The imperatives of making money, rather than focusing on technology and expanding new users, is what perhaps sealed MySpace's fate.
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln," went the question, "how did you like the play?" The imperatives of making money, of guessing what the Federal Reserve will do and how the markets will react, of assessing whether a recession is now more likely, of estimating insurance company losses or airline passenger levels, paled in significance.
And then we activated our rail passes, having previously exchanged the vouchers at a special office at Tokyo Station, and for the next week we zipped around the island of Honshu, obeying the universal rail pass imperative of making it pay by traveling as much as possible.
But the head of another biomedical research advocacy group, Research America CEO Mary Woolley, said although her group, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is "pleased" by what it calls "a starting point," her group feels the new initiatives at NIH "should supplement, not supplant, the imperative of making up for a decade's worth of lost ground".
Perry, however, feeling the imperative of making a narrative film out of a theatrical collage, makes concrete and literal everything that Shange merely suggested.
Best American Fictional Character Names (politic: Name your characters by thinking up the most improbable names you can think of. This is fun and silly and an imperative part of making writing good).
Could it perhaps be that the inclusivity of UN and world politics is directly counteractive to the imperative of pruning – of making hard, unpalatable decisions, of choosing priorities, and asking the rest to wait?
Smith himself warned that the division of labour, by routinizing work, would render workers "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," and Marx raised the spectre of alienation as the social price paid for subordinating production to the imperatives of profit making.
Setting foundational values is imperative to making sense of today's political climate, but acting on those values is the practical, real step in moving from theory to practice.
All those costs can be hard to keep track of, making it imperative that you get your stuff insured and/or protected against theft somehow.
Mr. Stockhausen's desire to compete with the horrendous effects of a terrorist act is a nihilistic distortion of the ethical imperatives to make art.
