In many cases, this may lead to bad decisions like an increasingly invasive state, government spying, and possibly even more trigger-happy SWAT teams.
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After all, the crowd in Washington should be happy to get more money, even if it is the result of benign factors such as more jobs being created, companies earning higher profits, and people getting more pay.
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More importantly, does it even matter whether I am happy or not?
Our commercial banks, without heaps of consumer deposits, would find those branch networks even more costly, and the whole the fat-and-happy nature of their business would cease.
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The second reason, which is even more important in the long run, is to make me happy and to want to remain buying and loyal to their brand!
You would imagine that, with the clock ticking, his priority would be to keep all his big guns happy and on message so that he can win even more silverware.
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There are enough around that drinkers may choose a nearby place because the owner is Irish, because the happy hour prices are great or even because the beer is more interesting than next door.
For the rest of us who don't have a billion dollars in the bank and are just happy to have more money coming in than going out (even if barely), we need to reevaluate the value of a dollar.
We have a tendency, though, to overestimate how happy people around us are, and it makes us feel even more dejected, according to a study out of Stanford, led by Alex Jordan, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
When the stakes are in the billions, shareholders should be more than happy to sign off on a multimillion-dollar paycheck, even if the recipient is just slightly better than the next best option.
In other words, as the economy recovers and job security begins to feel more dependable, their findings were that workers are increasingly looking to feel happy, even fulfilled, by their work.
President Ernesto Samper has tried more than once, barely noticed, let alone aided or even commended, by those who were happy to denounce the drug money that went into his election campaign in 1994.
All three women believe that as the armed forces reduce in size, it is even more important for soldiers, sailors and air personnel deployed on operations to know that their partners are happy and well-supported back at home - and for many, that means being in work.
It was a wonderful experience to see how happy the children were from the hard work of our PTA, and I was inspired to do even more because I saw what a group of devoted parents could do.
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