For Southwest as a company, it's dumb for an airline that brands itself as a down-to-earth, problem-solving company to hand brand control over to the annoying practices of Chase Visa.
Now, origami engineers Zhong You and Weina Wu of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have tackled a more down-to-earth problem: whether a tall shopping bag built from a rigid material or an open-topped cardboard box could ever be folded flat like a traditional grocery bag without having to open its bottom.
The $65 million show, held up in the past by trouble with its ambitious flying effects and the safety issues they posed, is struggling now with much more down-to-earth problems: adding a major final number and straightening out some plotting and dialogue preview audiences baffled.
After all, our brains evolved to help us solve down-to-earth problems of survival and reproduction; there is no particular reason to assume they should be capable of cracking every big philosophical puzzle we happen to throw at them.
For Sierra-Sastre, whose scientific background includes chemistry, nanotechnology, and materials science, this means a rewarding job where she can contribute to securing the U.S. economy and apply her scientific knowledge to complex down-to-earth problems.
Instead, he projects the image of a down-to-earth kind of guy bent on solving problems with common sense, not ideological remedies.
To vote is to make a down-to-earth critical judgment about a complicated world with difficult problems and limited options.
A pacifist-anarchist with a down-to-earth streak, he was the organizer who frequently handled negotiations when the shows caused problems with the local authorities (a common occurrence).
And the "problem solving" that motivates all scientists – whether a cosmologist, or an engineer facing a down-to-earth design conundrum – is also an essential skill.
There's a down-to-earth way.
Pandit affects a down-to-earth demeanor.
