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How to use the word productivity in a Sentence?

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It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

Ronald Reagan

added by Normando
3 months ago

The vertical farming industry have done a remarkable job of reducing labor, water, and costs such as land costs. They are achieving a huge amount of productivity per square acre, per hour of worker and per liter of water use.

Evan Fraser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just like PTSD, racial trauma results in disability, temporary or long term, like lost days from work and lost productivity, increased medical expenses and more suffering in general, the more people have these problems, the larger the cost is going to be to society and those communities and their families.

African American

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If MrBeast can light a fire, and if we can get governmental and private support behind it, we can end half of all the blindness in the world, without all that much cost, and with incredible gains in human productivity and human potential.

Jeff Levenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you add up all the time that staff spend doing infection control measures, donning protective equipment and separating out wards into people with and without Covid … that might impede the overall productivity of the system.

Ben Zaranko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The drop in the productivity over these 20 years is profound, and that has large ramifications to what can grow here. The health of the ecosystem, the productivity of the ecosystem.

William Balch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Anybody who doesn’t use this will shortly be at a severe disadvantage. Like, shortly. Like, very soon, i’m just thinking about my cognitive ability with this tool. Versus before, it’s a lot higher, and my efficiency and productivity is way higher.

Jeff Maggioncalda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do measure productivity very carefully.

Jane Fraser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Businesses must make a concerted effort to hire and promote women who may or may not be up to par with their male counterparts, in addition, the chemistry of having women in a masculine environment may reduce business cohesiveness and productivity from what it might have been otherwise( this is especially true of the military, although by no means limited to it). Needless to say all these things subtract from a team's effort to produce efficiently.

John Gibbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Simply put, clean water is a requirement for health, well-being, productivity, and dignity - and we are failing our citizens in providing for this basic necessity. We feel that the residents of Flint who lived through the water crisis have been remarkably resilient - and yet there is still a large, unmet need for mental health services to address the psychological impacts of the event, which are reflected in very high rates of diagnosable depression and PTSD across The Flint community, the lesson for communities like Jackson, MS, is to not overlook psychological injury, and to not assume that, just because community members are resilient, they could not benefit from services to address the psychological scars of a long-term water crisis.

Aaron Reuben

Found on CNN
1 year ago

CEOs realize it's not a productivity question, but a comraderie/culture question.

Brian Kropp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Wall Street analysts are focused on hiring engineering, technical and other critical roles... and Wall Street analysts are working to increase productivity, it's a privilege to build technologies that are helpful in good times, and in uncertain ones.

Sundar Pichai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact of the matter is we just don't do enough investment, we don't do enough RD in the United Kingdom, and that is something that's hampering our productivity growth.

Dean Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The current heatwave should be driving more action, it affects productivity, it affects the functions of the economy... that feedback loop hasn't been understood in the past.

Lisa Fischer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are all kinds of productivity benefits from using more full-time workers, it has huge retention benefits. Many companies realize [ one way ] their hiring problems are over is if their retention problems are fixed.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As someone with ADHD, the way my computer behaves in a day influences my mood, my productivity, and my energy levels, this became more apparent with virtual work when I had no break from my computer. The number of notifications I was receiving increased significantly and so did my anxiety levels.

Alexis Kane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is generally a low reign of food, as it is in the middle of the Pacific Gyre, a low productivity area with little upwelling nutrient rich waters, so though there will be seafloor animals, there will not be a high biomass down there probably.

Oceanographer Autun Purser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Companies not adjusting to this new reality and responding to their workers do so at their own peril, turnover drives up expenses, drives down productivity and erodes culture and corporate memory. CEOs need to be asking themselves whether they are creating an environment that helps them compete for talent.

Larry Fink

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like other nations, China wants a future based on high levels of innovation and productivity but is politically driven to create conditions which are stymieing both, the key challenge for China is going to be, with Xi in charge for a decade, are course corrections going to be possible ?

George Magnus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Number one, there is a moral dimension, two, there is an economic problem — you can reach a point in disparity where your economy as a whole suffers because productivity goes down, and the middle class doesn’t have purchasing power, etcetera.

Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We want to be grounded in what is it that ultimately drives productivity, not just as output but including even considerations, such as wellness.

Satya Nadella

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Perimenopause worsened my inattentiveness, ability to focus, and productivity, i switched to a different type of planner, finding that a bullet journal helped me stay focused and organized. I also gave Julianna Miner the freedom to measure my productivity differently. I look at what gets done over a week, rather than beating Julianna Miner up if I have a bad day.

Julianna Miner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In my estimation this agreement represents a rare opportunity to lift the long term growth path of the economy, productivity and the living standards of individual Americans.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

America is great because of two reasons; this country nurtures innovative minds that drive progress on a global scale, and American people who seek to embrace constructive criticism, critical Race Theory is creating the indoctrination environment that will constrain children's creative sense of self and consequently limit their analytical productivity as adults.

Deana Wang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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