It takes time, changing the culture, the economy, the mindset".
This economy-first mindset manifested itself most plainly in Ike's defence budget formula, which he calculated using the "remainder method": revenues minus domestic spending equals defence budget.
But as India's economy grows, mindsets are changing and the business of giving is becoming more than just money.
They don't accept an America that takes a backseat to global climate leadership, and they aren't buying into the "economy versus environment" mindset.
The big banks held sway over the local economy, the southern conservative mindset over the political discourse.
They looked at the repeated attempts by the Bank of Japan to pull its economy out of a deflationary mindset and concluded that other central banks might prove equally impotent.A look at money-supply data in leading economies provides both sides with ammunition.
When the economy turned, so did my mindset.
The technology of Modesat, which sells telecoms gear and was recently bought by Xilinx, a chipmaker, originally came from what is now Belarus.But the failings of the Soviet command economy helped to produce an entrepreneurial mindset.
We may be a global economy, but we have such closed mindsets.
