But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?
's trustees have done a good or even competent job defending their governance choices and the school's long-run best interests.
In the long run, the interests of consumers are not the same as those of producers.
Its shares soared after the French company, whose interests run to media and construction, said profits next year would be far better than expected.
The stars had better be aligned right for change, because such liberalization will run up against powerful interests and inertia.
"Imagine a new agreed Ireland... the unity of orange and green.... a fair society and an economy run democratically in the interests of all citizens, " he said.
The Treasury, along with governments of both stripes, believed that the old British Rail was run more in the interests of employees than of customers, and so was loth to stump up more money.
That will run into opposition from the interests that lobbied for the policy in the first place.
In the short run, it means parochial interests usually trump the greater good.
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Wherever they seek to change old-fashioned economic and fiscal structures, they will run into deeply entrenched special interests and social attitudes.
Many of these same folks also suggest -- whether in regard to proposed consumer protections in the health insurance industry, or proposed rules to prevent another financial crisis -- that these kinds of policies run counter to our economic interests.
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But it is not particularly true of his big opponents -- including the left-wing Democratic Party, which has its own scandals, its own selfish interests and, during the election campaign, its own evidence of the abuse of political power in the case of Italy's third-largest (and oldest) bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whose business was allegedly run and distorted in the interests of local Democratic Party politicians in that area.
In the marketplace, even in politics, we recognize that competing interests in the long run produce a more fit economy and better livings standards, challenges in equitable distribution of benefits notwithstanding.
Though Delepine often mocks the "troika of interests" that tried to run Global One, he's crafty about forging partnerships of his own.
By inking this deal, PokerStars is not only getting a powerful ally, it is also making a preemptive end-run around efforts from lawmakers or business interests to exclude offshore online poker companies that have operated in the U.S. in recent years from any regulated U.S. marketplace.
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Yoido Full Gospel Church's founder Cho Yong-gi, who has run the congregation since 1958, has family interests ranging from private universities to newspapers.
When engaged in a conflict, emotions run high and people generally defend their best interests, which often feels like an attack and perpetuates a rigidly antagonistic line of communication.
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It's true I run a multinational group but I have no business interests in India.
Many who have not been convicted of fraud have nevertheless run their business empires with scant regard for the interests of minority shareholders.
The government cites an e-mail sent by Mr Gates in July 1999 that showed a willingness to change Office applications to favour devices that run on Windows, even if that damaged the interests of customers who rely on the ubiquitous Palm Pilot.
How do you run a company with three businesses that sometimes have conflicting interests?
According to this view, narrow intense interests gain the upper hand in the long run over broad diffuse ones, and this tends to enlarge the state.
Texaco, and later Chevron, successfully argued that the case should instead be heard in Ecuador, which was then run by a government seen as friendly to American business interests.
But fuelled by their conflicting interests, they could not agree on how to run the poll, and so it did not take place.
He thinks the only antidote to hate radio is rival FM transmissions, run by locals who speak familiar dialects and cater to local interests, from farming to music.
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Petrobras, a state-controlled oil giant, and Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, are now being run more to suit government aims than in minority shareholders' interests, says Joseph Harper of Explorador Capital Management, a fund manager.
The Commission is governed by the National Lottery etc Act 1993, which gives it overriding duties to licence a National Lottery that ensures the National Lottery is run and promoted with all due propriety, and that the interests of every participant are protected.
The Lopezes control and run Meralco, the electricity distribution monopoly on Luzon island (other interests: the ABS-CBN broadcasting network, the country's largest, as well as toll expressways and water services).
Instead, Dow Jones is controlled by the Bancroft family, whose supervoting shares are supposed to ensure the firm is run like a public trust that forever puts journalism ahead of pecuniary interests.
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