True, academic life follows the "tournament" model -- "one in which small advantages lead to winner-take-all successes".
Competition in the academic sector, as elsewhere in contemporary American culture, follows what economists call a "tournament" model -- one in which small advantages lead to winner-take-all successes.
But Abbott insisted his promise to match funding did not apply to each individual school, in an apparent concession that the government's decision to rewrite the funding model after 2014 could lead to winners and losers.
"Actually, the question is: Does the West and especially the United States really want democracy in the Middle East, when free elections would lead to winners who hate the United States and Israel?" Noam Chomsky, the linguist and political critic, told me in his office at M.I.T.
Competition for limited resources even amongst closely related individuals will lead to winners and losers and within hosts this is likely to favour not only parasites that act to rapidly exploit hosts (and thereby the more virulent strains) but also virulence polymorphisms [14].
Winner mentioned to the actor Charles Bronson the idea of a man "justified" by the rape and murder of his womenfolk to shoot muggers, which led to Winner directing Death Wish (1974), and two sequels.
Second, we investigated whether fighting experience led to winner or loser effects.
But — leaving aside the fact that the tech industry is increasingly becoming the Establishment, and vice versa — I've been arguing for some time now that as software eats the world, and leads to winner-take-most economics, it drags us all from Mediocristan towards Extremistan (to quote Taleb again).
This can lead to a "winner takes all" (or almost all) dynamic: category leaders do very well, while Nos.
This will lead to the winners helping to craft the public messages on autonomous vehicles, leading the industry on recommendations for tax policies and working closely with local, state and national officials to reshape cities and society.
Moreover, the government believes delaying the revaluation will actually lead to more winners than losers overall.
