Among economic historians there is a growing consensus that guilds in Europe lost their ability to block new technology once society realised that innovation had a beneficial effect on humanity, and was thus not a zero-sum game.
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''We will not accept and have zero tolerance towards any words used or actions taken by our staff that are racially offensive, '' Lim Swee Say, NTUC's secretary general, who is also a cabinet minister, said in a statement.
However, while my dad was not scared to spend money, he went through much of his adult life with a significant credit card balance and did not achieve a zero balance until about a few years away from retirement.
China is no longer starting from zero and investors should not expect double digit growth anymore.
There is high unemployment and ordinary savers are getting close to zero returns, while many young people and not so young people are crushed by non-dischargeable student debt.
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Materials and technologies that are suited for a vacuum, zero gravity, and extreme cold and heat are not the ones we typically can use on Earth.
To move to the Collaborative stage, both groups need to understand and accept that their relationship is not a zero-sum game.
With interest rates near zero and the Federal Reserve not expected to raise rates until mid-2013, investors who don't want to stomach the market's swings may need to keep piling into dividend-paying shares to boost returns.
Clearly, though, the Bloom Box is still not a zero emissions tech and would only cut emissions by roughly 50% relative to the national average, unless it runs on landfill gas or biogas or hydrogen from electrolysis fueled by zero-carbon electricity (which would be much more expensive as you have to add cost of electrolysis unit, higher cost electricity, and about 30% conversion losses in electrolysis).
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Governing is not a zero-sum game and just as a rising tide lifts all boats, a growing economy is good for everyone.
The proposed regulations create three different income-type buckets, and they limit each bucket to zero, not allowing buckets with net losses to be counted in NII.
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And I have not been able to sort of zero in on your position on this one question: Does your plan cover the estimated 12 million or so illegal immigrants in the country?
And let's not forget the fearsome Big Nuke -- get caught too close to ground zero and you're, well, nuked.
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Game theory suggests that the Indonesian government and the established mining companies in Indonesia will not play a zero sum game.
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Toyota says it is aiming for zero fatalities and injuries, although it has not yet said when that goal would be achieved.
But the savings rate in Japan, which was in the midteens in the 1990s, today is approaching zero and will likely go negative in the not-so-distant future.
Zero interest rates are not normal, and the economy will not be able to get back to normal until the Fed gets monetary policy back to normal.
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"The possibility that the drug will only do the good things like lose weight and not have myriad effects on the body -- is zero, " he said.
Capital gains taxes are a price placed on investment, and here it should be remembered that there are no companies and no jobs without investment first, so why not a zero rate of taxation on capital gains?
With its constant sub-zero temperatures and uninhabited glacier terrain, Antarctica is not usually thought of as a luxury locale.
So if you want to get -- if you want to buy a house, then putting zero down and buying a house that is probably not affordable for you in case something goes wrong, that's something that has to be reconsidered.
"The urban legend (that Facebook is losing younger users) flows more often than not from surveys people have done of younger users that indicate that they're using other social services ... much of the concern stems from the assumption that this is a zero-sum game, and that's not how we see it, " Ebersman said.
But let me stress that this is not a zero-sum game where Wall Street loses and Main Street wins.
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Conditions that called for a preemptive tightening in 1994 rapidly rising commodity prices and real short-term interest rates near zero are not present today.
Hampikian's hypothetical society, with a sex ratio of zero, would be a dystopia for women, and not only because they'd be deprived of entertainment.
While accepting that there was no such thing as "zero risk" in such cases and that doctors could not predict the actions of their patients, the court found that Canarelli had made several mistakes in Gaillard's treatment.
The average tariff barriers are already low, between 3% and 5%, but there is no reason they should not go to zero.
Assuming that both sides have some degree of wisdom and smarts, then, this change in ownership laws will not be at zero benefit to Freeport McMoRan.
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It's not easy for a military to evolve from ground zero, and I appreciate our forces, and I appreciate General Casey, who have worked very hard to train the Iraqis so they become a capable fighting force, as well as a unifying element for Iraq.
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