Taking the denominator problem seriously beckons us toward a denominator solution.
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Twitter's lowest common denominator Twitter parody accounts are the average sum of Twitter itself, and its lowest common denominator.
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"We literally get reduced to our lowest common denominator, to appeal to the lowest common denominator," Knight tells the camera.
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A quick way of calculating implied probability involves taking the "denominator" (if the odds are 6/1 the denominator is the 1, if the odds are 5/2 it is the 333) and dividing by the denominator plus the numerator.
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Likewise, the irrational numbers that can be approximated by fractions with denominator 20 overlap with the ones that can be approximated by fractions with denominator 12.
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They seek the greatest common denominator of our aspirations, not the least common denominator of what cynics claim is possible in a political system voters believe is corrupt.
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The common denominator, however, is a drive to create change.
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Trump's ego is the common denominator in all these eruptions.
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Complexity fell to the needs of the lowest common denominator.
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The common denominator is that they succeeded "against all odds".
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The common denominator in most of these stories: student loans.
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All the women's stories have a common denominator — hard work.
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The common denominator among all three is the Shiite ideology.
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Must the common denominator among cultures really be so low?
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David Honig, an investor at Uncommon Denominator who led Swag.
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"We're not going for the lowest common denominator," she said.
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Religion was the common denominator of the whole, loud weekend.
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Plan for the lowest common denominator rather than the highest.
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This also would mean smaller fund sizes, largely offsetting denominator effects.
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Birnbaum said it was the common denominator of the nationalist movement.
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The common denominator: a strong lapel (and heavy dose of attitude).
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Our families are very different but the common denominator is love.
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The common denominator is their drive to help families back home.
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That's how you get the lowest common denominator out of people.
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But the common denominator across Trumpkins and establishmentarians is phenomenally stupid.
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The only common denominator, the lowest, is that everyone hates China.
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The common denominator is an opposition to immigration, particularly by Muslims.
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This is the common denominator across all industries and individual cases.
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The unknown value of pi is being trapped in a numerical vise, squeezed between two numbers that look almost identical, except the first has a denominator of 71 and the last has a denominator of 70.
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It's the lowest common denominator of inventiveness or ingenuity at this point.
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He's a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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Its lightweight, plastic body is designed for the lowest common ergonomic denominator.
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"Sovereign nations can do more than the lowest common denominator," Gardiner said.
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She never phones it in or relies on lowest common denominator tricks.
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Last and most importantly, least common denominator tax policy works just fine.
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It was a classic "denominator" problem, but my response seemed supremely unsatisfactory.
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This is SpeakerPelosi's most common trick: playing to the most conservative denominator.
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Oh yeah, duh, I forgot the laws of lowest-common-denominator dating.
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The common denominator between training and music is that they're both fun!
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With denominator 22 you might expect more and set it to 25.
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You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.
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We descend to the lowest common denominator, becoming what we supposedly abhor.
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In my reporting, there has often been a common denominator: official misconduct.
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She does it without turning the common ground into the lowest denominator.
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Music has followed a similar downward spiral toward the lowest common denominator.
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"The common denominator, I promise you, is always church," Baldwin told the publication.
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" She's worked with brands before, and says they function as a "common denominator.
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We've looked at every case and as of now, there's no common denominator.
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So, to me, that points out that there&aposs a common denominator here.
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The common denominator moving both markets is the prospect of central bank easing.
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Opacity is a common denominator in the privatized detention system around the world.
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If we change the denominator to all exits captured in our database, i.e.
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They fit a familiar narrative—one in which I was the common denominator.
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So the denominator has stayed static at a time of enormous wealth creation.
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That forces creativity to bend to the lowest common moral and intimacy denominator.
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Cryptocurrencies still suffer from price volatility, so bitcoin can't be the common denominator.
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The America that I love cannot become beholden to our lowest common denominator.
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Fund capital is widely available, in part, because of a reverse denominator effect.
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I think the common denominator is this idea of physical or emotional rescue.
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The least common denominator among us is that we are all human beings.
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More likely, an improving labor market is the more common denominator for Americans.
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Red Sox manager Alex Cora is a common denominator between the two teams.
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The common denominator through each of these issues is the current secretary, Shulkin.
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You mention mental illness as frequently being a common denominator among homeless youth.
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"The common denominator, I promise you, is always church," Baldwin says of their union.
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And I think that we'll clearly grow the denominator in that calculation as well.
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As John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "the common denominator of progress" is our people.
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Viewers and readers need information, not content that appeals to the lowest common denominator.
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As John Kenneth Galbraith once said: The "common denominator of progress" is our people.
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Moves on major markets were tight, with the common denominator still a struggling greenback.
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The denominator is everyone at risk, including all the other passengers who were exposed.
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There's a common denominator in all our lives, outside of coaching a basketball team.
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Often, though, the discussion has a habit of falling to the lowest common denominator.
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If you've had a string of bad relationships, you're the common denominator in those.
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So for fractions with denominator 220 you might set the allowable error to 220.
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That'll give experts the denominator, or the real case toll, in the CFR equation.
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The common denominator isn't our lack of ability, it's our abundance of self-doubt.
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As I mentioned, Apple designs for the lowest common denominator in everything it does.
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The common denominator is their target: Jews -- even if non-Jews often become victims.
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While the reasons for each are always multifactorial, there is one clear common denominator.
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Reading is an important common denominator amongst many of the biggest names in business.
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So most people were consuming the same content and there was a common denominator.
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"Love is the common denominator, and that's what we need to be giving these kids."
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The common denominator among caravan participants, Ms. Contreras said, was their agonizing decision to migrate.
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They've put a lot of thought and invention into catering to the lowest common denominator.
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The common denominator between all of them, though: They can be easily mistaken for STIs.
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But the body is also our common denominator; it's a language that we all possess.
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WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE PARTIES INVOLVED, EVERYTHING GETS DILUTED DOWN TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.
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And really the common denominator, the bottom line is he's getting paid to do both.
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Government, and the high-priced lawyers and lobbyists that surround it, are a steady denominator.
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The common denominator among these candles was that they all contained a lot of ingredients.
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The common denominator for murderous proclivities in the former mayor's mind was coded in melanin.
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Trump appeals to the lowest common denominator and to the worst in our human nature.
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The lowest common denominator of digital socialization works extraordinarily well for no one in particular.
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"Public sentiment will help us pass the most bold common denominator," she said on Thursday.
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"We're going to dissect that device down to its lowest common denominator," Mr. Galvan said.
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Democrats are not "going to lowest common denominator to get a presidential signature," she said.
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Then, recognize this couple — not you — is the only common denominator in all those reasons.
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That affects the denominator as well as the revenue line in a very big way.
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This is the other common denominator of terrorist organizations: Their leaders don't want to die.
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SMS is really just the most common denominator that everybody can be a part of.
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Charlottesville is exactly what happens when you repeatedly dog-whistle at the lowest common denominator.
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Data collection is a pain and you're left building products for the lowest common denominator.
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First of all, I want to point out the common denominator in both of our situations.
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But the common denominator will be data enough to send and receive text at the least.
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We could lower it again by using a forward-revenue denominator, but let's not be rude.
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But the higher earnings mean a higher denominator for p/e ratios and therefore lower multiples.
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Getting everyone to agree on a common denominator was a painfully demanding task and necessitated compromises.
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The common denominator in all of those movies isn't just a princess, but a thin princess.
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He says the only common denominator among the diners is a search for a new experience.
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"Public sentiment will help us pass the most bold common denominator," Pelosi told reporters last month.
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The subsequent lowest-common-denominator campaign coverage is only a byproduct of this short-term mindset.
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"The common denominator is the smartphone, and even more common is the messaging app," Jameson notes.
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What he's really trying to do is cap all privacy safeguards at the lowest common denominator.
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There are many precedents for bringing the debate about rights down to the lowest possible denominator.
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That's been kind of the common denominator with those guys, and we're just not doing it.
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It's the lowest common denominator stuff that people hate -- but watch -- about politics in this day.
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Food is more than sustenance — it's nostalgia, comfort, a common denominator in a world of difference.
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The structure of this graph encodes the overlap between the irrational numbers approximated by each denominator.
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Priorities and preferences vary widely, with the desire to defeat the president a burning common denominator.
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Gene Sperling has been the common denominator of Democratic economic policymaking over the past three decades.
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"Streaming is a mass common denominator," Greenberg offers by way of reason for this particular drop.
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If you're consistently the common denominator it may suggest that you're the one who's at fault.
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The common denominator in all these films is that we safely watch the cataclysm from afar.
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A common denominator of virtually all the participants is that everyone had a lot of energy.
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RCEP was seen at the time as the lowest common denominator—a pointless or even counterproductive distraction.
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That&aposs why they call her Samantha Bee lists because she cater to such a low denominator.
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But they can provide a certain giddy thrill if you're into sub-Springer, lowest common denominator brawls.
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The result is often something closer to a least-common-denominator mush than to a bold vision.
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We'll take that over every single one of the laugh-track, lowest-common-denominator comedies out there.
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The common denominator throughout these disparate roles is Sedaris's manic energy and her total disregard for reality.
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Then, in the denominator, goes a guess of the units of fun you get from the activity.
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Pull out a napkin, put a value in the numerator and make a guess at the denominator.
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Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required voters, rather than residents, to be used as the denominator.
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The common denominator for negotiations remains small and any deal would enter rough waters shortly after signature.
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It wasn't the only reason, but being married very young was a sort of primary common denominator.
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"Critics have knocked me for targeting society's lowest common denominator," Mr. Marshall said in the earlier book.
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Valenti's commitment to holding the line for a certain common-denominator feminism in hostile territory is admirable.
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"The common denominator was that they were all stuck," Shelia Conlin, the show's casting directory, told VICE.
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By going so big, right off the bat, negotiators practically guaranteed gridlock and lowest-common-denominator outcomes.
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"The lowest common denominator that everyone agrees on is the deteriorating situation in Gaza," Mr. Khatib said.
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This selection bias of severe cases implies that overall case number — the true denominator — is markedly underestimated.
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No matter our political disagreements, aiming for the lowest common denominator will only divide our nation further.
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He said the common denominator for Frances and other children these days was Thomas the Tank Engine.
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That was the common denominator — skin tone, sexual identity and ZIP code were often beside the point.
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A common denominator among relatives of hostages, Ms. Briggs said, is their initial reaction to the news.
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Another common denominator among people who live to 100 is habit of snacking on nutrient-rich nuts.
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In Las Vegas and in cities across the country, guns are the common denominator in these attacks.
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Another key denominator in raising successful kids is giving them a lot of love, support, and encouragement.
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But the common denominator is that they are all relatable and have the ability to relate with fans.
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But the main point of delivery—the common denominator for the majority of Trump voters—was Fox News.
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So we can make the best of each, rather than a lowest common denominator that would compromise each.
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The metric weighs impressions, or views, on an absolute basis of completion using a common 30-second denominator.
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Will the motivation of his base overwhelm the alienation that these lowest-common-denominator tactics cause among independents?
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The chamber, the biggest and broadest business group in America, represents the lowest common denominator on business interests.
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Product changes will be reduced to the lowest common denominator, designed not to offend or appear too tyrannical.
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"And when they do, they ask for more shares, without even knowing the denominator," she said in amazement.
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Overall Mr Ban personifies the defect to which the UN is prone: plumping for the lowest common denominator.
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We've written up several buying guides on the best golf gear, and there's always one common denominator: Callaway.
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Despite this, all its current experiences will still work on Google Cardboard, the lowest common denominator of headsets.
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At that time, the group's common denominator was winning the cold war and halting the spread of communism.
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Specifically, the error of each fraction is no more than 1 divided by the square of the denominator.
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But the underfunding of education for indigenous students seemed to be a common denominator in all the cases.
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The common denominator seems to be to do everything possible to avoid talking about white supremacy and guns.
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And the common denominator obviously did nothing to beautify Chicago or celebrate communities with distinct personalities and desires.
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I think partly it's true — what a platform does, to some degree, is introduce a lowest common denominator.
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Technology has been a common denominator in the disruption of how businesses operate and consumers interact with them.
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"Esquire aims to be the common denominator of masculine interests," a mission statement in that first issue read.
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As you can see, with r squared in the denominator, the gravitational force decreases very fast with distance.
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Republicans are members of a party that played to our lowest common denominator, our intolerance and our fear.
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The one common denominator all levels of wealth share is time – it takes many years to become rich.
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That said, the discovery points to potential causes of the disease, with altered insulin function being a common denominator.
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"It was lowest-common-denominator politics," the Labor candidate for Chisholm, Stefanie Perri, told The Guardian at the time.
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But they also make the deficit as a share of the economy larger because they make the denominator smaller.
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Millennials are base creatures, and dating apps have taken our tastes and desires down to the lowest common denominator.
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It just requires a refusal to cater to the lowest common denominator and an understanding that everyone deserves respect.
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" "If the coalition comes off, it must not be a coalition that only agrees on the lowest common denominator.
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" He added, "No matter our political disagreements, aiming for the lowest common denominator will only divide our nation further.
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This revenue pick-up would increase the denominator of efficiency ratio calculations, helping drive the ratio lower over time.
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But in my thirties I realized I was the common denominator of all the people I thought were stupid.
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Oxfam, an antipoverty group, criticized Mr. Moscovici as taking an ineffective "lowest common denominator approach" to the tax overhaul.
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That means that the numerator in the "P/E" ratio has fallen, even as the denominator remains relatively static.
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The common denominator here is bad policy and lack of opportunity, whether in paradise or the Land of Lincoln.
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Based on the market activity in January and February, the ugly denominator effect appeared to be an impending inevitability.
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Moves like this by trade groups represent the lowest, not highest, common denominator for positions within any given sector.
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But how do we come up with an appropriate denominator (number of citizens who could have been fatally shot)?
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The rationale is simple: by reducing the population denominator in the poorer (exporting) country, you increase GDP per head.
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"It's rarely been higher except in recession, when earnings tend to decline significantly, pushing the denominator down," Samana said.
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It does a disservice to Mr. Smee's complex analysis to reductively seek a common denominator in these four cases.
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But at its core there was no real common denominator, no take on the world, no real conservative framework.
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His enormous popularity validates the marginal while appealing to everyone's lowest common denominator, including a disdain for the poor.
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"No matter our political disagreements, aiming for the lowest common denominator will only divide our nation further," he added.
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The list goes on and on, but with one common denominator: the baby boom generation has changed America fundamentally.
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To draft an answer, Johnson goes back to his famous solitaries in an attempt to identify a common denominator.
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It's 92-minutes to truly turn off the brain and let the lowest common denominator of humor take over.
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These solutions are not diluted versions of good ideas, nor are they compromises resulting in the least common denominator.
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"The top leader's term limits are the biggest common denominator shared by all political forces in China," he said.
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And so, because we are so divided and out of touch, we each reach for the lowest common denominator.
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The true common denominator, she found, is anti-globalism — deep suspicion of free trade, multinational business and global institutions.
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"Genetic disease, once a universal common denominator, could instead become an artifact of class, geographic location, and culture," they wrote.
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But across state lines, there's one common denominator: a specter enveloping these legislatures, her presence weighty and her shadow long.
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It is easy to dismiss the exercise as a futile effort to find a minimum common denominator between disparate opposites.
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To generate the 53 figure, the AP excluded from the denominator all employees of any government, whether US or foreign.
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"The common denominator amongst people now is hopelessness," said Ignacio Isaías López, an electoral expert at Mexico's National Autonomous University.
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Her unwillingness to seek the lowest common denominator in order to scale was seen as a detriment to the company.
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This is the network that cannot stop going to the well of lowest common denominator dude comedy from Chuck Lorre.
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But this reflects the denominator rising, not the numerator shrinking: investment relative to GDP is in line with 1990s levels.
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This could indicate the denominator of RY's regulatory capital ratios could be less conservative than some other global peer banks.
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"So it is a bit too early to say what the common denominator is," Inspector Urban Bengtsson told Swedish radio.
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Creative choices were entirely driven by ratings and advertising, resulting in lowest-common-denominator shows that were popular but formulaic.
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"It's not hard to find the common denominator," Ryan wrote after listing the black female reporters Trump addressed this week.
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It is a lowest-common-denominator affair, where the least-competent service, rather than the most, will set the tone.
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If anything, today's "efficiencies" may even set readers back by pumping out lowest-common-denominator nonsense or, at worst, disinformation.
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"I think we need bold solutions, not nibble around the edges, not go for the lowest common denominator," Swalwell said.
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"Treasury appeared to elect for the lowest common denominator screening, to just make sure tracts were technically eligible," Theodos said.
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Hannity's daily show is a three-hour dog whistle which appeals to the fearful lowest common denominator in our society.
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A common denominator in the three hubs is that countries on these coasts have failed to make the areas safe.
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It's reactive, chasing the lowest common denominator of what will get 12 or five or three million people to snicker.
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Who ever predicted that he would ever be the common denominator of two of the biggest blockbusters of a summer?
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The common denominator is the setting in the region's defunct cathedrals of industry, which lends itself to large-format experiments.
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Even more problematic is figuring out the total number of infected people (I) — call that the mystery of the denominator.
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These films — from the comedies, action and horror genres — share one common denominator: They're more Razzie-worthy than Oscar-worthy.
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Otherwise, companies providing the very best benefits in the nation will be reluctantly compelled to find the lowest common denominator.
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At a time when Americans generally rally around one another, Trump went on the attack with lowest-common-denominator arguments.
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As a result, the denominator of the return on equity calculation – equity – is higher while the numerator — net income — is lower.
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The scariest part of all this is the common denominator between a debt-driven economy and surveillance-based capitalism: consumer addiction.
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VC is a common denominator of the most successful tech startups, but it isn't a prerequisite, especially at the early stages.
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The "skinny bill" is an admittedly lowest-common-denominator approach, and it may not even have the votes to pass, either.
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However, these ratios reflect not just an unusually large numerator (the number of road deaths) but also an anomalously low denominator.
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But I keep coming back to the denominator here: There are well over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States.
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When picking a shared car, you use the lowest common denominator—the smallest car that will get you to your destination.
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"A common denominator seems to be missing contextual information or ignoring information that does not fit the conclusions," the review found.
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There is, nonetheless, a common denominator that runs through all of them that account for why we are where we are.
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Nationwide's qualifying junior debt amounted to about 9.3% of RWAs and 1.5% of the society's leverage ratio denominator at end-FY16.
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A better denominator might be arrest figures available from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, but these also must be viewed cautiously.
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Adi Robertson calls PSVR the "the lowest common denominator of tethered headsets" but contends that sometimes good enough can be great.
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The common denominator that we seem to avoid is that source seems to stem from aggrieved, angry men with a gun.
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If there is one common denominator for the world's worst wedding toasts, it could probably be measured in blood alcohol content.
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No matter how many complaints she brought forth, HR insinuated that she was the common denominator in all of her complaints.
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This would have the effect of undercutting states with stricter laws since it would impose a national lowest-common-denominator standard.
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Simply ignoring the leading political issue of the day in favor of some least common denominator Republicanism is an appealing alternative.
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The usual challenge of dining around Times Square — how to find a restaurant that's not aimed at the lowest common denominator?
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Taylor Swift has reinvented herself through several different eras of music, but it seems like there's one common denominator: Kanye West.
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"One challenge is that, with an emerging virus like this, our current assessments are based on an uncertain denominator," he said.
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While these companies all hold high valuations of varying levels, they all share a common denominator in Cramer's eyes: the fundamentals.
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Specifically, the formula can be done by entering your numerator value, pressing the division key, and then inputting the denominator value.
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The profound connection between the Sami people, nature and reindeer dates back thousands of years and remains a guiding cultural denominator.
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It's the act of reaching for the biggest-common-content-denominator in a vast pool of videos whose logic you can't see.
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"If there's any common denominator you see, it's an activated Democratic Party, and that is good for us in November," Cuomo argued.
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As such, there's a little misdirection going on, in that Facebook is including Instagram in the numerator but not the denominator here.
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The algorithmic nature of news feeds tends to target the lowest common denominator, and it can often pander to people's baser instincts.
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We have a tendency to write off reality TV in America as lowest-common-denominator entertainment, because a lot of it is.
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Given the tendency for folks like Sony and Dell to cater to the lowest common denominator, what can they do to compete?
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"We need a common denominator factor, and so the absence of regulation would bother me as much as over-regulation," he said.
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But Aaron notes one common denominator worth mentioning: "I've never, in recent years, heard the word 'Nazi' used so often," he said.
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Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times As a pure ride, "Justice League" nicely panders to the lowest common denominator of moviegoing expectations.
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"As long as the different approaches recognize that they have a common denominator, I think it can be quite effective," Jennings said.
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The stability of the risk-weighted assets denominator and a modest dividend payout ratio should support further increases in the capital ratios.
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"Earnings are good but it's all discounted by the denominator and those are the interest rates and they're going up," Siegel said.
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"The common denominator, no matter what the subject the Democrats bring up, is a tax increase," McCarthy told reporters before the meeting.
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A common denominator of science denial is the rejection of information that is obtained experimentally and rationally in favor of alternative facts.
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It's appealing to the lowest common denominator and basically trying to turn people's heads around by promising a lot of free stuff.
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Mr. Davies sees the common denominator "as mass resentments about one thing or another," but those issues can vary country to country.
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As a result, US jackets have tended to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that does not make for good design.
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The denominator refers to the formula from which mortality rates are calculated — the number of deaths divided by the number of cases.
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The problem is that because it's absurd, it becomes "The Surreal Life," it becomes a sort of lowest-common-denominator reality show.
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If you break down the twin pillars of sex and drugs that hold their albums up, the common denominator is actually loneliness.
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Coffman has a three-part theory on why he lost, but every one of his points boils down to one common denominator: Trump.
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This is an organization that doesn't need to pander to lowest common denominator ratings gimmicks at the exclusion of doing the right thing.
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This leads them to "least common denominator" conclusions, by which we mean relatively weak or anodyne claims that everyone can sign off on.
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The common denominator is that each begins with the premise that someone is entitled to something he or she otherwise might not earn.
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If Justice Kennedy seems a hero to some, it may be because the common denominator is so very low for the Supreme Court.
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A common denominator underlying the rise of ISIS, and the spread of instability and fundamentalism is none other than the regime in Tehran.
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"The common denominator" in the murder and rape cases in New York "is dating websites," Shea said at a press conference this week.
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The greatest challenge at this time, and the common denominator to many of our problems, is the rebuilding of Puerto Rico's energy grid.
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But, the presidency -- until Trump -- was conceived of as being immune to (or at least above) those sort of lowest-common denominator instincts.
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The common denominator, of course, being James Dolan, the owner, who seldom, if ever, has made the right call at the right time.
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American Tower, PayPal, American Water Works, Zoetis, and Visa have only one common denominator – they all were up over 40% for the year.
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We have a large denominator, meaning we have lots of content who's uploaded, and lots of users, and lots of really good content.
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But the common denominator in Turkish life, the factor that cuts across traditional political divides, is the uncomfortably decisive force of economic decline.
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The common denominator is that we are all in this together and that — paradoxically — 'social distance' and business paralysis are the new normal.
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And because of questions around the denominator of corona cases, you can make an argument that it is less deadly than the flu.
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But the common denominator was unusually high Democratic turnout, as well as a spike in Democratic performance over past elections for those seats.
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"We did not try to negotiate the lowest common denominator but consciously tried to unite the best of both worlds," Mr. Kurz said.
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These somersaults of logic and linguistics are creative, but they fail to admit that the common denominator in gun violence is the gun.
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But in Buttigieg, 2020 finally found its common denominator — and a common target for most everyone else on the debate stage Thursday night.
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" Despite Crowley's loss, the governor, who is up for reelection later this year, reportedly said the only "common denominator" was "an activated Democratic Party.
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The Turkish officer said a "common denominator" for everyone targeted in the purges was that they were at least partially educated in the West.
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A good guess is that US and foreign government officials were excluded from the denominator in order to make the math seem more shocking.
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We're an easy demographic to hate on face value, because the common denominator of Bright Eyes fans is having loads of feelings about everything.
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"Genetic disease, once a universal common denominator, could instead become an artifact of class, geographic location, and culture," the authors of the statement write.
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Dulay said all the plaintiffs have experienced different issues, some overlapping, but the common denominator is that they're all LGBTQ creators creating LGBTQ content.
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The review, much like music itself, runs the risk of becoming an artform diluted by the internet's shameless pandering to its lowest common denominator.
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If you take a look at the four firms, the one common denominator was that each one was covering a different aspect of cybersecurity.
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Huawei I think we lose something (maybe not entirely tangible) when we adapt the presentation of technological products to the lowest-common-denominator audience.
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And the common denominator here is data – who owns it, how we use it, and how to prevent misuse and defeat increasingly sophisticated fraudsters.
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The common denominator in these redistricting battles is the determination of reform-minded voters who see how polarization has hamstrung government and halted progress.
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The one common denominator amongst the truly great managers I've seen is to really know themselves and know what their strengths and weakness are.
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"Disadvantage is a common denominator in smoking in the U.S. today, and if you face more disadvantages, your liability to smoking increases," Leventhal said.
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Harley is the object of a tired, lowest-common-denominator male fantasy, much as Ms. Robbie herself was in a recent Vanity Fair profile.
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Dirichlet proved that there is an infinite number of fractions that draw closer and closer to pi as the denominator of the fraction increases.
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A common denominator for many of these crises is in how we use the land, and that is where we will find the solution.
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" - Twitter user @th3j35t3r "Instead of challenging the merits of what Kanye is actually discussing with Trump, some devolve to the lowest common denominator rebuttal.
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Their common denominator is not a use of black idioms but a fascination with sound and color, with intensities and the fabric of construction.
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Cruise, oil, retail, airline and industrial businesses all face different challenges amid the global pandemic, but their dependency on banks is a common denominator.
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The common denominator of these masterpieces is the architect Eero Saarinen, one of the most prolific designers of futuristic style in the 20th century.
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But the actions of the Trump administration, which has sometimes expressed disdain for international institutions like the United Nations, have created a common denominator.
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Given Cora appears to be a common denominator, our perception of the Red Sox's recent championship also hinges on the conclusion of this investigation.
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The common denominator: Small businesses firmly believe the escalating trade tensions will have a negative impact on their bottom line over the next year.
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Many common winter hair dilemmas — like dull color, flyaways, and static-loaded split ends that refuse to stay smooth — have one common denominator: dryness.
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"It's not an election in just any country, it's the very country whose currency is the common denominator for all international trade," Abbassian said.
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But employers must use a denominator based on a completely different standard, one that fails to account for length of employment or hours worked.
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As mostly stable democracies erupt into chaos across the region, it would be overly simplistic to point to a single common denominator or trigger.
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Opposition to a giant tax cut for the rich is a convenient least common denominator position that unites both wings of the Democratic Party.
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Assemblage was the common denominator in the group during these early years, when their works often addressed consumerism, the drug culture, and political unrest.
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If the common denominator among so many shows on this list is "Wow, this shouldn't have worked," then this one really takes the cake.
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But as a lobbyist told my colleagues, the skinny repeal may be the "lowest common denominator product" and stand the best chance to pass.
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"If you go too punitive, there's a risk countries will put forward the lowest common denominator because they don't want to be sanctioned," she said.
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Separation may be a common denominator, but it's apparent that not all immigrants are treated equally by the systems of power in which we operate.
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If labor-force participation and employment are too low for some reason, the hiring rate might look good because the denominator, employment, is too low.
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Some scoff at Toutiao's sometimes tawdry machine-generated mix; a Hong Kong-based analyst says the algorithm seems to cater to "the lowest common denominator".
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"The big common denominator with Mack Weldon is that all of our products do something," said Isaacman, head of product and merchandising for the company.
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Bread may be the common denominator but the fillings vary from donkey meat to deep-fried potato with lots of sauces and condiments in between.
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In fact, Feig showed up in many things I hold near and dear to my heart, without my knowing they ever had this common denominator.
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So I think the common denominator that we see is if you're innovating and you're in an innovative product lifecycle, you can do pretty well.
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The girls weren't very articulate, because they were in a lot of pain, but there was this common denominator of why they had done this.
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"There's a common denominator of interest across age, race and gender," Ms. Atkinson said, adding that it cannot be said of most other dance genres.
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These crises all have one common denominator and it is one of Washington's dirtiest secrets: Congress simply isn't spending enough time trying to fix them.
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Not to mention, there is something to be said for not appeasing the lowest common denominator because it would make for an intellectually inconvenient argument.
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This inflates the LR denominator and means EU banks generally hold larger quantities of low-risk mortgage loans, whereas the US banks sell these off.
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That means the denominator for the case fatality rate — the total number of infections — is uncertain, and might be undercounted due to lack of testing.
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By rallying behind the lowest common denominator of "anything but Trump," they are disengaging the public's discontent, pulling up the drawbridge until the next election.
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I'm pretty good at recognizing satire, and I never really felt like they weren't just throwing red meat and playing to the lowest common denominator.
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I'm not a philosopher so I don't need to have a name for it, but there's this commonality of art, this common denominator, this energy.
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First as a series of specials, then an hourlong weekly series, the program paralleled the snowballing rise of the red carpet as fashion's common denominator.
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Then, you can press the 1/x button to put that number in the denominator (the numerator will be 1), and get your fraction value.
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But IDM honed in on the same romantic spirit from more than a century earlier, identifying a common denominator between Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, and Beethoven.
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He was the Next Big Thing during the '20173s, before becoming a seeming casualty of poorly reviewed, lowest common denominator rom-coms for the following decade.
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It was to some extent a deliberate strategy: the common denominator of all of these coalitions was that they never included the thenItalian Communist Party (PCI).
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If there's a common denominator to the work Adams has done over the years, then, it's in how often she plays characters who bridge those gaps.
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"If these issues are to be resolved, and the code finally comes together, all sides need to keep looking for the greatest common denominator," Yi added.
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"The teams that are winning more than one game, you look at those teams, and the one common denominator is goaltending," Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said.
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Instead of the store serving as the lowest common denominator of basic ARM apps, Microsoft is rebuilding it as the core of any Windows software experience.
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Both transactions have varying motivations, but the common denominator is access to franchises and content that can be leveraged across the parent companies' various business units.
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The denominator is the total labor force, meaning people who either have a job or are looking for one; there were 240.4 million of those people.
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"He didn't find religion, but he recognized the value of helping others," and they soon found a common denominator as volunteers in its various community programs.
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The common denominator in all of the Russian posts — whether aimed at whipping up resentment on the right or the left — was to discredit Western democracy.
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The mathematical characteristics of the answer were ostensibly simple— a fraction less than one that needed a numerator of possible outcomes and denominator of total outcomes.
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"'Nice women' are those who pander to the lowest common denominator of public desire," says Michelle, a co-worker of mine and self-described mean person.
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The Camo-FloweredHere's a hint: If you're looking to juxtapose any aesthetics — saccharine and rough, athletic and polished, punk and prim — having a common denominator helps.
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For presidential administrations of both parties, there is one common denominator: the tendency to treat new jobs as the holy grail of economic success or failure.
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But the big common denominator is Trump's high profile and the fact that low-income, often Latino families are feeling the crunch — even as U.S. citizens.
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Right now, the lowest common denominator for Bluetooth audio is the relatively old and relatively bad SBC codec, though many phones support Qualcomm's proprietary codec, AptX.
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Video games have become an important cultural touchstone for the online age, and a common denominator for online communities that include people from around the world.
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Mendonça: The information I'm getting is that there is a common denominator between you and your sister, as if you came to this world as a package.
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If you're looking for a common denominator, the people who are angry at me on gun control and healthcare don't know how to spell the word you're.
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It could actually be considered harmful to their works themselves, reducing every project to the lowest common denominator of just being Something You Experience Through a Headset.
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According to Eric Null, Policy Counsel at the Open Technology Institute, the FTC regime is generally a much weaker, broader, "lowest common denominator" approach to privacy regulations.
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For a long time the U.S. has been notorious for getting involved in global agreements, grinding them down to the lowest common denominator, and then not committing.
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The common denominator in all of these situations has been racism towards the minority community, the abuse of power, and the lack of accountability for officers involved.
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"Things such as earlobes and dress styles -- I'd really like to see the media not play to the lowest common denominator and comment so heavily on these."
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If you have ever bought a private car, you probably did a largest common denominator calculation—what is the longest trip you will need the car for?
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But it's also a missed opportunity — a film about games that doesn't understand them, with lowest-common-denominator gags in place of inventive humor or sly observations.
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Though every sissy/femdom relationship is wildly different, the common denominator is usually the forced cross-dressing of the male submissive—anything from lingerie to evening gowns.
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So the film opts for the lowest common denominator, going light on the gendered aspects of the story and leaning too heavily on set pieces and jokes.
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So I think there's concern among some in Congress that the least common denominator is going to end up just cutting rates and not doing tax reform.
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" In May 85033, shortly before Trump officially earned the Republican presidential nomination, Hawking slammed him as a "demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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TTIP is not about harmonizing at the lowest common denominator, but rather aligning regulatory processes where it makes sense to the benefits of businesses and consumers alike.
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The blocked cash for land purchases has also been removed from the net debt/adjusted inventory ratio's denominator to reflect that it is earmarked against future inventory.
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One often-voiced opinion these days is that President Trump is marginalizing himself by pursuing initiative after initiative aimed at the lowest common denominator among his supporters.
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One nation in particular has shirked its load, a country whose malign involvement lurks as a common denominator under every one of those aforementioned countries: Saudi Arabia.
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I loved the fact that the common denominator was that they were all very altruistic, and they were all giving to institutions, and creating their own institutions.
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They said it was a common denominator found in almost all of the marijuana samples, the New York State Department of Health noted in a press release.
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The common denominator seems to be novelty: Without a political record to evaluate him, Trump supporters seemed very willing to project onto Trump their deepest political hopes.
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But the Trump administration, which has sometimes dismissed international institutions like the U.N., has created a common denominator for the 193-member assembly: uncertainty over U.S. policy.
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But it was still valid to use GDP as a denominator for assessing debt sustainability and he would instead rely on a 2016 forecast of 5 percent.
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But the national party's commitment to a pretty bland, least common denominator agenda that didn't have a ton of ideological content was also part of the mix.
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When you look at comedies that work that you didn't make, do you find a common denominator in everything from Cheers to Mary Tyler Moore to The Simpsons?
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A repeat of that, perhaps with some favourable tax treatment for firms that repatriate foreign profits, is the lowest common denominator on tax policy for the Republican caucus.
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Through these interactions, candidates will spot a common denominator between a variety of pressing matters: the outsized influence of big money and powerful interests in blocking meaningful progress.
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Hoenig's proposal could clarify the regulatory revamp agenda of the Trump administration by helping to establish a "lowest common denominator" of fewer rules in exchange for structural safeguards.
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So many of the controversies born on the platform, from anti-Semitic stunts to unfulfilled event fiascos, seem to have a common denominator: lack of experience and oversight.
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And what I always sort of remind my students is that the denominator matters, so it's now a 239 out of 220 [total House and Senate congressional seats].
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The EU's overseas missions remain inferior to its major national embassies and Ms Mogherini's monthly meetings with EU foreign ministers are quests to find the lowest common denominator.
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"She Has a Plan For That" romanticizes the idea of having ideas as a core characteristic, rather than focusing on the ideological common denominator of the ideas themselves.
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While this CET1 ratio is below the average of some peer institutions, the denominator of the ratio does include a sizeable component of operational risk weighted assets (RWA).
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Because the common denominator in all these Saudi moves is a more focused preparation for a wider and more direct war with Iran for control of the region.
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While this CET5003 ratio is below the average of some peer institutions, the denominator of the ratio does include a sizeable component of operational risk weighted assets (RWA).
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But in an effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator of "newbie" web user, the arrow has now been swapped out in favor of a conversation bubble.
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In such situations, congressional leaders often turn to lowest common denominator solutions, which in this case would mean a stopgap measure that's mostly free of other add-ons.
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These were all sort of boring least-common-denominator compromises that arguably failed to address fundamental issues, and that's exactly what happened on the Puerto Rico issue, too.
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The common denominator in the Loving Generation wasn't necessarily so much white proximity as white acceptance and, in many cases, familial love and close connection to white people.
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In "Gettin' the Band Back Together," the problems likely started in the improv room, where a necessary atmosphere of supportive encouragement can lead to least-common-denominator results.
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The alarming data collection and ad-targeting practices of Google and Facebook join a host of other internet ills, whose common denominator remains their reliance on internet platforms.
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The common denominator of these scandalous misdeeds and partisan GOP miscalculations is that they all flow from one central source: Trump and his style of politics and government.
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As a global company, Facebook would have to choose whether to create a fragmented service to comply with laws in various jurisdictions or serve the lowest common denominator.
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The protest attracted people from many walks of life, the common denominator being that cannabis had played an important role in their own lives or a relative's life.
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Since then, we've published diaries featuring incomes of all levels and jobs across all industries, the common denominator always being: receipts can tell you a lot about a person.
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Developing a content moderation policy is difficult and bound to anger at least some users, but the alternative can also be indulging the impulses of the lowest common denominator.
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However, one common denominator is that many countries have taken a holiday that has its roots in charitable giving and transformed it into a celebration of slavish commercial excess.
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The common denominator for all the performers was Shane Tarleton, Warner Music's creative director, who organized the event to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, a national caregiving organization.
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Why it matters: As America's biggest trade group representing business, the Chamber of Commerce gives voice to the common denominator position on a host of issues, including climate change.
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We have a primary system that encourages pandering because you got to find the lowest common denominator because that&aposs where the bucket of votes that you need is.
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But what's even worse is the denominator in that market cap to GDP equation has been artificially supported by that same central bank QE and artificially-low interest rates.
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NYPD detective Misty Knight (Simone Missick) works the case with her partner, and constantly—curiously—bumps into Cage, a common denominator who knows more than what he lets on.
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Why it matters: As America's biggest trade group representing business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce represents the common denominator position on a host of issues, including environment and energy.
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Finally, the best denominator that could be used to make sense of fatal shootings is the number of citizens who have face-to-face contact with police each year.
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Every site from the Daily Dot to the Washington Post publishes lowest common denominator stories and cute videos and headlines from every site are starting to sound the same.
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While the intelligence community doesn't make policy decisions, its head, Coats, is the lowest common denominator who pools the analysis and assessments of all the agencies to advise policymakers.
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Hawking called Trump a "demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator" during an interview on the United Kingdom's ITV morning show, according to The Associated Press.
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Because the denominator in this math problem — the number of voting-eligible adults on Election Day — does not change, the turnout rate goes up every time ballots are counted.
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It brings stature and attention to otherwise low-profile installations, exhibits, and performances and prevents art from devolving into a soulless exercise in appealing to the lowest common denominator.
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Your ability to find the greatest common denominator helps you attack your to-do lists early in the week as aesthetic Venus meets abundant Jupiter in your work sector.
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So the childishness has seen some success, but the fact remains that the thrills these calls provide are definitely cheap, and usually base level, lowest common denominator-type stuff.
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"The way that I view economic incentives is that it is, in a lot of ways, the lowest common denominator," meaning the easiest way to motivate people, Buterin said.
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In the surveys, you can see the common denominator for those who voted for Brexit was that they were gloomy and thought things were going in the wrong direction.
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Tensions between the United States and its European allies have meant that where they were once largely in accord, they now seek the lowest common denominator at international gatherings.
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Not coincidentally, many of the deals are deeply transactional — represented a least common denominator nexus of interest group demands rather than a high-minded, principles-based effort at reform.
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Garin wrote in an email: The biggest common denominator among Obama-Trump voters is a view that the political system is corrupt and doesn't work for people like them.
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The common denominator with all of these consequences of grid emergency scenarios is to realize what could happen and to take preventative action today, long before the trouble starts.
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For example, what is the common denominator between "socialist" regimes such as Stalinist Russia, Communist Cuba, or North Korea, and "fascist" regimes such as Mussolini's Italy or Hitler's Germany?
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Where some world music bands seek exotic hybrids but end up settling for the lowest common denominator, Ibibio Sound Machine is a global coalition that builds a true synergy.
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The common denominator in journalists' murders is that they tend to come after a reporter has investigated and exposed wrongdoing or has criticized those in positions of power and influence.
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The industry would consolidate into "Big Anime," a world where a few mega-studios produce Hollywood-style hits, with mass marketing and generic content tailored to the lowest common denominator.
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I realized that the vast majority of these tasks shares a common denominator: Their primary beneficiary is me, but not in a way that would actually drastically improve my life.
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And it seems to be no coincidence that the highest price-earnings ratio since 1881 (I calculate this ratio with 10-year-average earnings in the denominator) occurred around then.
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It's been intentionally the lowest-common denominator, [designed] to not get in your way, not provoke, not surprise, not scare, not delight, just not put off whatever center you're on.
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" He explained how he interprets the variables in his practice: Seth advises advisors, "Demonstrate how high your numerators are and how low your denominator is, and you've built high trust.
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I essentially ran across the street and I rented a storefront and I opened up a stereo repair shop, which was, again, the default, lowest denominator thing I could do.
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Presidential primaries as reality TV could be a mirror reflecting our political interests, informing choice of our next leader, while reinforcing demagoguery for some, appealing to our lowest common denominator.
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So I'd say in my—in my career, that's the biggest change, is the denominator is up by at least a factor of ten to one in terms of scale.
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The common denominator between apocalypse-fears and electronic music is, perhaps, the vague idea of a nerd behind a computer, subverting a helplessly analogue society with his alienated disco tunes.
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Viral animal videos are the lowest common denominator of internet content, but it has become a mark of sociopathy deign to call them unentertaining, boring, or a waste of time.
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You could think of this bill as the lowest common denominator for House Democrats, the minimum they would propose to do to counter Trump and start expanding health coverage again.
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But the bill is essentially a least-common-denominator compromise that grants the island some relief and creditors some certainty without capturing anyone's long-term vision of Puerto Rican renewal.
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And, second, we need to figure out both the public-health numerator and the denominator — how many cases, how many deaths, how contagious, and how many truly are at risk.
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Senate Republicans need to aim for the "lowest common denominator" to keep the Obamacare repeal and replacement drive alive, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told CNBC on Wednesday.
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A confluence of forces—right-wing media, lowest-common-denominator tabloid culture, Manhattan oligarchs and their spoiled, grotesque offspring—turned out to have been badly underestimated by the political class.
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Like finding the common denominator in an outrageously complex set of fractions, the team would need to somehow correct for all this variability and normalize the images they were comparing.
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The least common denominator in global financial stability is the willingness of the U.S. and the other G20 member states to conform to an international order of financial data standards.
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"The only common denominator in all these tragic massacres that have plagued our country has been exposure to violent video games," he wrote in an editorial for The Daily Beast.
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"TV is often looked at as the lowest common denominator medium (in advertising), and unless addressability is achieved at scale, we're going to fall short," he said in an interview.
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There was no better proof of Haggard as the great musical common denominator than the appearance of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, who entered the stage wearing a classic Haggard fedora.
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Regardless of the denominator, there is still the fact that Clinton had meetings with more than 80 people who also directly or indirectly donated to the Clinton Foundation or related ventures.
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And while Dolan has been the common denominator since the late 1990s, mistrust and infighting between coach and front office has been a staple — or sickness — of the Garden for decades.
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But if you loved the first movie for its weird nihilism — or believe that comedies are best when they don't just aim for the lowest common denominator — sit this one out.
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In the end, though, Valve caved to public pressure and settled on the lowest common denominator: the rest of The International 7 will be played on Dota 2's standard terrain.
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Instead, what we're left with is a piece of hardware that's capable of so much but is limited by the content platform that has to optimize for the lowest common denominator.
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First, sentimental songs about the winter holidays, touching to a greater or (usually) lesser degree on the Christian story of the Nativity, became an important common denominator for a diverse nation.
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But "inflammation turned out to be a common denominator and likely risk factor for every manner of psychiatric disturbance, from schizophrenia to obsessive compulsive disorder, from mania to depression," he wrote.
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At end-0003Q16, UBS's qualifying junior debt and holding company senior debt buffer amounted to about CHF36bn, equal to 17% of end-3Q16 RWAs or 4.2% of the leverage ratio denominator.
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So if dilution is a sensitive issue, you need either a larger denominator which is the value of the company and you can get that through potentially proving out more before.
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The EU is a critical partner for the U.S., and Central Europe can act (especially post-Brexit) as a driver of transatlantic accord on a higher — not lowest common denominator — level.
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The trigger for the near 15bp shift was a Treasury report suggesting the removal of US Treasuries, cash and some interest rate derivatives from the denominator for the Supplementary Leverage Ratio.
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"They have probably focused too much on some bad actors and I am not a big fan of lowest common denominator solutions," Roberts told reporters after Penn West's annual general meeting.
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Perhaps it's a sign of the times, but business and politics both seem to have fallen back on the meanest, lowest common denominator, and that's only been magnified by social media.
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And for all the seeming contradictions, there is a common denominator between Muslims who espouse anti-Semitic views and those on the far-right (who also hate Muslims), Mr. Morsch said.
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It was the common denominator with everyone I met, probably because it is the prerequisite — or perhaps the reward — for being the person who steps up before and after a loss.
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"I prefer to photograph people at ease because I come closer to what I've called the 'common denominator' of that personality," Mr. Newman said in a 1992 interview with Photo Pro.
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But most of all, I was disappointed and ashamed — that my country would resort to the lowest common denominator in trying to prevent a global health crisis from reaching our shores.
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There has been no common denominator found so far among affected children, and officials said they were undertaking an intensive surveillance project with seven children's hospitals in hopes of learning more.
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They ignore the fact that many other companies fail to ever achieve a successful drug launch, so the denominator they use to calculate the likelihood of success is far too low.
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"The common denominator is that they started their business because they were passionate about something, and then needed to become full-fledged marketers in addition to building their businesses," he explains.
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Witness this exchange that took place on one PUA forum the morning after the election: The basic idea that "women are getting too out of hand" is the patriarchal common denominator.
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The food at the Rottnest isn't terrible by any stretch, but it follows the lowest-common-denominator formula of the modern Australian bistro: pizza, burgers, pasta and some mildly creative salads.
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Any pre-symptom treatment would have to be effective for the lowest common denominator—mostly likely limiting interventions to behavioral therapies that could help a child regardless of his or her neurodiversity.
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Moves on major markets were tight, with the common denominator still a weaker greenback, down 1103 percent against the yen, and as much as 0.7 percent against a resurgent New Zealand dollar.
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The absence of top-down and decisive policy and budget guidance from "mahogany row" creates a vacuum that the bureaucracy rushes to fill from the bottom up, producing lowest common denominator outcomes.
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"We understand growth is the key issue, if that denominator changes everything changes with it," he said, adding that the budget's fiscal measures demonstrated the government's determination to act on the deficit.
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In the early days of the Trump administration, White House communications occasionally mined communities like Reddit's /r/The_Donald forum for lowest-common-denominator viral memes to broadcast via the president's Twitter feed.
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I think that the common denominator, again, for Vanity Fair is there are obviously a lot of news outlets that do serious investigative journalism, which the magazine has always been known for.
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While Fitch would note that this CET1 ratio is below the average of some peer institutions, the denominator of the ratio does include a sizeable component of operational risk weighted assets (RWA).
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Any EU Commission's decision is the lowest common denominator of 28 disparate nation states, where Germany cajoles and threatens to get a compromise suiting, as Mr. Renzi observes, Berlin's own national interests.
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An analysis using hedge fund analytics tool Kensho found the can still manage to rise during annual periods of multiple compression as earnings (the denominator in the P/E ratio) catch up.
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Alas, the reformers did not reckon with the lowest-common-denominator politics of Germany's "grand coalition" between centre-right Christian Democrats, centre-left Social Democrats and the conservative Bavarian party, the CSU.
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Conference committees, now exceedingly rare, are tightly controlled by House and Senate leadership, and the imperative would be to advance the lowest-common-denominator, budget-only bill that could pass both chambers.
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"I think that the common denominator among all of us [in the intelligence community] that have been speaking up … is genuine concern about the jeopardy and threats to our institutions," Clapper said.
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The veto power of congressional extremists and the imperative for members seeking advancement to always toe the party line, has led to legislating by the lowest common denominator – usually nothing at all.
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When you look at the scores of great men and women we honor this month, there is often a common denominator: attendance at one of our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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"The common denominator in all of these situations has been racism towards the minority community, the abuse of power and the lack of accountability for officers involved," he said in the statement.
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The common denominator that has bound this tradition historically is the broad-based effort to challenge institutional racism, promote healthy black communities and reimagine black identity and American democracy in the process.
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I wonder if this has to do with the original act's keeping tight control, or if it's more a matter of Broadway associating a big-selling act with lowest common denominator art.
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Read more " _____ • Oren Cass in The Los Angeles Times: "Its breakthrough was not in lifting nations up to higher levels of ambition, but rather in dropping expectations to the lowest common denominator.
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Payments innovation continues to be the common denominator across different industries and verticals, and 2020 will see a spike in demand for these embedded solutions in the financial services and adjacent industries.
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Religious pluralism should not strive for the lowest common denominator version of engagement, but rather an appreciation and acknowledgement of our differences, a commitment to cooperative and constructive agreement across those differences.
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Without a Republican majority to approve either a comprehensive replacement for the health law or a repeal-only bill, Republican leaders had fallen back on what they called the lowest common denominator.
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Big-budget visual effects-driven movies now arrive year round, but summer remains high season for sequels-to-sequels and action movies — lowest-common-denominator offerings designed to appeal to vacationing students.
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Well, the lowest common denominator is that they want government to be less involved in health care, spending less federal money to help people get insured and having fewer requirements for insurers.
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We've grown so used to lowest-common-denominator blockbuster cinema that it's almost shocking to watch a big science fiction movie, featuring these kinds of stars, swinging for the fences in this way.
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The common denominator: By cozying up with Ramzan Kadyrov, they have all played their part in making the Chechen leader accused of terrible human rights abuses seem like a normal sports-loving guy.
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"The San Francisco city fathers and those who should be held accountable for our public safety have for years let us all down by catering to the lowest common denominator," the ad states.
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Zettler said the results showed how dark aspects of personality seem to have a common denominator, similar to how scoring higher on an intelligence test tends to mean you score higher on others.
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A kind of eschatological nightmare seems to have taken over our imagination of the future, and it has become impossible to conceive of a world in which the common denominator isn't interminable tension.
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In essence, Google's lowest common denominator is gradually shifting lower, as the company looks to scoop up every last feature phone holdout while at the same time matching the accessibility of Apple's iOS.
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Whether they hew to the left or the right in the church's theological spectrum, belief in liberal and humane migration policies is a common denominator among the bishops of North and South America.
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A lowest common denominator approach, they argued, would set the stage for more fights between member states and Brussels and lead to a false sense of security across the currency bloc, hindering reforms.
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But the French who have joined the protest might retort that for them, language is serious indeed: a typical criticism on Twitter read "simplification, glorification of mediocrity, sinking to the lowest common denominator".
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The women you see on SLR—whether survivors of sexual assault, online abuse, or slut-shaming—all have one common denominator: we had our truth taken from us, our identities distorted and vilified.
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On just about every issue -- from trade to aid for Africa -- the world's 20 headline economies found consensus only on the lowest common denominator, in watered down resolutions worth little on their own.
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For now, it's the lowest common denominator of tethered headsets, and a world in which all games had to work on it could discourage risky creative experiments on more capable and interesting hardware.
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" Civil rights activist Channing Phillips, another organizer, recognized that environmental problems would not be distributed equally: "[Racial] injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitive economic system.
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Isn't it possible that every list of books and songs is carefully selected to appease the largest possible audience, validating the things were already love, without explicitly showboating for the lowest common denominator?
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Mr. Lewis and Ms. Gulbranson had already made the rounds of several Denver restaurants and planned to travel to Pagosa Springs, but the common denominator in their movement through the state was marijuana.
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But they have another, more unusual common denominator: Each makes use of a narrative in reverse motion, a tricky maneuver that runs a considerable risk of irritating, if not outright alienating, the reader.
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Even though this mass shooting appears to have involved terrorism, the common denominator in all of these crimes is easy, unfettered access to guns, It is an uniquely American problem with deadly outcomes.
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"We have seen banks have very different priorities, systems and timings, which is why it was too difficult to find a common denominator," the spokesman told news agency SDA, confirming earlier media reports.
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One common denominator is a program to help students who take summer internships to pursue a startup or with a nonprofit because most of these job opportunities provide either minimal or no salary.
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Our baseline debt dynamics show a gradual decline in the debt to GDP ratio in the next years, driven primarily by the combination of high domestic inflation (denominator effect) and modest FX depreciation.
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The one common denominator they all seemed to have were daily habits or routines, often starting first thing in the morning, that enable them to sharpen their ax by consistent daily self-improvement.
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The Euler phi function of 10 is 4, since there are only four reduced fractions between 0 and 1 with 10 as a denominator: 1/10, 123/10, 7/10, and 235/212.
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In those meetings, I would search to find the common denominator among all of the women so that I could try to emulate it, because I too wanted to be a power feminist.
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"The common denominator was they were told, they were threatened or they did not give consent or they broke their consent or they felt there was no other choice for them," Boyer said.
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This suggests that something simple, like what is physically happening to a cell's membrane, may be the common denominator explaining anesthetics' effects across the plant and animal kingdoms, Dr. Baluska and colleagues suggest.
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"The denominator of ideas you will get in, the vast majority of ideas which are not good, not viable, will flood this process," said Mr. Brilliant, who formerly ran Google's philanthropic arm. video
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If such labels are ever to have any use in communicating ideas or in describing an ideology, they need to describe, at the very least, a common denominator of the people within them.
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Paperbacking made the product affordable to millions, and there wasn't much competition for leisure dollars from movies (which you couldn't watch at home) or television (which was programmed for the lowest common denominator).
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Not only does this seem to define an entire group of people down to a lowest common denominator, but it's also simply dehumanizing to treat individuals as only part of a bigger group.
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Sure, she might have some issues, but Jackson needs to step down from his high horse and remember that the common denominator in all his failed relationships (Stephanie, April, and now Maggie) is him.
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I think the only common denominator is that Jim Comey had very flawed decision making and was doing things like holding press conferences about none that means that he shouldn&apost be doing it.
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Lounge music is, to me, the lowest common denominator, so bland and inoffensive as to be an affront; it is the indistinct gray that emerges from mixing too many colors on the paint palette.
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Since Britain's referendum the remaining governments have been working on lowest-common-denominator projects like an EU border guard and military co-operation to show that they are still capable of getting things done.
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If we, as readers, do not change our habits, content quality will continue to diminish and the level of our leader's civil discourse will be reduced to the lowest common denominator of our interest.
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Inflammation may be a common denominator in the complications that were most responsible for deaths, said Barnaby Charles Reeves of the University of Bristol in the U.K., author of an editorial accompanying the study.
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Four Fractions Find four different fractions, in each of which the numerator is one less than the denominator, so that when all four fractions are added together, their sum will be a whole number.
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Yet, the divergent levels of progress in recent years between the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico regulatory cooperation processes clearly demonstrate that forcing a trilateral approach could slow progress to the lowest common denominator.
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Trump administration officials are the common denominator in every meeting — they have met with lawmakers from the arch-conservative Freedom Caucus as well as members of the Tuesday Group who had previously supported AHCA.
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Maybe they stand out (or blend in) on the pitch better than others, hence being good for either fan sightlines or opponent confusion, but in design terms they strike me as lowest common denominator.
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Because if you're looking for a common denominator between Abby, Eileen, Darlene, Ashley, and all the other women on the show, it's the struggle to assert themselves in a world that's dominated by men.
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" According to the new research, the common denominator of dark personalities is the "general tendency to maximise one's individual utility — disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others — accompanied by beliefs that serve as justifications.
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One anonymous member identified to The Advocate the single factor that tied Gamma Mu's members together: "To be blunt about it, the common denominator for the members is that they all have money," he said.
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" Later in the day, she repeated the sentiment on PBS NewsHour, saying Democrats will be "trying to find bipartisanship where we can, stand our ground where we can't, but strive for the boldest common denominator.
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The one common denominator, sufferers insist, is that these health issues started when they began living near wind turbines—the large windmill-like contraptions that convert wind into energy and emit low-frequency sound waves.
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From a design perspective, Yoshi's Crafted World clearly shares a lot of common DNA with that predecessor and, for that matter, Kirby's Epic Yarn, with developer Good-Feel being a common denominator in all three.
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Often the common denominator is an MBA degree from a top-flight MBA program - a path that demands not only a fair bit of upfront monetary investment, but also a superior academic and professional background.
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"The emphasis on consensus, not losing face and voluntarism has meant that the politics of the lowest common denominator has tended to prevail and difficult problems have been avoided rather than confronted," he summed up.
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It translates ideas from shows like Black Mirror — or even real technologies like Siri — to the absolute lowest common denominator, portraying Kint as oddly amazed at the basic notion of virtual worlds and AI assistants.
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Although the market has rebounded, and the denominator fears dissipated, the net result of the stampede to fundraise early in the year could leave those funds yet to raise wondering if there's any money left.
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Democrats have been actively involved in the talks, which appear on track to produce a lowest-common-denominator measure that won't look much different than a deal that could have been reached on Obama's watch.
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He refused to get into a race to the lowest common denominator, to heighten his own language or ways of thinking to mirror the fear and emotions of the people in the country he led.
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Legal experts say that despite the variations from country to country, a common denominator in impeachment is that it is largely a political act, in which a defendant's accusers, and judges, are rivals for power.
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"Energy is such a common denominator for all economies that the sort of move that we're seeing there has to be of reassurance," said Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank in Cleveland.
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"When the denominator is the 350 million Americans whose cell phones might become vulnerable if you introduced backdoors," said McAfee chief technology officer Steve Grobman, "it doesn't matter if the numerator is 1,000 or 7,000."
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The common denominator in the recent heat-related deaths and hospital visits in Canada and Japan is that many occurred among people who were already facing health risks and who didn't have access to cooling.
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The vast majority of reality series vanish without a trace; the ones that become huge hits are frequently demonized as lowest common denominator TV. And to be fair, some of them sink to that level.
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A number of factors may contribute to higher levels of stress in the workplace, but one common denominator for older professionals could be the added responsibility of trying to balance a family and professional life.
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The iPad Pro-compatible Pencil has gesture support that the original stylus lacks, meaning that developers of Pencil-enabled apps will have to contend with two interaction paradigms or just code for the lowest common denominator.
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The level of civil ignorance in the country allows our politicians -- and Donald Trump is the shining example of this -- to make lowest common denominator appeals about what they will do (or won't do) in office.
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A common denominator of the unrest in Bekasi and West Java was the involvement of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the Islamist group that spearheaded the ouster of former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama last year.
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It said that you can find infinitely many approximating fractions for each irrational number if your denominators can be any whole number, and if you're willing to accept an error that's 1 over the denominator squared.
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"At the end of the day, no matter how you've decided the degree of approximation for [each denominator], whether or not you've succeeded purely depends on whether the associated infinite sequence diverges or not," Vaaler said.
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Stamford is where "The Jerry Springer Show" — a lowest-common-denominator TV grudge match — tapes, and New York is where the show written about it, by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, was always meant to go.
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"Wherever I go in this county, whether a Republican area or Democratic area, there is a common denominator and that is that people are fed up," said Ms. Curran, a 49-year-old mother of three.
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Social scientists have chosen the Midwest as an object of fascination precisely because they thought it offered, as Helen and Robert Lynd — sociologists who studied small-town American life — once wrote, a "common denominator" of America.
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The common denominator among them seems to be a voracious hunger: for money, power, revenge, a baby, a bargaining chip, a return to a more glorious past — or, in Paul's case, for a very old map.
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Since Ms. McCain, a conservative, joined as a co-host on "The View" in October of 2017, she has become its most polarizing and predictable figure, the common denominator in the show's most contentious round tables.
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To senior Republicans like the health and human services secretary, Tom Price, this process is about getting to the "lowest common denominator," not about improving health policy or providing people with better, more affordable medical care.
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If the speed of the object (v ) in the numerator is super small compared with the speed of light (c ) in the denominator—which it is for 51 Pegasi, you get only a minuscule wavelength shift.
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"People generally have to make a lowest common denominator choice when they buy their board right now because they have to think of all the things that they might need to do on it," Matt said.
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Thomas L. Friedman If there is a common denominator explaining so many recent events in the Middle East — actions by Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Syria, Israel and Yemen — it can be expressed in one word: Iran.
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Given deep policy disagreements, however, on problems such as creating jobs, shoring up the euro currency or sharing out the care of refugees, the focus will be showing consensus on a lowest common denominator of shared headaches.
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Facebook Marketplace has three main features: "We show you the most relevant items for you, even if you don't know what you want" said Pan Craigslist thrived in the US by being the lowest common commerce denominator.
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Mr Johnson is too big a risk to take: a man who bears comparison to Donald Trump in his willingness to play to the lowest common denominator—and, it must be said, in his raw political genius.
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He does better when he sticks to a least-common-denominator Republican Party message and says that Hillary Clinton is a bad person who used a secret email server to blow up the US consulate in Benghazi.
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In this case, a recapitalisation to a leverage ratio well above minimum requirements would be possible with the current available junior debt buffer excluding AT1 instruments, which amounts to about 1.5% of the society's leverage ratio denominator.
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The meme spawned dozens of copycat videos and propelled the song back into the limelight, proving once and for all that few forces in the universe are stronger than our thirst for lowest-common-denominator physical comedy.
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The risk of the see-now/shop-now strategy, as was apparent in New York, is that it can drive designers to the most banal common denominator: pieces they know will sell because they have sold before.
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Another former Clinton campaign adviser, Philippe Reines, told The Washington Post that the "common denominator" shared by protesters gathering in front of the White House was a desire to see accountability from leadership in the Trump administration.
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"There's definitely a common denominator between the two," RZA said in a recent Detroit Free Press interview, citing 80s touchstones like Roland drum machines and songs like Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" as major influences on both genres.
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Neither is Henry persuaded to venture into the woods by the Kid's and Molly's testimonials about parallel worlds and fateful journeys into the wilderness; he has zeroed in on the one common denominator in all those tales.
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Mainframe CEO Thor Gunnarsson acknowledges that titles have sometimes catered to the "lowest common denominator," but he believes that as game-streaming advances lower technical barriers, his team can focus wholly on solving the user experience challenges.
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But tensions between the United States and its European allies, particularly over trade, climate issues and the nuclear deal with Iran, have meant that where they were once in agreement, they now seek the lowest common denominator.
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And when governments are eventually formed they tend to be weak, lowest-common-denominator affairs, further enhancing the popular distrust of established politicians; or else chaotic unions like the mixture in Italy of nationalist right and maverick left.
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What is the common denominator in all of these instances is that the United States was not able to fully achieve its stated objectives, and had to settle for something significantly less, because it often lacked sufficient leverage.
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Bayer in 2014 decided to separately list its plastics business, now known as Covestro, and to gradually sell the shares to focus on life sciences, with the genetics behind human, animal and plant biology as a common denominator.
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Adding Trump's bullying, foolish staff—who focus on narrow casting and messaging to the lowest common denominator—would dramatically decrease Ed's chances in a state, as a Republican, where you have to build a broad coalition to win.
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"It's a rather beautiful and remarkable thing that you can always approximate a real number by a fraction and the error is no more than 1 over [the denominator squared]," said Andrew Granville of the University of Montreal.
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In other words, 12 and 35 have no prime factors in common — and as a result, there isn't much overlap in the irrational numbers that can be well approximated by fractions with 12 and 35 in the denominator.
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Here in the U.S., our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved when it comes to identifying a disease and isolating its victims (the numerator) and those with whom they have been in contact (the denominator).
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The one common denominator, in all this time, is that I am a black man constantly having to conform my blackness to what white people, mainly men, on the other side of the table believe to be true.
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He draws on the ideas of John Rawls, perhaps the greatest American political philosopher of the late 20th century, to show that "public reason" can serve as a kind of common denominator between citizens with utterly different world views.
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As noted this ratio is below the averages of peer institutions, though it does incorporate a significant component of operational risk weighted assets (RWA) in the denominator of the calculation, which Fitch believes adds some conservatism to the ratio.
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"We think this is the lowest common denominator to giving the most people access to this tool" Beykpour says about building Producer as a feature available in Periscope's app rather than an API only more experienced developers can use.
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While this CET1 ratio remains below the average of some peer institutions, the denominator of the ratio does include $500 billion of operational risk weighted assets (RWA), which is approximately one third of the total RWA for the company.
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Well, some are raising based on their firms' typical fundraising cycle, and others have accelerated their fundraising timeline to get ahead of any potential "denominator effect" — basically where a continued decline in the market affects LPs' ability to invest.
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"What gets us to 50 votes so that we can move forward on a health-care reform legislation ... that's what needs to happen," he said on CNBC, adding that the Senate should aim for a "lowest common denominator" bill.
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At a World Economic Forum (WEF) discussion in Cambodia's capital city on Wednesday, the organization's first regional meeting in the country, a group of experts shared their dreams for the bloc and human rights emerged as a common denominator.
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The common denominator alleged in all these cases is the use of shell companies that have no legitimate business purpose, no physical presence in any country, no presence on the Internet, and no employees engaging in any visible activity.
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There they were in techno fabrics and floral dresses at Salvatore Ferragamo, currently between designers (the last creative director, Massimiliano Giornetti, left last March, and he has not yet been replaced), and currently going for the simplest common denominator.
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Two days after snaking Tobias Harris from Orlando, the Pistons picked up stretch four Donatas Motiejunas and traveling marksman Marcus Thornton; the common denominator is a shooting range, and also that the Pistons are stealthily building something pretty fun.
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The ongoing catastrophe of testing for the virus in the United States means no researcher has even a reliable denominator, an overall number of infections that would be a reasonable starting point for untangling how rapidly the disease spreads.
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Until something drastic happens — a drunk-with-power EU regulator says everything has to support CEC, or Apple releases a TV that doesn't have any IR support and everyone buys one — IR will remain the fallback, lowest-common denominator.
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SecurityScorecard gives grades from A to F. "You could have the most technically secure organization in the world, but the common denominator is people, and they are always susceptible," said Jay Kaplan, chief executive of Synack, a security company.
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These proved to be so successful in reining in out-of-control emissions that when the Clean Air Act came along, state officials expressed concern that it might end up dragging California backwards to a national lowest common denominator.
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"What we need to do in the Senate is figure out what the lowest common denominator is, what gets us to 50 votes, so we can move forward on healthcare legislation," Price said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday morning.
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A boorish way to rope in unsophisticated fans and cater to the lowest common denominator who will never appreciate the finer, more important parts of the game like, say, the geometrical genius with which Jacques Plante guarded his crease.
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There maybe some regenerative agriculture left, but industrial animal agriculture, the lowest common denominator stuff, the stuff people choose because it's tasty and cheap, that should all be replaced by meat from plants and meat grown directly from cells.
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As Mr. Sanders sees it, the profit-hungry billionaire owners of news media companies serve up lowest-common-denominator coverage, purposefully avoid the income-inequality issues he prioritizes and mute alternative voices as they take over more and more outlets.
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"There is quite a lot of common denominator in the EU-27 that you cannot do cherry-picking," Gramegna said, repeating a phrase used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the position of the other 27 members of the EU club.
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I can break down "bad" in a variety of ways — feeling guilty, feeling tired, feeling angry, feeling helpless, feeling grief — but I think you already know that shared complaint is a least common denominator that serves to do a lot.
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But at its core, the group pursued—like Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the BLM Movement—a radical human rights agenda, one that viewed black equality as the common denominator for a wide range of social justice causes.
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Focus on rebuilding The task ahead is to reject the lowest common denominator rhetoric of a campaign season hell bent on manipulating our sense that something valuable is slipping away, and instead open our eyes to what is being built.
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He "teased" it last Friday 31 March – also the 30th anniversary of Prince's Sign o' the Times, *upside-down smiling emoji* – and since then, there have been various whispers about the song's sound (the common denominator has tended to be "Queen").
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In Februrary of 2012, Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio publicly stated that his new strategy was based on "trafficwhoring," which is the practice of pandering to the lowest common denominator of content and audience to attract the largest number of pageviews.
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I am concerned about all the deeper productivity tools that I use on a regular basis that may suddenly decide that the least common denominator feature set between desktop and mobile is suddenly what they are going to aim for.
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The overlapping regulatory framework, where the states are piling on top of federal, on top of international, has put lenders in a defensive position, forcing them to into the most conservative lending posture in order to meet the lowest common denominator.
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"The new government wants to expand the denominator with business-friendly policies, and shrink the numerator," says Panos Tsakloglou, a professor at Athens University of Economics and Business, and a former chairman of the Greek government's council of economic advisers.
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"I think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions and values, and although we may express that in different ways," Clapper said.
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To the Editor: Mark Lilla's advocacy of a "post-identity liberalism" is really a plea to the disenfranchised and discriminated against to subordinate their fight for equality to the pursuit of some common electoral denominator that won't discomfort white America.
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"The common denominator of all Democrats is that they want more affordable options for people, and how broadly you apply the tool depends on how broadly you define the problem right now," said Chris Jennings, a Democratic health care consultant.
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He "teased" it last Friday, March 31—also the 30th anniversary of Prince's Sign o' the Times, *upside-down smiling emoji*—and since then, there have been various whispers about the song's sound (the common denominator has tended to be "Queen").
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But as most vloggers and YouTube personalities slowly settled into new models for long-term sustainment, Cicierega ventured further into the detrital grit of the web's lowest common denominator with the 2014 release of his debut mashup album, Mouth Sounds.
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The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture is hardest to prove in situations like these — where the numbers in the approximating sequence have many small prime factors in common and there's a lot of overlap between the sets of numbers each denominator approximates.
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"The Civic Culture" sought to find a common denominator among stable democracies by systematically comparing data from multiple nations: two established ones (the United States and Britain); two emerging from autocratic governments (Germany and Italy); and an aspiring one (Mexico).
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Issa in turn asks her friend to really look at why all her recent romances have stalled out, and consider the idea that the common denominator is Molly's own inability to forgive flaws — whether real or perceived — in other people.
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"Insurance is the great denominator here because he's worth more off the track than he's worth on the track," John Patrick Unick, the senior vice president of equine and self-insured risk for the Insurance Office of America, said of Justify.
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Because what emerges from the EU's regulatory machinery is not always a simple arithmetical sum: the accumulated pros and cons of the 28 member states on a particular issue, nor even the lowest common denominator that all member states can accept.
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Which means you either negotiate the lowest common denominator, which means doing pretty much nothing, or if the entire room of diplomats wants to move forward with a treaty, for example, and one state says no, then it goes nowhere.
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I think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is a genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions and values, and although we may express that in different ways.
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The significantly lower coverage reported in the accounts results from KKB's NPLs net of specific reserves being added to Halyk's NPL denominator, while KKB's provisions (some of which were held against performing loans) are not added to Halyk's reserve numerator.
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So now Senate leaders are merely trying to find 50 votes for what HHS Secretary Tom Price openly calls the "lowest common denominator" solution, with the promise that the subsequent conference committee will surely craft a bill that actually works.
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This is not true, and indeed is not even what the text of the AP story says — not constrained to 140 characters, the full story explains that the math threw all US government officials and foreign government officials out of the denominator.
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But this kind of talk has only exacerbated the current tendency of 2016 Republican campaigns to get derailed from their main message in favor of infighting, talking about Trump, and then reverting to the unworkable Obama-bashing message as a least common denominator.
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It is unsurprising that a reality show profiteer would be able to capitalize on the lowest common denominator of the voting public to create a veneer of strength and leadership based on nothing more than repetitive concepts of winning and insulting detractors.
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The firm's CFO, Luca Maestri, accused Ms Vestager's team of "legal mumbo-jumbo" and poor maths: their calculation that Apple paid an Irish tax rate of under 1% for 2014 was arrived at using the "wrong denominator and the wrong numerator", he claimed.
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Nor can you take presidents like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and nominees like Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney and say that the common denominator, the core of their appeal, was racism, nativism and misogyny.
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By appealing to the common denominator—which at this time was deemed Noelrock—rather than continue with their cathartic space rock, Urban Hymns became a number one album, selling over ten million copies worldwide and making Ashcroft a rock star in the process.
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And at the same time, it's very nice to see that there are a lot of people reacting to it, and organising against it but it's really—to me it always feels like the common denominator… it's an angry man behind everything.
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The common denominator is that he's still the country's flag bearer (indeed, he's Tonga's only Olympic athlete), and even though the temperature in Pyeongchang is much, much colder than it was in Rio, he still marched shirtless in the Parade of Nations.
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BRUSSELS, March 26 (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said EU leaders were unable on Thursday to agree on the scale and scope of their economic response to the coronavirus pandemic and hence went for the "minimum common denominator" of buying more time.
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The common denominator between the world's first blockbuster film about an African superhero and an art house film built around a gay romantic love story resides in their near-transcendence of stubborn clichés that obscure the rich inner lives of blacks and gays.
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"This is an act of incredible cruelty done for no other reason than to appease the lowest common denominator: Trump's white nationalist base," Canon said in his statement condemning the Trump's administration's to end protected status for 200,000 Salvadorans in early January.
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A hack like this would take considerable time and resources, the kind that are more likely to be employed by state-sponsored actors or other hacking teams with specific targets — far from the usual lowest common denominator vulnerabilities that threaten the privacy of everyday users.
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The number from AP's tweet that a majority of the people Clinton met with as secretary of state were Clinton Foundation donors is derived, as explained in the text of the article, from excluding all officials of US and foreign governments from the denominator.
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I live in Detroit, and I may think I have zero to discuss with the Trump-supporting lizard people in the suburbs and boondocks, but we're all from southeast Michigan, so our appetite for and love of coney dogs is a rare common denominator.
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Former domestic abuse, for example, was a common denominator of the church shooter in Sutherland Springs, Texas; the shooter in Las Vegas; and the 2762-year-old student who killed 210 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Florida, two weeks ago.
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Former domestic abuse, for example, was a common denominator of the church shooter in Sutherland Springs, Texas; the shooter in Las Vegas; and the 103-year-old student who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Florida, two weeks ago.
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A new idea has surfaced in the last 24 hours about what Senate Republicans might do if they can't pass anything else: they might pass a lowest-common denominator plan that only repeals a few pieces of the Affordable Care Act, the parts everyone hates.
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It's what we call a denominator issue, which—to cut a rather complicated story short—just means there aren't enough vets for the suicide numbers to be high enough to calculate using an SMR [standardized mortality ratio], so we tend to use a different measure.
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As former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright documented in her great new book, "Fascism: A Warning," there's one common denominator in almost every situation when a leader who comes to power via democracy or within democratic norms is able to become an authoritarian ruler.
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But by forcing both Trumpkins and conventional Republican Party elected officials to settle on a least-common-denominator message of "Hillary Clinton is bad," it at least pointed the way toward a potentially winning strategy: Force a referendum on Clinton, who is not very popular.
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"You could eventually end up with someone not ambitious enough, because if you want to satisfy everyone, you might be looking at the lowest common denominator," said Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Reform, a research institute in Brussels.
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Manchin is high on the list of endangered red-state Democrats, and many of his supporters were rooting for Blankenship, figuring it would be easy to beat a crazy guy with terrible business ethics and a gift for pandering to the lowest possible denominator.
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From Eno's innovations came similar stylistic motifs, like downtempo, chill-out, trip-hop, and artists like Massive Attack, Portishead, and Moby—all of whom made music whose common denominator is its link between "relaxation" and diversion, to return to our earlier point about passive listening.
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Furthermore, if the greatest product of these expensive international confabs is a lowest-common-denominator joint statement – and it often is, despite the massive expense and year of preparation required for each G-7 – then we need to ask whether the G-7 makes sense anymore.
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"The reason they don't do it is that if you do, you have to standardize on the lowest common denominator, and these platforms are at pretty wildly different stages in terms of capability and maturity at this point," Jassy said — another veiled dig at the competition.
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In the same interview, Wallace also criticized television — which he loved, despite himself, but viewed as lowest-common-denominator, mass-market entertainment — for training its audience to be "sort of lazy and childish in its expectations" by trying to keep viewers comfortable, rather than challenging them.
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"The common denominator of every criminal case that has ever been brought under the classified information protection laws is that the individual under investigation intentionally sent material to someone not authorized to receive it -- such as a journalist, foreign country or a government contractor," Lowell said.
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We got Cameron on Monday, after the father of one of his dead peers ripped into Louis for his leaked stand-up jokes about Parkland, and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student calls out C.K. for targeting the lowest common denominator in order to make a quick buck.
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No matter how much more enlightened the movie industry becomes, what was 20th-century America's most influential and unifying mass art form is increasingly a business of niche markets and lowest-narrative-denominator blockbusters … and it is not only conservatives who might reasonably regret that shift.
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"What we need to do in the Senate is figure out what the lowest common denominator is — what gets us to 50 votes so that we can move forward on a health care reform legislation," Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, said on CNBC.
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"As of today, we believe Biden would surpass the 15 percent delegate threshold [to be awarded delegates] in nearly every congressional district across the country and in districts where only one or two candidates meet the threshold, Biden is the common denominator," said another Biden adviser.
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"The common denominator among all six [women] is each of them was vulnerable in some manner; they either had a prior history of sexual abuse, or were economically forced into dependence, or young, but all of them were vulnerable in some way," Shea, the women's lawyer, told Refinery29.
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While music publicity is always, fundamentally, about the music, adult industry publicity is very rarely about the actual porn, a reality that's helped fuel porn PR's reputation for stunts targeting the lowest common denominator and press releases hyping their own inherent wackiness, rather than a viable, compelling product.
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Tears started to pour down her face as she struggled to conjure the words necessary to express the toxic cocktail of emotions she felt when a man running for the highest office mirrored the lowest common denominator of attack she'd experienced as a person living with a disability.
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The "required stable funding amount," the denominator in the ratio and what will likely generate the most debate among banks and regulators, will rely on a set of standardized weightings including the carrying values of a bank's assets, the undrawn amounts of its commitments, and its derivatives exposure .
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It's important to understand that the common denominator in the allegations about Louis C.K., Roy Moore, Spacey and Weinstein (who has denied the allegations) and all the other Hollywood and media and political figures accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment isn't sexuality, or even sex, but toxic masculinity.
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To determine physical equivalencies, the co-founder of Colorado's Marijuana Policy Group Adam Orens and his colleagues wanted to create a "flower-based denominator" by tracing edibles and extracts back to their source—in other words, how much bud or trim was used to create the edible or extract.
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"The drivers of deforestation are many and vary among countries and regions but there is one common denominator: it is currently more profitable, at least in the short term, to convert a forest to other uses than to leave it as a natural ecosystem," a ministry statement said.
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" As Christina Cauterucci pointed out in her 2015 criticism of Washington DC's Capital Pride: "Today's Pride threatens to turn a historical, divorced from the context of ongoing battles for queer liberation in favor of a bland street fair that suits the least common denominator of the gay experience.
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As we saw several years later from Donald Trump, who began his political rise by questioning President Obama's American citizenship and launched his own presidential bid by scapegoating illegal Mexican immigrants, lowest common denominator tactics — cheap and vulgar as they are — can work as a strategy toward victory.
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"Our [research] group, and others, recognize that a very common denominator across these communities was that they were working under extremely hot conditions, where hydration was not optimal," said Johnson, who co-authored a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine review article on the potential drivers of the epidemic.
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Of those nine, with the exception of David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE, the only common denominator seems to be military service.
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Whether her DNA reveal was politically savvy or not, the controversy has fed into the image that she's a lightning-rod political figure whose approval ratings are consistently low — when maybe the common denominator is the negative reactions that female candidates and any woman with ambition provokes among Americans.
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Faced with a Republican president he had never expected, and managing a restive majority that mostly agreed on being disagreeable, Ryan defaulted to the lowest common denominator of Republican Party policy: unpaid-for tax cuts for the rich, increases in defense spending, and failed attempts to repeal Obamacare.
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But early in our discussion, when I asked him to find a common denominator among successful sitcoms, he gave me a long dissection of what went right with The Office, which helped transform it from a one-season curio into a nine-season series that ran for over 200 episodes.
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The very qualities that tend to make Clinton bad at speechwriting — a penchant for the least-common-denominator and a passion for making sure no small thing is forgotten — are qualities that are extremely relevant to effective leadership in a political system that's built to favor transactional relationships over big ideas.
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Getting money from a patron or subscriber lets weird, niche projects stay weird and niche, catered to a specific and modest audience, and saves artists from the gross chore of chasing the lowest common denominator and the millions of eyeballs you need to make real money from ads or sponsorship deals.
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"At large we're trying to solve the complexity of digital local presence for large national or global multi location businesses — being fitness chains, retailers, banks, fast food chains or hotels — where the common denominator is multi locations and multi platform presence," says PinMeTo co-founder and sales guy Petter Palander.
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You may have heard the pitch before, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren't homes for your real friends anymore because they're too big, too commercial and too influencer-y, the result is that your most important relationships have been relegated to the lowest common denominator tool on your phones: your texting app.
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And that's in spite of the fact that The Masked Singer is a stupid, unconscionable act of lowest-common denominator aggression on the American public, by a network owned by Rupert Murdoch, a man who has nothing to lose and everything to gain by furiously attempting to dumb us down.
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By blocking all ads on all sites, these blockers treat all publishers as the lowest common denominator, throwing premium publishers (and Facebook) in with the worst-offending sites on the web — the ones that present the risk of malware, that invade privacy, that drag on load times, that ruin the user's experience.
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An alternative vision of WWE, without its expedient reliance on the lowest common denominator, might be presented in the form of Shinsuke Nakamura, a global superstar who came over from Japan, spent a year in NXT, and made his in-ring debut for WWE's main roster in the pay-per-view's opening match.
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Ryu Spaeth: I agree that the show appears to be heading toward some vision of a common humanity, but it is humanity at its most common denominator: a species fighting for survival against another species, one that ambulates and hisses but is basically the anthropomorphized version of an existential threat like climate change.
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There is a potential bipartisan common denominator here which could represent a win for all: the goals of maintaining reliable, affordable energy, taking meaningful action on CO85033 and climate, promoting job security in coal country, and allowing States and local governments to continue funding public services that depend on coal industry revenues.
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It's not unusual, as a journalist, to hear public health scientists of a certain age dismiss a news story of a patient's experience as an "n of 1"—meaning a numerator of 1 over a denominator of some presumed large number, or, translated from jargon, as an anecdote that isn't statistically representative.
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These emergencies were the H22020 swine flu virus in 2009, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2013, polio in 2014, Zika in 2016, and Ebola again in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019 WHO has a poor track record when it comes to predicting both the numerator and the denominator, however.
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Whether McCarthy is destined be remembered as the midwife of a new day in American politics or merely as a brilliant gadfly of the old, it is clear that American politics still reflects the dedication to reforming political processes and limiting executive power that was the common denominator of his public career.
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And the least common denominator here — the stuff Alan Greenspan and Glenn Hubbard and Edward Lazear and Martin Feldstein and Michael Boskin and Ben Bernanke and Greg Mankiw and other veterans of Republican presidential administrations were willing to sign on for — is the suggestion that America should institute a rapidly rising carbon tax.
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WASHINGTON — Several former Obama administration officials were on their regular Wednesday morning conference call this week, plotting against Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, when Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, said on CNBC that his party should shoot for "the lowest common denominator" on health care.
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Rashida Jones has played an array of characters on TV (Parks and Recreation's Ann Perkins, The Office's Karen Filippelli and Angie Tribeca in the eponymously named series), but while the roles vastly differ from one another, the actress says there's always a common denominator that links all of them to one another: their wardrobes!
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"We are seeing Latinos organizing and coming out to vote against, not just the rhetoric that's come from Donald Trump but from all the other candidates in the GOP, who have sort of joined the race to the bottom to the lowest common denominator, and appealing to their bases with hate," the television star added.
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Taking two street fighters—one of whom was ran a backyard promotion—who rose to infamy through gross spectacle and lowest common denominator curiosity and putting them near the top of a major MMA card forced the MMA to confront its anxiety about its origins and the prejudice and misunderstanding the sport still faces.
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The common denominator of Trump, Johnson and Netanyahu is that they all campaign by moving further and further to the right, seeking to aggressively mobilize their core political base which increasingly angers, frightens, alarms and mobilizes the large majority of voters who reject and abhor the political extremism and bitter divisions the far right promotes.
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There was perhaps no better example of this than Silverman's tenure at ABC, a time when he launched such lowest common denominator TV as Charlie's Angels and Laverne and Shirley but also created an environment where classics like cop comedy Barney Miller and the family drama Family could survive (and in Miller's case, eventually thrive).
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Dr. Jaime Friedman, a pediatrician with Children's Primary Care Medical Group in San Diego, tells PEOPLE that she frequently saw such patients when she worked in the ER. "I've seen plenty of kids with stomach pain, pain when they poop, constipation — and the common denominator is that they eat the Takis or the Hot Cheetos," she says.
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Instagram has given every person with a smartphone the opportunity to be an artist, but when you don't think about it as art and you grade the success of what you make with how many times someone clicks "like" on something, it encourages you to make bland, obvious shit that will appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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Throughout our week, the common denominator on our study was the comradery each participant shared, regardless of our party affiliations, that the only way forward for this nation or the island of Ireland is to remember what unifies people and that we use those strengths to focus on a vision of being better than we were yesterday.
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Unlike the Tea Party, which was born after President Barack Obama's inauguration and which spawned a proliferation of well-funded, loosely affiliated right-wing groups determined to hijack the Republican Party and push it further to the right, the only common denominator for "the resistance" today is a commitment to resisting Donald Trump — the man, not necessarily his mission.
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Many of the most difficult to treat brain-related diseases of our century, which plague humankind from womb to grave, and many of which appear to be on the rise, share a common denominator: Immune-triggered microglia appear to be wreaking havoc with the brain in response to the same triggers that spark inflammation in the body.
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But there's a common denominator to all the current conversations around Daenerys, in that each one is also a conversation about Game of Thrones' final season as a whole, and about all the ways that it is trying to (or failing to, depending on your take) offer a final summation of what the series is even about.
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If one common denominator between the best horror films is that what you don't see is often scarier than what you do, another is that it's a bad idea for contemporary city people to go poking around in the Old, Weird America—that's where Norman Bates or Leatherface or the Blair Witch is waiting to punish you for your curiosity.
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The common denominator was Mr. Trump's tendency for boastfulness: One skit from 2005 imagined him trying to film a commercial for Domino's Pizza ("Personally, I think it's the highest-quality pizza of the low-quality pizzas"); another, from 2011, pitted him against Sarah Palin (played by Tina Fey) in a debate among potential candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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For citizens looking for a movement or big, structural change or even just a genuine vision for the future of the country, the strategy is disheartening — just another brazen attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator instincts of the internet that leaves a sinking feeling that shameless memes, Twitter dunks and toxic screaming into the algorithmic void have become politics as usual.
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Otherwise fastidious news outlets keep making unthinkable blunders, and their one common denominator is that they always involve attacks against President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE or conservatives.
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Among these unpleasantries is that, apparently, a subset of Star Wars fans has rejected Star Wars' political message, even though it's basically presenting us with a lowest common denominator of fundamental human rights: that is, it recognizes that law-abiding people from all walks of life have the right to exist in peace and live their lives without being threatened by governmental powers.
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Expensive, and thus scarce, content will tend towards the lowest common denominator (like console computer games) so risk can be managed through a portfolio approach (like music and movies.) This suggests that VR content will eventually be dominated by a few very large companies, and probably mainly companies that enter from adjacent industries (my bet would be on EA.) Augmented reality is completely different.
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A writer who extols the virtues of a group of people based on any demographic denominator runs the risk of flattening or essentializing his characters, but in the face of popular novels centered on middle- and upper-class black experiences, such as those by his contemporary Jessie Redmon Fauset, Hughes's call for nuanced consideration of working-class (and even out-of-work) black people was noteworthy.
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I'd like to see all the serious candidates — Kamala Harris and Cory Booker (not Tulsi Gabbard) — make a public appearance immediately, pledging not only to support each other in the general election and to serve in each other's administrations, but to agree on a common denominator platform or statement of principles, so that we know what unites this party even while they differ over details.
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There are dozens of examples of this in Common Sense, but I'll just quote from the poem, "Goes On," which reveals his determination to stay in the dance: The beat Comes out the speaker Bodies start to move Yearning to be Next to leaning On some other body They get up to dance Couples a common Denominator although A few threes and fours Can be seen Around the floor ….
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" (The work has now become a Stingel trademark; Basel visitors will see a site-specific Celotex work in the exhibition, as well as in the Fondation Beyeler's restaurant.) An invitation from the billionaire art collector François Pinault to take over the 18th-century Palazzo Grassi — one of Mr. Pinault's two Venice exhibition venues — was "a big problem: I just had to find a common denominator for the whole thing.
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