Sentences with phrase «myopic focus on»

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.

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.

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

According to Harper, change will only come if «clients to press harder for alternative fee arrangements, courts to back away from policies that embed the billable hour, law firm leaders to stop rewarding excessive associate hours and senior partners to consider the deleterious consequences of their myopic focus on short - term profit - maximizing behavior.»

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.

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

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.

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

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

The myopic focus on sensible tropospheric heat is understandable from a historic perspective since it was the easiest measurement to make, but that legacy does not serve is well for actually understanding the full energy flow and content of the climate system.

The myopic focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting attention and resources from our critical challenge of developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.

And, if we take this imagery to heart (drawing an imaginary line from those facing the Fiscal Cliff molehill to the edge of the climate fissure), Toles well captures how a myopic focus on the Fiscal Molehill is inhibiting discussion of and focus on climate issues.

Why the myopic focus on greenhouse gases?

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.

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.

Underlying the Big Data approach is a myopic focus on standardized test scores as the sole measure of student learning.

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

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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

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.

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I get what you're saying and in essence, I agree, the church seems to the world a myopic organism, focused less on the work of the church in Acts which provided real spiritual and physical care for the masses, and more on church culture and agenda.

Myopic / inward focused vision is probably the reason there are 30,000 sub-denominations of Christianity on the planet.

I don't think focusing on NHL data is myopic, since we are talking about NHL players who both played a large majority of games this season.

Focusing solely on the presidential campaigns is a bit myopic, and I'm sure most of these sites will branch out as more campaigns (House, Senate, governorships, etc.) heat up.

«[T] hese bills are myopic in their scope and focus only on one branch of government,» he said in his veto message.

The graphics look fine if you're focused on the character and the course, but pull back from the benevolently myopic camera angle and you'll see startlingly sparse backdrops that wouldn't look out of place in the PS2 era.

I know it's called Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but still, that kind of focus on the hero seems unnecessarily myopic, especially since his own exes, which dominant the periphery of the film, are basically dealt with by acknowledging that they exist.

He's loving, caring, thoughtful on certain days and then obsessed, critical, myopic most others, but through it all he's always passionate, intelligent, focused.

Rothstein's way out is to declare the study myopic, saying that it focuses exclusively on income, when other criteria, not examined in the study, are clearly the relevant factors.

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.

Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.

Furthermore, despite Duncan's letter, it appears that their myopic outlook focuses primarily on teaching and data again and not on a host of other serious issues confronting children in poor schools today.

Their myopic view is focused on the «parts», not the whole.

I think perhaps it is better to view my future in a myopic way, focusing on what I want to paint, steadfastly one work after another — this is my plan for the future.

There also seems to be a denialist's myopic tunnelvision focusing on the US observations without realizing that they comprise a small fraction of the * global * database of surface observations.

A myopic tropopsheric focus on «climate» sensitivity, especially on anything less than decadal average timeframes, simply does not make sound scientific sense.

1) The Myopic Reason: The adjective «legal» in the phrase «legal knowledge management» suggests we focus specifically on issues and practices within our own legal community (legal precedents, legal research, and so on).