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...complacency. Americans are in the process of forgetting all they learned about energy conservation. Yet convincing signs—including a recently released repot by the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that a new oil crisis may develop by the end of the decade that would “deal a devastating blow” to major industrialized countries...
...paying to a more extreme level. Imagine that when you step into the restaurant the waiter tells you that the average diner eats about 50 bites and spends about $50 in this restaurant, making it a dollar per bite. He further informs you that today they have special deal of $0.5 per bite, and that a waiter stands a few feet from your table will watch you and mark every bite you take so that the end of the meal they will only charge you for the number of bites you took. Sounds like a great deal...
...does it? Whatever financial benefit you might derive from such a deal, the real joy from the dinner will be very low because each bite you take reminds you how much you are spending. This might be a good dieting approach, but not a way to enjoy spending your money. What this idea shows is that the way you pay has important psychological implications on how you view the money you are spending—what we call the “pain of paying”—even though on a rational level, we all know that...
...time of Osborne's trial reported the slur. He said Mostiler indicated that he wasn't planning to work very hard to save the killer and that he wasn't telling Osborne that the state was offering a plea bargain to life in prison. The issue of the plea deal had already been raised in an earlier appeal before the lawyer's death, and when Mostiler testified that he conveyed the state's offer and Osborne turned it down, the appellate judges chose to believe him over his former client...
...definitely felt that Harvard accepted that this was an issue and ultimately did start to deal with it,” she said...