And he said the new performance-related pay system for teachers at the top of the basic salary scale would make "a substantial difference" in the longer term.

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Richardson: Climate change poses ethical problems because it threatens the enjoyment of basic human rights at a vast scale, because formulating and agreeing upon adequate solutions stretches the envelope of what international policymaking bodies can legitimately undertake, and because fairly allocating the burdens of implementing any solution poses thorny problems of justice.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Everywhere you go you are assaulted up by the piled-up mementos of Western culture (and Eastern, and intergalactic), jumbled together with no sense of scale, appropriateness or even a basic understanding of the underlying ideas.

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An incubator, with its economies of scale, can help them avoid many basic errors.

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The basic yarn is that of the human hand working on an almost supernaturally tiny scale, performing miraculous feats of dexterity that result in what, at its best, seems like a universe in miniature.

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And I think that that principle of large-scale guest worker program seems like it's in conflict with our basic notion of a democratic republic made up of citizens.

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But was it implemented on a large enough scale to make a real difference to the lives of millions of families needing basic knowledge?

UNESCO: Education

The software comes with a number of basic transition effects that you can place between different scenes: cross dissolve, fade, push right, scale down.

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