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The concept of fair value accounting is correct and useful, but the application during periods of crisis is problematic. It's another one of those unintended consequences of making a rule that's supposed to be good that turns out the other way.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Good
Value
Consequences
Other
Rule
Way
Correct
Those
Crisis
Out
Fair
Supposed
Concept
Periods
Another
Making
Accounting
Problematic
Turns
Useful
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Application
One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion really was, was a mechanism for which fewer unwanted children could be born.
Stephen J. Dubner
Abortion
Crime
Unwanted
Down
Consequences
Crime Rate
Born
Rate
Could
Drives
Because
Fewer
Children
Which
Really
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Strangest
Mechanism
I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.
Storm Reid
World
Pun
Take
Storm
Gonna
Unintended
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
Good
Needs
Law
Consequences
Good Intentions
Innovations
Shaped
Lead
Known
Ford
Intended
Often
Intentions
Workforce
Bill
Bill Gates
Hard
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Workplace
Henry
Henry Ford
Serve
Gates
Imagine
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.
Virginia Postrel
Woman
Nothing
Though
Freak
Trip
Dressing
Dressing Room
Seem
Mere
Ideal
Between
Like
She
Norm
Convenience
Establish
Clothing
Sizes
In-Between
Which
Room
Flaws
Convince
Unintended
Thin
Designed
Fat
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
Henry Rollins
Pain
Aid
Increases
Strikes
About
Only
Countless
Like
Uganda
Lot
Off
The Only Thing
Victims
Sanctions
Cutting
Unintended
Thing
I understand why there is a push for an automated strike zone. However, I do think there would be some unintended consequences of having it that I think need to be addressed first before we would go down that road.
Max Scherzer
First
Before
Down
Think
Consequences
Strike
I Think
Would
Would-Be
Some
Having
Push
Road
Understand
Go
However
Automated
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Why
Zone
Need
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