But they need to understand that this shallow behavior imposes very high costs in terms of foregone growth.

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The CDC wants to gain better data with the new code to understand the prevalence of this behavior.

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This behavior has allowed publishers to understand the types of content their readers appreciate most and is poised to help those publishers negotiate more meaningful relationships with relevant advertisers.

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This is a fascinating point to understand about human behavior, and it sheds light on the actions of investors who ride the markets to the bottom.

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An unintended consequence of this thriftiness is that economists are not equipped to understand the behavior of highly-indebted people.

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This behavior is too complex in most cases to understand solely through the prism of split-second decisions consumers make online.

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The sub-prime crisis constitutes the most glaring example of this schizophrenic behavior, and our collective inability to understand or refrain it.

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