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Maybe because these conventional notions of progress haven't delivered big benefits in
terms
of happiness, there's been an increased interest in recent years in happiness itself.
After creating that model, we also learned a lot in
terms
of implementing the product.
Actually, those action video game players have many other advantages in
terms
of attention, and one aspect of attention which is also improved for the better is our ability to track objects around in the world.
The good news, again, is that a lot of the things they need we already have, and we are very good at giving: economic assistance, not just money, but expertise, technology, knowhow, private investment, fair
terms
of trade, medicine, education, technical support for training for their police forces to become more effective, for their anti-terror forces to become more efficient.
I feel like my job to make this happen is to help foster the things that seem to lead to compromise, to not talk about this in those vague and scary
terms
that do polarize us, but to just talk about it like what it is, not an existential crisis, not some battle between two fundamentally different religious views, but a math problem, a really solvable math problem, one where we're not all going to get what we want and one where, you know, there's going to be a little pain to spread around.
And you can think of it in
terms
of a game-theoretic payoff matrix.
This is where we're headed in
terms
of global temperature rises, and if we keep on going the way we're going, we get a four- or five-degree-Centigrade temperature rise by the end of this century.
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to
terms
with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
All right, now what you might notice is that these two graphs are actually identical, not in
terms
of the x- and y-axes, or in
terms
of the data they present, but in
terms
of their moral and political implications, they say the same thing.
This was a golden age of bipartisanship, at least in
terms
of the parties' ability to work together and solve grand national problems.
They seemed to see me in
terms
of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.
However, the inequalities that exist between richer countries and developing countries in
terms
of funding pose a real risk for exploitation, especially in the context of externally-funded research.
These girls just needed a way to invite their fathers into their lives on their own
terms.
He was not on good
terms
with his father.
They've all defined the
terms
on which they will accept bookings.
What have we gained at the bottom of the economy in
terms
of markets in the last 20 years?
And when a Wall Street trader comes into work in the morning, she does not write a listing for every financial derivative she wants to sell today and then post that listing on multiple websites and wait for potential buyers to get in touch and start negotiating the
terms
on which she might trade.
In
terms
of spreading gambling activity to the masses, this was an unqualified success.
Look at how the world looked in the 1960s, in
terms
of the proportion of people who had completed high school.
With PISA, we wanted to measure how they actually deliver equity, in
terms
of ensuring that people from different social backgrounds have equal chances.
This is how the world looked then in
terms
of PISA performance.
And it has helped countries to set meaningful targets in
terms
of measurable goals achieved by the world's leaders.
So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in
terms.
Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in
terms
of children and social status and succession and companionship.
I always tell the students that we could also call neuroscientists some sort of astronomer, because we are dealing with a system that is only comparable in
terms
of number of cells to the number of galaxies that we have in the universe.
And public officials are supposed to file to say what it is they have in
terms
of assets and liabilities.
But I want to step back from the Trinidad and Tobago context and bring something new to the table in
terms
of an international example.
The point is, we have to let our children succeed on their own terms, and yes, on occasion, fail on their own
terms.
Think of it in
terms
of drums of water, each containing 200 liters.
And then in
terms
of the culture, it's very big on freedom and responsibility.
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