And this has multiple consequences -- not just in saving money, but it also has consequences in terms of reducing energy consumption, dealing with the environment, importation of foreign oil, et cetera.
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Big rewards for success are just as important as consequences for failure, and both increase pressure.
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It's also not just an issue of consequences for Israel if action is taken prematurely.
Mr. ROBERT GATES (Former CIA Director): I don't think that people contemplated just how serious the consequences would be.
They felt like if you're in a business, you make a bad decision, you ought to reap the consequences, just like any business would.
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The Asian punters' urge to throw what is left of their money to lady luck is just one of the unpredictable consequences of the region's financial crisis.
I'm all for reinventing government and reducing bureaucracy dramatically -- as Jindal calls for -- but part of "talking to Americans like adults" -- involves talking about the real costs and consequences, not just reframing the debate.
Its just an interesting example of unintended consequences and the importance of thoughtful evaluation in medicine.
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"The law cannot just apply without thinking of the consequences to the family, " Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong declared publicly.
For the rest, you must engage (avoidance just hardens positions and delays the consequences), and you must bring closure to the argument or conflict.
Environmentalists say giving up just another inch would have disastrous consequences.
It is also too early to say whether a single website will reverse decades of civic decline: meetup.com is only three years old and has just started charging, with unpredictable consequences.
These states are just beginning to face the internal consequences: serious inflation, major declines in their workers' standard of living, destruction of people's savings, bankruptcies of otherwise-solvent businesses and inflammation of political and ethnic tensions.
If it is possible for central banks to identify the build-up of financial imbalances in good time, then they can restrain those imbalances, rather than just waiting to offset the economic consequences of their unwinding.
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The consequences are huge, not just because the cost of fuel-saving technologies can be onerous.
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In troubled industries such as property, construction and retailing, giant bankruptcies are just around the corner, with nasty consequences for the banks.
Workers should also remember that there could be consequences to abandoning a job just because you lost free coffee or a transportation reimbursement.
President BUSH: You know, I guess I'm like any other, you know, political figure - everybody wants to be loved, just sometimes the decisions you make and the consequences don't enable you to be loved.
Unfortunately, these systems can just as quickly become a destructive force with devastating consequences.
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Just sometimes, the decisions you make and the consequences don't enable you to be loved.
But the consequences in terms of brand destruction are just as inexorable.
Ms. BEINECKE: And you want people to know that, that, you know, it's not only what's happening along the riverbanks and whether it's silt or deforestation, but also just changing temperatures are going to have long term consequences.
Just two small changes in them will have enormous beneficial consequences down the road.
"I would just hope the government keeps an eye on possible unintended consequences, " he says.
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