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How to use the word Incentives in a Sentence?

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Incentives matter. And the incentives today are out of whack, it’s time to get Americans back to work.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Work requirements provide the deadline and incentives that we all need, the alternative is that people are trapped in poverty for the long term.

Tarren Bragdon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even if a case was tried in a part of the country where Donald Trump is n’t very popular, statistically Jennifer Rodgers are very likely to end up with one or more Donald Trump voters on the jury of 12 people, a judge would tell jurors to put aside their political views and personal beliefs — but I know from my days as a prosecutor that jurors are human beings, not robots — they’re subject to the same emotions, biases, and incentives as any person would be. And the legal bar at trial is far higher than in the grand jury ….

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With less competition in the market from other shoppers today, some home builders are now offering prospective buyers incentives that may help some new home buyers find success in this challenging market.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season, many home builders are offering incentives to buyers, sweetening the deal just enough to bump sales from the month prior.

Nicole Bachaud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since both our pay and theirs is a share of the show’s profits, we should be true partners aligned in our incentives — keep costs low while ensuring the best fan experience, but with Live Nation not only acting as the promoter but also the owner and operator of the venue, it seriously complicates these incentives.

Andrew Harnik/AP Clyde Lawrence

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appears the low point for builder sentiment in this cycle was registered in December, even as many builders continue to use a variety of incentives, including price reductions, to bolster sales, the rise in builder sentiment also means that cycle lows for permits and starts are likely near, and a rebound for home building could be underway later in 2023.

Jerry Konter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's hard from the outside to prescribe exactly how a company should organize itself but the consultants clearly concluded that the haphazard way that twitter is organized ends up with siloed relationships between employees that slows things down and does not create incentives for people to come together and coalesce around a problem.

Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world. The road to providing babies with sole source nutrition should be met with the highest rigor, but for the benefit of babies, and their parents, there need to be more incentives for new brands to rise to the challenge. We need more support for infant formula manufacturing and product innovation at the state and federal levels.

Ron Belldegrun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are some interesting, perhaps unintended consequences for the Western response against Russia in particular, which is that a Russia that has been completely isolated from the global economy and put under tremendous sanctions pressure. I think it has very few incentives to enforce sanctions against North Korea.

Ankit Panda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the market apparently believes that a Twitter owned by Elon Musk dims the outlook of Truth Social, Donald Trump still has some financial incentives to use Truth.

Matthew Kennedy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Opening schools in person is an extremely low bar when it comes to empowering parents and providing children with an adequate education, sending a child back to a failing government-run school that wasn't meeting their needs to begin with is unlikely to fix much of anything. The only real solution is to fund students directly and empower families to choose the education providers that best meet their needs. School choice is the only way to truly secure parental rights in education – and it would provide meaningful bottom-up accountability because families could vote with their feet. Only then will schools have real incentives to cater to the needs of families as opposed to the other way around.

Michael Loccisano/Getty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s definitely incentives to not try to reduce the cost of the sport.

Andrew Weibrecht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They got to do better with pay... incentives to retain officers, it would be foolish for me to stay for $ 48,000. When I have a wife and three kids to feed for $ 48,000. I can almost qualify for public assistance. That's not cool.

Tyrone Dennis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's really hard for the President through executive action to take 30 % off the cost of every new renewable installation in America for the next decade, all of the tax credits, grant programs and other incentives in Build Back Better would make everything else the executive branch has to do easier, as far as getting a handle on greenhouse gas emissions and getting the US on a course to meet its 2030 target.

John Larsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These financial incentives are very important, you need both, you need federal standard requirements and you need incentives.

Margo Oge

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I ’m glad the appropriations for the CHIPS Act made it on the Senate-passed USICA bill, the U.S. needs to provide the financial incentives to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing while restricting the capital and technology The CCP needs to gain control over this vital supply chain.

Mike McCaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Technology-driven decision-making is an essential part of our defense modernization. Current incentives in the Pentagon lead to less innovation and more bureaucracy, even a single failed test of a new technology can have serious consequences on officers’ careers. This attitude smothers innovation and reinforces using the same old ‘proven’ technologies that don’t meet modern threats.

Mike Rogers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re seeing the right things happening in the market and will begin to taper incentives in the quarter ahead.

John Zimmer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It's a very competitive labor market out there. And certainly, the biggest contributor to inflationary pressures that we're seeing in the business, we're spending a lot of money on signing and incentives.

Brian Olsavsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In some cases, companies are offering financial penalties for not making progress as well as financial incentives for making progress. Some are sharing the results publicly outside the organization, so all of this helps demonstrate that it is important and holds individuals accountable.

Ishanaa Rambachan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest controversy will be : How do you change people's behavior ? do you do this by incentives, and by educating people, or do you do this by [ increasing ] prices and costs ?

Carsten Brzeski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The pediatric cancer research community depends upon the hard work of advocates, like Nancy Goodman and Mark Miller, to make sure the voice of children with cancer is represented in the federal budget and to increase the incentives for new drug development for pediatric oncology through regulatory requirements.

Doug Hawkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Two forces seem to be colliding at the same time, the Biden administration has made it easier for unaccompanied minors and families to enter the country, at the same time that the US economy is also heating up, and that has created incentives for people to try to migrate while they can.

Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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