Innovation flourishes in a benign environment of low taxes, a sensible judiciary and commonsense regulation.
TASS, points out that, except for 1994, the past few years have been a benign environment for hedge funds, many of which have made most of their profits from rising share prices.
Lower industry churn rates, in aggregate, highlight what we see as a more benign competitive environment across all carriers.
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It also called for a clampdown on what it called "harmful tax competition", where member states compete with each other to provide the most benign tax environment.
Priceline "took advantage of a pretty benign competitive environment" in Europe, but that is going to change, says Terrence Kontos, an analyst with Fred Alger Management in New York.
Chairman Sheila Bair told Congress in March that accounting rules don't permit banks to build reserves in a benign economic environment, forcing them to increase them when things turn bad.
If a benign geopolitical environment was the bedrock of the 19th-century empire, it was the catalogue of geopolitical disasters of 1940-42 that demolished the British world-system once and for all.
Their forecast is 3.5% growth in 2013 for the Brazilian economy, given the low base of comparison, more benign international environment and the lagged effects of monetary and fiscal stimuli on investment growth.
"We have found a habitable environment which is so benign and supportive of life that if you had been on the planet, the water would have been pure enough to drink, " said planetary scientist John Grotzinger, at the California Institute of Technology, who is the mission's project scientist.
And herbicide tolerance has made possible a shift to more benign herbicides and to environment-friendly no-till farming.
It has taken half a decade of denial and trial and error, but some of the world's largest banks seem to be close to figuring out how to make money in an environment of tighter rules, less benign markets and more demanding customers.
It was a benign, water-rich environment for a long period of time.
Most of these new varieties are designed to be resistant to pests and diseases, or to be resistant to herbicides, so that farmers can more effectively control weeds while adopting more environment-friendly no-till farming practices and more benign herbicides.
Like many concerned Americans, I'm susceptible to the Prius Fallacy: a belief that switching to an ostensibly more benign form of consumption turns consumption itself into a boon for the environment.
Favoritism can be fairly benign in some situations, but it can also be much more serious and develop into a hostile environment for others.
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