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In this case, the constructing country derived the greatest benefit from the canal, which “marked the emergence of a muscular and globally oriented United States.”

Many thought they had found entrepreneurial soulmates, more oriented to the free market than their more regulated partners in the EU.

A 2021 meta-analysis of the impact of videogames found that some games have educational benefits, but heavy gaming can also “lead to addiction and impair ability to focus on effortful goal oriented behavior.”

Asset manager T. Rowe Price said at the time that even long-term oriented investors benefit from quarterly reports, “because these short-term progress reports increase our confidence in our ability to predict the company’s long-range outcome.”

Even the pin light of a cell phone charger gives us something to orient ourselves against, a way to make sense of where we are.