Naming, Dr. Lupyan concluded, helps to create mental categories.
These differences, she concluded, helped recapitulate existing class divisions.
"The local passions enveloped in the broader conflict," the Nation concluded, "help to explain why the United States and its allies have struggled for more than eight years to end the insurgency, without success".
It concludes: "Help us, Lord, to live our lives in such a manner that when we make that last inevitable ride to the country up there, where the grass grows lush, green and stirrup high, and the water runs cool, clear and deep, that you, as our last Judge, will tell us that our entry fees are paid".
A 2012 review of workplace-empowerment studies since the early twentieth century concluded that helping employees to feel more in control has "proven to be competitively advantageous".
If Nocera had looked at alternatives that many of us have been suggesting and if he still concluded that helping rich guys get richer was the only conceivable strategy, his attitude might be acceptable.
The structure of the settlement, the experts concluded, would help stave off insolvency for both companies, especially the publicly held Sotheby's, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
That sort of impulse, she concluded (to help your neighbor save his burning house, for example) led inexorably "to the New Deal".
Chinese researchers have concluded Sprite helps the body metabolize alcohol by speeding up our ability to process aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), the so-called culprit of hangover symptoms.
So maybe, Dave has concluded it helps to have a political partner called Nick, sometimes to agree with, and sometimes to take the fall.
