1. Production managers have always seen their job as one of minimizing costs and maximizing output. 生产经理总是把他们的工作任务看成是使成本最小化以及产量最大化。
2. These sociologists tend to view all human behaviors as directed primarily by the principle of maximizing economic gain. 这些社会学家倾向于把所有的人类行为视为主要由经济利益最大化原则指导的。
3. For many years, theoretical economists characterized humans as rational beings relentlessly bent on maximizing purely selfish reward. 多年来，理论经济学家把人类描述为理性的存在，不懈地追求完全利己的回报的最大化。
4. During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylor's method for maximizing workers' productivity by rigorously routinizing their jobs, opposed the five-day workweek. 在20世纪20年代，大多数科学管理的支持者反对每周五天的工作制。科学管理是弗雷德里克·泰勒通过严格程序化工作来最大化工人生产力的方法。
5. Parents who routinize child care are minimizing expense and maximizing their control. 使儿童看护规范化的家长最大程度地强化了控制，节约了支出。
