And the fundamental problem is the same: a failure of alignment, by which I mean of the elusive ability to link strategic intent at the top of an organization to tactical performance at the bottom, via an unbroken internal narrative.
To see the universal arguments about the individual and society, God and reason, good and bad and so on, and thus escape from the binding imperatives of the now - by which I mean the dictatorship of whatever ideas are most pressingly forced on us in the day-to-day by government, media, fashion, political correctness and so on.
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The idea here is to communicate that ultimate goal of economic production is to raise folks standard of living, by which we mean their level of consumption.
This is indeed what a lot of people mean by ethical behaviour, taking better care of the workers who make your products.
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What do we mean by internal displacement of persons in Kosovo, and what could be a motive for internal displacement in Kosovo?
What I mean by a point of view is an unshakable belief in the rightness of what you are doing, at the core.
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But we'd also be the first to admit that GPS has vast potential for abuse in the wrong hands, and by this, we mean of course, government and law-enforcement agencies.
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In a speech to a Sinn Fein west Belfast selection convention, Gerry Adams talked about assuring unionists that republicans are willing "to try and understand what unionists mean by their sense of Britishness and we have committed to finding ways of accommodating this in a new Republic".
Doug had a lot of nightmares when he was a baby, by which I mean between the ages of two and four.
First of all, can you give the American people a sense of the magnitude, the gravity of this event and what you mean by obtaining justice for the loss of 46 South Korean sailors?
What does he actually mean by that -- I mean, in terms of, you know, the actual amount of dollars that this will, you know, present to turning the economy around?
If we increased our exports -- our share of exports by just 1 percent, that would mean hundreds of thousands of jobs here in the United States.
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Rapper Eminem married his high school sweetheart, Kim, in 1999, divorced her in 2001, wrote a bunch of mean songs about her, married her again in 2006, divorced her by the end of the year, and wrote some more mean songs about her.
Displacing domestic flights and enabling travellers from Paris and Brussels to reach the north of England by train would mean 66, 000 fewer flights a year from Heathrow, removing much of the justification for a third runway at that crowded airport.
What does she mean by recounting the story of a brother excavating rocks when she says she'll write about music?
And what I mean by that is some of us sent our own sons and daughters into this conflict over the past 20 years.
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Neither the Liberal Democrats or Labour are fielding enough candidates to form an overall majority - so any great gains by them would mean some sort of consensus.
On the refugee front, Britain and France have taken most flak for being mean: by the start of May, Britain had accepted only 330 evicted Kosovars since March.
What they mean by Facebook party is of course someone sending out invitations to a party on Facebook and sending then in clear, without using the privacy settings to restrict invitations to friends or family.
Japan was, pre Friday expected to grow by 1.5% this year, however, whilst Q2 and Q3 will take a dent, the activity from reconstruction will mean that by the end of Q4 the Japanese numbers will not be too far off the mark.
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But no matter how strong your feelings about regional styles or particular places, I can tell you exactly where you can find the very best barbecue in existence (By BBQ I mean the collection of smoked ribs, pulled pork, chicken, brisket and related items that Americans collectively refer to as barbecue, not the global definition which includes everything from Argentineans skirt steak to Korean kalbi).
By cutting the price of drugs, it would mean fewer crimes caused by the need to pay the current inflated prices (although, almost certainly, lower prices would mean more drug use, too).
The authors of this book paint a picture of a future Hong Kong blending the strengths of London and Tokyo, by which they mean that Hong Kong could combine the international financial vigour of the former with an equivalent industrial hinterland of the latter.
The trouble is that this centres the fan chart on the mode of the distribution (the single likeliest outcome), and not necessarily on the median (the value that divides the outcomes, ranked by size, exactly in two) or the mean (the sum of the outcomes divided by the number of outcomes).
Critics of the caucus system argue its laborious nature tends to mean it is dominated by political activists, unrepresentative of popular feeling, who will nominate candidates with little real chance of winning.
Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel has discovered that reinvesting all your cash dividends in more shares of the same stock (not so easy to do by the way) can mean over a long period of time a contribution of significant return.
'And by isolation, I mean the sense of isolation, while having all the culture of the city, too.
In attempting to obstruct justice, we mean by that obstructing the justice of whom?
What I mean by planning is the type of cross-industry strategizing that is necessary for a healthy economy.
By this I mean the simultaneous encouragement of parallel strands of thought even when they are incompatible with each other.
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