The Simpson-Bowles plan called for far bigger tax increases than is commonly understood, as well as changes to Social Security and Medicare that parts of the Democratic base dislike.
The leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, has said the law should not be used as a tool to bring about such social changes such as gay marriage, and may turn out to be ahead of majority opinion.
He writes and advises about the new social environment of the enterprise, enterprise 2.0, open management and API strategies, as well as the key social changes that enterprise decision makers need to know about.
As with other social changes involving race, gender, sexual orientation, the status of women, and abortion, change happens slowly, then all of a sudden we realize we are living in a different social world than before.
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The report's author, Dr Peter Brierley, believes that the decline reflects wider social changes - such as the decline in church attendance and the shift towards Sunday as a day for shopping or for divorced parents to see their children.
Yes, she would augment that system with better-educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum-based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral "social" changes such as better families and home environments.
She said a number of factors might be involved, such as changes in body clock and social interactions.
Ministers are hailing their changes to social care as the solution to the long-standing problem of how to care for the elderly.
Now, legislators risk looking politically cynical by seeking to weaken the measures enacted to try to force them to confront tough questions regarding deficit reduction, such as changes to government programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
In fact, businesses need to adapt just as completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers.
The songs are also a vivid oral record of recent social developments in China as singers comment on the changes they observe around them.
Haydn Shaughnessy runs Five Ideas, a boutique research agency using unique semantic techniques to plot attitudinal changes from online social sources such as blogs and social networks.
Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
With respect to Social Security, as I indicated earlier, making changes to these programs is so difficult that this may be an opportunity for us to go ahead and do something smart that strengthens Social Security and gives not just this generation but future generations the opportunity to say this thing is going to be in there for the long haul.
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Besides, say the pundits, Obama would lose his base by proposing major changes in Medicare and Social Security, as well as dozens of other sacred domestic programs.
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In order to prove the sceptics wrong, and to highlight the fact that sport can be used as a tool to instigate social change on multiple levels, changes that will last forever.
The rise of social media is causing dramatic changes in consumer behavior as well.
Depending on how they are structured, those two changes could eliminate as much as 60% of Social Security's underfunding, according to experts.
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The study examined changes in personal identifying information among accounts such as changes in name, address, date of birth and social security numbers.
It includes a number of changes for childhood disorders, including new diagnoses such as social communication disorder and global developmental delay, and broadened criteria for learning disorders.
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Dogma will always appear to be archaic, as it never makes allowances for individual cases, or rapid changes in social attitudes.
But de Geer will adapt by listening to users through social media and in-person conversations as a way to identify the changes that require iZettle to respond.
We talked with Mark Miller, a journalist who specializes in retirement and aging, and he shared with us what he sees as the biggest immediate threat of all the proposed deficit reduction changes in Social Security.
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps said Mr Cameron was simply "opening up the debate" and any changes - such as to the rule about being able to assign social housing to a second generation - would not affect any existing council or housing association tenants.
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But these changes will have a knock-on effect for devolved services such as social care and devolved entitlements such as free school meals.
That Facebook would look to Home, a seemingly mobile-native implementation of the social network, as the framework for its platform going forward is unsurprising -- changes recently made to News Feed were done specifically to adapt it to the smartphone space.
Dr James Munro, the director of Patient Opinion, said the web and the rising influence of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and other discussion sites was likely to force big changes in the running of programmes.
These small changes appear to have given RIM a powerful social media and reputation lift even as it was being written off.
Many social housing tenants in Bristol who are facing benefit cuts as part of the government's changes to benefits are electing to stay put.
However, technology is always changing and many changes, such as use of personal devices (so-called BYOD) and social-media platforms for work-related purposes, may pose additional challenges to the employers' ability to monitor employee communications.
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