At the outset, the decision-maker has a "utility function" or a "preference ordering" that ranks all sets of consequences from the most preferred to the least preferred.
Readers should be warned at the outset that I will not, in the following pages, provide a "magic bullet" with which they can instantly and effortlessly eradicate unwanted desires.
An ardent outset may be followed by declension.
Sulphur, a ubiquitous element in the lower atmosphere was identified from the outset as a predominant component in the stratospheric aerosol.
And from the very outset, the premier dope of the era, LSD, was itself a technology, a laboratory product, the result of advanced research at the Swiss pharmaceutical house of Sandoz and Company.
I never understood why he didn't just accede to our demands at the outset.
As you work with the data, see if you can think of changes that you could make at the outset to make reporting easier later.
From the outset, Flynt and I wanted to write an entertaining book that would be taken seriously.
From the outset, it had two fundamental flaws.
At the outset of program mobilization, the program manager should assemble all the individual project managers and work out a simple set of guidelines for interactions outside program boundaries.
Form the outset, Matsushita did not attempt to pioneer new technology but emphasized quality and price.
So exclaims Professor Munakata at the outset of a rollicking adventure set at the British Museum, in the form of a manga, or Japanese cartoon.
I'm asking you now, at the outset, to put aside your ideas about heroes and miracles, because I'm not storybook material.
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