The Big Gulp holds institutional importance to 7-Eleven, not only as a large source of revenue, but as a mainstay on those green-and-orange pit stops that have become a staple of American and international culture.
From the early 1990s onwards, to the numerous studies on the economic, sociological, organisational and demographic role of cities in the development of contemporary democracies, just as many papers were added on the political and institutional importance exerted by cities and local governments in the functioning of democracies (Bagnasco and Le Galès 2000; Lascoumes and Le Galès 2004).
The philosophical and institutional importance of individual autonomy for liberal democracies is clearly reflected in the decisions that have been taken by the Supreme Court of Canada since 1982, when a Charter of Rights and Freedoms was entrenched in Canada's Constitution, and in the language that the members of the Court have chosen to employ in order to justify their decisions.
Even so, only a filmmaker with a naïve, blinkered view both of journalism and human nature, and with so little grasp of what can happen when youthful ambition meets institutional self-importance, could have been surprised by a Stephen Glass or reached such dizzying heights of outrage.
Increasingly, the five judges of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which traces its roots back to medieval England, have been putting their faith in the sophistication of institutional investors, the importance of independent directors and the shareholder vote.
Data centers are the basis of this infrastructure, but networks of institutional repositories gain importance.
Institutional power, fame, importance--these are constantly at stake in every interaction between poets.
More than ever, higher academic institutions for public health are recognising the importance of institutional partnerships with various organisations and efficient modes of cooperation in regional and global networks.
Mr Glaeser and his colleagues point out a problem with theories stressing the importance of institutional reform: it is fiendishly hard to find a quantitative measure for institutional quality that can be plugged into a statistical model explaining economic growth.
However, it appears that it is the challenge of having a child during training that is the most important determinant of the learning experience, which points to the importance of institutional support in the form of job-sharing or other forms of flexible work arrangements that can accommodate parenting responsibilities [ 11, 54].
But even new institutional economists understand the importance of economic structure and its relation to institutions.
