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The agency has to be a more collaborative, communicative organization, ... New kinds of internal incentive plans to socialize this behavior are crucial. The agency of 2010 has to provide total transparency. How else can you talk to the Internet generation?

The Air Force's desire to keep costs low on the guidance replacement program contract and Northrop Grumman's desire to enhance contract incentive performance dovetail into a mutually beneficial effort to decrease production costs.

That gives them incentive to complete the whole project.

It's incentive to get days off (to rest players) and preparation for coaches. Any time you can get into a playoff situation and get a three- or four-day rest, you can get back to your basics with some good practices.

It's incentive to get days off. ... Any time you can get in a playoff situation where you can get a three- or four-day rest, it's almost like a mini-training camp situation, and you can get back to your basics. Get back and have a couple of good practices and really kind of get calmed down from winning a series and get rejuvenated and get back up and get into that crescendo where you're playing extremely well again for the first game.

It's incentive for them. It gets them involved with all kinds of writing.

It's clear that wireless providers have made great strides in improving the quality of calls, especially in those areas that impact customer churn the most, such as calls that are dropped or disconnected. With an increasingly competitive environment and an increase in the number of services used in conjunction with a cell phone, carriers that offer superior network quality will improve their likelihood of attracting new customers and will increase customer retention. In fact, improving network quality is a beneficial financial incentive for wireless carriers, as customers experiencing at least one call quality problem are three times more likely to indicate they 'definitely will' switch carriers in the future.

It's an extra incentive for her to earn money for college.

It's great that anyone can apply because it provides an incentive for all students to work hard in any field.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

It was a good friend of mine, actually. It's always a little extra incentive when you're playing against your friends out there.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

It won't be what you see in countries in which there is no regulation, in which there is no incentive to compensate farmers, in which the people, who are so poor, when they see their chickens are getting infected they immediately sell them or they don't tell anybody because they don't want them culled. That is a critical issue that is fundamentally different than what we see in Western Europe and that we will see in the United States.

They are like us in a lot of ways. They have played for so many championships that they lose a lot of incentive unless it is for a dad-gum championship. I have seen it happen and it wouldn't surprise me if that was one of the things.

They lost the incentive to issue debt to buy mortgages during the end of January and the majority of February.

There's too much incentive for big corporations to acquire other smaller companies and overpaying for them, rather than giving money back to shareholders.

These subsidies would ... reduce the unemployment rate of low-skilled workers; put the paychecks of low-wage workers closer to the median scale; decrease the unemployed worker's feelings of exclusion, dependence and powerlessness; inculcate the habits of self-efficacy and self-sufficiency; and increase employees' incentive to better themselves.

Not recognizing Israel's right to exist is an incentive for terrorism because the moment you don't recognize a state's right to exist, you don't recognize a people's right to exist,

The new incentive program has made a big difference in the attitudes and effort that the students are putting forward. The ability to earn a day off is a great reward for students who are productive and practice good citizenship.

Shawn has proven to himself that he can get it done down there. And he saw his brother, Justin, wrestling in the state finals last year. That's pretty good incentive for him.

That's an incentive to keep them coming back.

The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

The Fed's interest-rate increase concerns are receding on the back of evidence growth is slowing. Investors are taking that as a positive for stocks and that's serving as an incentive to buy right now.

The farmer then has an incentive not to sell his land, ... And society has what it wants - open space.

The content changes every year. But the concept is to provide employees an incentive for maintaining or adopting healthy habits,

I instantly recognized the date of the medals game. It was incentive to me. It was a dream of hers to get to the Olympics as much as it was a dream of mine.

I'm sure the automakers are watching the same PIN data, and they will respond accordingly if it's really bad, ... Watch for new incentive promotions.

Incentive systems are so key to sales behavior. You put compensation technology in place to direct the behavior of the sales force. That's important, because they're the ones bringing your product to the market and the customer.

In capital murder cases, snitches are the No. 1 factor, being present in 45 percent of wrongful convictions identified since 1976. When I define snitch, by the way, I don't mean just anybody who's in jail, but anybody who has an incentive to testify a certain way.

Indefinite detention has a special way of driving people a little crazy and provides a greater incentive to riot.

Indeed Saddam's goals have little in common with the terrorists who threaten us, and there is little incentive for him to make common cause with them.

In many cases, people can simply walk to the transit stop and don't even have to get in their cars. But if people have to drive a considerable distance to use transit, there's a built-in incentive to just continue driving to your destination.

In my experience-- which is also the experience of some of my peers- Apple has been very slow to respond to reported security vulnerabilities. It expects security researchers to wait indefinitely to release the vulnerabilities and offers no incentive for them to do so.

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

If Mr. Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to stop the negotiations and undermine the process, he will always find one. This attack, which we have condemned, should serve as an incentive to accelerate the negotiations,

In Dixie Youth, everybody plays no matter what, ... You play tournament ball, and you don't. I really think kids realize that and know they've got to get better. In Dixie Youth, there's really no incentive to bust your butt, work hard and get better. You're going to play no matter what. I don't disagree with that, but I do think a kid needs to realize 'I'm not as good as Joe, so I need to get better.'

I'm approaching like all the other guys - I want to make the team. There's obviously extra incentive there that wasn't there last year. But we're all here for a reason and that's to make the team.

If the Palestinians will find a new channel that they can achieve their demands, they will have no incentive to resume the negotiations with us.

If revenge becomes a factor, I'm afraid you lose sight of what it is that you're trying to square away, ... It's our performance that we need to square away, but all of us have lived with our lack of performance that day. You would hope that that serves as added incentive to do better.

If we want to keep our best athletes involved then there should be some incentive like every other strong entrepreneurial business.

If you are told that your spouse or minor child cannot be here for the next six or seven years because of the backlog, that's an incentive for them to get here illegally.

If you know they're not going to collect, what's your incentive to follow the law?

If you liked October, you are going to love November, ... because you can anticipate some further softness in these core items like new cars. G.M. has already announced the next incentive program.

If you go in as an American outsider, Mister Moneybags, and say 'I want to build you a school,' the local people will have no incentive to work on the project smartly or economically,

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

In theory, if the dollar gets more expensive, there's less of an incentive for foreign firms to buy U.S. goods.

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

In the absence of any meaningful competition in the consumer broadband market, and without?consumer safeguards, one would expect carriers to have the economic incentive -- and the opportunity -- to control users' online activities.

I guess we had added incentive because it was 'Senior Night' and we wanted to go out with a bang. More than the streak, the most important thing is that we come into every game with pride and with purpose. I think we brought a lot of heart and a lot of courage tonight, and that's what made the difference for us at the end.

If (the legislation) was an incentive to get more people to do the recycling, sure, everyone is looking to save a little money.

If the judge is saying the maximum, there's not much incentive to plead guilty.

By making transportation more convenient for our parents by reducing the threshold from a mile to three-quarters of a mile, we believe that it will be an incentive for families to stay within Cincinnati Public Schools and maybe even return to Cincinnati Public Schools from charter schools.

High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.

By then they will most likely have got settled somewhere else. Unless they have strong family ties, there may not be much incentive to return. Working as a taxi driver or a hotel cleaner in Detroit is much the same as in New Orleans.

Before the music group, my wife and I visited here. It was definitely an incentive for me.

I don't know if there was any extra incentive because of losing to them before. What I do know is that these kids are capable of playing the way we played tonight, especially on the defensive end of the floor. They played smart, they took care of the basketball and overall, I thought we did a great job.

I don't know if you give the best player in the world any extra incentive to want to beat you.

I didn't expect that. I'm very pleased. This (bill) will give an incentive for applicants to file on a reasonable amount of water and still meet their needs.

Because he got to this point all by himself, he has extra motivation now ---- not just for himself but for our team. Now he can go back and let those guys know next year what this is like. He has extra incentive to get on their (butts) and motivate them.

By stealing the creative product of talented people, this form of piracy deprives artists of the rewards they deserve. If left unchecked, such crime would drain the incentive to create that enriches our lives.

Hopefully, that will give our players a little bit of incentive to prove to their fans, their friends, that this is Division I softball and we're much better than what we have been.

I definitely think he's going to use that as an incentive to go out there and try to play harder.

I'd have to say it's been a major factor. It's giving teams incentive to attack the basket, which has led to higher percentage shots and better quality shots.

I don't see the incentive to tender our shares. We expect more, and hopefully we'll see more. There may be some players we're not aware of yet.

I don't think vendors are going to build in privacy protections if there is no incentive for profit.

I don't think they can do it. In order for Buy.com to make any money off of this, their order size has to be two units per order. There's no incentive in the offer to drive the order that high.

I congratulate GPs. The high scores show the new contract is proving successful in giving practices a real incentive to improve the quality of care for NHS patients and to provide a wide range of services locally.

I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

I believe Pueblo is eligible for just about every economic incentive created in Colorado. . . . I think one of the big things is just getting the word out.

Governments and businesses shouldn't have to litigate cases all the way to the Supreme Court in order to find out whether or not a tax incentive is constitutional,

You can't be absent for your first five classes and then show up for driver's ed. They knew if they missed an earlier period they couldn't go to driver's ed, and if they didn't go to driver's ed, they couldn't get their license. There was a real incentive for them to keep all their grades up.

The UAW has a lot of incentive to negotiate concessions out of court, given the lesser influence it would have in a bankruptcy scenario.

The increase in oil prices as trading started this morning took away all the incentive to buy stocks. With oil going up again and a Fed meeting tomorrow, investors are being very cautious. Demand today has dried up.

The incentive will be making sure the services follow the people.

The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport.

The incentive is the game. You've got to play the game. Regardless of where you are. It seems like this month of August has been horrible and we've been fighting uphill the whole time. Tomorrow is Sept. 1, and hopefully we'll have a great September.

The incentive interface with consumers .Ê.Ê. had to be changed. It was difficult to discern the value we have built into our vehicles.

The incentive interface with consumers . . . had to be changed. It was difficult to discern the value we have built into our vehicles.

The incentive for CEOs who focus on improving their quarterly reports is short term, at the expense of long-term, sustained growth. And so you see things, as we have seen in recent years, where CEOs are more willing to play with the books or make acquisitions that look good in the interim but may detract from the long-term mission.

The incentive data include 13 different types of incentives and includes lease incentives. It is very comprehensive.

The incentive arena in 1998 will be every bit as intensive as it was in '97.

A high core inflation figure will be an incentive to further buy the dollar.

The games introduce them to other things. Things like promotions and hot deals, and it gives them an incentive to come to one of our properties.

The current incentive levels are not quite as high as they were at the end of last year. In the sense they have been higher, they probably could go up going forward. The price pressure are obviously going to remain very intense. But that said, they're not going to rise dramatically. They're already very good.

The financial incentive makes it possible for physicians to invest in themselves and in their practices so that they can deliver even better care to their patients. We want to encourage these types of efforts by physicians to improve the care processes for patients with chronic diseases----leading to better clinical outcomes and, ultimately, lower costs.

All sides seem to have found a niche in this no-war-no-peace situation. In that context, the incentive for peace is diminished.

The market will take any good news it can wrap its arms around so if Dell offers some encouragement that might mark a short-term bottom for tech. But it has to say some positive things about the spending environment, which isn't likely since there is no incentive to be overly optimistic.

The markets are deteriorating, and our company's performance even more so. Competition is brutal. North American manufacturers are under pressure from imports and an incentive war is on.

The measures have been a long time coming. There is still a lot of potential incentive for domestic capital flight. This should not just be a one-off rate hike.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

The main objective of this is to serve as an incentive to dealers and collectors to be much more aware of documents that were potentially stolen or taken from government archives. The second is to put unscrupulous people on notice that these activities are going to be watched. If they continue to engage in these activities, there's a good chance they are going to get caught.

The league needs to step in and take away any perceived incentive to lose. But also, I don't think you do yourself any good trying to pick who you'll play. Sometimes, you try to set yourself up for something that may not work out. But I think that just the idea that you could be better served to lose rather than win probably needs to be taken care of.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60 percent or more of his extra pay?