Any politician is better judged by past behavior and ideological tendencies than campaign season rhetoric.
Unfortunately, the Bush Administration's past behavior will probably complicate any effort to persuade the Soviets on this point.
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"I would do anything to make sure Mark Sanford doesn't get back in because of his past behavior, " she said.
"Any kind of confession is such a radical departure from Lance's past behavior, " added Mr. Papp, who became an antidoping advocate.
As they say, past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior.
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In the first case, the best, most reliable indicator of how an investor will behave (for instance, in volatile markets) is his past behavior.
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Display ads are generally targeted towards users based on their current context (contextual targeting), past behavior (behavioral targeting), or a combination of the two.
We were amazed you could not only collect, search and analyze past behavior, but you could now have some insight into what people would do next.
Listen for stories about how they handled past breakups, heed any warnings from their friends or relatives, and look out for any past behavior that was criminal or otherwise shady.
Past behavior shows a pattern of threats followed by diplomatic "charm offensives" designed to ease tensions and reap diplomatic gains in an environment of general relief that the situation has calmed down.
Now sober, spiritual and devoted to helping others with addictions, Yetnikoff sounds some guilty notes about his past behavior, but he also revels in his accounts of it, which makes this confessional oddly two-faced.
Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.
Hughes noted that Bush has admitted to past irresponsible behavior which he does not consider a good example to set for children.
The District Court noted that civil contempt is meant to coercive future activity, as opposed to criminal contempt which seeks to punish past bad behavior.
Similarly, when I do a Google search I know that Google is now using my past search behavior, my online presence and connections, and relevant algorithms to serve up information that is personalized for me.
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In future updates to delta.com, customers will see additional service improvements which will include more robust customer alerts, improvements to flight search results, enhanced information displays and greater personalization based on their past travel behavior.
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Also, Larkin believes that awards are more effective when they recognize good behavior in the past, rather than behavior going forward.
So while Wilson's example may be garnering greater media attention than troubles past, his behavior, and the insurance implication it carries, is nothing new.
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As for trends, the data showed that while punishment for irresponsible behavior has increased over the past three decades, the reward for responsible behavior has decreased.
More scrutiny has become the norm in Russian mergers and acquisitions, because no one wants to buy a company that is later fingered for having bad behavior the past.
The winners will be the ones providing compelling, relevant offers, those that analyze and integrate data to create a completely unique customer experience based on location, past purchase history and behavior analytics.
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He also warned in periods when deleveraging is a powerful factor, history can often repeat itself by means of another decline in stock prices that is not necessarily expected by investors who are not aware of past patterns of economic behavior.
One way, clearly, would be to make the relevant environment feel safer psychologically, for example, by encouraging dialogue, by physically de-ranking, by insisting on rank-blindness, by relating past accounts of courageous behavior in face of opposition, by welcoming "donkey questions", or questions that those doing the asking should probably know the answer to, and generally by helping team members see the merit of abandon.
In my view, investor behavior over the past several years was dominated by short holding periods and trading actions triggered more by near-term concerns rather than long-term prospects.
The news that US video game sales collapsed by 21% in December only complements a series of remarkable snapshots of how rapidly US consumer behavior changed this past Christmas.
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The key to getting people past their discomfort to actual behavior change is persistence: a behavioral change initiative will fail if it is no longer a priority six months later.
However, it is strongly engrained in the German culture to avoid this type of inflationary behavior due to horrible past experiences.
"It's not the violence per se that's the problem, it's the context and goals of the violence, " said Olson, citing past research on TV violence and behavior.
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