The result is that parenting becomes another project to be managed, another skill for us to be appraised on – pushed into the competitive arena by an industry that feeds off our anxieties by creating them in the first place – when, really, we should be too busy trying to bring up our kids to worry about the way we're parenting them as well.
Stewart's updated version of 1950s domesticity assumed every corner of one's home was to be manicured, appraised and surveilled.
It takes a while to apply and even longer to be appraised by the local agency and state offices.
Where policy work and language skills were all, diplomats are now appraised on their "strategic awareness" and ability to "communicate and influence".
Their portfolios were appraised at a modest €42 billion in 2009.
Despite this, such securities are appraised at close to their face value.
In fact, it can cope adequately with only 17m, says Dieter Faulenbach da Costa, an airport consultant who has appraised the project for an opposition party in Brandenburg's state parliament.
DMG's assets have yet to be appraised, but company representatives have already said they do not have the cash to pay back all their investors.Not all Colombians are opposed to the investment firms.
On another occasion, the audit team itself felt that a joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment should be independently appraised.
Richard Tol of Sussex University, in Britain, disparagingly appraised the report's conclusions as "the four horsemen of the apocalypse".
Business schools are changing their curriculums, spurred on by initiatives like the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education and the Academy of Business in Society, and by media such as BusinessWeek and accreditation bodies like EQUIS which put the quality of teaching on sustainability at the heart of how schools are ranked and appraised.
