3. What matters in long run is better, more affordable health care for Americans, NOT House leaders' arbitrary legislative calendar.
Arbitrary though calendars may be in dividing up time's continuous flow, they influence the way humans think about time.The effect can manifest itself in even subtler ways.
Christmas – and every other holiday – simply marks a date on a calendar, an arbitrary point in time, especially when you take into consideration the fluctuations in the rotation of the earth and the lunar cycle.
But startup founders, and to an extent venture capitalists, as well, shouldn't time their raises by some arbitrary spot on the calendar or superstitions.
"Economic conditions should determine when this safety-net program ends, not an arbitrary date on the calendar".
"They're the things which interest booksellers," he continued, "not which publishers have chucked out a celebrity biography tied in to some arbitrary date in the calendar".
Wednesday marks 100 days until the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio, it's nearly time for the traditional flurry of excitement that accompanies a really quite arbitrary moment in anyone's calendar.
Together, a symposium made up of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin and Iris Murdoch would surely have plenty to add about a fictional artefact that seeks coherence at the intersection of an arbitrary date, the passage of calendar time and the unfolding of individual biography.
We generalize these relationships to higher order identities derived from an arbitrary number of events in calendar time.
"A calendar-year scorecard is very arbitrary," said Charles M. Royce, manager of Royce Premier, which has returned 14.1percentt a year and has not lost money in a single year in the last 10 years.
