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A country with higher GDP generally has lower child mortality rates, higher life expectancy, better education, more democracy, less corruption, greater life satisfaction, and often a cleaner environment.
And, because people derive satisfaction from behaving in accordance with the ideal, they behave not just to acquire, but also to become.
Here, despite the photo-ops and the hugs and the local cuisine, the American president was simply not ready, willing or able, to give satisfaction to his colleagues, from capital to capital.
Such proposals, if accepted, would help resolve the current dispute to everyone’s satisfaction.
According to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, the goal is to rein in ballooning health-care costs – a “hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” as he put it – while enhancing patient satisfaction and outcomes.
As China continues to elbow its way into Pakistan’s politics and economy, increasingly turning the country into a colonial outpost, that sense of satisfaction will probably fade.
The Vision and the FantasyJERUSALEM – Israel, an audacious vision that came true, is now celebrating its 65th anniversary with a sense of well-deserved satisfaction at its extraordinary domestic achievements.
It reflected the deep need of these Americans to have the experience of succeeding at something: a craftsman’s gratification at seeing his mastery result in better work, or a merchant’s satisfaction at seeing “his ship come in.”
I wonder if the satisfaction of being a people – as invented by the first Europeans and Americans, reinvented by the French celebrants of national unity on July 14, 1790, and celebrated by the French historian and poet Michelet – is not becoming a thing of the past.
People inside companies are paid to provide a certain level of customer service on the assumption that they will help to sell products, instruct users how to benefit from them, and improve customer satisfaction.
The relentless pursuit of higher income is leading to unprecedented inequality and anxiety, rather than to greater happiness and life satisfaction.
The invasions that he has ordered – in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014) – brought temporary satisfaction to beleaguered Russians in need of national affirmation.
Uruguayans still derive immeasurable satisfaction from their soccer successes, including two World Cup triumphs (albeit back in 1930 and 1950) and a semifinal in South Africa in 2010.
Prodi’s Commission now proposes to negotiate with any country that meets the political criteria (stable democracy and respect for human/minority rights) and not insist on the satisfaction of difficult economic criteria (a functioning market economy and readiness to withstand EU competition) as a prerequisite for negotiations.
One prominent commentator, Max Boot, took “some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran’s elections,” because Obama would now find it harder to stand in the way of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.
Disapproval of Congress is growing, and people’s satisfaction with representative democracy has decreased.
These men have lost the opportunity to do meaningful work, and to feel a sense of agency; and they have been deprived of a space where they can prosper, by gaining the satisfaction of succeeding at something, and grow in a self-fulfilling vocation.
Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America’s difficulties.
The ECB is likely to preside over a weakening EURO currency that brings frustration rather than satisfaction to a significant part of the new “Euroland.”
Labor unions have long pointed with satisfaction at hard-won contracts that specified a defined-benefit pension for their members.
Rather, they are stimulated in a self-reinforcing fashion by group norms, trends, and advertising, and some increases in consumption deliver no permanent increase in life satisfaction.
Most companies already monitor social media for reputational risks and customer satisfaction; they should do the same to protect their staff.
In that respect, surfing is closer to hiking, mountaineering, or skiing than to tennis or football: The aesthetic experience of being in a beautiful natural environment is an important part of the activity’s attractiveness; there is satisfaction to be found in the sense of accomplishment; and there is vigorous physical exercise without the monotony of running on a treadmill or swimming laps.
Creating and satisfying new consumer desires keeps the system going by absorbing the labor and purchasing power released by the increasingly efficient satisfaction of old ones.
Zimbabweans were surprised, therefore, when Bush, during his recent tour of Africa, expressed satisfaction with the negotiations said to be taking place between Mugabe's Zanu PF party and its arch-rival, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
In short, while online talent platforms cannot boost weak demand in advanced economies, solve complex development issues in the emerging world, or create better jobs across the board, they can have a major impact on seemingly intractable issues like unemployment, underemployment, and low job satisfaction.
As employee satisfaction becomes more widely reported, companies are facing pressure to ensure good working conditions in order to recruit the talent they need.
But, in the past four decades, we have veered from informed discussion about women and their bodies into a raunchy culture of celebrity sex videos and zipless hookups in which women’s desire, arousal, and satisfaction – let alone their (or men’s) emotional needs – rarely play a part.
In this environment, more than a few Chinese reacted to the events of September 11 th with barely disguised satisfaction.
This personal growth, while an end in itself, is also a source of job satisfaction, which in turn boosts participation in the labor force, and of high employee loyalty, which lowers unemployment, making more good jobs available.
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