We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).
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Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
Competitors threw long spears at a distant post, each strike greeted with wild drumming, dancing and cheers from the crowd.
The result is that lower interest rates favor long term projects with distant cash flows, such as ships, office buildings, and housing.
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In his search for business ideas, Hughes (a computer-science graduate of Boston College, where I serve as dean of the management school) was bridging distant worlds long before he teamed up with biologists.
Distant planets have long orbits and therefore long wavelengths, and you cannot do the analysis properly until you have seen at least one orbit.
Their incentive to further the government's long-term cause is more distant.
Because light takes so long to reach the earth from distant galaxies, astronomers were able to study the value of alpha in light from the distant past.
Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
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In other words, their standard of living will always be tied to their wealthiest parent's current lifestyle, long after the divorce is a distant memory, pending their eventual emancipation (ranging from high school graduation to age 21, or beyond, depending on where you live).
Looming behind me was the Castello della Gherardesca, providing a long perspective in time to rival the distant views.
Instead of just searching local networks and familiar territory, creativity requires the system to scour distant corners, odd memories, long forgotten jokes.
At any rate, corporate governance has come a long way since the not-too-distant days when directors regarded all shareholders' questions as gross impertinence.
They have come a long way from the not-too-distant days when one of their biggest tasks was to deliver myriad production data to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on the last business day of each month.
In plain search Ask has long lost the battle to Google and Yahoo and is a distant fourth in search share with 4%.
The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
Yet the most provocative aspect of his vision, that avant-garde art could be a truly popular and collective experience, may be more distant than ever in the fragmentary multi-channel long-tail present.
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And fans of Davies since his early, autobiographical films "Distant Voices, " "Still Lives, " and "The Long Day Closes" will appreciate the inclusion of one of his favorite time-capsule gestures: a warm pub scene in which every patron, young and old, joins in singing popular tunes.
There may be no direct air services, only connecting flights through distant hub airports, and the only other way to get there may be a long drive.
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For a long time the Portuguese allowed Macau to decay slowly, reluctant to invest more than necessary in this distant outpost.
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