In time, though, the initial estimate escalated as decisions were informed by politics, civic pride and jealousy — emotions rather than dollars and sense.
Acute stress may escalate risky decision-making in men, while there is no such effect in women.
FOR 18-year-old consumers, financial decisions escalate exponentially.
The fourth in a continuing series, the report suggested that extended tours and multiple deployments, among other policy decisions, could escalate anger and increase the likelihood that soldiers or marines lash out at civilians, or defy military ethics.
His last film, "Path to War," an ambitious HBO drama about the Johnson administration's decisions to escalate the war in Vietnam, was shown in May to strong reviews.
Marzouk said Hamas had not made a final decision about escalating its own attacks on Israel, should the talks fail – but claimed that "all the options are available to the Palestinian people in order to them to gain their rights".
In going to such lengths to keep Stewart's brand, Penney executives are succumbing to what economists call the "sunk-cost fallacy," in which people justify escalating investment in a decision, even after it becomes clear that the cost of continuing the present course outweighs the benefits.
As for Washington, the accounts of recurrent decisions to escalate in the Pentagon Papers read like an extended prequel to Bob Woodward's book last year, Obama's War, on the prolonged internal controversies that preceded the president's decisions to triple the size of our forces in Afghanistan.
The real story, as explained by Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at Yale Law School, and Reva Siegel, a professor there, is that political conflict over abortion was escalating before the Roe decision, and that state progress on decriminalization had reached a standstill in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
"Tactical incidents and decisions can escalate quickly when there are no channels of de-confliction, no ways to mitigate risk in the common battle space on the ground and in the air over Syria," he said.
