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There are constructive and non-constructive ways to channel and exhibit one's entrepreneurial, managerial and administrative skills.
Randy Miller: Cultivate Urban Students in Becoming Entrepreneurial Randy Miller 2011
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There are constructive and non-constructive ways to channel and exhibit one's entrepreneurial, managerial and administrative skills.
Randy Miller: Cultivate Urban Students in Becoming Entrepreneurial Randy Miller 2011
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Bain Capital and the hedge-fund business model ("Bain Capitalism") it represents is every bit as parasitic and non-constructive as the populist fulminators (and now, hilariously, Newt) say it is.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Last Night's GOP Debate Was Like Bad 1950's-Style Science-Fiction RJ 2012
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Bain Capital and the hedge-fund business model ("Bain Capitalism") it represents is every bit as parasitic and non-constructive as the populist fulminators (and now, hilariously, Newt) say it is.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Last Night's GOP Debate Was Like Bad 1950's-Style Science-Fiction RJ 2012
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Why are we celebrating negativism and non-constructive action?
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We the American people that aren't listening to every lie and non-constructive criticism and insult that the Republicans have lobbed at you since day one, support you!
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In fact while not “racist”, your use of epithets is nearly as offensive and ultimately as non-constructive.
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If I try to filter the constructive from the non-constructive ...
HRC head gets praise, flak for Obama's gay-rights initiatives Lonnae O'Neal Parker 2010
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Those hidden feelings can pop up in unexpected and non-constructive ways, like the gladiator defense.
Birute Regine: Power, Politics, and Polarization Birute Regine 2010
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Those hidden feelings can pop up in unexpected and non-constructive ways, like the gladiator defense.
Birute Regine: Power, Politics, and Polarization Birute Regine 2010
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