There is a tendency of many sales organizations to focus myopically on the current quarter.
Marriage has a bit of a tendency to wreck Tinseltown relationships.
We also have a bit of a tendency towards doleful solipsism.
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The current strength of America's federal government is partly a result of the tendency of the Supreme Court to snatch rights away from states and hand them to the federal government under the guise of interpreting the constitution.
The board however is concerned that over a period of a year or two the natural tendency of all bureaucracies, not just NASA, to morph and migrate away from that diligent attitude is a great concern to the board, because the history of NASA indicates they have done it before.
There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
Like a lot of hot new technologies of the past, there is currently a tendency to see Big Data as a panacea to all of your business problems.
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Contemporary historians of science have a tendency to deprecate the originality of the so-called scientific revolution, and to stress, instead, its continuities with medieval astrology and alchemy.
The third group of symptoms relates to what has been called hyperarousal, which means an emotional, mental and physical tendency to drive one's flight-or-flight nervous system too hard, a classic sign of which is a tendency to startle too easily.
"People have a tendency to think of Disney cartoons as being more realistic or more grounded and less anarchic and crazy and cartoony than some other studios, " he said.
Yale psychology professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, an expert on depression, has studied our penchant for self-punishing rumination when we face a problem -- a tendency that many of us have indulged during the past eight months.
His trademark sound and laid-back swing--he said he wanted to sound like a dry martini--hinted at the influence of tenor saxophone master Lester Young , a tendency shared by many white saxophonists of the time.
As the late, great economist Julian Simon demonstrated (both with clear economic logic and an unassailable mountain of data), there is a long-run tendency for standards of living to improve and for material scarcity to relax as a constraint rather than tighten.
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Of course, junk bonds have a tendency to follow the direction of the stock market and to reflect the risk-appetite in the overall economy.
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More importantly, cyber-doom scenarios were and are symptomatic of a tendency towards precautionary thinking that focuses on the possible (or merely imaginable) at the expense of the probable or already occurring.
By providing a drier environment, silk reduces that Kafkaesque tendency a nice blowout has of morphing into a nest of frizz overnight.
The committee said a lack of data from countries with some of the worst death tolls, a tendency to under-report maternal deaths and the use of national averages all meant it can be hard to establish the true extent of the problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The CEO of Under Armour, Kevin Plank, explained that a serious issue to address is the tendency of athletes to minimize injuries and head trauma to avoid being removed from a game.
Their statement said the existence of such a tendency in the Islamic regime had encouraged Iran's arch-enemy - the US - to think of a military invasion of the country.
And one should never underestimate the tendency of a U.S. CEO to get rid of workers.
He said Merah had been "polite and courteous" and had shown no signs then of a tendency toward radicalization.
Peter Spiro, a noted legal academic who is a supporter of this tendency.
But it also points to a wider tendency in Brazil of employing people in menial jobs that, in more developed countries, do not even exist.
Incredibly popular restaurants have a tendency to drop out of favor, Einhorn noted, displaying a slide full of previously explosive companies like Boston Market and TCBY.
How this happens has been the subject of a lot of hand waving, though the tendency of adipose tissue to produce chemicals that encourage inflammation is often mentioned.
They display a greater sense of urgency, risk -taking and abstract reasoning, and focus more on getting things done, with less of a tendency to hesitate, focus on small details, or follow external structure.
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Axioma, a firm that provides risk models and portfolio-construction tools for stock investors, uses 10 factors for U.S. stocks, including exchange-rate sensitivity, debt load and momentum, or the tendency of a rallying stock to keep rallying.
We are concerned that there has been a tendency on the part of some members to engage in what can appear to be bilateral debate when the proper management of business is best served by addressing the chair at all times.
But it is unclear if the concerns are justified or just the result of a hair-trigger tendency concerning drug safety on the part of doctors and regulators.
Unlike most polemicists, Lanier has a disarming tendency to conclude forceful assertions with a moment of cheerful self-deprecation.
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