Unfortunately, our society tends to pass feel-good legislation aimed at making people feel safer without actually making them safer.
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"Seduced and Abandoned, " which HBO picked up ahead of its Cannes premiere, begins with a quote attributed to the late director Orson Welles: that 95 percent of his life is spent trying to raise money for movies, and 5 percent is actually making them.
Dr. DAVID O'BROCHTA (Biotechnology, University of Maryland's): What these investigations have shown is that when we make those modifications with the mosquito, we're actually not making the mosquitoes worse off by these genetic modifications, but we're actually making them better off in some ways.
In the end, though, there is another reason, too: it is that attempts to regulate financial companies, though designed to make things clearer, can actually end up making them fuzzier.
By looking at the Street View images, drivers would get a better idea of what their destinations actually look like, making them easier to locate as they drive down the street.
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There is also a difference between politicians making promises and actually keeping them, as the Kyoto Protocol proved when Canada simply withdrew after missing its targets.
Monies now poured into catchy copy, peel-backs and jingles would actually be allocated to making products better and servicing them better.
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Can you imagine if all the developers making these apps were actually building thriving businesses off them?
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The sea would not become so acidic that shells would actually dissolve, but the extra acidity would mean making them was harder work, which might upset the oceanic ecosystem quite badly.
Consequently, more and more mobile apps will actually be delivered through the mobile Web browser -- making them Web apps.
Because of an accounting quirk--they are subtracted from expenditures rather than considered revenue--they actually make the government appear to be spending less, making them particularly hard to spot.
In any case, Sir Peter Davis, the businessman who heads the task force advising the government on the New Deal, thinks that making people more employable is as important as actually putting them into jobs.
Now he did not only ask participants to recall their past experiences before making their project planning but now he also asked them explicitly to actually incorporate these past experiences in their planning.
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Making them more and more efficient is not, after a certain point, actually desirable.
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"I'm not responsible for what the first minister or the ministers say, I'm responsible for making sure the system is there for the other members of the assembly to actually question them, " said Mrs Butler.
By keeping the budget low for Mars and getting the fans excited by having them actually fund the film, Warner Bros. has a pretty good chance of making back whatever it invests in prints and advertising.
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Thus, the information employees get from Glassdoor may make their own pay look worse than it is, and may cause them to be more dissatisfied with their pay than if they knew what others were actually making.
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