Children of the top 1% (and the top 5%, and the top 20%) have spent their entire lives accumulating advantages over their counterparts at the bottom.
Time and time again, the umpire's subconscious mind was influenced by status and reputation causing what the research refer to as the 'Matthew Effect,' or an accumulated advantage.
We develop the idea of research ensemble, characterize it in comparison with related concepts, explain how it reflects policy priorities and provides a new way for research groups to accumulate advantage and disadvantage.
They had a lifetime of accumulated advantage before they ever knew me.
The accumulated advantages can be significant, for example in 1999, 28 of Sea-Land's fleet of 63 ships were foreign flagged, saving the company up to 3.5 million dollars per ship every year.
It was also about accumulating economic advantage and maintaining power.
Furthermore, fast growing genotypes may have higher competitive abilities due to their accumulating size advantage, but rapid growth may also entail costs such as increased susceptibility to low levels of oxygen (Sundt-Hansen et al. 2007) and increased levels of predation (Brodin and Johansson 2004).
He is a grinder, patiently maneuvering and accumulating small advantages until his opponent's defense cracks and succumbs to the pressure.
While it is certainly true that Republicans gained seats in North Carolina and held onto seats in Pennsylvania, Democrats also accumulated an advantage in California and Illinois.
If one country was the first to begin manufacturing airplanes, say, it might accumulate an advantage in economies of scale so large that it would be difficult for another country to break into the industry later on, even though there might not be anything about the first country that made it particularly well suited to airplane-making.
