We fail to reward hard won experience and instead recruit and reward the cheapest and lowest common denominator.
Clearly, it would be far easier for Mr. Bush to go with the flow, earning the kudos of the chattering classes at home and abroad by allowing agreements reflecting the lowest common denominator of scores of nations to become part of the growing body of supranational institutions and legal structures.
For Canada, Texas, Iowa and North Dakota, the common denominator they all share is that the economy in each is relatively focused on commodities, and with commodities near nominal all-time highs thanks to a weak dollar, job-creating investment has followed.
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The system was absurd, and adoption of decimal currency was good for the "lowest common denominator" and everyone else.
And water can be the common denominator to start this process.
But if the new way of American war has any common denominator, the qualities of flexibility and imagination rank high among them.
Panasonic has enlisted film director Kevin Smith , known for Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, to shoot two commercials that will appear no less than 823 times during teen-magnet shows like Felicity on the WB, South Park on Comedy Central and MTV's latest assault on television's lowest common denominator, The Osbournes.
The group endorsed two proposals that apparently represented the lowest common denominator of what Islamabad and New Delhi could agree to.
Consumers will expect their new tablet to be able to run any new iOS application, and developers are going to be coding to the lowest common denominator of the iOS family.
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Indonesia, it is argued, is an artificial construct, with a bewildering collection of languages, religions and ethnic groups whose only common denominator is that the jigsaw once made up the Dutch East Indies.
The common denominator for gut plays is patience and then some proof that the prevailing consensus was myopic.
Even where nations like Germany and France were disposed to take visionary actions (such as immediate recognition of Croatia and Slovenia -- and even the introduction of armed peacekeepers), the lowest-common denominator character of these organizations' consensus decision-making mechanisms made such actions utter non-starters.
And best of all it does so by appealing not to the lowest common denominator but the highest.
ImClone and Bristol-Myers hope that this property will allow Erbitux to become the common denominator in many different chemotherapy regimens for numerous types of cancer.
The warning signs may differ depending on the profession, but one common denominator that affects executives, doctors, and construction workers alike is an overall decline in job performance, according to John C.
Such efforts will tend towards a lowest common denominator, which does not do justice to the complex richness of Europe and its changing interests.
" "If everybody starts from the same place and still manages to create a totally different world from everybody else, they have that as a common denominator.
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