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Subsequent outbursts of impatience and despair need to be considered alongside more hopeful and sympathetic remarks.
Such ' obstinacy ', when it appeared as scholastic hair-splitting without practical value, could elicit impatience rather than admiration.
Two common modes in which customers display their impatience are balking and reneging.
He was perfectly capable of expressing impatience at overly fastidious definition, in the face of blunt social reality.
In addition, we make the assumption of a positive marginal impatience: the discount rate increases with the level of the environmental quality.
More likely, however, she will respond to it with a certain measure of impatience.
The income-impatience effect described earlier is in fact the key to the dramatic variation in the model's quantitative properties as increases.
There was impatience at the continuation of pr ivate ownership in industr y and the continuity of manager ial personnel where companies had been nationalised.
Rather, their impulsivity is manifested in marked impatience, interruption of others, and difficulty regulating excitement.
They also report on model sensitivity checks, feeding in alternatives values (not the calibrated values) of risk aversion and the discount rate/impatience parameters.
Even those couples with no impatience to consume have little incentive to buy annuities, less than a 7% increase in welfare.
Furthermore, impatience is higher in the short run than in the long run, because the environmental quality is higher and impatience increases with it.
As increases further, however, the income-impatience effects begin to dominate the substitution effects.
A central element, however, relates to expressions of anger or impatience with authority; with resentment or boredom.
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