Why would pragmatic, hard-charging, achievement-driven leaders pause in order to accelerate performance and growth?

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Pragmatic Poland prefers hard numbers to nice words.

ECONOMIST: Polish foreign policy

Yet for all the sonorous beauty of much early American writing on the subject, religious liberty too should be seen as something pragmatic a hard-nosed solution to the problem of stitching together a country out of 13 colonies with diverse populations and different religious arrangements.

ECONOMIST: Religion in America

Putting ethical and pragmatic reasons aside, it's hard to justify not caring.

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"Our membership has arisen and has been maintained because of a hard-headed, calculated and pragmatic decision by successive governments, including successive leaders of the Conservative Party, " he said.

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It is often said that there are two Republican parties: the congressional one in Washington, which is ideological, hard-edged and divisive, and the state Republicans (especially the governors), who are pragmatic, non-ideological, focused on social issues and willing to work with anyone to get things done.

ECONOMIST: Out of the dark, Republican glimmers

It has been hard to say because this government, like its predecessor in its more coherent moments, has taken a pragmatic position.

ECONOMIST: Dramatically unchanged