But we start with the fundamentals of the business — what have been the key drivers or the key levers that are going to achieve growth, profitability and what I call long-term engagement.
In summary, policymakers can use two fundamental policy levers: funding and regulation (or setting standards) to influence quality of early care and education.
The complex, ironic give-and-take of design and accident is the machinery that powers this odd genre, and when it's working right, it seems as fundamental a tool as a lever or an inclined plane.
And finally, however much the Conservative leader insists his "big society" has nothing to do with cuts, the decision to take chunks out of child benefit shows this government is intent on using the deficit as a lever to engineer a fundamental deconstruction of Britain's welfare state.
Is pulling the trigger more fundamental to democracy than pulling the lever?
The massive influx of new and additional funding that is labelled for climate change adaptation can be used strategically by the global health field as a lever to address the fundamental social causes of health and health inequities.
Chemical Engineering Science 59 (17) 3671–3693] derive the fundamental properties of difference points, develop a lever rule to facilitate full column design, and analyze the properties of sectional profiles in reactive cascades.
Education is not only a fundamental and universal right, but it is also a lever for opportunity.
And when Oliver, self-important and unlikable, finally succeeds, it's as if somebody had tinkered with the gears and levers of the plot and disarranged the fundamental order of things.
They are not disruptive, they don't change the fundamental unit economics of business — they are just like brands before them: powerful levers of the power of brands to extract value.
Our civilization, while too late to make the fundamental discoveries that the Greeks made in the sciences — Euclidean geometry, trigonometry, and the law of the lever, to name a few — has excelled at using those discoveries to make machines.
