Sentences with phrase «interests of a handful of people»

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Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Still, she sent the link to a handful of investors Social Capital had worked with, asking them to share it with companies that might be interested in having their businesses evaluated by software rather than people.

The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.

The Rate Mortgage Rate Lock Decision The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.

Only a handful of people close to Mr. Trump understood the depth of his interest in the presidency, and the earnestness with which he eyed the 2016 campaign.

Membership in all but a handful of congregations today is relatively casual, making few demands of persons who indicate interest in a congregation.

I have found this to be especially crucial when working from home (due to frequent grazing) and now having a mini person, simply because I am not always interested in making myself lunch and would rather eat another few handfuls of trail mix and a piece of toast than make a mess and wash dishes.

«We hope to have a handful of people outside each event to prompt those turning up to consider the conflicts of interest involved in attending events sponsored by a baby milk company.

Cody is able to hold an audience's interest simply by creating a situation and peopling it with a handful of vivid and appealing characters.

They have the first handful of issues or trade collection volumes out on the service for a lot of the books they have there and hoping that people will be interested enough to buy the next volumes once they've finished with the issues that the «unlimited» service has to offer.

He estimates one in five houses could have been declared uninhabitable, and only a handful of people were interested in buying them.

When it recycles the same half dozen Hollywood personalities and tries to market news about a handful of art dealers and collectors as fresh stuff, the art world is advertising the fact that it contains a couple of thousand not very interesting people who are awfully satisfied with themselves long after their celebrity shelf date has expired.

There is more of a move towards the Internet because you do have a little bit more freedom of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to pay a monthly price for that, it's most of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional services with the judicial pricing is fading out in favor of, and I think that that was another piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea of the subscription that subscription services on the Internet are also kind of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive on a regular basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all on subscription services, a very model of how we purchase these things is changing as well, and that's all due to the Internet.

For fear of looking like it's standing still, Samsung took a proven platform and refined it, keeping everything that made the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge so popular while adding a handful of big features that will keep people interested.

The Rate Mortgage Rate Lock Decision The decision to lock or float an interest rate can create a high - stress situation for many people — after all, few of us take out more than a handful of mortgages during our lifetimes.