Sentences with phrase «myopic focus»

There's even a whole sub-category specifically about sex: The Act of Marriage, Intended for Pleasure, Celebration in the Bedroom... Many of these types of books have an almost myopic focus on a woman's obligation to have sex with her husband.

What James Franco is showing in «The Disaster Artist» is not so much that Wiseau was a misguided filmmaker, but that sometimes an individual's myopic focus in being true to only himself may not reward you with the outcome you expect.

One could reasonably argue there were TOO MANY publishers at the Bookfair when you think about the relatively small markets they cater to for literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as the often myopic focus on a single magazine, ignoring or discounting other ways they could serve their community while ensuring a sustainable future.

A trend that I and I think many others noticed about the reporting of Hurricane Irma, was a borderline myopic focus on the Continental United States.

«To safeguard our kids» future, we should be asking how we can prosper as we move beyond oil rather than adopting the banks» myopic focus on how to maximize the next quarter's profit margin.»

Yet they have a myopic focus on controlling the labor supply and its costs.

Conversely, audit committee members who come from professional backgrounds — former partners in CPA firms, investment managers, and securities analysts — may have a myopic focus or insufficient expertise in some broader financial areas that may become critical.

But a myopic focus on nutrients can still result in a very highly processed, chemical - filled meal that many parents choose to avoid.

Challenge Success believes that our increasingly competitive world has led to tremendous anxiety about our children's» futures and has resulted in a high pressure, myopic focus on grades, test scores and performance.

«Our default is the status quo, and we have a myopic focus on the here and now,» says Elke Weber, a psychological economist at Columbia University who studies why people engage in risky environmental behavior.

It also offers a window into the myopic focus that many men get lost in when it comes to their sexual behavior.

But there are many others dubious of what they see as the myopic focus of IES.

A myopic focus on chasing the MacGuffin is a recipe for Pyrrhic victory.

As Brenneman explains, the company's «myopic focus» on costs had led to perverse tactics: skimping on cabin air conditioning and flying more slowly to cut fuel use; removing high - revenue first - class seats to squeeze in more passengers; and eliminating corporate discounts even for the airline's top customers.

In response to the well - intentioned yet myopic focus on literacy and numeracy, your course offerings in art, drama, music, history, world languages, and the sciences were all too often set aside «to create more time for reading and math instruction.»

The myopic focus on improving test scores is jeopardizing a critical aspect of effective teaching: creating an engaging, happy classroom.

When you look at the visual provided here, it's easy to see that our myopic focus on student outcomes as the basis of accountability for No Child Left Behind set us on a tragic course destined to sink the U.S. education system.

and myopic focus on points rather than learning.

One of the great tragedies of the New Haven Public School system is the myopic focus on schools in the bottom tier.

States therefore have an opportunity to broaden NCLB's myopic focus on reading and math and on getting low - performing students to proficiency.

My students» myopic focus on money reflects the concerns many people have when deciding on a career path.

At the same time, the risks to the financial system are mounting as the myopic focus on monetary policy — including once heretical ideas like negative rates — pushes yield - starved investors into riskier assets like stocks and real estate, creating fears of destabilizing bubbles that could unleash brand new crises.

Yes, there are tax differences between interest income, dividends, and capital gains (there are use - of - accounts strategies to handle these differences), but a myopic focus on income is unlikely to maximize overall real returns.

There are so many factors affecting climate... global and regional... that the myopic focus on CO2 is without question the greatest single folly of science and economics to strike our civilization.

The myopic focus on sensible tropospheric heat as a proxy for AGW has proven its severe shortcomings.

Another key example is many climate advocates rigid, myopic focus on putting a price on carbon.

Please stop the myopic focus on one thing (Al Gore and Cap and Trade) and get mad about the WHOLE thing.

The problem is the myopic focus on just CO2 and GHG concentrations as the total answer to the understanding of weather and climate forecasting.

In a speech to Wall Street analysts this morning, the Nuclear Energy Institute's president, Maria Korsnick, warned against «a myopic focus on short - term prices «and criticized efforts «that advance renewables while closing nuclear plants» — strong language for an industry that is frequently taciturn to a fault.

2) I can't help wishing he had also responded to the economic case for moving beyond a myopic focus on specific ROI.

I completely agree with you about our insane funding of the military, and our myopic focus on Middle East wars.

In this provocative post, Cartier Liebel contends that the myopic focus on rankings deters law schools from offering meaningful training or support to lawyers who seek to start their own law firms, either directly out of law school or shortly thereafter.

This kind of client has a myopic focus of what goals should be met, and has few qualms about what must be done to meet those goals.

The DOJ's myopic focus on backdooring phones at the expense of the devices» security is especially concerning in light of reports that...

If you currently have a myopic focus on graduate schemes then this chapter could be really valuable in opening your eyes to opportunities that you might otherwise have missed.

As a result, it is easy to become complacent at our own peril due to a myopic focus on the relative stability of our asset class.