Higher taxes on the affluent cannot solve the long-term deficit, which is foremost a product of rising health costs.
JOHN DANNER: Whereas drivers are focused first and foremost on product, explorers are focused on the puzzle or the problem, if you will.
But we should remember what dozens of studies on climate change communication have taught us: people fit the facts to their pre-existing narratives about the world, which are first and foremost a product of their values and political outlook.
Boko Haram is, first and foremost, a product of Nigeria's broken and kleptocratic politics which now risks destabilising neighbouring states.Even the prospect of elections on February 14th has failed to galvanise Mr Jonathan.
"When I was wrestling," said Rowan, who is known in sumo as Akebono, "I wasn't thinking, 'I'm an American, I'm going to go out there, plant my flag in the middle of the ring and take on the Japanese".' He said he always considered himself a sumo wrestler first and foremost, the product of the Japan Sumo Association, the governing body of the pro sport.
But education, both higher ed and K-12, is a business first and foremost — a product based business, which happens to be the largest employer in every state, with each state administering budgets as large as a Fortune 500 company, spending on construction, transportation, technology, HR, wages and more.
It was, first and foremost, a product.
First and foremost, your product must aesthetically look and feel different from your competition.
While the authoritarian regimes were (and are) indeed rejectionable and disruptive, they are first and foremost a product of structural flaws in Arab societies, and only later one of the reasons for their predicament.
