Some companies, she notes, have chosen to completely decouple themselves from campaign contributions.
And then, in less than a generation's time, millions of people completely decoupled themselves from nature.
They want to generate as much renewable energy to meet their needs, to decouple themselves from the risks of escalating fuel prices and price volatility".
BEFORE the global financial crisis, emerging economies like China aspired to "decouple" themselves from the rich world, hoping that local demand and regional trade would sustain them even if Western markets faltered.
Glass-Steagall aimed to protect the common folk who deposited money in their banks for safekeeping, and ordered that those banks decouple themselves from the business of placing the type of speculative stock market bets that caused the great crash of 1929.
The global financial crisis demonstrated the negative effects of worldwide financial integration, sparking discourse on how and whether some countries should decouple themselves from the system altogether.
They're because these trends have become increasingly decoupled from hiring — from needing more human workers.
"The process of decoupling religion from politics accelerated.
In effect, decoupling technology from execution.
Thus, decoupling performance from morality will be difficult, Reed notes.
