A chief executive who does a below-average job might still help to raise the value of his options by cutting or reducing dividends, as American companies have, perhaps not coincidentally, been doing since options awards have become prevalent (no doubt a statistical study is being done by a business school professor right now).And that is hardly the only practice that really does not make sense.
It's not anything novel; in fact, it's so prevalent that I doubt viewers think twice about it.
He cast irrevocable doubt on the prevalent theory typified best, perhaps, in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)—that to use an expression meaningfully is to have in one's mind a standard or a rule for applying it correctly.
Considering how prevalent poaching has become, he doubts if he'll return any animals into the wild anytime soon, and he's worried the population decline has become irreversible which he sees as a national tragedy.
But that they reflected, as well as shaped, the prevalent social thinking is hard to doubt.
There is little doubt that corruption is prevalent in Bangladesh, and that rivalry between the AL and the BNP has not served the public interest.
While I have no doubt that racism is prevalent and a serious problem, it is the desire on the part of the students to create "safe" environments that amazes me.
There must be scores of best sellers - Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis, and countless others - that address the issues of self-doubt and anxiety so prevalent among adult learners and performers.
The Ukip protest will, no doubt, add to the already prevalent general impression that British political attitudes to foreign affairs are becoming increasingly erratic and infantile.
(534) He calls this "excusable general envy," and offers two reasons for doubting that it will be prevalent in a well-ordered society.
