Komsomolskaya Pravda is Russia's best-selling paper with an emphasis on news rather than analysis, but in its way it has provided a fresh insight by concentrating on the style of the campaign.

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As far as economics facts are concerned, a culture like ours places a lot of emphasis on knowing facts, especially concerning investment analysis.

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Some of these are quite different in kind from traditional data analysis, placing more emphasis on trajectories and speed of response than historical relationships.

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However, a National Taxpayer Advocate analysis found that the IRS measures place disproportionate emphasis on cycle time.

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Some classrooms follow a fairly strict applied behavioral analysis methodology, which tends to put a strong emphasis on one-on-one instruction, using rewards and punishments to spur learning and measuring incremental progress.

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Researchers at San Diego State University who conducted the analysis pointed to increasing cultural emphasis in the U.S. on materialism and status, which emphasize hedonic happiness, and decreasing attention to community and meaning in life, as possible explanations.

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