• But a drawback is the lack of culture.

    ECONOMIST: Our former Frankfurt correspondent looks back

  • These are often related to the insufficient allocation of funds, procedural hurdles, a lack of culture of information sharing among public servants, and the low level of awareness and demand for government-held information among the general public.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • "There is a lack of a consumer credit culture and a lack of a consumer credit market, " says Chi.

    CNN: CALLING ALL SHOPPERS

  • At a security conference in Munich, Germany, the weekend before Mubarak stepped down, Clinton sought to emphasize the "orderly" aspects of the transition, warning that free and fair elections leading to true democracy in Egypt would take time, care and sophisticated planning that could be complicated by a hasty exit by Mubarak, given the country's lack of a political culture.

    CNN: Can Clinton remake U.S. diplomacy?

  • Nor is there any doubt that in many cases low female representation also reflects a broader lack of meritocracy in corporate culture.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • In medicine this workplace atmosphere, complicated by perverse economic incentives and weak systems of accountability, contributes to a hospital culture marked by a lack of a sense of communal ownership in the overall delivery of care.

    CNN: Is your hospital hurting you?

  • Lack of access to art, culture and education is a form of restriction.

    CNN: Book festival allowed into Gaza after five-year wait

  • Given the lack of transparency in Indonesian business culture, few believe Jakarta has the discipline to abide by a currency board's simple but absolute rules -- print no more money than can be backed by hard currency and let interest rates rocket as high as the market demands.

    CNN: Indonesia's Agony

  • The real strength of scientific culture, and in general of culture, stands in its lack of purity.

    UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

  • While each of the above certainly plays a role in the lack of adoption, my observations have been that, the culture of elitism generated in the world of data has done nothing but scare the most common of companies.

    FORBES: Big Data "A-Ha" Moment?

  • Today, it is facing competition from mass culture and a lack of interest amongst the young.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Konyukhov counters that until now, the only reason Russia's rivers have not received investment is due to the lack of a grassroots, domestic sailing culture.

    CNN: Lifting the Iron Curtain on Russia's rivers

  • The captured condors reproduced successfully, but attempts to return their offspring to the wild foundered on a lack of cultural knowledge condor culture, that is, not human.

    ECONOMIST: Coping with troublesome young birds

  • Lammy traces the tangle of economic changes and government policies behind the culture which produced the riots - council house sales, the decline of skilled working class jobs, consumerism and a lack of male role models are all listed as factors behind the rise of gang culture.

    BBC: Booktalk: The political books of 2011

  • He said Afghans had suffered for far too long from a culture of impunity and the lack of rule of law.

    UN: Secretary-General

  • At its best, "The Simpsons" is as cruel a satire on American culture -- or the lack of it -- as anything on prime time.

    CNN: Review: 'The Simpsons Movie' delivers

  • She identified the four major barriers for women: cost, culture, technical literacy and perceived lack of need.

    FORBES: Connect

  • To what extent, Tony Campolo, does American culture, its permissiveness, its lack of humility, its abrasiveness and its almost imperial march feed into the problem in the world today?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney debates on Hugh Hewitt show

  • Scotland's lack of a television network is "bizarre", SNP Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop has claimed.

    BBC: Lack of TV network is bizarre, says culture minister

  • We have discovered the inverse is true as well: Dysfunctional organizations rarely have stellar CSR programs, probably because they lack the culture and mechanisms for employee engagement and participation inside of the organization, let alone in the outside world.

    FORBES: Setting Employees Free To Do Good

  • These health disparities are compounded by the lack of culturally competent health professionals with knowledge of Hawaiian or Pacific Islander culture.

    WHITEHOUSE: Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Blog

  • The Culture, Media and Sport committee criticised a "lack of dialogue" with the UK Film Council - which is also due to be wound up next week.

    BBC: Museums Council axing should be reviewed, say MPs

  • "The problem does not come from the lack of public support from the government, it's more the culture of entrepreneurship that is not that valued in France compared to other countries, " said Souheil Medaghri, co-founder of onefeat, a social mobile game.

    WSJ: French Start-Ups Worry About Hollande's Priorities

  • This lack of full engagement leads to employee frustrations and affects the entire organization in terms of culture, internal conflict, adaptability and bureaucracy.

    FORBES: Management Lessons From Recent Tech Sector Job Cuts

  • Though it appears the current lack of cohesive leadership is challenging the Lakers ability to win, it is the unbreakable culture of the Lakers organization that has historically proven that they will find success again.

    FORBES: 6 Lessons the Los Angeles Lakers' Recent Hardship Can Teach Us About Leadership

  • However, policies and programmes are still confronted with a major challenge: the lack of targeted data and indicators quantifying the relationships and contributions, which has resulted in culture being deprioritized in international development programmes and national development strategies.

    UNESCO: Culture for Development Indicators

  • The apparent lack of interest in running a station in Glasgow or Edinburgh will be a disappointment to UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has long championed the concept of local TV.

    BBC: Deadline passes for Glasgow and Edinburgh local TV bids

  • The British Liver Trust said it was on the rise because British culture continues to embrace daily consumption of alcohol, fatty food choices and a lack of exercise.

    BBC: File photo of a person drinking a bottle of beer

  • The lack of sound policies within an investment organization is, in my experience, generally indicative of a culture where personal profiting is viewed as a privilege reserved for a select group of investment insiders.

    FORBES

  • And yet, Mr Maponya is worried about South Africa - about the angry crowds of jobless youths, the failing schools, the culture of entitlement, the cronyism in government, the widening wealth gap, the lack of urgency in tackling entrenched unemployment, and the danger that populist demagogues offering easy answers and old cliches will bring things to boiling point.

    BBC: Winter means strike time in South Africa

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