What always shocks me is how little organizational thought and evaluation goes into these decisions which can have economic consequence in the tens of millions of dollars and even greater organizational impact.
At specific issue were the conclusions of the TASC study which said that closing the B-2 line would have little consequence for the Nation's future ability to produce a stealthy long-range bomber.
Or could it have been the consequence of an inadvertent inventory mix-up or other lower-level action?
Banning boxing and other forms of violent entertainment like video games and movies could have the unintended consequence of increasing actual violence.
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But this time, that is likely to have the extra consequence of forcing him to abandon, or suspend, his debt rule for 2015.
To elucidate, an instruction to increase capital ratios yet more could have the opposite consequence desired by Sir Mervyn: it could encourage the banks to lend even less.
From mortgage-backed securities to municipal bonds, sovereign debt to collateralized debt obligations, ratings agencies have notoriously mispriced risk over the last decade, and nearly all of us have paid the consequence.
But the notion that somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point.
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She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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The Air Transport Association, the lobbying group for airlines, says a three-hour limit would have the unintended consequence of forcing airlines to cancel more flights, leaving people stranded in cities for perhaps several days until they can get a seat on another flight.
This essentially calls for a minimum tax on high-net worth individuals, similar to the one Warren Buffett proposed in his op-ed to the Times last weekend, but as Silver correctly points out, the implementation of such a minimum tax would have an unintended consequence.
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But when the company that makes a mistake enjoys a reputation for innovation and superb product quality like Apple, business strategists begin to wonder whether the mistake is just the result of poor judgment or a change in business priorities that may have far reaching consequence for the future of the company.
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New non-contributory pensions and social programmes, introduced with the best of intentions, have had the unintended consequence of dissuading workers from moving into the formal economy where they would have to join contributory schemes, as Mr Levy of the IDB points out.
And as a consequence you have 46 states around the country who have made a real difference.
Could a transaction tax have a similar unintended consequence for American banks?
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But the filing of the suit could have another, unintended consequence.
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Their rage would have been of little consequence but for the upheavals inside the traditional world of Islam resulting from the relentless pressures of globalization.
Methane is a greenhouse gas far stronger than carbon dioxide, so the consequence would have been a rapid warming of the climate a phenomenon that the rocks suggest did actually happen.
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As a consequence I have been putting things in on-line repositories and then emailing links to folks I want to get these items but I keep getting close to running out of (free) space to store this stuff.
This piece of legislation would have the hopefully unintended consequence of criminalizing a failure by a doctor and prosecuting a doctor for criminal behavior if he or she were somehow to fail to intuit the motivations of a patient in making a very private medical decision.
Much of his concern was based on the law creating requirements that welfare recipients would not be able to fulfill and, as a result, have its own unintended consequence of causing welfare recipients to lose the aid they depend upon to feed and house their families should it become impossible to comply with the law.
And as a consequence, they have been holed up in ways that have made it harder for them to operate.
They say it is the unfortunate but unintended consequence of what have otherwise been very successful efforts to improve air quality.
Women enjoy the same level of democracy and freedom that their male counterparts do, and as a consequence, they have the same responsibility.
We have saved lives as a consequence of our concerted actions.
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So as a consequence you only have to drive a little way to find a dark sky site and enjoy the splendour of the night sky.
And as a consequence, we have put billions of dollars into energy research and to help move in a direction of greater reliance on fuels that are homegrown.
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We should be training the young men and women who have been displaced as a consequence of Katrina to provide basic services like environmental cleanup and construction work.
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