Hence, any attempt to restructure the NNPC will affect the country to its core, impacting entrenched political power bases as well as average Nigerians who are growing ever more dependent on gasoline and electricity for living a modern life.
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Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
The search for profit, they argue, may be a regrettable necessity in the modern world, a sad fact of life if there is to be any private enterprise.
Hard to see how that form of knowledge would equip anyone for life in a modern technological society.
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It's easy to refer to her life as a modern-day fairy tale, but for Vodianova, it's a bittersweet comparison.
The result is that we get a terribly distorted picture of modern life, and of modern childhood in particular.
Who knew life as a modern couch potato would be so much work?
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But it is a neat example of how modern life has rendered an evolutionary adaptation from the past irrelevant.
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They include rich and poor, success stories and failures, the talented, scroungers, and those unsuited for life in a modern society.
Concrete clad and perennially crowded, Bondi's well-trodden stretch of sand presents a broad slice of modern Sydney life, from the weather-beaten lap swimmers at the Icebergs sea pool, to the Negroni-swilling regulars at North Bondi Italian.
In his biography of the Czech president, Keane explores the lesser-known complexities and failings of Havel -- such as his habit of womanizing -- and molds the elements of Havel's life into a modern political tragedy.
The result blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it.
He has donated money to the Righteous Persons Foundation, which grants money to a variety of projects impacting modern Jewish life.
Many I spoke to in the last week regard attacks like the one at the Boston Marathon as a disgusting, horrific part of modern life.
Whereas daughters and wives once stayed at home to clean, cook and care for husbands, children and ageing parents, modern French women expect a life outside the home.
Standards are a fact of life in the modern world.
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This has now become a watershed in British public life, a moment of transformational change that has no modern parallel.
The last gallery, called "Spaces of Modern Life, " is a culmination of all that came before it, a sort of Second Empire fugue state of themes expressed and interwoven.
Members of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore are clearly troubled by the separation of human and poultry brought on by fast-paced modern life, and offer a very, um, interesting solution to this pressing problem by combining wireless, haptics, cybernetics, and augmented reality.
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ReachLocal roll out a new offering that will not only allow act as a vetting service and comparative search engine for consumers to find plumbers, locksmiths and repair personnel (those indispensable heroes of modern life), but a means to control and pay for the entire transaction.
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"Though the path of peace is steep and has become steeper these last few weeks, in the long run it is the only path that offers the peoples of the Middle East hope for a normal life as part of the modern world, " Clinton said on Tuesday evening.
Modern life is Taylorized life, the Taylor biographer Robert Kanigel observed, a dozen years back.
The basic idea is that modern life strategy should resemble creating a company.
Save the Kennedys of Massachusetts no clan has dominated the political life of a major state in modern times than the Browns of California.
In automating the process of making a call, phone companies removed a burdensome manual hindrance from what was soon to become a much more convenient and ubiquitous part of modern life.
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As a way to work out the frustrations of modern life, the town of Savonlinna in southeast Finland holds an annual Mobile Phone Throwing Competition in order to recycle old handsets and have a little fun in the process.
IslamOnline has to some extent been a lifestyle publication, focusing on how to mix modern life and religion.
This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.
Starring John Simm, Life On Mars tells the story of a modern-day policeman who finds himself transported to the 1970s.
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