Opel and Audi are hiring thousands of new workers as they expand their car-assembly operations in Hungary and Audi would hire more were it not for opposition from unions and politicians in Germany, worried about jobs at home.Local research and development was often closed down because it looked cumbersome and unproductive.
Look at the unproductive 42-year-old's career record to date: one elegant but slight volume of sketches (Pleasures and Days); those obsessional versions of Ruskin; the abandoned Jean Santeuil; the as-yet unpublished critical essays that became Contre Sainte-Beuve.
To compile the list, Oxfam looked at practices such as offering unfair and unproductive tax incentives and zero or extremely low corporate tax rates, as well as failure to co-operate with international processes to combat tax avoidance.
The study was embarked upon following the decision by the US president, Barack Obama, on entering the White House in 2009 that there would be no official inquiry into the rendition programme, on the grounds that it would be politically unproductive to "look backwards" rather than forwards.
When we dig into the roots of a leader's unproductive behavior, we look for what we call the "operative narrative," the "tape" playing at an unconscious level that's driving unwanted behavior.
Given his team's unproductive league form, that looks improbable.
The UNFCCC process, though quite remarkably fractious and unproductive over the past two weeks—looks in need of some serious attention.
The Congress looks on course to be as unproductive as the last one, paralysed by civil war being fought inside the Republican caucus in the House, between the Tea Party-backed members and more moderate and pragmatic ones.
In my coaching work, I've seen clients who were looking for ways to control strong, unproductive emotions that would get in their way and potentially become career derailers.
It lasted from 1832 to 1835, when it was annexed by the U.S. Look for regions that are otherwise unproductive for the local government.
If that life has working parents who can't make a living wage, you label it a lazy, unproductive drain on society always looking for handouts and trying to work the system to its advantage.
