Sentences with phrase «powerful incentives of»

Consumption is one of the most powerful incentives of all.

Many pastors from Smith's day down to our own time have questioned this conviction that the powerful incentive of self - interest is a servant of the public good.

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SHARE options are a common part of high - level remuneration packages intended to be powerful incentives for company executives - but they can quickly go «underwater» when markets tumble.

In the face of rising nationalism and authoritarianism worldwide, it is in America's best interest to maintain the rules - based free trade system that creates a powerful incentive for peace.

Improving the lives of others is a powerful motivator and far more likely to coax success than merely pure financial incentives.

With employees» assuming more and more of the responsibility to save for their retirement, offering a retirement benefit is a powerful incentive that will help you retain and attract current and prospective employees.

Consumer and activist responses to bad corporate behavior are some of the most powerful incentives for corporations to try to institutionalize good behavior.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Leo Strine of Chancery Court gave companies a powerful incentive to build both independent board review and minority shareholder approval into the going - private process, writing new law that should boost shareholder protections.

Not only are these corporate forms a powerful tool in the fight against inequality, but there is evidence that they provide the incentives for greater effort, more cooperation, more innovation and more sharing — all of which contribute to improvements in workplace performance and company productivity.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

They were 6.5 % during the height of the dot - com bubble, which is a powerful incentive to be in cash.

Suzanne Fogel, Chair of the Marketing Department at DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business, questions how powerful money - driven incentives are for this younger generation.

That creates a powerful incentive for firms to come forward with evidence of ethics breaches that might otherwise go unnoticed and unpunished.

By financing desalination plants, the U.S. could also greatly decrease the tensions in the area, turn barren land into rich farmland, some of which could be used for resettling those in refugee camps, and encourage economic cooperation between Israel and Palestine that would provide a powerful incentive for peace.

The argument for a system in which some people get very rich has always been that the lure of wealth provides powerful incentives.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

But, knowing our natural fear of death, those who invented and developed the religions added this in as a powerful incentive for belief.

Narrow self - interest, though a powerful incentive for the production of material wealth, does not cement communities.

The lack of a powerful incentive like Durant Rule eligibility may have cost Indiana and the Jazz their homegrown All - Stars.

The stark fact that complicates incentive studies like Fryer's is that for children who grow up in difficult circumstances, there already exists a powerful set of material incentives to get a good education.

It is true that the UK government could change its funding formulas in the future to ensure Scotland gets a smaller dividend, but I suspect the threat of independence is quite a powerful incentive against that happening.

The promise of cash, access to the rest of the Europe and - perhaps most importantly - legitimacy and good standing as a modern state - is a powerful incentive to want to join.

With that understanding, a new negotiating strategy can be employed — one that should allow the North Korean regime to see a way of surviving without nuclear weapons, and that should be backed up by more powerful economic incentives and disincentives than before.

DeFrancisco, who expects to retain his powerful seat as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, expects the IDC and GOP to have a real incentive to make this work.

«the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.»

But, the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.

Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant, said the possibility that some of those jobs would go to members of that politically powerful union offered another incentive for the mayor to support the bill, beyond the appeal to religious communities.

The case presented by Next Wave illustrates the powerful incentives that work to undermine the practice of sharing in science.

They focused their search on expression levels of two sets of genes, those that remained largely unchanged across all four species, suggesting that there was little room — or need — for improvement, and those that changed most dramatically, usually in the human lineage — an indication of powerful incentives to adapt to a changing environment.

That move, combined with NCLB's mandatory cascade of sanctions, created a powerful incentive for schools to pay close attention to students below proficiency.

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

Once again, school districts, private firms, and even states face powerful incentives (as with «proficiency» under NCLB) to set their standards at levels that lots of young people will meet, whether or not that has anything to do with «mastery.»

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

The nearly vertical slope of the pension - wealth accrual curves leading up to age 50 shows the powerful «pull» incentives in these plans, which encourage educators to stay in their jobs.

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

But also, the evidence of current student work and its improvement shared among the staff became a powerful incentive for teachers to continue to improve their practice.

Preferred activities provide immediate and, therefore powerful, incentives for work - completion within the context of mastery, high standards, and enjoyment.

Proponents of test - based promotion argue that the threat of retention provides a powerful incentive for educators to help students become strong readers by 3rd grade, and that students who fall short could stand to benefit from an additional year of schooling.

In fact, they are designed to give schools powerful incentives to reach an agreement with OCR — or better still, pressure schools not yet the target of a complaint to follow every element of OCR's lengthy guidance documents.

Instead of encouraging teachers to create their own unique but unproven teaching styles, teacher education programs will now have powerful incentives to equip teachers with proven teaching methodologies.

Because dissatisfied parents can leave and take their money with them, schools of choice have a powerful incentive to meet their needs.

Incentives exist for political leaders to implement policies that disperse costs widely over large groups of people and benefit small, and politically powerful groups of people.

There is an assumption that handing tax funded Education Savings Accounts over to parents will transform them into discerning consumers and thereby «providers will have powerful incentives to compete on the basis of both quality and cost.»

«In and of itself, beyond the mechanistic accountability, it's a powerful incentive to not be super-aggressive and not be super-skeptical when there are dramatic leaps,» Hendrie continued.

In particular, the evidence seems to point in the direction of requiring schools to give a test tied to the state curriculum, requiring a great deal of paperwork, and only making low - income students from the lowest performing school eligible represents creates a powerful incentive for schools not to participate.

Open enrollment has had an immediate benefit to California's parents in poor schools, both because individually parents have been able to get their children out of poor schools, and also because the mere ability of parents to remove their students from poor schools provides a powerful incentive for school management to try harder to improve.

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Incentives and the introduction of a more powerful six - cylinder engine made the Sunbird more attractive, Laethem said.

The prospect of low interest rates may be powerful incentive to refinance, but before you make a commitment to a shortened loan term, ask yourself the following questions:

Today's low mortgage rates provide powerful incentive to proceed with refinancing your home, but undertaking the expense without a clear understanding of your goals and circumstances may negatively impact your finances instead of improving them.