American Express is currently focused on investing in the organizational capacity of non-profits and social institutions.
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions.
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This commitment of freedom, however, does not require the redefinition of one of our most basic social institutions.
The French feared the draft document was making Europe more Anglo-Saxon to the peril of French social institutions.
They've been running businesses, countries and social institutions quite happily and profitably forever.
We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.
Do we accept the revelation that markets too, are social institutions, whose players, too, have responsibilities as well as rights?
On the other, he shows disdain for social institutions and leaders that compete with the church for influence and authority.
Instead, much like a century ago, sweeping global forces have been muted, or exacerbated, by government policies and social institutions.
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Family foundations that were established 100 years ago are still funding some of the city's most important cultural and social institutions.
People alive today will pass on a stock of exhaustible and other natural resources as well as machines, buildings and social institutions.
It is how societies reproduce themselves and as such, it lives in social institutions and material reality as much as it lives in the mind.
Politicians see businesses as social institutions meant to promote all manner of activities that sound compassionate, but that only bring distress to businesses, investors, employees and customers.
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Of our social institutions, very few survive from that long ago: the Catholic Church (and various orders and sub-groups within it), the Japanese Monarchy, and so on.
Because that's how long it takes to reform social institutions.
That in a nation of such affluence, there are still some forty million Americans living in poverty today is a travesty and a failure of our economic and social institutions.
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But then those in need will have less sustenance, or cultural and social institutions which Mr. Buffet and other rich philanthropists support would have to cut back on their missions and perhaps employment.
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One of the blessings of the last few centuries has been that we have adopted economic, political, and social institutions that have channeled the pursuit of self-interest away from predation and toward production.
Those who remember that richer places such as Spain, Italy, Greece and the southern United States once harboured the disease may be misled into thinking that the problem is one of social institutions to control its transmission.
The problem is that in many cases socialist agendas expand the role of government in the wrong areas of society, in sectors where free markets excel, and limit its role in the right areas of society, in sectors where free markets fail, creating a dangerous cocktail of social institutions.
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Antonio Ortiz, a researcher specializing in international trade for CIDE, one of Mexico's leading social science research institutions, said the situation is extremely complex in Mexico.
The agreed agenda implies radical and across-the-board reforms of Colombia's economy and its political, social and judicial institutions changes that would take long to negotiate and, even if agreement were reached, longer still to implement.
When combined with poverty, social tensions, and weak leadership and institutions, water challenges may lead to social disruptions that cause state instability and regional tension.
It always speaks to broader concerns about institutions, social relations, child-rearing, science, spirituality.
The band members were icons of a 1960s generational shift that called for new social structures, questioned institutions and carried a "certain optimism, " he said.
The Shariah explains in detail the Islamic concepts of money and capital, the relationship between risk and profit and the social responsibilities of financial institutions and individuals.
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More generally, affirmative action programs can be seen as a way of reducing the social distance between governing institutions and minority communities that tend to be under-represented in government.
The precise ethnic groupings which exist in a State, the significance of ethnicity for social participation in societal institutions and the processes through which ethnic differentiation is constructed and maintained may vary considerably between individual States, and over time.
The launch will include a panel discussion, with participation of Members of Parliament and Planning Commission, key policy makers, researchers from renowned universities and institutions and social activists on the challenges of internal migration in India, after which the floor will be open to questions by the Media.
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