And best of all it does so by appealing not to the lowest common denominator but the highest.
We fail to reward hard won experience and instead recruit and reward the cheapest and lowest common denominator.
The danger is not just that Germans may have to endure another coalition of the lowest common denominator.
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It does not happen by reducing our values to the lowest common denominator.
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The system was absurd, and adoption of decimal currency was good for the "lowest common denominator" and everyone else.
The reason: When it comes to exercise, people tend to match their activity to the lowest common denominator.
You may not realize it but everything in business can be translated into its lowest common denominator of money.
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Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features.
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His passion is to keep the bar high in a culture that often opts for the lowest common denominator.
Stop judging the industry by the lowest common denominator, which is the independent, investment-challenged slug sitting on line at BART.
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The group endorsed two proposals that apparently represented the lowest common denominator of what Islamabad and New Delhi could agree to.
In none of these will it be easy to find a compromise that is any better than the lowest common denominator.
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Koirala said that poverty was the lowest common denominator in this equation.
Chairs are the lowest common denominator here, again, just like facebook, in being the tool that helps people engage in common activities.
So the Security Council tends to settle on the lowest common denominator.
It was a "lowest common denominator" approach to suggest that Germany should reduce its competitiveness to deal with the region's crisis, she said.
Such efforts will tend towards a lowest common denominator, which does not do justice to the complex richness of Europe and its changing interests.
That... produced a lowest common denominator document that satisfied almost no-one.
If the convention had to agree on a single text, they reason, it would probably come down to the lowest common denominator of the rival ideas.
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As a result, web developers triangulate, attempting to build the best features they can based on the lowest common denominator lest they give up incremental market share (aka, revenue).
Consumers will expect their new tablet to be able to run any new iOS application, and developers are going to be coding to the lowest common denominator of the iOS family.
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Wal Mart is the lowest common denominator in retail.
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There will be two levels of commitment sought from governments: consensus agreements, a sort of lowest common denominator approach, known as type one, and voluntary type two commitments, much more ambitious but entirely voluntary.
One leading TV presenter has called it "lowest common denominator television", while a group called Smile You're On TV has called on viewers to place rubbish bins outside the offices of the channel screening the programme.
This is bad for users, who miss out on cool new features or security fixes, but also bad for developers, who are forced to develop for a lowest common denominator lest they cause their app to break.
If the Olympics seem to be too attentive to the broadcasters, the Olympic Games could start to feel like professional wrestling or the XFL. For a short time NBC did well televising the violent football games geared completely towards television's lowest common denominator.
Just as the right answer to inequitable application of national security-minded export controls is not to dumb down ours to the lowest common denominator applied by others, our approach on capital markets transparency ought to be to bring others' exchanges up to our new, higher standard.
Tony Blair would not have been able to operate in the way that he has very successfully done so, in building the international coalition because if you have a common foreign policy or common defence policy, in the end you always have to go to the lowest common denominator.
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Clearly, it would be far easier for Mr. Bush to go with the flow, earning the kudos of the chattering classes at home and abroad by allowing agreements reflecting the lowest common denominator of scores of nations to become part of the growing body of supranational institutions and legal structures.
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