not challenge anyone's food security.
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His more digestible work 'Birth of a Theorem: a mathematical adventure', is a journey through his unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs on the path to discovery.
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The plummeting price of oil, which provides almost all of the government's revenues, means the old economic model can no longer sustain the swelling and unproductive population.
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They have had their day; now it is time to turn over the G.O.P. to a new set of problem solvers who are not unproductive Washington insiders.
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Trump Jr. has said the meeting was unproductive and that instead of providing dirt on Clinton, Veselnitskaya tried to lobby the Trump campaign on repealing 2012 sanctions.
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He has failed to fix the generally unproductive and highly subsidized state-run businesses that, along with a Soviet-model bureaucracy, employ three of every four Cubans.
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According to Gallup, an actively disengaged employee, someone who is unhappy and unproductive at work, costs their organization $3,400 for every $10,000 of salary, or 34 percent.
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We engage with every Israel and Palestine-related group on campus, moving our communities away from unproductive dichotomies and toward a more nuanced and solution-driven conversation.
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It would immediately increase the value of real estate, stocks and the like, and would thereby encourage more investment, free up unproductive assets, and create more jobs.
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Time spent pursuing an unproductive strategy seemed to be what prompted the change, although ants just joining the group could have had new information about the barrier.
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The key to breaking this unproductive cycle and compelling North Korea into credible negotiations over its nuclear program — the purpose of the sanctions — is unity among allies.
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Well, there was some talk of us doing this podcast together, but then I pulled the plug on that, because I felt it would be totally unproductive.
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We have come together because we see that patent owners and product makers have become trapped in an endless cycle of demands, counter-demands, and unproductive litigation.
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It suggests that the conversation around the anxieties and concerns of younger generations has become so exhausting and unproductive that the younger generations are collectively over it.
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Aside from the unproductive use of their time to travel back and forth, the officials are also often kept waiting for the mayor, who regularly runs late.
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Among the main criticisms leveled at government's land reform policy over the years has been that many farms transferred to emerging black farmers lay fallow and unproductive.
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On the other hand, giving up on progress is perhaps the epitome of white feminism, and promotes a nihilism that is somewhere between unproductive and genuinely dangerous.
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As a result of the wintertime lethargy known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, I tend to become an unproductive gloomy Gus whenever the sun goes away.
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Cocobod Chief Executive Joseph Boahen Aidoo said around 23 percent of Ghana's cocoa tree stock, covering some 411,000 hectares, is over 30 years and had become unproductive.
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"The OIG has conducted a preliminary review of this matter, including investigative and jurisdictional considerations, and concludes that further investigation would prove unproductive," Kendall wrote to Reps.
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Santiago Levy, a Mexican economist, argues that well-intended government regulation allows too many weak, unproductive small businesses to survive, hindering the growth of bigger, more productive firms.
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Wen explained the surprisingly lofty goals of the original installation, which don't include torturing unproductive workers: The game itself is like a dialogue between players on opposite sides.
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The Economist: If society attributes too much value to sectors you regard as unproductive, such as financial services, is that not merely an expression of our collective priorities?
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To rebuke someone for uttering these words—to set parameters of acceptability without discussing how and why those parameters come to be—is not only unproductive; it's unjust.
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In the past, Hindu farmers would sell unproductive cows to Muslim traders and about 2 million of these would end up smuggled to Bangladesh for meat and leather.
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"There is a situation where money has been flooded into an unproductive and speculative direction," FSC vice chairman Kim Yong-beom added, according to national news agency Yonhap.
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The new year offers a fresh start, a time to buckle down and make changes, such as putting an end to unproductive — or destructive — habits and achieving goals.
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Lower House member Mio Sugita called gay couples "unproductive" and wondered whether it was "appropriate to spend taxpayer money on them" in a magazine article published last Wednesday.
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When the right to free speech of one group is ignored—be it teachers or families—we all pay the price in an unproductive, one-sided public debate.
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Trump Jr. has said the meeting was unproductive and that instead of providing dirt on Clinton, Veselnitskaya tried to lobby the Trump campaign on repealing the 2012 law.
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In the past, Hindu farmers would sell unproductive cows to Muslim traders and about 2 million of these would end up smuggled to Bangladesh for meat and leather.
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The OFR has for years been under attack from congressional Republicans and other critics who claim the agency is unproductive, unnecessary and another form of intrusive government bureaucracy.
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As the country's farmers tell it, Kirchnerism is just a fancy term for the confiscation of their wealth and the scattering of the spoils to the unproductive masses.
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Over the weekend, the parents issued a statement condemning the threats, and Mr. Armstrong said on Monday that it would be "unproductive to continue protests" at the hospital.
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In an interview with Shincho 45, a conservative magazine, a lawmaker, Mio Sugita, dismissed gay men and lesbians as "unproductive" members of society who would not bear children.
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Its CEO Jill Soltau said in an earnings call in February 2019 that she was focused on reducing the amount of inventory and clearing "unproductive inventory" in stores.
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"Until we can talk about the real sources of that instability, talk is going to be unproductive," Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told the Munich Security Conference.
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After seven episodes of strategizing and interminably unproductive conversations about the value of life in times of crisis, the series has sputtered right when it should've begun roaring.
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In The Humanity Bureau, Cage plays a caseworker for a government agency that roots out unproductive members of society and banishes them to a colony known as New Eden.
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Petro has proposed ending Colombia&aposs dependence on oil exports and raising taxes on vast swaths of unproductive land to boost agricultural production and bring millions out of poverty.
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" Of course, Republicans are being as offensive and unproductive about the whole thing as expected, comparing the tax proposal to "slavery" and calling the GND a "leftist fantasy program.
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It's that it's unproductive, shaming, and stereotype-perpetuating to align fertility and motherhood with virtue, and infertility with villainy, when real life shows us that that's not the case.
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"An FTT could reduce unproductive trades, those not in the interest of investors and that serve no purpose other than to generate fees for financial institutions," the group wrote.
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Nevertheless Marx, like Smith before him, while stressing the necessity of some functions of the state, placed state officials in the category of unproductive labourers outside the production boundary.
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Any analogy that ignores or downplays the fundamental rule of biology — that a cell makes imperfect copies of itself — is going to lead down a frustrating and unproductive path.
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True, she has had her run-ins with Netanyahu, but she probably has a better sense than President Obama of when to press and when to avoid unproductive fights.
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In December, China's bond market suffered a punishing selloff amid concerns over a liquidity squeeze and a mounting debt load that had its origins in speculative and unproductive investments.
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The system doesn't ensure broad-based prosperity, encourages people to waste time and effort on unproductive work, and will likely prove unsustainable as inexpensive machines replicate more human tasks.
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Previously, the judge declined several requests to order the deposition of Mr. Redstone, stating that taking testimony from him would be unproductive because he has a severe speech impediment.
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It also creates the opportunity to free consumer privacy interests from the unproductive clutches of the Title II net neutrality or nothing, hyper-politicization of communications issues, going forward.
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Ideally, Mr Macri would also like to cut labour costs, loosen labour laws, close failing state companies and reduce the unproductive public sector that swelled mightily under the Kirchners.
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But when it worked, his comfort was like a crutch for me; it wasn't fixing the real problem, but it sometimes helped me get through those debilitating, unproductive thoughts.
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Because it is not only wrong from a moral perspective, it is unproductive if we actually want to be on a trajectory that is about achieving success and progress.
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But among lawmakers eager to notch one more legislative victory in a historically unproductive session of Congress, there is still hope that a few more bills could slip through.
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In meetings, when they were considering places to press the divestment argument, Mr. Kumalo, who had already been to all the possible targets, knew which locations would be unproductive.
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But, there's one part of Amazon's HQ2 competition that is deeply disturbing -- pitting city against city in a wasteful and economically unproductive bidding war for tax and other incentives.
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A big reason the Yankees failed to return to the playoffs last season was the sharp decline of Teixeira, who was injured and unproductive for most of the season.
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The Waymo self-driving vans may sit idle for extended periods of time between trips at the UPS facilities, which is an unproductive use of drivers' time, he said.
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Weber had 10 points as Montreal went 13-1-1 in its first 15 games, and he had 10 points in 13 games in January after an unproductive December.
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House Democrats have condemned Trump's threat as unproductive, and they would likely challenge the President's legal authority to withdraw from the pact if he were to carry it out.
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" He said the admininstration will consult with its lawyers and "decide whether this is another productive or unproductive step in this saga as we try to secure our country.
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"It's unproductive and disruptive to governance," said Sara Fagen, who was political director under President George W. Bush and has at times been critical of Mr. Trump on policy.
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On the other hand, Astra also can't be bothered to give Tyler an actual character to play, so both movies indulge some degree of unproductive solipsism about their protagonists' loneliness.
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"In this current environment, and with zero progress made on any of their priorities, it would be highly unproductive to ask HBCU presidents to come back to Washington," Adams said.
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That 1.2m Indians toil in companies that form part of the relatively unproductive PSU sector, a traditional mainstay of formal employment, is largely seen as a benefit, not a problem.
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Yet the government reckons that around a third of the country's coffee trees are unproductive, withered by age and neglect; others yield only a fraction of what should be achievable.
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"He's incredibly pragmatic, always cool in the face of adversity; he finds it unproductive to focus on the problem (versus the solution) or to react emotionally," she writes of Kushner.
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That, unfortunately, is also the bad news, as a crackdown on loose lending, especially after a splurge of credit into unproductive sectors, means China's growth is and will be declining.
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That's lower than the 330 percent or so in the United States, but expansion has been rapid and much of it concentrated in unproductive industries and often empty investment property.
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To be fair, most users would probably be doing something else equally unproductive if they weren't on Facebook, but the math shows how much all that engagement is potentially worth.
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"Constant litigation between Patriarch and MBIA that began in 2009 and continues today has created an unproductive and untenable relationship between parties who by definition should be aligned," Tilton said.
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Already, the judge has declined several requests to order the deposition of Mr. Redstone, saying that taking the testimony from him would be unproductive because he has a speech impediment.
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While both views hold a grain of truth, putting immigrants in one box or the other is unproductive and saddles us with an unbridgeable divide on the immigration reform front.
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S.J.P. declined mediation after a string of unproductive exchanges, saying they had not intimidated students and saw no need for university involvement, and besides, debate is encouraged at its events.
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"We've lived next to this mine for almost 30 years, and watched our wells go dry, forests disappear and fields become unproductive," Amnesty quoted a villager, Mahesh Mahant, as saying.
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Moreover, reliance on flawed assumptions about human morality can lead policymakers to overinvest in unproductive interventions, such as training programs that teach employees about a company's values and legal compliance.
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Garcia and Goergen appear to be linked by their militant opposition to Brazil's landless movement, in which the poor occupy unproductive land in pursuit of legal rights to the property.
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This may mean excusing yourself from an unproductive conversation, saying no to someone who asks to borrow something, or declining an invitation to an event you don't want to attend.
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In the past, his time in New York has often been skipped over because, the curators here argue, it is erroneously perceived as being an unproductive period for the artist.
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If many people are high all the time, it will increase the rate of unproductive workers which will eventually affect the economy, poverty, and unemployment rates in a negative manner.
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" In June 2010, after an unproductive season of injury, Ritzenhein and Salazar's conversations moved from supplements to "synthetic thyroid," Ritzenhein testified, saying it was "to help with low testosterone levels.
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"Conflating immigration and crime is false and unproductive," said Kelsey Nyland, a spokeswoman for Ms. Durkan, adding that immigrants were "key witnesses" when Ms. Durkan was a United States attorney.
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Trump may be "unnecessarily endangering" alliances with "unproductive" tension, O'Hanlon said, but the essence of the alliances, such as the welcomed U.S. military presence in various countries, remains the same.
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So, her opponent's attacks on her trans status seemed petty and unproductive compared to her plan to fix Route 28, a major thoroughfare through her district that needed significant upgrades.
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Instead, Democrats have been resisting and attacking President Trump after every move he has made, and exacerbated the aggressive and extreme partisan rhetoric that has led to an unproductive government.
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Other issues, like corporate tax rates, the border adjustment tax, and the size of the cuts could also pit the president against his party in an unproductive way for both.
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"This new administration hates weak, unproductive, socialist people and policies, and it admires strong, can-do, profit makers," Dalio, who founded hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, wrote in a LinkedIn post Monday.
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American thinkers such as Milton Friedman and George Stigler provided Margaret Thatcher with the academic firepower she needed to tackle overmighty trade unions, public-sector interest groups and unproductive state companies.
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For those months that I wasn't doing the program I felt very uneasy, lost, out of routine, neglectful to my own health, behind in work, unproductive & so ALL OVER the place.
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Theories over the years include a lack of investment, poor management, low interest rates that keep alive unproductive "zombie companies", and mismeasurement of an increasingly high-tech and services-driven economy.
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John Oliver thinks the reporters are missing the boat in a big way by boycotting the White House Correspondents' Dinner for 2 reasons ... it's unproductive, and the dinner itself is ridiculous.
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But Pemex is also suffering because of years of inadequate investment, unproductive working procedures, over-generous pension promises (pension liabilities at the end of the year stood at 1.3 trillion pesos).
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Applying the same standard to salad bars and pizzerias as restaurants with a fixed menu is unrealistic, and it is an unproductive use of business owners' time, energy, and financial resources.
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In their view, unproductive "rent-seekers", who exploit special relationships with the government to secure public spending, or gain regulatory protection from competition at everyone else's expense, are on the rise.
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This means rejuvenating the NATO-Russia Council from the relatively meaningless, unproductive debating society it is today into a neutral forum where disagreements can be solved and misperceptions can be remedied.
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The inevitable result of legalization is to increase pressure to act on those feelings, aided and abetted by doctors, relatives and accountants who may feel they have become difficult or unproductive.
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"I spend a half a day each week with the financial director and other directors to discuss ever changing tax issues, which loses time and resources and is unproductive," he said.
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And the Trump Administration risks higher inflation, unproductive increases in debt, and a strong reaction from the Federal Reserve if its stimulus is too large or overly generous toward the rich.
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Some economists even hailed recessions for their "cleansing" effects, purging unproductive companies in much the same way that forest fires burn up dead wood and release seeds that provide new growth.
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Otherwise, China's government will not be able to shift its growth model from one driven by (often wasteful) investment in unproductive factories and ghost cities to one driven by consumer spending.
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Mr. Bolsonaro's campaign promises to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and develop the "unproductive Amazon," including opening up large swaths of forests to agricultural land, could also thwart his economic agenda.
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Throughout, both Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer made clear that they believed it was unproductive to negotiate in public and repeatedly prodded the president to move the discussion behind closed doors.
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But we're far from this being a reality, particularly in an economy in which employers don't want to take perceived risks on people they deem as sick—or, even worse, unproductive.
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With the G-7 deal yielding no substantial improvement and companies still needing to endure tedious and unproductive procedures to comply with the French DST, the stakes are higher than ever.
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Here's an exercise: Take a few days to assess roughly how much of your time you spend on unproductive busywork, and how difficult it is to become engaged in individual projects.
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Sure, it's easy to get irritated because the other person is using up all the oxygen in the room, but I think that's an unproductive way to look at the situation.
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And a growing group of people engaged in prostitution, including many immigrants in Queens, have complained that the counseling sessions amount to little more than unproductive conversations with well-meaning strangers.
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The agency's plan includes distributing seeds and animal feed, vaccinating animals, delivering 100,000 sheep and goats to vulnerable households and giving farmers cash for bringing weakened and unproductive livestock to slaughter.
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He engaged in tough negotiations with Chicago's teachers' union that included a seven-day strike and deep animosity between him and the union leader, Karen Lewis, that many observers found unproductive.
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Complaining might feel good in the moment, but it's incredibly draining and unproductive (particularly if you're venting on the side via IMs all day), and it brings everyone else down too.
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LONDON — After two apparently unproductive days in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Theresa May was headed to Brussels for further talks on Thursday, hoping to put her Brexit plans back on course.
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While American politicians engage in a hot and unproductive debate about global warming, the country's 14,000 federal wildfire fighters—and more employed by state and local agencies—are fighting it every day.
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Serra, pointing to the absurdity of Brazil having more embassies than Britain in the English-speaking Caribbean, plans to study the benefits of its 227 embassies and close those that are unproductive.
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"If anything this unlocks an unproductive situation, and we believe that Fortum is likely to wait for more clarity on the German coal and lignite phase-out compensation," JP Morgan analysts wrote.
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They discussed his lack of in-person town hall events, and he said such events would be an unproductive use of his time and used the derogatory term "Orientals" in the process.
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I began to notice when I was avoiding work — ''finishing'' a section of the newspaper (unit bias!) or doing other unproductive foot-dragging — and then rationalizing the lost time as mental ''preparation.
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A sensible government would try to do something about dismal companies that trap people in unproductive work, rather than dream of freeing Britain's successful multinationals from the (often imaginary) shackles of Brussels.
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The Trump team claims it was an unproductive discussion that led nowhere, and if that's true, then the whole thing may have been a bad idea but was in the end inconsequential.
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Credibility on the line In 20 years of working on the peace process, I wish I had a nickel for every unproductive trip we took to try to start or save negotiations.
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This organisation takes a "venture capital" approach to seeding potential breakthroughs in our understanding of the biology of autism by funding research that lies outside the conventional, but largely unproductive, consensus view.
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Beckham, in the middle of an unproductive performance during the Giants' 24-10 loss on Monday, was penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct after taunting Vikings cornerback Xavier Rhodes after a reception.
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Pelosi emphasized that calling for women to vote for Hillary Clinton simply because she is a woman is an unproductive strategy that may have turned many potential supporters away in the past.
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The Democratic field, however, is in a state of unproductive entropy, in part because the Party has not resolved the divisions and the contradictions that drew younger voters, in particular, to Sanders.
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The other side: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters that Pelosi "stormed out of the meeting" and sought to make it "unproductive" and "political" in a moment of crisis.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE A teen is trying to get the Super Bowl moved to Saturday and thousands of people agree What, and miss an excuse to be unproductive at work on a Monday?
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Behaviors that have been chastised today as being unproductive by a culture that mostly fetishizes measurable outputs like hours worked and reports produced seem to actually be some of the most productive.
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"Congress needs to get busy with their plan to un-rig the American economy and move on from unproductive policies, whether it be the BAT, VAT, or foreign minimum tax," Gardner said.
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As a recap: All the participants in this infamous meeting, from both the Trump side and the Russian side, have claimed that it was brief, unproductive, and led to nothing of substance.
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Mr Harford's book strays well beyond mess of the physical sort (though he devotes a whole section to railing against oppressive tidy-desk policies, which he argues disempower workers and make them unproductive).
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The shutdown was extremely unproductive for Trump, who caved to mounting pressure from Democrats and disgruntled federal workers living without paychecks by agreeing to spending bills to reopen the government for three weeks.
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Bouteflika's fall came as authorities began trying to persuade citizens that a welfare state providing unproductive state jobs and guaranteeing cheap housing, petrol, food, drugs and free hospital treatment was no longer viable.
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As she shellacks her face with smeared eyeliner and growls about death and destruction, it's clear to the audience that such histrionics are understandable but perhaps unproductive in solving our current political crisis.
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In 1954 Arthur Lewis, a Nobel prize-winning economist, argued that development occurs as labour shifts from an unproductive "traditional" sector—activities such as subsistence farming, or petty trade—into modern, capitalist activities.
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"Air-con is designed to make people feel more comfortable but it's actually doing completely the reverse - it's making people feel more uncomfortable and making them more unproductive by freezing them," Hill said.
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President Trump and his team have already taken an ill-advised and unproductive wrong turn by trying to tackle the difficult political issue of health insurance policy reform in all-too-quick fashion.
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Taking that total north of 300 percent of GDP in a very short period of time for the primary purpose of building a massive unproductive fixed asset bubble that adds little to GDP.
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Some of these assumptions have driven clean-up costs to stratospheric levels and, together with liabilities associated with Superfund sites, have resulted in inner-city sites suitable for redevelopment remaining derelict and unproductive.
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For example, you may notice that you over- or underestimate how long it takes you to complete a task, or that you're spending too much time on unproductive activities like checking social media.
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At the end of September, Congress has to deal with the regular and usually unproductive fight that happens when it, once again, spends so much that the debt limit has to be raised.
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Rittleman says one of the most common factors that make meetings unproductive is when the wrong people are invited, many of whom show up out of obligation rather than a desire to contribute.
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Economists say Venezuela's economy will not return to growth until it lifts corruption-riddled exchange controls and dysfunctional price control system and rolls back hundreds of nationalizations that have left many industries unproductive.
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For the next few weeks, talks about border security among Pelosi, Schumer, Trump, and even Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen proved unproductive as the administration dug its heels in over the wall.
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"The sting of sanctions will be painful if the regime does not change course from the unacceptable and unproductive path it has chosen to one that rejoins the league of nations," Pompeo said.
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With the price of oil low and Saudi middle-classes greatly dependent on often unproductive jobs in government, the Kingdom racked up a budget deficit last year equal to 15 percent of GDP.
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In conversations with aides over the past weeks, he has questioned why he must attend this year, believing it a particularly unproductive use of his time, according to people familiar with the conversations.
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A few weeks ago, during a House hearing on the emerging coronavirus outbreak, Johns Hopkins University infectious disease expert Jennifer Nuzzo testified that international travel bans during outbreaks are unproductive and ineffective. Rep.
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By reducing outcomes that are widely perceived to be unfair, better policies reduce the risks of unproductive and unwise policies, policies that are likely to be worse for the tech sector in particular.
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"Do not lose time or energy in secondary things, in gossip or intrigue, in conceited schemes of careerism, in empty plans for superiority, in unproductive groups that seek benefits or common interests," he said.
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In the end, the resolution was crafted in the 22013th-floor Park Avenue office of New York lawyer Daniel Pollack who convinced bitter adversaries that more than a decade of unproductive squabbling was enough.
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In history, some natural hot periods and droughts have coincided with social upheaval in the Mediterranean region, such as around 1400 when many people in the Ottoman Empire abandoned unproductive farms to become nomads.
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" However, a Cabello source says the singer did indeed have conversations with her former bandmates, telling PEOPLE, "Camila had multiple meetings with the group in the past, including with intermediaries, however they were unproductive.
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The Drudge Report, ever-popular on the right, also pinned blame on congressional leadership, splashing the headline "MOST UNPRODUCTIVE CONGRESS IN 164 YEARS" Tuesday afternoon with a link to a story in The Week.
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But although a milk cow can generate anywhere from 400 to 1,100 rupees a day, this still leaves the question of what to do with male animals, as well as old and unproductive females.
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As one might imagine, there is tremendous variation in student outcomes across programs of study, which makes choosing a college based on an average of all programs at that institution a relatively unproductive exercise.
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And to make sure borrowed money is invested in the real economy, rather than into stocks or other unproductive assets, initial borrowing must not be lower than 5 million yuan, according to the rules.
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Their piece draws on the work of the economist William Baumol, who used his theory of productive and unproductive entrepreneurship in an effort to explain differences in productivity growth across countries and over time.
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Prince Mohammed sent his chief prosecutor to Istanbul for talks this week, but a statement from Irfan Fidan, the chief prosecutor for Istanbul, said that the meetings with his Saudi counterpart were largely unproductive.
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The next year Conway Twitty had a No. 1 country hit with Mr. Conley's "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me." In 1981, after an unproductive stint recording for Warner Bros.
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Doing so would not only be unproductive but risks inciting the wrath of the President, who after condemning "racism, bigotry, and white supremacy" in his Monday remarks did not grapple with his own comments.
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Mr. Berke's rapid-fire cross-examination of Mr. Lewandowski, when it finally commenced, drew widespread praise and highlighted just how choppy and unproductive the typical questioning by lawmakers in hearings like these can be.
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By the same account, not negotiating down my basic needs became a high priority for me once I realized how unproductive I was when I didn't sleep, eat regular meals, or take a break.
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ET. VCU hounded Purdue early in a helter-skelter but unproductive start on the scoreboard, forcing the Boilermakers into bad shots with a harassing defense that seemingly dared the Boilermakers to attack the rim.
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"For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive," Ms. McDaniel wrote about her uncle on Twitter.
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But Simmons is primarily filler to make the trade work, and the move is mostly about clearing an unproductive player off the Sixers' roster and letting him try to find a better situation elsewhere.
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Opposition leaders insist the only solution to economic chaos is to dismantle the 13-year-old controls and roll back Chavez's wave of nationalizations that turned hundreds of private enterprises into unproductive state-run firms.
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Salvini has transformed the League from a north-based regional movement into a national force, attracting anti-migrant voters in the south, a region the party once denigrated as an unproductive drain on national coffers.
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"I've always opposed unproductive riders that seek to limit or micromanage DC's autonomy, and I will continue to combat these efforts in the 116th Congress," he told BuzzFeed News when asked about the pot amendment.
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And despite an initial compulsion to stay busy, Lyons was deliberately unproductive following her headline-making exit from the job that had come to define her (more likely, it was also the other way around).
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In a desperate attempt to control the population in the midst of an economic crisis, a government agency dubbed the Humanity Bureau banishes society's so-called unproductive members to a colony known as New Eden.
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San Jose managed 20 unproductive shots over the final two periods after putting 17 on goal in the opening 9673 minutes as Bruins backup goalie Anton Khudobin beat San Jose the second time this season.
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Lawmakers' pressure on Facebook to ban more pages, which came toward the end of an unproductive and often angry three-hour hearing, made for a somewhat unexpected conclusion given the intended topic of the hearing.
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" Another said, "Women are told they have to give birth; if they don't, they're mocked as being 'unproductive', but then again, just the possibility that they might give birth is used to cut their scores.
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RELATED: Here's a list of what you need to know about health care Still, House Speaker Paul Ryan is insisting that despite a turbulent and unproductive start, Republicans will come together to pass Trump's agenda.
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It's certainly interesting that the leader of one of the premiere communications companies today thinks bots are unproductive in their current guise, and went so far as to make fun of the hype around them.
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Since the U.S. government lacks experience launching consumer-facing technology products and startups aren't used to working with regulatory red tape, communication between the two can often result in an unproductive or even adversarial relationship.
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If the Trump team's story is basically correct, and the meeting was an unproductive discussion that led nowhere, it's difficult to see new revelations about the preparation for it damaging the president all that much.
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But without a broader policy toward Iran, a summit with a senior Iranian is not only a key to an empty room, but another one of Trump's unproductive and potentially dangerous "all-about-me" summits.
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The reality progressives already grasp and which others might be forced to contend with soon is that the virus does not separate people into the deserving and the undeserving or the productive and the unproductive.
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But since he took power in 2011, Kim Jong-un has often broken that tradition, notably by criticizing state-run factories and construction projects as unproductive, as he has tried to rebuild his country's economy.
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Officials at the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management are repealing 2015 fracking rules, effective immediately, "to relieve operators of duplicative, unnecessary, costly and unproductive regulatory burdens," according to a new notice in the Federal Register.
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But after costly, unproductive sessions produced by Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman, and other setbacks including Rick Allen's amputation, Def Leppard's schedule synced up with Lange's, and they moved ahead with their ambitious seven single mission.
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Listen, Chrome extensions are a fun way to reinterpret the internet through a lens of in-jokes, be it one that auto-converts cloud to butts or another that "blocks" unproductive sites with aggressive motivational phrases.
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Unfortunately, instead of allowing mediation to proceed in a considerate manner, plaintiffs' counsel took an aggressive and ultimately unproductive approach that follows months of presenting misleading information to the public in an effort to perpetuate confusion.
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Silver (Tim Daly) and Dolores (a deeply sympathetic Rachael Holmes), the couple at the center of this carefully arranged play from the author of "The Village Bike," have made the choice to avoid such unproductive thoughts.
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He wants to militarize Brazil's borders and has described the Landless Workers Movement, an organization that occupies large, unproductive estates in the countryside to advocate for land reform and denounce rural inequality, as a terrorist organization.
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Nearly all patients involved in the outbreak so far have reported respiratory issues, including a dry, or unproductive, cough that does not bring up mucus, shortness of breath and chest pain that worsened with deep breathing.
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Whether you are feeling bad because you think your peers are doing better than you, or you are building yourself up based on their failures, both are unproductive and have the potential to be self-destructive.
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In response to Musk's comments to The Times about working up to 120 hours per week, Arianna Huffington wrote in a post on Thrive Global published August 17 that Musk's work habits were unhealthy and unproductive.
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The controversy consumed a tremendous amount of energy, which was not necessarily intellectually unproductive, but none of it was directed against Trump's draconian policies or the corporate beneficiaries of his policies who are funders of the museum.
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But the oversight board warned that without significant fiscal and economic reforms, Puerto Rico would be left, after the current flurry of storm-related activity, back where it started — with an unproductive economy and too much debt.
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I think this is a habit of mine in general, but it's especially unproductive in dating—I spent more time wondering how the other person viewed or felt about me than considering how I felt about them.
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That has led to many unproductive cattle being abandoned, farmers said, but governments - both state and federal - have failed to construct new shelters, leaving rising numbers of stray cattle that are feeding on crops, or even garbage.
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They say the committees, known by their Spanish acronym CLAP, violate basic freedoms and do not address the underlying causes of shortages, which include an unproductive economy and artificially low caps on food prices that stimulate smuggling.
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My favourite: a sensible route to a secure living in the future is to aim not for high productivity, but for some extravagantly unproductive niche such as making artisanal cheese, where low productivity is a selling point.
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According to the official, Trump cut Mulvaney off toward the end of an unproductive meeting on re-opening the federal government, as Mulvaney was attempting to negotiate up from the $1.3 billion Democrats offered the White House.
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That has led to many unproductive cattle being abandoned, farmers said, but governments - both state and federal - have failed to construct new shelters, leaving rising numbers of stray cattle that are feeding on crops, or even garbage.
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It is littered with unproductive attempts to establish industrial parks, often far out in the desert and based on top-down decision making, with little consultation with the entrepreneurs and workers expected to relocate there, economists say.
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It is littered with unproductive attempts to establish industrial parks, often far out in the desert and based on top-down decision making, with little consultation with the entrepreneurs and workers expected to relocate there, economists say.
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It was the second time in less than a week that North Korean statements have taken direct aim at Trump, something Pyongyang had avoided since the two sides resumed a largely unproductive process of dialogue in 2018.
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Gavin Newsom, a wine entrepreneur, told reporters after the debate that he found the discussion unproductive and would rather see the candidates focus on super PAC spending if they want to go after big money in campaigns.
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But fighting the clear results of the November 8 election is unproductive when the Electoral College vote went exactly as it was supposed to: ratifying the decision of over 60 million people from a wide range of states.
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Photo: Noah Berger (AP)Last year, a Google engineer named James Damore triggered an entirely unnecessary and ultimately unproductive controversy after his internally published 10-page memo decrying "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" became a matter of public record.
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In a separate statement on Monday, the central planning agency said China needs to reform its development zones as it currently faces an oversupply of poorly designed ones that have competed in unproductive ways and failed to innovate.
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Let worry motivate you, but if you find it unproductive, try to take your mind off things by getting engaged in other activities: Focus on work, do something enjoyable or try a stress-relieving coloring book for adults.
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" Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, Romney's niece, tweeted that "For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.
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" Nielsen wrote in a message to employees last week, "The stalemate in Congress is unproductive and you have my pledge to continue to work with and call on Members to do their jobs and fully fund the Department.
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Reuters reported the prime reason for this unproductive conclusion was a list of requirements Bolton convinced Trump to present to Kim, including a demand that North Korea unilaterally surrender all its nuclear weapons directly to the United States.
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"For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack (Donald Trump) as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive," McDaniel wrote on Twitter Wednesday, choosing not to name her uncle.
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"[I]nstead of allowing mediation to proceed in a considerate manner, plaintiffs' counsel took an aggressive and ultimately unproductive approach that follows months of presenting misleading information to the public in an effort to perpetuate confusion," he added.
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Thompson didn't play the rest of the half because Cavs coach Tyronn Lue — after nine unproductive minutes with Timofey Mozgov to close the first quarter — used shooters like Love and Channing Frye at center in the second quarter.
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Trump's live address from the Oval Office Tuesday was a bizarre and mostly unproductive waste of America's collective evening, save for those gamblers who won big betting on how many lies Trump could tell in under ten minutes.
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A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.
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"It's clear that many countries prioritized their relationship with the United States over an unproductive attempt to isolate us for a decision that was our sovereign right to make," the mission said in the statement emailed to journalists.
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Equally admirable is her resilience in overcoming setbacks — dimwitted reviews, disappointing sales, an unproductive flirtation with 1980s synth-pop — and her struggles with substance addictions, among them a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit that affected her voice.
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Last week, Cheniere, which owns two of the three big operating U.S. LNG export terminals, said the trade war is "unproductive and creates some added costs for our Chinese consumers," but it has not yet materially affected sales.
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While the economy has recovered from a brief but sharp recession, Ankara has done little to address the bad debt that economists and bankers say leaves the finance sector vulnerable and keeps capital tied up in unproductive projects.
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Royal Bank of Canada's chief executive, meanwhile, said its focus will be on eliminating unproductive activities rather than employees, while Bank of Montreal's CEO acknowledged "restructure fatigue" after the lender's repeated one-off charges over several reporting periods.
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Japanese offices are still employing too many generalists with ill-defined roles making it hard to measure their work output and thus encouraging unproductive time sitting at desks, while an inflexible job market was exacerbating the problem, she said.
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"We are closing locations that are unproductive or are no longer robust shopping destinations due to changes in the local retail shopping landscape, as well as monetizing locations with highly valued real estate," Lundgren said, in a press release.
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The report projects that China, Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea will experience significant productivity increases over the next 10 years while the US, Spain, France, Italy, and other European nations are either not increasing productivity or becoming more unproductive.
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Shephard, who has investigated partridge farms in the UK, says after two or three years of being kept in tiny cages, egg-laying partridges become unproductive and are either culled or sent to join those released to be shot.
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Norfolk Southern plans to "test the limits of market-based pricing," while reducing expenses by running fewer, longer trains, shedding unproductive assets and having 500 fewer employees this year than last, executives said on a conference call with analysts.
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I think that the amount of influence, the amount of money that's being made can sometimes make people feel like other ... I actually think that's probably an unproductive stance for a company that's building tools and technology for everyone.
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With more than 3 million American citizens, Puerto Rico deserves to be on par with the states, but it also deserves the opportunity and freedom to innovate, create, prosper and grow, without the hindrance of experimental and unproductive policies.
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"The implementation of fiscal policy is still weak and this year there is an additional risk of unproductive spending in the lead up to the election," said Cobus de Hart, a senior economist at South Africa's NKC African Economics.
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"President Trump's remarks today failed to acknowledge the pain and suffering he has caused to federal workers, contractors, and millions of Americans with this unnecessary government shutdown, and his rhetoric toward immigrants was inflammatory and unproductive," the statement said.
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As a far-right Congressman and presidential candidate, Bolsonaro drew headlines for his disparaging comments regarding Indian tribes, and as president he has said that too much of the country's territory is unproductive because indigenous tribes have special rights.
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This has created enormous herds of mangy, unproductive, unwanted cattle that herders don't dare to kill, either because of specific cow protection laws that vary state by state or because they are terrified of being lynched by Hindu extremists.
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The European political project, whose founding idea remains far ahead of global politics, is essentially trapped in an unproductive contradiction between postnational development and a re-emergent nationalism, between shared politics and the national selfishness of the member states.
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For economists, the question centered on whether the economy was already at "full employment," a point at which further growth comes at a higher cost in inflation or unproductive activity and usually invites aggressive restraint by the Federal Reserve.
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Alabama 26, Georgia 23 | Overtime ATLANTA — After watching a frustrating and unproductive first half of football in the biggest game of the year, Alabama Coach Nick Saban came into the locker room and pulled aside his top two quarterbacks.
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It's really unproductive and boring and goes in circles without accomplishing anything, so I spend pretty much the whole time reading an article about the all-time best Trader Joe's products, which gets me HYPED to go grocery shopping after work.
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Critics say universal basic income is too expensive, that it gives people incentive to be unproductive, that it's bad for people's self-worth and that there are more efficient ways to spend government money to help those who can't support themselves.
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That might be because Bell admitted that their romance initially got off to a rocky start: The NBC star told Harry Connick Jr. on his talk show Harry that her early relationship with Shepard was "toxic" and filled with unproductive fights.
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Mr Sanders's largely unproductive Senate career also meant he had few political skeletons to hurt him in the primary; unlike Mr Biden, who voted for many things during his decades in Congress that he would be forced to account for.
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But if what passes as a "conservative" viewpoint is dehumanizing language about LGBTQ people, or if what passes as a "liberal" viewpoint is "white men are inherently evil," then professors should indeed caution against such unproductive speech (at our discretion).
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While Mr. Ghani spent a great deal of political capital on this unproductive cause, his government was paralyzed by a schism between the president and his 2014 electoral rival, Abdullah Abdullah, the administration's "chief executive" under the postelection power-sharing deal.
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"We consider the purchase of Spolana to be strongly disadvantageous, burdening the (Unipetrol) group with unproductive future CAPEX (capital expenditure)," Pavel Muchna, who represents Paulinino Limited - which has a 20 percent stake in Unipetrol - said in a statement on Wednesday.
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" Similarly, a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) argues that "through generating tax revenues, decreasing the fees Americans pay on their investments, and shrinking unproductive parts of the financial sector, an FTT would help Wall Street work for Main Street.
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Congressional leaders from both parties held unproductive talks with Trump at the White House on Wednesday and are to return for another round on Friday, a sign the shutdown is likely to continue at least for the rest of the week.
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"China is getting increasingly less bang for its buck as credit flows toward unprofitable projects and unproductive assets such as real estate, which generate little or no return," London-based consulting firm Fathom Consulting said in a recent research note.
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In response to the incident, Action Zealandia said in a statement on Twitter the alleged actions of the accused are not within its code of conduct and was "immature and unproductive as we do not use violence to reach our goals".
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I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws -- some meaningful, some unproductive -- the right yells "slippery slope" and hides behind the Constitution.
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The defense of his fawning and unproductive talks with Vladimir Putin is that it is part of some grand scheme that will eventually outsmart both the Russians and the Chinese, a plan that cannot be comprehended by us mere mortals.
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That's how quickly Dr. Frederick thinks as many as 10 percent of his students can finish, by increasing the number of credits they take at one time, including during a three-credit "mini-mester" planned for the otherwise unproductive winter break.
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But if a couple wants to make one last effort to shake themselves loose of their tired and unproductive patterns and really "see" each other again with fresh eyes — well, you can grasp why trying love drugs might be worth exploring.
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"My experience of trying to reach some compromise with her over the past few months has been an unproductive and frustrating one," Ms. Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, said in an interview on Wednesday with The New York Times Editorial Board.
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And so, there's a very small sliver of people who will be deeply and completely affected by a wealth tax, which is not rich people but specifically rich people who own unproductive assets or rich people who have concentrated stock positions.
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Two hours is a long time, and some of it will feel unproductive and not all of it will be structured, but I have a few general things that I almost always start off with to set me in motion.
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The 23-year-old now researching for his Ph.D is just the kind of innovator that the region requires, along with youngsters who want the risky life of an entrepreneur rather than a safe but unproductive job working for the state.
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Three hitherto contentious ones deserve their attention: one to boost its unproductive service industry; another to cut regional red tape; plus a package of reforms to loosen the rigid labour market, including provisions for pay to be tied to merit rather than seniority.
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This is a shooting he refined on Goodbye CP, similarly about people with cerebral palsy, in which he challenged the capitalist ideology which cast them as "unproductive" members of society, showing them performing everyday actions in environments not designed for their bodies.
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"Greece's position is that unproductive and in many cases, selective criticism against specific countries does not facilitate the promotion of human rights in these states, nor the development of their relation with the EU," a Greek foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
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While it is good to see Congress engaging with digital privacy, asking the FBI and FTC to look into a single app seems unproductive when that app is not doing much that a hundred others, American and otherwise, have been doing for years.
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Wagner has no interest in denigrating the struggling or the working poor: "It's unproductive to be condescending to working-class people who can't afford hand-milled furniture or don't want to live in machines because they work in machines," she tells Hyperallergic.
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But as much as the media and other observers have focused their attention on whether or not the president obstructed justice, it would be shortsighted and legally unproductive for any prosecutor to be that single-minded if this were any other case.
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According to the Green Street, the biggest factors weighing on malls' fundamentals include the rise of online shopping; weakness at traditional "anchor" locations — in particular, department stores; and softer demand from retailers, who are working to prune unproductive square footage from their fleets.
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Beijing has said it would lay aside Rmb100bn ($15.4bn) to "resettle" coal and steel workers as part of a plan to cut unproductive capacity in both sectors, but local governments and the companies themselves are supposed to bear a portion of the costs.
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It is not too late for him to bring in a diverse group of advisors with new ideas, not too late to break with the unproductive groupthink of the past seven years, the very kind of groupthink he set out to avoid.
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"I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws ― some meaningful, some unproductive ― the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution," she said.
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Opera like you've never seen it before... The common thread running through each story in the opera is "whore stigma" or sex workers stigma — the perception that sex workers are not only "morally corrupt and socially unproductive," but are "vectors" for disease.
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Turkish officials, frustrated by an unproductive visit by a Saudi official this week, abandoned their stream of leaks to the media to say on the record that Mr. Khashoggi had been strangled almost immediately after entering the Saudi Consulate and then dismembered.
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Among the many bills Mr. Brown vetoed were legislation creating an ethnic studies graduation requirement in schools; several anti-harassment bills that he argued were unproductive or duplicative; and legislation that would have allowed San Francisco to set up supervised drug injection sites.
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We can turn our anxiety into something productive (using our worry to take actions such as hand-washing, social distancing, sending meals to elderly relatives, or calling a neighbor who lives alone) or unproductive (spending all day clicking on the latest coronavirus headlines).
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Experts say that for the most part, global panic over the Wuhan coronavirus is unproductive and unwarranted: The public should take precautions to avoid getting sick, but the most effective preventative measures are everyday actions like increased handwashing and not touching your face.
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How she handled a period of unfulfillment at workAbout midway through my time at Hulu, I went through a time of feeling unfulfilled and found myself in a vicious and unproductive cycle of looking outward for others to fix my sense of unfulfillment.
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It's not the first time two of the most visible leaders of the free world have engaged in a spat so unproductive that it somehow makes the rest of Twitter look light and fun by comparison, and it certainly won't be the last.
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When considering this important role that vaccines play in public health, the name-calling and shaming used online in discussions about vaccines can be unproductive, said Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a practicing pediatrician and a Stanford and CNN Global Health and Media Fellow.
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"To me, the Steyer campaign is throwing around money in an unproductive and not OK manner," Brady Quirk-Garvan, the former chairman of the Charleston Democratic Party, who had been a supporter of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, said on Sunday.
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The virus doesn&apost seem to be as deadly as the SARS coronavirus — which, at current comparison levels, had a higher mortality rate — with experts telling Business Insider&aposs Holly Secon that global panic over the Wuhan virus is unproductive and unwarranted.
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While windshield wipers may do the job for most people, Tesla's patent application notes that the process of scrubbing away grime and letting the glass dry results in "unproductive time," and that the chemicals in wiper fluid could damage a camera's electronics.
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Instead, after the mass shooting in Florida, America's leaders reverted to the same unproductive routine: Republicans offered condolences, downplaying the role of guns, and Democrats pleaded for action, while most Americans experienced the seething brew of sorrow, anger and exasperation at the paralysis.
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If spending were reduced to 12% of GDP, in line with France, Germany, or Switzerland, a trillion dollars—$8,000 for every family—could be transferred out of unproductive activities and could supplement median earnings, the stagnation of which owes much to rising health-care costs.
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It's often unproductive to accuse people of racism—if a voter is genuinely worried that immigrants will take his job, people who favor more immigration have more to gain by trying to convince him he's mistaken than by calling him out as a deplorable.
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A 2014 report by UK disability inclusion organization Scope found that two-thirds of Brits feel uncomfortable speaking to disabled people; over a third of respondents reported avoiding disabled people altogether; and over a third of those surveyed reported seeing disabled people as unproductive.
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At my last job I worked from home, which afforded me the ability to run errands, do laundry, walk the dog, watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and generally be as unproductive as I wanted during normal hours, as long as my work was done on time.
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