Ahead of last week's ICANN meeting in Yokohama, Japan, however, controversy erupted when the group's staff proposed amending ICANN's bylaws not just to conduct the study but also to phase out the existence of the nine at-large directors within two years.
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It will be his response not just to last month's Iraq Study Group report, which advocated the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by early next year, but also to the evident truth that the current plan is not working.
But Golden Wonder's demise isn't just a study in how not to run a marketing campaign.
This was not due to a technical flaw in the previous study, but just because the data available at the time was not rigorous enough to reach a definitive conclusion.
According to the study, this tendency to be swayed by outside moods is not just an incidental curiosity but can systematically distort rational decisions.
The staff plan also made clear that the study was to focus not just on the selection method of the at-large board seats but also on whether such members were needed at all.
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The study suggests not just that humans are tuned to watch for subtle hints of sketchy behavior, but that future humanoid robots could foster trust by using the right gestures.
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It is, in fact, a powerful lens with which to study a society because it offers a view, not just into intimate life, but also of the bigger picture: politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors.
Just remember not to let your coupons expire--according to a recent study by Rice professor Utpal Dholakia, about one-fifth of all Groupon coupons lapse before their owners get a chance to use them, and one-third of vendors report that the promotions are unprofitable.
Companies are becoming more efficient, and not just by sacking workers and buying in their needs instead: a study to be released soon shows the overall productivity of capital and labour together rising at 5% a year, says Jose Roberto Mendonca de Barros, the economic-policy secretary.
Thanks to the preservation of these works by Arab scholars when they had been lost in the West after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Medieval scholars did not just study these texts and the works of the Arabs who added to them, but used them to make discoveries in their own right.
Left unchecked, this will result in a shortfall of highly-skilled professionals a problem that will not be addressed just through conventional students who go directly from high school to live and study on campus.
On Sunday, the board voted to keep the nine at-large seats for now, but also defined the study explicitly to review the need for the seats, not just the manner in which they should selected.
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Bristol-Myers' own study, commissioned to show that Pravachol was not inferior to Lipitor, demonstrated just the opposite.
Any sincere and thorough study is going to uncover inefficiency, waste, and practices that just do not make sense.
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The decision to continue the study is really just neutral, which explains why the stock did not move very much.
The Goldstone case study shows us that as Machiavelli taught, it is just as good if not better to be feared.
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Make the study of analytics a key discipline, and get us to understanding it is not just precision of data but confidence in the information that we need.
So why not just ignore that study, and use instead the other, equally reputable one, which imputes no harm to knocking back these pills that stave off osteoporosis?
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