The Bank of Japan launched the experiment of quantitative easing (QE) on March 19, 2001.
Americans also know the great 401k experiment of the past 30 years has been a disaster.
And there was actually controversy, if I remember, about that experiment of sprinkling the nutrients on the sample.
First, Germany provides a natural experiment of Keynesian versus Non-Keynesian labor market policy.
Life itself is the most telling social science experiment of them all and we are its most thoroughly tested lab rats.
New York City has undergone a decadelong experiment of shutting down failing schools and replacing them, in some instances, with smaller schools.
In this regard, the new experiment of using popular literary classics to generate new audiences may well be a salutary step forward.
But as we learned in the disastrous HMO experiment of the 1990s, there is a fine line between managing care (a very good thing) and cost-cutting.
But perhaps its biggest experiment of all was taking a cute pop tune from the '60s called "Spanish Harlem" and asking a white British singer to perform it, with only a 1932 vintage guitar as backup.
The game launches on Thursday, and the participation of a major brand like the NFL here means this will be a closely watched experiment of how successful the online business model Quick Hit uses will be.
The first thirty years were years of experiment, of extreme hardship and of many failures.
The crucial change is that HHS is saying they can experiment instead of complying with the law.
The results of this experiment contradict four decades of crime-control orthodoxy.
Paterno promoted a "Grand Experiment" of doing it the correct way, of not falling prey to the cheap tricks and classroom shortcuts, and building a winning program of integrity.
Reformers have forgotten that the original idea behind charter schools was to empower groups of teachers to experiment with new ways of teaching and reaching out to students, often from within traditional public schools.
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There's a careful study of the Mariel boatlift, for example, which was a kind of natural experiment where a large number of Cuban immigrants were, if you will, dumped on the shores of Southern Florida all of a sudden in effort to try to find in the years after whether there was any negative effect on workers and black workers of this unexpected influx.
When the cost of the experiment is less than the cost of the business case they should cheer on the manager to go ahead and try it out.
The market's advantage is that it allows things to evolve in a very human way, through a process of constant experiment, involving the free choices of millions of people.
Directors at leading business schools recognize the desire of admissions teams to experiment with the components of the application, usually aiming to better understand the personality and potential of each applicant.
In the first two weeks of this two year experiment, over 57 of the apps were being used on a daily basis and many of the children were reciting and competing over their knowledge of the ABCs.
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The participants had to record themselves how many words they got each round and, at the end of the experiment, hand in a notebook of their achievements and take the corresponding amount of money out of an envelope.
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We are in the early years of a big experiment centered on using hundreds of millions of consumers and activists to pursue progressive social ends.
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In Milwaukee, the model city for vouchers, where a group of mainly poor black mothers convinced the city's Democratic establishment to experiment, supporters of school choice took over the local school board.
As New Orleans has just become the first major city to suspend a daily printed newspaper, the city has become somewhat of a social experiment in testing the relevance of print and the written word.
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Gazing at the picture whilst on my guided tour of the paper - part of my exciting experiment as the guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme - I couldn't help wondering what Bill, who died in 2007 at the age of 94, would make of the extraordinary transformation that has taken place since his death.
The details do not matter, except to say that this is precisely the sort of experiment that might be carried out in space, in order to eliminate the distorting effects of gravity.
Perhaps one of the most interesting critiques of Ireland's blogging experiment comes from one of its veteran technology and social Web researchers, who says the blogosphere came to reflect the very vices of the establishment it ought to have been eviscerating: "It's an incestuous little clique that doesn't like criticism from without, " he said, asking not to be named given the sensitivity of his position.
"This is kind of an experiment, " said Masayuki Kichikawa from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
Conversely, Google also sped up the presentation speed of its Maps products in another experiment, sacrificing quality of graphics for speed.
Some ways of setting the experiment up do reduce the number of preference reversals, but the basic finding seems to hold.
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