But the bigger risk is getting left behind as the world changes.
As the world changes, as countries emerge from poverty and people fight for their rights, we can look to the level of violence against women as one of the gauges of their success.
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We should also look at our own businesses and ask ourselves whether we should be doing a Ron Johnson on our company, rather than continuing with business as usual as the world changes rapidly around us.
The job for the broadcast status quo, which includes the cable and satellite companies, is to provide the easiest, most seamless and pleasurable device experience they can to their existing customers so that they will entropically stick around as the world changes around them.
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Suffice it say, these are issues not of the manipulation of language, but how language changes as the world which it express changes.
Running a business and running it well are not the same as creating something that changes the world.
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It is a US-centric report because the goal of it is to figure out what happens to the US as changes occur around the world.
As the balance of economic power in the world changes, mustn't the balance of political power change too?
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Stock markets around the world moved higher on Monday as regulators announced long-awaited changes to the rules governing the banking sector.
The new paradigm changes the way scientists look at the world, as well as the direction of future scientific research in the field.
The scandal that lead to these changes developed as regulators, prosecutors and politicians around the world followed allegations that bankers attempted to rig the rates to benefit their trading books and to paint a better picture of their financial health.
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Yet even when it does, the sun will come up in the morning and life will go on as if nothing is happening, such is the chronic way the world changes.
We did engage in very broad-ranging discussions as the changes may take place around the world.
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The leaders also asked the International Monetary Fund to speed up changes in its governance to better represent the developing world as a voting bloc.
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The move is one of the biggest changes to date as Myanmar's government seeks to re-engage with the outside world and get out from under the weight of tough Western sanctions.
Francis, who was inaugurated as the new head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Tuesday, has made some changes since taking the helm -- most notably by adopting a simpler, personal style and calling for the Church to focus on serving the poor and needy.
Dr. TRENBERTH: Well, as we look around the world, there is a pattern of changes in the character of rainfall in particular.
As the world becomes more and more focused on considering the environment, looking at reducing fuel consumption and lowering emissions will require changes to existing technologies and the development of new ones.
But with a military budget almost as big as the rest of the world's combined, even quite small changes in American defence spending have big consequences for the industry.
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As I read his speech, which was passed to me by a friend whom I might describe as a Peak Oil fanatic, I noted other changes in the world since that time.
And the thing about the modern world, as you may have noticed, is that technology changes.
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As part of that fact, there have been some changes in the world that affect some of the proposals here, including the Supreme Court's decision.
Sadly, Stothard comes across as one of those journalistic dinosaurs who bemoans the changes wrought by the digital world because he feels threatened by them.
But instead of quickly deploying Timeline world-wide as it has done with past changes to the site, Facebook first started with its users in New Zealand to test its reception there.
However as with the changes to banking, we will eventually be thankful that our financial world can be managed with the simple press of a button.
"Look to companies like Patagonia and Levi's who are really doing it, " she says, noting the world's largest retailer, Walmart, as another frontrunner credited with making significant changes to its supply chain.
Ratification would require no changes to U.S. law, as the United States already leads the world in promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities.
Again England's frustration grew as Andorra, ranked 186th in the world, continued to hold out and Capello will be relieved that the changes he made at the break paid dividends.
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She cites changes we have made before as a society to improve our way of life--changes like waste collection and public education-- as models for how we need to change the world again.
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