As I describe in Convince with Simple Fonts, the scientists showed subjects a two-line description of an exercise program and asked how long they thought it would take to perform.
The biggest failure, though, has been in the attempt to convince banks, even those in which the government has a big stake, to lend to firms.
To even begin testing its Alzheimer's vaccine in humans, Elan will have to convince regulators in the U.S. and Europe that the new version is likely to be safe.
Euro-zone governments, in an effort to convince markets of their seriousness in getting their finances under control, agreed to tougher fiscal disciplines that they said would be policed vigorously by the Brussels-based commission.
United States of America, in trying to convince the attorneys that the administration is doing what it can to enforce international law in U.S. courts.
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The sequester scaremongers, by focusing attention on how our federal government is run, may in the end convince tax payers that we are paying too much for the limited services we get in return.
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The new legislation being prepared in Britain will convince people that the UK is no longer a "soft touch".
However, Prof Britton believes that seeing such a system in operation would convince those who might otherwise argue that such legislation would be unworkable.
With a debt pile worth 1.25trn yen, Sharp is under pressure by its creditors to streamline its business in order to convince its investors.
Yet, these higher standards are justifiably being required in order to convince regulators, physicians, payers and patients that a new drug is of high value.
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The extra time gives Pfizer Chief Executive Jeffrey Kindler breathing room in which to convince investors that his company can deliver new drugs to make up for patent losses.
The campaign was started in June to convince US billionaires to give away at least half of their fortunes either during their lifetimes or after their deaths.
That allows for the possibility authorities can flip the accused in order to convince him to testify against co-conspirators or bigger players like his former boss Cohen.
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He went on to accuse Equatorial Guinean officials of lying about statements obtained from suspected coup plotters in order to convince South African authorities to question Sir Mark.
While Norton-Knight has failed to convince in the number 10 shirt, Young admits that the Blues have been hampered by not having a settled team on the pitch.
One driver for CF patients has been the CF Foundation, which pioneered a novel approach of funding drug research directly in order to convince investors and drug companies to enter the field.
But maybe it needed just such a trio of converts in office to convince the country that, because of Kosovo, Germans had to go abroad to fight for the first time since 1945.
An el Watan article reported that US ambassador to Egypt Ann Paterson is meeting all political parties in Egypt to convince them to accept the coming legislative elections rushed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Weinstein says Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) has been packaging its longer-lasting anemia drug, Aranesp, with Neupogen, a treatment for cancer-related infections, in order to convince oncologists to prescribe it.
Last week, members of the Association of Flight Attendants handed out leaflets at large airports around the country, asking for the public's help in trying to convince Homeland Security and the TSA to change their minds.
It is just that I realize that I have not been commissioned by the guardians of the universe to yell it out from the rooftops and try to confront everyone in power to convince them of their errors.
In order to convince other nations not to go nuclear, this trend has to be reversed, argues Sidney Drell, a nuclear physicist who has been at the center of US nuclear policy for many years, now at Stanford University.
Not only does Japan need major policy overhaul to encourage more women to be more ambitious professionally, but there also needs to be a significant shift in mindset to convince women that they can and should strive for economic empowerment.
In the Chamber, term ended with the Prime Minister facing a long and gruelling interrogation over the hacking scandal - one which he survived pretty well, but which none the less signalled that it is still essential for senior ministers (and the Leader of the Opposition) to convince in the Chamber.
And Bradley turned around that argument in Concord to try to convince undecided voters to support him in Tuesday's primary.
They need that evidence to block U.S. enforcement of the expected multibillion-dollar pollution judgment in Ecuador, which is pretty much worthless to the plaintiffs unless they can convince courts in a country where Chevron has assets to seize them.
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We aim to give all our people the training in these fundamentals, and convince them of the role of digital in how people do their jobs on a daily basis.
Apple needs to be on the attack in this case, trying to convince a federal court jury in San Jose, Calif.
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In both studies, beliefs were enough to convince participants to act in a particular way.
The Irish joined the Big East in 1995 and the conference had always hoped it could convince them to join in football as well but it was not to be.
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