So why are fermented saliva, decomposed shark and maggot-ridden cheese so desirable in some cultures?
As I see it, this is precisely why the gold standard is so desirable and so badly needed today.
With church status being so desirable, how does the IRS police it?
Jobs at Intel were so desirable that Noyce and Moore were able to insist that new hires take both a pay cut and a demotion.
In fact, jobs at Intel were so desirable that Noyce and Moore were able to insist that new hires take both a pay cut and a demotion.
In his career he'd made a decades-old drug invulnerable to generic rivals, made Pharmacia so desirable Pfizer had to buy it and had turned Schering-Plough from a cash-hemorrhaging criminal into a jewel of a stock.
In his career he'd made a decades-old drug invulnerable to generic rivals, made Pharmacia so desirable Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) had to buy it and had turned Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) from a cash-hemorrhaging criminal into a jewel of a stock.
But it does not solve the problems of poverty and abuse that make it so seemingly desirable.
So, desirable though some of Mr Gore's proposals may be (such as breaking up impersonally large public schools into smaller units), they are not enough.
What system could conceivably have so many desirable attributes?
So, as desirable as the actual demilitarization of south Syria might be, Israel cannot be expected to rely heavily on a demilitarization accord.
"There was a sense with the donor community, as well as the government, that this particular natural resource was something that was so attractive, desirable and generally worth protection that it needed to be made an example of, " says Loren Stoddard, who directs USAID's office of alternative development and agriculture in Afghanistan.
Arab men see Syrian women as good housewives, and they find them very pretty, so traditionally it is desirable to marry one.
As a newcomer, NDTV had no option but to cough up fees to the cable operators so its channels could get desirable spots on the dial.
An FTT is feasible but then so are many things that are not desirable.
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But the new identifier also offered a way to opt out of tracking, so ultimately a working Apple identifier is probably desirable for all concerned.
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Of course Netflix will need to make sure that it has content that could appeal to all the members of a typical household and is good enough, so as to make watching TV a less desirable option.
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"In emerging economies with large and growing current account surpluses, especially China, it is desirable that their effective exchange rates move so that necessary adjustments can occur, " the finance chiefs said.
Or will they give a mandate to Gov. Bush, who has made clear his personal commitment to defending the U.S. and its forces and allies overseas against missile attack and who will not let an ABM Treaty that is neither viable nor desirable become a new impediment to our doing so?
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Or will they give a mandate to Gov. Bush, who has made clear his personal commitment to defending the U.S. and its forces and allies overseas against missile attack -- and who will not let an ABM Treaty that is neither viable nor desirable become a new impediment to our doing so?
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Ukraine's relations with Russia had become so strained under Mr Yushchenko that improvement was both inevitable and desirable.
And focusing so much on firing bad teachers instead of making the profession more desirable to good people is deeply misguided.
Indeed, its founder Geoffrey Canada, has gone so far as to say he found government funding to be less desirable than private support because of the strings that came with it.
So one risk posed by Asia is that a small (and otherwise desirable) correction on Wall Street could become a crash.
Aspire cannot hire everyone with a developmental disability so when a member of our team develops a skill set that is desirable by an employer and is then hired, that is a real success story.
So, too, a corrupt Western-dependent regime in Afghanistan is more desirable than a Taliban-al-Qaida terror state.
The Historic Centro, with its colonial houses, is the most desirable area to be in, but also the most expensive, so nearby neighbourhoods such as popular Guadiana, neighbouring Ojo de Agua, colonial San Antonio and quiet Guadalupe are also very sought after.
Once management undertakes the more strenuous goal of achieving desirable customer outcomes, then a more targeted and agile approach to planning and measurement is required, so as to optimize the prospects of delighting the customer.
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