Tony Blair said there had been progress in the five boroughs, but it was time for a radical approach.
If this sounds like a radical approach to reinventing education, it is.
The new government will be urged to take a radical approach by the Nationalist MSP Alex Neil, who is taking advice from a former senior manager at Scottish Enterprise.
The next Challenge, which kicked off last week, is tackling urban agriculture, a radical approach to growing our food inside our cities (think more skyscraper farms than flower box herb gardens, although the project will address both).
Los Angeles International Airport is taking a more radical approach, adding a truck-inspired stand past the security checkpoint in Terminal 4.
Sharp's new tablet takes a more radical approach by being the first device if its kind to incorporate a new kind of LCD (liquid crystal display) technology.
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But taking a radical new approach to food production is not just the preserve of activists.
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At Strathclyde, however, Bill Stimson and Valerie Ferro are taking a more radical approach.
But, you will not hear many Germans advocating a more radical approach to economic growth from the ECB.
When first developed in Japan in the 1970s, the idea of just-in-time (JIT) marked a radical new approach to the manufacturing process.
To work, though, this requires a radical new approach to public health.
Still, four of the five members, including its chairman, Sunita Narain, a well-known environmentalist, call for a radical new approach to tiger conservation.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Originally, when the developers were trying to figure out how to build on the massive success of Portal 1, the developers wanted to do so with a pretty radical approach.
In the weeks before new BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda took office promising a radical new approach to battling deflation, the Nikkei soared nearly 50% since mid-November, mainly in anticipation of the new action.
Or is a more radical approach needed?
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Meanwhile, ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
According to a team of experts from Brunel University's Department of Information Systems and Computing a radical new approach to marketing broadband is needed if fast net services are going to appeal to the half of the population yet to get connected.
His claims rely on a radical new approach to crafting drugs and, if it works, Vertex (nasdaq: VRTX - news - people ) may create a cornucopia of medicines to fight cancer, diabetes and other ailments faster and more cheaply than ever before.
And heralding the City Deals scheme - in which more than 20 cities in England are steadily being given new powers over planning and transport - he suggested this could be a model of a more incremental but still radical approach to calls for a new political settlement in England.
Mr Fingleton said that if no real change was seen from the banks, a "more radical approach" would have to be considered.
But some believe there needs to be a much more radical approach.
Interested team leaders are encouraged to submit proposals by July 31, 2012, detailing their plan to design, execute and demonstrate a radical, novel research approach to innovation in the area of extracting meaningful content from large volumes of varied visual and geospatial media.
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Last week, Joule commissioned a demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico for its radical approach of directly making ethanol from sunlight and CO2 on a fraction of the land used with traditional approaches.
Endy aims for similar standardization in the new field of synthetic biology, and embraces the radical approach of creating a free registry of building blocks.
But this approach is such a radical change from the operation of the old console that games developers will be forced to start from scratch, using a new style of computer programming to produce games for the PlayStation 3.
The aftershocks of their radical approach to filmmaking can be seen particularly in the work of a radical group of young American directors in in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
"But we also found a lack of urgency in the Welsh government's progress which, at a time of stretched resources and radical changes in approach to the provision of all services by local health boards, concerned us greatly, " he said.
While that approach is far less radical than a breakup, it may still be a major distraction during a time the company needs to stay focused.
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