So by this line of reasoning, the only way the US can lead is by negative example - which the world in its wisdom will reject.
Managers can still choose when they release negative information, for example, to depress the stock price before they get a new slug of shares.
On a broader level, reputations of individuals and companies have been unfairly damaged by anonymous comments and posts on the Internet, so that, for example, phony negative claims about a company show high up on search results.
Washington (CNN) - Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) said Tuesday that Time-Warner Cable's retransmission dispute with Disney-ABC is a prime example of the negative effect the concentrated power of media conglomerates can have on the average American.
The headline number for the CPI, for example, has been negative for the past three months.
Vornado, for example, had a negative vote on compensation in 2011 and very significant majorities supporting majority votes for directors and the declassification of the board in 2012.
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"There are still negative stereotypes about hawkers, for example that they are less well-educated, " says Hazel Tan, a Nanyang Technological University student who is behind Youth Hawkerprise, a campaign to encourage young people to join the hawker trade.
One example is a device for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, which was added by CMS to the competitive bidding list as a new category.
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The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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The negative consequences of risky behaviors -- for example, getting sexually transmitted diseases or becoming pregnant -- should make teenagers wary of taking unnecessary risks.
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For example, the high-debt, negative-growth year of 1951 in New Zealand was key to the original paper's finding.
For example, we make short-term borrowings at negative rates, and that is going to continue.
He added that he thought the country sometimes had a "very negative view of the opportunities of the modern world, for example of globalisation".
And what we're finding now is that a growing number of foreclosures are not the result of people not being able to afford their monthly mortgage payment, for example, but it's because they have negative equity.
For example, I think many investors may be underestimating the negative impact that the expired social security tax holiday could have on consumer spending.
For example, Moody's - which has a "negative outlook" on the UK's credit rating - recently said that what mattered was that the UK's "debt metrics" should "stabilise within the next 3-4 years".
For example, the third year of a presidential term never goes massively negative.
Greg Sterling, a search market analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence, says that's an example of how Google's "Don't be evil" motto has become an invitation to negative press, regardless of how it behaves compared with its competitors.
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