If large numbers of people are convinced that a company's core operations harm society, changing that negative perception by spending more money on corporate-responsibility programs can be an uphill struggle.
But I think the proper analogy is that Silicon Valley techies view government as code, the operating system that defines the operation of society...an operating system maybe overdue for disruption and a major upgrade.
They are coming up against committed independent heads of co-operative societies who have long experience of mutual operations.
In a 1996 speech, Dr. Graham told an audience at the Heritage Foundation that "environmental regulation should be depicted as an incredible intervention in the operation of society".
As he said in a 1996 speech at the Heritage Foundation, "environmental regulation should be depicted as an incredible intervention in the operation of society".
Even in democracies, many may consider interest groups detrimental to the operation of society and government (in general, however, there is a broad consensus in most democracies that interest groups play a vital and necessary role in political and economic life).
Or as another diarist, Vere Hodgson, prosaically but powerfully put it in 1949, "Oh, for a little extra butter!" The lessons of history can be overdone, but the austerity of the 1940s – a largely successfully managed operation, with society remaining broadly stable and cohesive – has four to teach us.
Key topics include energy supply, renewable market designs, flexible system operation, and society and consumer demands.
In a future in which the operation of societies on floodplains is likely to be impacted by climate change, such subtle cultural differences may influence the way in which they adapt.
Trollope brings the operations of English society on to the page like nobody else.
The new metadata retention laws show a cavalier disregard for the right to privacy, or in the words of whistleblower Edward Snowden, "a radical departure from the traditional operations of liberal society".
