Sentences with phrase «new system they thought»

They created a new system they thought would work, and then broke it by letting the salary cap floor and salary cap rise to a height where not every team could afford it.
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Based on our experience, we initially thought this was due to a combination of two factors: a normal, temporary performance impact when upgrading the operating system as iPhone installs new software and updates apps, and minor bugs in the initial release which have since been fixed.
To move all the new freight through an increasingly congested systemthink of rush - hour traffic all day long — Union Pacific added 3,600 employees and purchased 260 new locomotives.
It's also a good time to think about American history — namely, the people who made the decision to break away from the Mother Country and found a new system.
But if you like the thought of taking classes, here are community college systems serving nearly 500,000 students nationwide that will teach the new curriculum starting this fall:
Fortune's Aaron Pressman has argued that undermining the public comment system would give a tactical edge to industry opponents of net neutrality, and that seems to be the thinking of the Trump FCC itself, which has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the fake comments by the New York Attorney General.
If we want to break past lackluster economic growth rates and make meaningful change in lives and livelihoods, we need to move beyond incremental innovation (think slightly - better iPhones) toward revolutionary innovation (think new energy systems, next - generation electronics, and cures for Cancer and Alzheimer's).
For instance, when Graff bought the patent on a new bed - support system, he thought he had a sleeper hit.
«We think employers are this country's best shot at innovating a new healthcare system,» says Townsend.
Since Help Scout is a help desk, it would be foolish to claim that I'm approaching this without a slight brush of bias, but I promise you my stance comes from experience; specifically, seeing new founders suggest to other new founders why they think a convoluted system of Gmail filters is «okay for now.»
This is a new planet in the tech solar system: I think you're going to have a company emerge that's really good at emotions that remains independent and provides a tool set or operating system for other companies to incorporate.»
But when you think about the tendency to follow systems or patterns, to replicate what is already organized or designed, it also stands to reason that this is the opposite of the tendency to stay fluid, to respond to new input or demands, to rearrange what has already been organized or designed.
And they are, but a new world that Windley thinks will solve some of the incentive problems that have made centralized systems better bets than decentralized systems in the past.
While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart money says that it'll probably be even more complex than our current system).
The exciting opportunity for startups is to skate to where the puck is going — by thinking beyond exploitative legacy business models that amount to embarrassing blackboxes whose CEOs dare not publicly admit what the systems really do — and come up with new ways of operating and monetizing services that don't rely on selling the lie that people don't care about privacy.
And the interaction of the new health care system with existing programs like the Veterans Administration also needs to be thought through.
If you think you may stay that long, compare payouts under the old and new system, and calculate how much you'd need to save in the TSP to make up the difference.
This will require a new mode of thinking, especially for those organizations with systems and processes set in stone.
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Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.
In order to get the alcohol out of his system so that he could think the whole thing through, Bill had himself admitted to Towne Hospital in New York City.
Influential as the old sacrificial system continued to be in Christian thinking, it was the prophetic tradition with reference to personal prayer that more powerfully affected the New Testament.
As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.
Apart from the sacrificial system, therefore, and commonly in positive aversion to it, prophetic thinking blazed a new trail into the experience of prayer.
The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
It is necessary to remember that such a paradigm shift does not occur overnight - paradigm shifts generally occur over a long period of time, with pockets of thought frequently unaffected by the new for a long period, and often with movement taking place back and forth between paradigms until the new paradigm becomes «settled» and existing social systems are reintegrated.
2 For an excellent survey of the history and basic concepts of systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row,systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row,Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).
One must ask the question as to whether these newer systems of thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man; theology - anthropology poles differently than did their conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.
Watching him live this double life of public man and poet, one wonders what Astrue — or Juster — is really thinking when he answers the biting questions of a reporter demanding to know why the new commissioner hasn't yet personally fixed the entire Social Security system.
It is important to think of the New Covenant, not as a new system of laws and regulations to keep, but instead as a Last Will & TestameNew Covenant, not as a new system of laws and regulations to keep, but instead as a Last Will & Testamenew system of laws and regulations to keep, but instead as a Last Will & Testament.
Gates's new book, The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System, cashes in on McLuhan's romantic, quasi-theological vision of humankind's power to overcome space and time.
Many former «Ossies» (former East Germans) resent the «Wessies» for thinking that they know better about everything, and many East German youth are contemptuous of their elders for supporting or tolerating the old system and not preparing them for the new.
Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.
Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.
The guilt, self doubt, and worry that plagued nearly every waking moment of my life for the past twenty five years, has been replaced with a new wonder, a sense of adventure, and a freedom that can only be had when one is no longer shackled to a belief system that threatens to punish you for every human thought, word, or deed.
Every new advance in successful prediction would become falsifying evidence with respect to the entire process system of thought.
I think he understood — and I wish there was more in the New Testament about this — that his attack was not just against a few immoral people but against a system that exploited others in the name of God.
The final chapter of this book gives Whitehead's reasons for thinking that social progress depends on a new educational system, one that will give equal importance to «appreciation of the concrete» and «facility with abstractions.
Unlike philosophy of religion and theology, however, the history of religions does not «indorse» any particular system offered by the diverse religions of the world, nor does it advocate, as many ultra-liberals think it ought, any new universal synthetic religion.
I am well aware that many think that Christianity's goal is to sign up new adherents to its religious system, and that may well be the case if we're talking about «religion».
Also by the same author, Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought (Gordon and Breach, 1972).
The company's innovative thinking also resulted in the development of a new stem cutter system for use in flower shops.
Without going into a complicated biology lesson (which I probably would not be prepared to teach), let's simply think of what our digestive system does for us: it breaks food down into smaller pieces so that our body can use this nourishment to build new cells and give us energy.
I was also privileged to break bread and talk food ethics with many of those I think of as the connectors in our food system — the butchers, providores, and chefs — such as Kate & Josh at Western Daughters butcher shop in Denver, Rachael of Brooklyn Bouillon, Jake of Dickson's Farmstand Meats, Ryan of Fleisher's Pasture - Raised Meats, and Dan Barber of Blue Hill in New York (whose book The Third Plate is a must read).
Can we instead think / talk about a new system or culture of playing that will replace the current one which clearly hasn't worked out for years.
I think players who integrated in our system is far more important than new unproven signing.
Ramsey is finally being used properly by wenger in his new system and I think he will kick on next season.
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And the fact that Leicester are struggling in the Premier League and that both Walcott and Alexis are outscoring him in the new Arsenal system, do you think Vardy might just be thinking he should have at least spoken to Wenger and not been so quick to snub a move to Arsenal?
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