Our mental and emotional muscles are now so well developed, and dealing with complexity so familiar, that decision making becomes habitual, automatic, and often, as in my own case and that of the golfer, unconscious.
But then, very quickly, we go back to feeling the same as before or, in my case, worse.
Or as is increasingly the case in my native UK, the insistence that the threat of climate change means we should all return to being medieval peasantry.
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In my case, as a portfolio manager of municipal bonds at TIAA-CREF, I get asked about investing.
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In that case, as I explained in my last post, I think the panel has always worked better when it was three judges than four, and I could see Jackson, Minaj, and Urban working out long term.
When I became opposition chief whip in 2001 the Fees Office informed me that I was now a paid office holder and I was deemed to live in London as my main home whether or not that was the case.
As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.
As soon as I got some money in rock, I invested it in case my career ends tomorrow.
As a hedge, I have 25% of my money in the FBALX fund in case the U.S. outperforms.
Hands off of my freedom or, as the majority of the Supreme Court wrote in the case of Griswold v.
Only sickle cell screening is mandated for all athletes by the NCAA. I have not heard a convincing rationale as to why, other than what I hear in my head, that the Lloyd case sparked action.
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Moreover, his horror stories display in more inflammatory language the same profound ignorance of how corporations operate, and of the constraints they face in participating in politics, as does the Citizens United dissent (see my initial post on the case).
And I am telling you that federal judges do not take bribes and I am telling you that I have never bribed anyone in my life and I sure as hell am not going to do it now on your case.
This step-by-step negotiation preparation process, though designed to help defense department agencies purchase everything from a gross of grenades to a dozen F-15s, is every bit as useful to the woman negotiating health care services for her family, extended family, friends, and, in my case, an impoverished ex-husband.
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And, because the strategic value propositions (or use cases) for a patent often changed as a company developed and competed with others, my approach was an iterative one that was re-visited regularly in case a decision that was appropriate at one time was no longer appropriate because of new information.
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