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Pyramid in sentence

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The pyramid rests above the city and nobody on the ground understands what it is or why it's there.
Well, the only comic thing I find about all that is that luck (because the way you look is destiny) can put a bad actor on top of the pyramid.
Moises cannot believe that he is not royal and stays angry with Miriam, but stays in doubt after some while, and reading the walls of the pyramid, he discovers the true: that he has Jew blood and was adopted.
Then there are some "civilized" natives, with a huge society of nobles, serfs, slaves and sacrificial victims who get their hearts torn out and heads chopped off on top of a pyramid, for the appeasement of their gods and for the sake of controlling and entertaining the "citizens."
The difference is that customers at the bottom of the pyramid have few banking alternatives.
The Known Knowns of Climate ChangePOTSDAM – The philosopher Daniel Dennett once compared science to the construction of a huge pyramid.
More recent research is piled toward the top of the pyramid, where most public debate takes place.
But let us step back from the news cycle to look at the solid knowledge base of our pyramid.
The details near the top of the knowledge pyramid can and should be intensely debated.
Today, the world’s largest socioeconomic group, often referred to as the “bottom of the pyramid,” comprises three billion people who live on less than $2.50 per day.
Other states tend to resist bids by any Asian power – be it Japan, China or India – to rise to the top of the pyramid.
And while policymakers tell themselves that high stock prices and exports will boost average incomes, the fact is that most of the gains have already been captured by those at the very top of the pyramid.
These groups have shown their powers when, following the crash of the MMM pyramid, the Ministry of Finance proposed to regulate the Russian securities market through the notoriously corrupt Tax Inspectorate.
But, despite all these benefits, politicians are generally unwilling to accept that money can be earned honestly from those at the bottom of the income pyramid.
There is money to be made at the bottom of the income pyramid, and businesses can do immense good while making that money by giving the poor choices that they have never had.
Increasingly, producers are focusing on people who, if not at the bottom of the income pyramid, comprise the vast numbers nearer the base.
Moreover, the rich countries can expect a massive expansion in the proportion of elderly people in their populations, owing to increased longevity, continued low fertility, and the progression of baby-boom cohorts through the population pyramid.
“Think of an inverted pyramid,” writes investment banker Charles Morris.
“The more claims are piled on top of real output, the more wobbly the pyramid becomes.”
When the pyramid starts crumbling, government – that is, taxpayers – must step in to refinance the banking system, revive mortgage markets, and prevent economic collapse.
Under communism, significant efforts were made to assimilate Roma; they were given jobs, albeit at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and were assured housing.
They were asked to admire the top of the income pyramid, only to find that they were looking at a pyramid scheme.
While the high-tech sector at the top of the economic pyramid is important, the traditional sectors at the bottom still form the foundation.
On the contrary, psychological studies invariably show that people care not only about their absolute income, but also about where they stand in the social pyramid and whether their position is fair.
Russian and foreign investors alike were duped by the Kremlin's debt pyramid schemes.
Management in a wide range of organizations is changing in the direction of “shared leadership,” and “distributed leadership,” with leaders in the center of a circle rather than atop a pyramid.
This is a method of economic reasoning that is calculated to appeal to those at the top of the income pyramid.
In the advanced economies at the core of the recent financial crisis, the rules, implicit or explicit, of strict inflation-targeting regimes led monetary authorities to stay put while a massive pyramid of debt was built on a base of overvalued collateral.
We have been accustomed to societies with a demographic structure that resembles a pyramid – a broad youth base tapering to an elderly tip.
This happens when a “very greedy chief executive…designs a pyramid so that a whole bunch of other people down the line get overpaid… just so it doesn’t look like he’s all by himself, in terms of that fantastic pay-off he’s arranged for himself.”
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