Unintended Consequences.(analyisis)

The Futurist;  March 1, 2001 ;   Gillon, Steven M.;   787 words ......Plans Don't Go According to Plan] Unintended consequences teach futurists, presidents, and...policy makers a lesson in humility. Unintended consequences have a way of underscoring the...immutable rules of nature, the law of unintended consequences, which states that you cannot...

Unintended consequences?

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  July 17, 2005 ;     288 words ...I'm writing in response to Rep. Gibson C. Armstrong's July 3 "In My Opinion" column...districts in Pennsylvania is in need of adjustment. Perhaps Rep. Armstrong's suggestion would work, although it's hard...as the source of school funding and replace them with Rep. Armstrong's "simple, equitable, exportable ...

Oops: Unintended Consequences; How Hinduism's problems turned out to

Hinduism Today;  April 30, 1997 ;     787 words ...Hinduism Today 04-30-1997 Oops: Unintended Consequences; How Hinduism's problems turned...rare birds to extinction's edge. Unintended consequences. Behold the ominous green sea...increases where it was planted! Unintended consequences. Edward Tenner calls these "revenge...

House rejects bill targeting eco-terrorism ; State House: Lawmakers split...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  April 6, 2006 ;   SUSAN M. COVER Blethen Maine News Service;   438 words ......is too broad or could have unintended consequences. Byline: SUSAN M. COVER Blethen...scope. It cannot be ignored." Rep. Janet Mills D-Farmington AUGUSTA...name of environmental causes. Rep. Kimberly Davis, R-Augusta...with the property interest." Rep. A. David Trahan, R-Waldoboro...

The law of welcome surprises. (positive unintended consequences)(Column)

U.S. News & World Report;  December 30, 1996 ;   Whitman, David;   787 words ......afoul of the so-called law of unintended consequences. As the conservative thinker Irving...news stories cited examples of unintended consequences, ranging from automobile air bags...a simple but neglected truth. Unintended consequences are not inevitably disastrous...

Project management and the Law of Unintended Consequences.(PROJECT...

Defense AT & L;  March 1, 2006 ;   Turk, Wayne;   787 words ......and maybe wondered if the Law of Unintended Consequences is something that I made up. No...Encyclopedia of Economics article on Unintended Consequences defines it by saying that the...results. Most of the time, the unintended consequences are relatively minor and have...

Fed: CBA s Murray says charter may have unintended consequences

AAP General News (Australia);  June 27, 2001 ;     269 words ......s Murray says charter may have unintended consequences CANBERRA, June 27 AAP - Any social...industry could result in damaging unintended consequences, Commonwealth Bank chief executive...discussed against the background of unintended consequences on customers." Past experience...

I'm doing better but feeling worse: serendipity, unintended consequences,...

Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology;  March 22, 2002 ;   Connolly, Frank W.;   787 words ......When we don't like it, we call it unintended consequences. In both cases the outcomes are...for missed classes, so could I. Unintended Consequences The concept of unanticipated consequences...being referred to as the Law of Unintended Consequences. The Law is: Regardless of the...

unintended consequences

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;    Craig Calhoun;   72 words ...unintended consequences One of the core insights of sociology is that the purposes...exhaust the meaning or results of their actions. The “unintended consequences of purposive social action” (as Robert K. Merton phrased...

Act like an adult: The truth behind unintended consequences

The Journal for Quality and Participation;  January 1, 2000 ;   Barker, Joel;   787 words ......American business vocabulary. "Unintended consequences" is being connected to the complexity...assumption behind the concept of unintended consequences is simple: we do something that...accepting them is wrong. Most unintended consequences are mislabeled. Better they should...

The law of unintended consequences

The Quill;  January 1, 1998 ;   Feola, Christopher J;   331 words ......without a mention of the Law of Unintended Consequences. This is a law of economics that...for faculty parties. The Law of Unintended Consequences is fairly clear in this case...soaked. Even worse, the Law of Unintended Consequences showed up in full regalia. The...

Unintended Consequences - The United States at War

RUSI Journal;  June 1, 2007 ;   Coker, Christopher;   787 words ...Unintended Consequences - The United States at War...American history. All wars have unintended consequences. 'Consequence management...place. When they speak of 'unintended' consequences, they are referring to those...

Somalia: Decades Of Unintended Consequences

All Things Considered (NPR);  June 7, 2006 ;   ROBERT SIEGEL host;   461 words ......06-07-2006 Somalia: Decades Of Unintended Consequences Time 20:00-21:00 PM Play Audio...decades a case study in the law of unintended consequences. During the Cold War, the U.S...thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis, unintended consequences. In 1992 television pictures of...

Research and Markets : Ensuring the Benefits of Public Reporting and...

M2 Presswire;  September 12, 2007 ;     571 words ......Pay-for-Performance Programs Outweigh the Unintended Consequences, an Audio Conference on CD-ROM...Pay-for-Performance Programs Outweigh the Unintended Consequences, an Audio Conference on CD-ROM...raised about the potential for unintended consequences of performance measurement ...

Unintended consequences mar bills

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  March 10, 2002 ;   Rep. Dan Brady;   711 words ......carefully to avoid unintended consequences. If we are hasty...the proposal has unintended consequences that do more harm...agree. Another "unintended consequences" example is the...introduced by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz...Consequently, Rep. Feigenholtz's...s the kind of ...