What is immediately clear is that the MAFF has over-reaching agenda, or goal: raising food self-sufficiency.
When researchers tried to lift the grades of struggling college students by raising their self-esteem, the students' grades got worse, according to a 2007 study of 86 students published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
Dawes's husband Damian, who is self-employed, admits the pressures of raising a large family on a single income can be stressful.
The area houses numerous military facilities, including the Jamraya research centre, designated by Syria as a scientific research centre "in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence".
The Syrian army statement said the Jamraya centre - which was focused on "raising our level of resistance and self-defence" - was damaged in the attack, and specifically denied reports that an arms convoy had been hit.
Professor Taniuchi says plainly that the idea of simply raising taxes to fund ever-increasing expenditures is self-defeating, sapping initiative of Japanese workers while pushing companies to relocate production and jobs overseas, causing growth and revenues to slow further.
Specifically, women keep raising the issue of how men are more focused on self-promotion than women.
Given these realities, raising already high income taxes has to qualify as somewhat self-destructive over the long run.
Raising fees on small-ticket debit purchases could hurt self-service kiosks, such as DVD rental kiosks, which "benefit from debit-card acceptance, " Mr. McCrohan wrote.
Once the top rate of capital-gains tax is cut to 20%, this discrepancy widens, raising the incentive for people, particularly business owners and the self-employed, to disguise their income as capital gains.
It is not so much raising skill levels as nurturing in Japanese students entrepreneurial attitudes and greater self-confidence.
The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
Nevertheless, from self-help to sport to business, few people dispute the power of goals in raising performance.
It promotes self-regulation by the media, and the development of ethical codes of practice as well as awareness raising about issues of media accountability among the public.
Thanks to Shift Your Shopping and a number of other national and local initiatives aimed at raising consumer awareness to shop at independent retailers, those surveyed by national nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) outperformed the industry, reporting an average increase in holiday sales of 6.7% in 2011.
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