For most of my career in the public relations business I have often felt that occasional, unintended negative publicity in the midst of an ongoing positive campaign can have a neutral to positive effect on an organization.
McQuaid is an internationally acclaimed positive psychologist and an expert in workplace interventions.
Another semiconductor chip company that looks quite positive from an intermediate-term perspective is Semtech Corporation ( SMTC).
When March retail sales numbers beat expectations the markets took it as a big positive, an indicator of improved consumer spending.
So long as the feedback is positive (an important qualification), the result is a virtuous cycle of increasing returns for the idea.
The opposition has, in comparison with the existing system of government, one enormous positive: an opposition, at least, cannot put anyone in prison.
All 294 children already enrolled in special education or on the disability registry were considered to have tested positive for an autism spectrum disorder.
In 1997, before he was charged, authorities in the western New York city of Jamestown took the unusual step of announcing publicly that Williams was HIV positive in an effort to stem further spread of the virus by Williams' partners to others.
No doubt many more Americans were employed in shuttling Americans like Kennedy back and forth from Hollywood way back when, but far from an economic positive, this waste of labor was an economic weight thankfully erased eventually by airplanes.
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That is a positive development from an intermediate term standpoint, as it shows the bulls are using dips as buying opportunities, and positive trend is underway.
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The Manchester United deal, announced around the same time as these disruptive pronouncements, was supposed to provide an innovative, positive way forward partly as an alternative to the bridges that Ewanick simultaneously was burning.
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In recessions, they have generally been a good bet, delivering an average positive return of 10.4% while equities have delivered an average negative return of 15.3%.
We also must treat this positive step as an initial accomplishment, not a final one.
It is a positive sign for an economy that has long been dependent on manufacturing goods like cars and ships for global markets.
Imagine the positive change that an education voucher program could make.
In fact, the declining populations in Europe, Japan and other developed countries are one of the few positive signs in an otherwise bleak planetary future.
Once a location manager has had a positive experience with an owner, offers from other managers often follow, and a property can find itself in demand.
Brain plasticity, the field that Merzenich helped pioneer, is now one of the hottest areas in medicine, one with hugely positive implications for an aging society.
Though the responses were diverse, the most commonly cited positive influences were an anticipated resolution on 2011 taxes, an improving employment outlook, and higher corporate profits.
"Asking smart questions is a positive quality in an employee, " says Holly Stroupe, a Bank of America human resources consultant who was hired full time after her own internship.
According to the report, 85% of people said they had more positive experiences on an average day, such as pride and enjoyment, than negatives ones such as pain or boredom.
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Facebook managed to generate this positive news in an earnings quarter that has been tough on companies across the board, but particularly on technology companies like Google, Intel and IBM.
Based upon data from the paper, the cooling climate impact from the decrease in the average global cloud height more than offset the positive forcing from an increase in greenhouse gases from human activities in the last decade.
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Sonoco Products seems to have caught investors going the wrong way on Friday: many apparently thought it would offer positive news in an investor presentation, but instead it reduced its outlook and announced plant closures and job cuts.
He wants to pass a bill that would make it illegal to fire someone because of his or her sexuality, increase funding for services for those who are HIV-positive and change an immigration rule that currently bans entry to anyone with HIV.
But he is gratified by the fact that I think half the House Democratic caucus and substantially more than half of the Senate Democratic caucus thought that this was a significantly positive compromise and an essential one, because we needed to avert this catastrophe and we needed to get some deficit reduction.
There is an enormous positive internal effect: Lutz plants a flag at GM for all of the product people to rally behind and creates an aura of victory to come.
Next, it is critical to communicate company cloud policies and strategies clearly and concisely, with an emphasis on the positive benefits that public cloud services used within an IT governance model can bring to the organization.
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Copper futures broke into positive territory after touching an 18-month low in early trade.
But in my view the increase in freedom for everyone else is an overwhelmingly positive development.
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