It hoped that by starting the ball rolling it would brand collective-action clauses as a sign of a good credit, rather than of weakness.
Perhaps the most interesting and refreshing finding is that most people feel motivated by a sense of responsibility and a good mood rather than some sort of reward.
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While politicians--especially the new administration--focus on rapidly rising health care costs, one rather important piece of good news is that hospital inpatient mortality rates are plummeting.
Then of course there's the game itself, a rather good one, featuring a pair of rivals that made the 2008 Super Bowl one of the best ever.
But rather than simply focusing on the bad, I prefer to emphasise the good, or rather the benefits of being active.
From everyone else's point of view, Australians have an annoying, almost arrogant habit of being rather good at most sports.
Whether jurisdictional integration serves the goal of good government rather depends.
Rather, it is a good recounting of how investors are dumping active mutual funds for cheaper passive strategies, partly over fees but also over a general feeling of discontent regarding performance.
One of the general principles of a neoliberal approach to providing goods is that it is better to give people cash to spend among private providers of a good rather than the government provide these goods themselves at a discount.
These findings would not have surprised Charles Darwin, who in addition to theorizing on evolution in The Origin of the Species, also developed the Facial Feedback Response Theory, which suggests that the act of smiling actually makes us feel better (rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good).
He said many of those who put themselves down at Christian did so because they thought of themselves "as a good person" rather than due to belief in the virgin birth, or of Jesus Christ as the son of God.
Their proposal, to pay farmers for being good stewards of the environment rather than just food producers, is shared in essentials by other groups.
And the young Ms. or Mr. Asia has a great appetite for the good things of this world rather than those of the next.
The BBC works for one rather good reason - it is a kind of independent corporation, but it is operating in a ferociously competitive market.
Women are much more likely than men to use their earnings for the good of the family, rather than spending it on alcohol or other things for themselves.
However, the point that the speakers made was that the company only saw this as good PR rather than a formal channel of support, and more so, a new attitude on reaching out to customers to support them.
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Defenders of the status quo may not have a good defense of the Fed, but they are rather effect in marginalizing critics.
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"I'm sure the governor is going to continue the battle of making the ethics in Albany so good that we become the model for the country rather than one of the laughing stocks in the country, " Mr. Bloomberg said.
In all, the Labour leader was in rather good form, deftly adapting her content instead of relying solely upon prepared material.
If it is possible for central banks to identify the build-up of financial imbalances in good time, then they can restrain those imbalances, rather than just waiting to offset the economic consequences of their unwinding.
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Another trend in the past few years has been the growth of jobs that demand good breeding rather than good exam results.
All of which I take as being rather good news myself.
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Also, they gave him good marks for keeping thorough records, but they saw the goal of his record keeping to be focused on substantiation of tax deductions rather than on getting good information to correct his business plan.
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He was selective in the bits of the Thatcherite agenda he chose to praise - specifically her vision of the "good society" rather than the "no such thing as society" comment - which might not reassure all on the right of his party.
Rather, the risk comes from the difficulty of finding good investments when the money from investors starts rolling in.
This post is more likely to make you cry rather than laugh, which is not good at this time of year.
Even before today's data was presented, however, some thought that getting Velcade in front of regulators sooner rather than later was a good idea.
Rarely did it come down to one superstar, but rather a group of players complementing each other and coming good when the team needed it the most.
At CNET, we've seen interest in the brand increase by over 800% in a year, based on our internal data, as it released a series of cheap Android phones that were actually rather good.
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