"They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they ask us to attack Hamas," Mr. Diskin was quoted as saying.
Is it a zero-sum situation or can "good enough" be "good for me"?
If you repeat this binary-like decision process throughout the industry and economy, you get a zero-sum situation where one competitor's gains come at the expense of others' in the industry: Apple's iPhone sales obviously put a dent in the Blackberry; and its iPads are evidently going to affect PC sales – no matter how much some want to deny it.
His belligerent approach to negotiating is an example of what experts call distributive bargaining — making outrageous demands and hoping the other side gives ground in a zero-sum situation, says Fen Osler Hampson, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada.
Namely, though poststructuralism requires that interactions between people and ideas be seen as zero-sum -- for instance, if one person talks over another, the second person has been "silenced" or rendered "invisible" and not just demonstrably disadvantaged -- a palimpsest does not, in itself, qualify as a zero-sum situation.
One of the nurses put this in terms of a 'zero-sum' situation: "There used to be child health, equivalent down the street.
At what ages were numbers (effectively proportions) of total deaths reduced, and where did compensating increments in a zero-sum situation occur (because death can be deferred but never avoided)?
Even so, this can still be seen as a plus-sum situation: if an adequate level of NSF and/or NIH funding were to be provided to support such ethics coursework (or curricula), appropriated monies could be used to re-fortify humanities' programs that could be specifically designed to more authentically and effectively inter-digitate with the sciences and medicine.
And human life, competitive as it is, is full of non-zero-sum situations.
He claims that the "core pattern" of "history's basic trajectory" is for societies to increase in complexity, driven by a universal human aptitude for reaping the benefits of non-zero-sum situations.
To sum the situation up, hours after Park Sang-ki's comments, a representative of President Moon Jae-in told Korean media [link in Korean] that the Justice Ministry's position does not reflect that of the entire government.
