Business schools, Mr Zingales says, are ideally positioned to point out when an action that provides a benefit for an individual comes at a cost to society, but in reality they rarely bother.
As has been the case for the last 150 years, Americans have always responded well in a crisis and yet again, we are well positioned to lead the world out of this one.
If you come out on balance, well positioned for the next turn, you can start to establish a rhythm.
Milena glanced at Aron, straightened her shoulders, removed her Versace sunglasses, shook out her hair, and positioned the glasses on top of her head.
"We came out of our convention much better positioned than we went in, " said Kevin Madden, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign.
The good news is, you can take the cautionary tales of the stock game, the mortgage game and the real estate game and figure out how you want to be positioned when the inevitable boom-bust-hatred cycle shifts into high gear.
As a number of people have pointed out, Cyprus is arguably better positioned than Iceland to do an Iceland, because devaluing a reintroduced Cypriot currency could bring in a lot of tourism.
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However, Google is the best positioned company to displace Microsoft on all those tablets out there with its Chrome apps, and it still is a competitor with the potential for long-term value creation.
From its beginning, Pittman positioned MTV to be different from any other traditional network out there.
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Excel Venture Management has strategically positioned itself to help bring new game-changing technologies out of academia and introduce them to the marketplace.
That move left the Times supremely well positioned for the coming of the internet, which wiped out the geographic limitations that allowed metro papers to enjoy near-monopoly power within their home markets.
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Whereas the Note 10.1 positioned its speakers on the front face (read: out of the way of consumers' hands), the Note 8.0's smaller size and portrait orientation mean users will have to be mindful about not covering the lower speaker when watching video in landscape.
But when the media positioned their cameras on tripods in that room, they crowded him out.
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But at many companies, the slashing is indiscriminate, getting the business out of its current jam while leaving it ill-positioned when the market improves.
He lofted an effort towards goal with the Mexico keeper stranded out of position, but Francisco Javier Rodriguez was perfectly positioned on the line to clear the danger.
It also offers plenty of opportunities to bone up on your knowledge of wickets (the three upright sticks the bowler has to hit with the ball to dismiss the batsman), googlies (unpredictably spinning balls), slip-fielding positions (fielders positioned close to the batsman) and ducks (batsmen that get out without scoring).
As we look out to fiscal 2013, we feel the company is strategically well positioned to grow value for shareholders.
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Then when the Republican wing of the Republocrat Party freezes him out of its privileged slot on the ballot, he will be positioned to pivot into a third-candidate run against both heads of the two-headed Republocrat beast of prey.
With one week left before classes let out for a month, as I was leaving school one day, Agum positioned herself in front of me and said something.
Figure out where you fall on this scale, as well as where your team members are positioned.
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"Alcohol was frequently positioned as a marker of the weekend, and a hangover as a marker of a good night out, " said lead researcher Professor Norma Daykin.
Aware of the fact that he cannot speak directly to his players while they are out in the middle, he issues instructions by walkie-talkie to his backroom staff positioned behind the boundary.
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