When are you going to learn that it's wrong to force people to buy hundreds of channels they don't watch when they really only want a dozen or so?

WSJ: A Year Without Cable

So there is a cut-off height above which it makes no sense building, but hubris (esp. during a credit boom) makes people want to add a dozen floors too many, and credit booms also lead builders to underestimate the cost of capital tied up in those extra floors.

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The trouble is that the map has already run into criticism from both parties who, though they have accepted it in general, want to make a dozen amendments.

ECONOMIST: American diplomacy

If you're worried about your professional reputation if you "come out" as an addict, you might want to consider sending a group email to a dozen or so people you trust.

WSJ: My Secret to Getting Sober

What we like to do, when we think about which countries we want to be positioned in, is to look at about a dozen economic, financial and political variables.

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In over a dozen books she has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organised belief.

ECONOMIST: A history of Christianity

Folks in the dowdy world of academia have to be watertight with their research if they want their results to be credible, which is why typical studies into happiness will only target a few dozen people with lots of questions.

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