• If China's workers are to realize their dreams, and if China is to become what it wants and needs to become, the country needs to make drastic changes to its education system, and make them soon.

    FORBES

  • With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.

    CNN: Transcript: Obama's State of the Union speech

  • With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.

    FORBES: Full Text: State Of The Union Address

  • At the same time, oil companies will soon be opening up new oil fields off Angola and the country hopes to become the largest producer of crude in Africa.

    CNN: The billion-dollar question: Where is Angola's oil money?

  • Abortion opponents have also realized the power of the billboard, and the privacy lines they keep crossing guarantee that their billboards become the talk of the town (and the country).

    FORBES: Abortion Billboards Cause Privacy Headaches And Lawsuits

  • On immigration, America has made it harder for educated and skilled foreigners to enter the country and become citizens.

    FORBES: Wriston's Law Still Holds

  • Should he be offered the Wales job and accept, Lagerback would become the country's first non-British manager.

    BBC: Lars Lagerback and Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2005

  • Cyprus needs to raise 5.8bn euros to qualify for the bailout, and has become the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit institutions collapsing.

    BBC: Bank of Cyprus big depositors could lose up to 60%

  • The demands for change of the Bedouin youth - who have galvanised into political forces, particularly in the north and south of the country - have become more vitriolic, at times publicly criticising Abdullah and calling for his removal from power - a taboo punishable by prison.

    BBC: Jordan teeters on edge of political instability

  • And it basically forced the hand of the mullahs in Iran to become more assertive and to basically steer the country into the Islamist style government that they have today.

    NPR: Iran Marks Revolution Anniversary

  • Normally a country would respond to a weakening of its currency by increasing exports, but in an economy ravaged by Dutch Disease there is little immediate ability to increase exports because the manufacturing sector has become so weak and withered and the country so dependent on imports.

    FORBES: Is Russia Suffering From Dutch Disease?

  • Russia can and should become the most free country in the world.

    FORBES: Mikhail Prokhorov and Just Cause's Party Platform - Judicial Reform, a ban on United Russia's "Political Monopoly," and making Russia "the Freest Country in the World"

  • Even though he has fudged the opportunity and allowed many in the country to become poorer, he is still backed by one Venezuelan in four (which is more than any single leader of the fractious opposition).

    ECONOMIST: The pressure mounts on Chavez

  • Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.

    CNN: Newsmakers

  • But after more than six years of continuous anti-cartel operations, the traditional strongholds of the embattled organized crime groups have become the most violent and least stable parts of the country.

    FORBES: Connect

  • And Lord Sebastian Coe is hopeful that a legacy can be left in Stoke-on-Trent after the 2012 games, and become one of three regional hubs in the country for Paralympic rowing.

    BBC: Seb Coe: "2012 Olympics will help north Staffordshire"

  • Speaking to U.S. forces in Balad, Iraq, on Saturday, Gates said the goal in Afghanistan is to expand training for its national army and police so the country can become self-sufficient.

    CNN: Gates: Afghanistan won't need Iraq-level troop presence

  • Its hereditary, unelected rulers are having to tread a difficult tightrope between, on the one hand, the forces of progress and modernity that would like to see this country become more integrated with the rest of the world, and on the other, the religious conservatives who are deeply suspicious of any change.

    BBC: Frank Gardner's return to Saudi Arabia

  • "Years of exile have allowed me to take a different look at my life, the life of my country and become keenly aware that without repentance, without the recognition of past mistakes, without the courage to build a future, there is no development, " he wrote, issuing a series of apologies for his past deeds.

    WSJ: Boris Berezovsky, Exiled Russian Tycoon, Dies

  • Hazara girls have one of the highest high-school graduation rates in the country, and Hazara women have become some of the most visible symbols of the new Afghanistan.

    NEWYORKER: After America

  • But his investment-banking background and personal wealth could also become political liabilities if the country's economic problems worsen and more voters experience financial hardship.

    ECONOMIST: New Zealand's new government

  • And it put what may become the country's largest private bank, Bank International Indonesia, which just announced a major merger, on credit watch.

    CNN: Now The Hard Part

  • All this has paid off: Venezuela's football team, long embarrassing also-rans in South America, has become competitive, and the country has won many more medals at the two latest Pan-American games than in the past.

    ECONOMIST: The president-fan reaps a sporting harvest

  • "I hadn't known what we would discover, and had thought maybe the story will be, what a tolerant and accepting country we have become, " said Mr Wallraff after a screening of the film Black on White in Berlin.

    BBC: New film uncovers racism in Germany

  • And Brazil has become a leading and positive investor in Africa, as the country's eloquent foreign minister Antonio Patriota reminded participants at the recent Munich Security Conference.

    CNN: Is Brazil ready to take sporting center stage?

  • On another station, the man has become the head of a warlike country and is threatening to unleash Armageddon on the world if his barbarous demands are not met.

    NEWYORKER: The TV

  • He discussed the fact that many people never thought they'd see the day when a black man would become the president, and it spoke volumes about the progress the country's made with race.

    CNN: Malveaux: Bush finally opens up

  • With these restrictions and the revived gun debate, doctors should become active participants in the discussion about gun violence and gun policy in this country, according to the American College of Physicians.

    CNN: How the NRA wields its influence

  • The richer the country and the workers the better working conditions will become.

    FORBES: Sadly, Bangladesh Simply Cannot Afford Rich World Safety And Working Standards

  • Their choices have become harder and more frequent because the country's political leaders seem unwilling to do the same in Washington.

    WSJ: Phil Gramm: Obama and the Sequester Scare

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