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17 Dec 2011, 3:02 pm
In practical terms instituting any sort of nationwide ban on distracted driving will be difficult – though the federal government’s experience during the 80s and 90s in using highway funds as a lever to force states to mandate seat-belt use does, potentially, offer a useful model. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 6:47 am
Also, since put sales can be viewed as a levered bet that the stock price will not drop, they offer a unique setting to study market timing by corporations. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 1:09 pm
When the shift lever is put into reverse, the camera may display no image or distort the image. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:55 am
One end is fitted with a nut and the other with a short lever that must be closed to tighten the wheel to a bicycle's fork or frame. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 8:53 pm
(In realty, former Director Iancu pulled every lever possible to help patent owners, but, you can’t let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.) [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 1:30 pm
The authors lever the random assignment of cases to judges and examine whether a judge's rulings are related to his or her stock ownership in one or more of the parties in the case. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 7:36 am
Exploitation includes theft, fraud, and use of undue influence as a lever to gain control over an older person's money or property. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 8:05 am
As Archimedes pointed out, with a long enough lever, we can move the earth. 2a) Less clear: the overall consequences of deputizing intermediaries to exercise that capacity for the government. 2b) But some likely consequences: • deputization shifts financial burdens from government to private actors, and that makes it harder for free-to-consumers Internet services and can entrench big players to the exclusion of new entrants. [read post]
27 May 2009, 11:54 am
Avoiding inflation: To impart this lesson, players must manipulate levers to keep the wolf (presumably appropriately big and bad) from devaluing their saved currency. [read post]
28 Dec 2021, 7:35 am
The turn to antitrust levers stems from Mr. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 6:11 am
DEI incentive metrics do not unilaterally make sense for every company and are not the only lever companies can use to hold management teams accountable. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 7:18 am
The other bills, however, do not attempt to address the key policy lever of building codes to enhance sustainable construction and save resources. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:26 pm
It resulted in lockouts being installed on virtually all automatic transmission cars thereafter, requiring drivers to press the brake pedal before a solenoid releases the shift lever out of park. [read post]
24 May 2010, 7:25 am
And it had been damaged a couple weeks before the blowout when a worker on the Deepwater Horizon accidentally bumped a lever. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 9:00 pm
In 1914, Congress widened the reach of land-grant universities under the Smith Lever Act, which established Cooperative Extension Services to bring research from land-grant universities to farmers, consumers and families. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 7:10 am
Paperless touchscreens and lever machines would be banned. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 6:15 am
Achor outlines seven interrelated strategies to lead you to a more successful career and a happier life: The “Happiness Advantage” (happiness give you a competitive edge) The “Fulcrum and the Lever” (change your performance by changing your mindset) The “Tetris Effect” (train your brain to capitalize on possibility) “Falling Up” (use failures to build forward momentum) The “Zorro Circle” (break goals into manageable steps) … [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 8:00 am
And is information gathered from these sources proof of guilt, a lever to force a confession or simply innocent circumstantial evidence in some cases? [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 1:48 pm
Levering a mix of survey and experimental data, the authors find that "ordinary people think that courts will give them exactly what they bargained for after breach of contract; in other words, specific performance is the expected contractual remedy. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 1:15 pm
And for another, big shareholders in particular have levers of influence that smaller ones don’t, and so may not mind an entrenched board that’s at least somewhat responsive to them. [read post]
