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This is a show that needs to die and people should boycott watching this programme and force Channel Four to use the timeslot in a more productive manner!
However watching The Swordsman and then Gladiator Cop is an interesting exercise in picking up what you have seen already, what really belongs in the first film and why you aren't doing something more productive.
The years 1937-39 were extraordinarily productive ones for rising star Humphrey Bogart.
I kept thinking...who cares!! Do these people work?...are they productive?, or do they just wallow, wallow, wallow in self-centered pitiful auto-examination?
A wide exposure of this film would create a more productive and human conversation on the topic so we could collectively move forward as a society without such judgment and fear.
However, there are a great many of us (I am in the military) that do come back and lead extremely productive lives, just as we did before we left.
avoid it, run, go do something useful, even eating french fries would be more productive.
The elder son does eventually break free; it comes at a point where he is mature enough to discern that Sante's endless scheming guarantees that a productive life is impossible for anyone connected with her.
I am a mother, a wife, a friend, a businesswoman, a productive member of my community, and a woman who relies heavily on my faith.
None of this will be possible unless Afghanistan's young males are disarmed and given productive work.
Creative thinkers are most productive not when they are concentrating but when they are un -concentrating, when they are thinking not about the problem to be solved but about something else.
Building a stable foundation for future research also enables more productive public-private partnerships and stronger links between academia and domestic industry, thereby promoting economic growth.
It means accompanying patients along the full continuum of care, to ensure that they live long, healthy, and productive lives.
Technological convergence and the transfer of surplus labor to more productive tradable activities would continue, despite the advanced economies’ anemic growth.
With a carefully constructed system, this money could be put to even greater productive use.
The result is that the productive sectors of the economy do not succeed in "pulling" with them the ever greater mass of people who do not work.
This research shows that people of different races trust each other much less; whites are less willing to support welfare spending because it is perceived to favor minorities; more racially fragmented communities have less efficient governments, more corruption and patronage, more crime and fewer productive public goods per tax dollar.
A man must be perfectly crazy, who, where there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people...”A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.
A highly productive society based on a sophisticated division of labor was how you secured “the wealth of nations.”
If we want to increase society’s productive efficiency, people’s willingness to pay with money is a reasonable indicator of how much they will gain if they have access to the hearing.
They must find a way to channel the rising anger caused by economic inequality into productive investments that make the rich feel that they have a stake in ameliorating conditions for the poor.
Given that these are highly productive people who contribute heavily to the US economy, Trump’s approach could have dire economic, not to mention human, consequences.
It might even help to steer the bitter debates over migration and trafficking of drugs and firearms in a more productive direction.
But, in order to harness this demographic dividend, they must be given the skills and opportunities to become productive citizens.
Extensive research – from the work of Adam Smith to Robert Solow and Gary Becker and, most recently, Eric Hanushek – confirms the importance of learning in building productive human capital.
Indeed, in pursuing rapid industrialization, megacities have often been less successful than smaller cities – which have largely evaded such constraints – in accumulating productive capital, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), and demonstrating entrepreneurial spirit.
Often, these limits are not binding, but, once capital deepening is exhausted, technological progress, which makes inputs more productive in creating final value, is the long-run driver of growth.
But to restore the vitality of science, we need to look at the entire educational system: teachers from pre-school through high school, state and national standards, productive and educationally reinforcing assessments, teaching materials and educational technology, and progress in the neurosciences, cognitive psychology, developmental biology, and nutrition.
Our conversations were cordial and productive.
If members of the current generation are to become productive members of society, she noted, they must be trained in cultural and ethical understanding.
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