Yet the very fact that many big businesses seem so strategically like-minded a few months ahead of a legislative drop-dead day (literally) suggests a quieter brand of leadership, one wholly appropriate to the current exigent circumstance.
The number of diamond retailers in a metro are an indicator of the engagement market, and to gage how marriage-minded a city was we looked to the top metro markets as measured by wedding planning site TheKnot.com.
Layton and I used to climb Bald Man's Gap, the exact apex of the divide he taking care not to spill the glass of water clutched in between his hands, while I minded a rudimentary pinhole camera that I had fashioned from a shoe box.
His on-field presence was a shade too statistically minded for a certain kind of fan.
It was what it appeared to be: a centrist and establishment-minded president nominating a centrist and establishment-minded academic to an important diplomatic position where he would implement centrist and establishment-minded policy.
He got the campus built on the outskirts of a relative backwater port city (of 4.8 million) along the booming China coast and is pushing the school to establish a globally minded curriculum with a Western sort of academic openness.
But a key hiring challenge is finding such people who are socially-minded with a passion for economic development.
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At worst--and it is bad enough--it may make it harder to empanel a fair-minded jury in a capital case.
Amazon is violating the classic Harvard Business Review rule that smart companies are supposed to have a single-minded focus on a narrow marketplace.
" But Lord Longford said: "I am very sorry indeed that a high-minded man, a Christian socialist, like Jack Straw should have taken that decision.
Chui thinks BlackBerry's reputation as a business-minded phone played a role.
It keeps rolling as the antihero, studio production chief Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), murders a screenwriter he thinks is threatening him, endures a police investigation, defends his corporate turf, and takes us through the process that can transform even a tough-minded flop into a potential smash hit.
On some issues, they were viewed as like-minded, a pair of Scrooges concerned with deficits and more hesitant to embrace expensive programs.
On this point, I wouldn't have minded hearing a little fancy analysis.
We've got to be open-minded about a whole range of technologies.
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Lanier was technologically precocious, as well as artistically minded, a mixture of traits that his father tried to nurture by giving him books about Buckminster Fuller.
And it will give green minded customers a way to keep score and show the world what they are doing to live up to their sustainability values.
But a broad-minded Maasai businessman with a small restaurant took him in, off the open road.
Send money to these people and you can be sure that only a small portion will be frittered away soliciting you for more, and the bulk of what's left will be invested in a single-minded drive to find a definitive cure for juvenile diabetes.
In refusing, Mr Kasparov adopted a high-minded tone, complaining that a new chess autocrat was dumping a glorious tradition.
There are such high points as a voluptuous Gaston Lachaise nude, a tough-minded Cubist Max Weber, a raucous William Glackens, a lovely two-sided sheet of Thomas Sully watercolor sketches.
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The citizens of El Alto, a poor, sprawling city perched above La Paz, the capital, are engaged in a like-minded campaign to throw out a French water company, which they blame for high prices and for failing to supply water to hundreds of thousands of people.
Second, having a unified, single-minded governing body and a mass society that generally trusts and believes in the decisions of its government does have its unique advantages.
One need not agree with all of this book's musings or interpretations -- particularly the notion of nullification, whereby a group of like-minded people can declare a law null and void for them -- to appreciate its plea for a greater sensitivity on the part of our political establishment to those with unconventional beliefs.
MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.
With Sigourney Weaver as a high-minded biologist, Stephen Lang as a testosterone-pumped military leader, and Giovanni Ribisi as the cynical head of the corporate expedition.
LinkedIn provides an online directory of resumes, a chance to connect with like-minded individuals, and a platform to source and find careers.
But a single-minded focus on repeal could backfire as a Republican governing strategy.
And with a single-minded commitment to the printer market and a history of innovative, low-cost products, Lexmark looks well positioned to continue its growth.
Mr. Gingrich was recommended to West Georgia as a dynamic young academic "with a single-minded purpose in life: to become a fine teacher-scholar, " wrote Charles P.
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