Quite a few of us -- businessmen of Greek descent -- who frequently participate in international business meetings, have often realized at some point in certain of these discussions that our nationality plays negatively in the eyes of our counterparts, generating some type of negative reflex.
The process could be used with any type of negative.
"I think we would all be afraid of some type of negative impact in a court proceeding".
Studies show that this type of negative thinking is far more common in women than in men, and that it can be a harbinger of clinical depression.
"If you don't find anything to channel any type of negative thoughts into, you're going to just be thinking about it all day, every day," he told me.
Here's the other thing: almost every journalist has experienced the aggravation of having readers give aggrieved, enraged, dismissive, or, really, any other type of negative reaction to an article based solely on a headline.
The centrist council, based in Washington, helped head off a bruising television war in New Hampshire by running commercials there warning Steve Forbes not to engage in the type of negative advertising that he had in 1996 against Bob Dole.
Mr. Terhune, a former Teaneck police lieutenant and Bergen County sheriff who majored in psychology at Rutgers and got a master's from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that when he took office he concluded that "that type of negative program" was not for every school group.
Or perhaps Behan's obsessive use of Irish socialist/republican themes after his own withdrawal from the movement was merely an index of his own contradictory blend of reverence and contempt for the past – a type of negative patriotism comparable to John Osborne's.
Introduced in 1975 and extended by Ronald Reagan and every president since, the EITC is a type of negative income tax for poor workers and is America's most efficient anti-poverty tool.
Part of this is simply that any type of negative campaigning tends to entail more risk than positive campaigning, and candidates with as strong a strategic position as Mr. Romney's should be loath to take risks.
