Sometimes daydreaming is counterproductive, but sometimes it fosters creativity and helps you solve problems.
Even better, there is room to model out where discounting fits and where it is counterproductive.
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Requiring large amounts of capital to become eligible for an immigrant visa is counterproductive if one wants to encourage job creation.
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When women leaders behave as bullies, it is counterproductive to all women who are out there trying to step up the ladder.
And we made clear -- when either side does something unilaterally that we believe is counterproductive to that cause, we make our opinions clear about that.
Imposing one-size-fits-all regulations on a state that already has universal health care and is leading the way on cost containment is counterproductive to say the least.
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And this is why to go beyond safety net programs to redistribute further just to make incomes and wealth more equal is counterproductive and not justifiable.
With Petreaus and Crocker's openness in acknowledging Iran's central role in the war in Iraq, we are seeing for the first time an admission that it is counterproductive to view Iraq in isolation from its neighbors.
If there's any chance they would change their minds, the approach by Argentina is completely counterproductive.
Raising levies on the private sector when economies are weakening is dangerously counterproductive.
Appeasement is as counterproductive in 1993 as it was in the 1930s.
Snow says this is really counterproductive and suggests if people feel ignored by politicians, they show up at the polls in force.
Meanwhile, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who is also in Islamabad, says operations along the border should be done "in a way that is not counterproductive".
Sprint TV's also included, of course, but it just hangs on 4G whenever you try to watch a program -- we had to turn it off and use EV-DO to make it work, which is pretty counterproductive considering how much better it could look on a faster, lower-latency connection.
They argue, and many economists agree, that raising taxes, and increasing government regulations is in fact counterproductive to growing the economy.
Policymakers face a daunting task in closing the yawning gap between revenues and expenditures in the coming years, but targeting medical innovation is a particularly counterproductive approach.
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This attitude toward struggle is not only counterproductive -- leading to self-defeating behaviors including retreating inward with self-doubt and avoiding necessary risk for fear of failure -- it is also wrong.
Partisanship is unhelpful and counterproductive and sometimes downright stupid.
For this reason, trying to stimulate growth through a spending binge is bound to be counterproductive.
Euro land is sputtering because its anti-Keynesian fiscal and monetary stance is uncalled for and counterproductive.
Some schools of thought say revisiting the past is irrelevant and even counterproductive.
And I think that prolonged arguments in the Congress about this after people come back is going to be counterproductive to this issue of uncertainty.
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