Is it a matter of time before many of the disingenuous voices get weeded out?
In a recent survey, only 29% of intelligence officials said that their incompetent colleagues had been weeded out.
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For added safety, we weeded out the companies that lacked solid cash positions or were loaded with debt.
It is that inconsistency that needs to weeded out if they are to reach the quarter-finals this time.
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains.
For these reasons he reckons that 90-99% of tax dodgers have long been weeded out of the local system.
Mackay has weeded out middle managers so more scientists are doing science, and decision makers interact directly with them.
We saw abandoned homes, weeded lots, no sidewalks, a park falling into disrepair, and a senior citizen center shuttered.
They also do well raising money, he says, because investors assume the IDF has already weeded out the dishonest and irresponsible.
It had one heck of a shake just last week, which I suspect weeded out many of the shorter term holders.
When the harassed masses open their medicine cabinet, which OTC allergy medicine brands do they reach for and which are weeded out?
The past recession has weeded out the weak, and promoted the strong.
If we can think of a possible failure situation, we work on it until it is weeded out of our system before release.
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He has weeded out 200 senior officers, including all who served in the military government (and so might be associated with its atrocities).
More important, as Schumpeter argued, recessions are a process of creative destruction in which inefficient firms are weeded out, releasing resources for more productive firms.
"Over time the weaker cardholders get weeded out, " says Richard X.
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Bad teachers can be weeded out much quicker before gaining tenure.
He said he has weeded out militant Muslims who had infiltrated his inner circle, including a man he said was a hitman for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Then she weeded her yams and cassava where they grew in the soft, dark earth and watered the pineapple plant that marked the centre of her plot.
That will make it harder for candidates to buy their way into office, and should ensure that the most capricious and incompetent ones eventually get weeded out.
Work One, a state employment agency, weeded out unsuitable applicants.
Venture capitalists will become even more selective in backing startups in Asia as investment returns have been disappointing in recent years and all but the best venture firms are weeded out.
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If an agency is prohibitively expensive for this particular client, then they would prefer to be weeded out of the process BEFORE they spend thousands of man-hours developing the creative for the finals.
Listen, in the talks I've had they're as desperate as anyone to make sure that this extremism is weeded out and dealt with because they don't want them contaminating their reputation, their great contribution to this country.
Goldman was a victim on the defensive when Greg Smith, a former employee, wrote a New York Times op-ed on March 14, blasting the firm for having "morally bankrupt people" who needed to be weeded out.
"Usually, it's a note here or there or a missing dynamic indication, which will be weeded out by conductors, musicians, librarians or musicologists, " says Mr. Orenstein, a Ravel scholar of 45 years and the author of "A Ravel Reader" (1990).
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Founded in 2001 by a pair of Stanford grads, Blue River Technology is using that money to develop an alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture, which is both labor intensive (even with all that spraying fields still need to be weeded) and environmentally toxic.
Those farmers who planted carefully, kept pests away, weeded and watered, harvested at the right time and kept aside seed for next year were most likely to have enough to feed their families, and maybe even some left over to sell at market.
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Employees (and sometimes their kids as well) have cleaned up New Hampshire beaches, planted trees were planted in Germany and Thailand, improved urban spaces improved in Spain, picked up rubbish picked up in Japan, and planted, weeded and fertilized a field of tree seedlings in China.
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