• After six years in nursing, unsatisfied with the career choice I had made, I woke up to a different kind of fear: The fear of becoming like the other no-risk nurses tired, burned out and old before their time.

    NPR: Stepping Out of Fear

  • Signs that the Muslims of Leicester South are becoming as fickle as other voters may mean they are becoming more middle-class.

    ECONOMIST: The hunt for an elusive group of by-election voters

  • And even becoming a portal for other on-line retalers by routing customers to their sites, and even taking orders for products shipped from other e-tailers.

    FORBES: Winners Shift, Losers Don't - Buy Amazon, Sell Wal-Mart

  • It has lost a loyal ally at a time of need - other union leaders are becoming increasingly outspoken in their criticism of plans for private sector involvement in the running of public services, she said.

    BBC: Tony Blair, left, Derek Simpson, and Ken Jackson, right

  • But the small but growing company -- Pettis said he's looking to hire 50 people -- is already becoming a role model for other startups.

    CNN: Startup unveils 3-D scanner at SXSW

  • Bhan is pushing abroad for other reasons: Twenty percent of his business comes from 60 countries -- other than the U.S. -- where English is becoming the lingua franca of medical schools.

    FORBES: What the doctor ordered

  • Stock options and other long-term incentives are becoming an important part of the overall reward for top executives all around the globe.

    FORBES: Capitalism is contagious

  • Thus, charities and other non-profit outfits are becoming popular choices.

    ECONOMIST: Where will business students find work?

  • Obesity runs in families--genes alone can predict up to 40% of the chance of becoming severely overweight--and overeating seems linked to other family-related disorders such as alcoholism and drug addiction.

    FORBES: Food on the Brain

  • With real wages rising despite this, Italy is becoming less and less able to compete with other euro-area countries such as Germany.

    ECONOMIST: Italy

  • The firm's well-off consumers are becoming ever more interested in buying other (digital) electronic gizmos, such as personal computers and cellular telephones.

    ECONOMIST: Japan��s camera man

  • While London's charitable ball circuit is nowhere near as lavish or ostentatious as New York's, there are other signs of British fund-raising becoming Americanised.

    ECONOMIST: Generosity seems to be on the rise

  • Name-matching software is also becoming more sophisticated and performing other functions.

    ECONOMIST: Computing: What's in a name? | The

  • It was only half the size of the other two American manufacturers, and scale was becoming all-important.

    ECONOMIST: Motor industry

  • But the retailer and other traditional chains face the prospect of becoming showrooms for online-only competitors.

    WSJ: Best Buy Jumps Into Small Business IT Services

  • In other words, automated, cloud-ready infrastructures are becoming the norm, creating a more pressing need to pair them with automated, cloud-ready operations management.

    FORBES: To Unlock The Power Of The Cloud, Rethink IT Management

  • In a country where religious and ethnic animosity is still fresh in everyone's minds, Croat and Bosnian workers are working side-by-side in a relatively relaxed atmosphere, and becoming reacquainted with each other.

    UNESCO: 18_eng

  • In other words, to some degree Microsoft is becoming the un-unionized GM of the West Coast (though in all fairness, due to its moat, it still produces a 30% return on capital, high margins, and a healthy balance sheet).

    FORBES: Will Microsoft Inject Trademark Mediocrity Into Promise Of Skype?

  • Once it is open, the organisation aims to transform itself from being a mere museum to becoming an African cultural centre, bringing together under one roof 18 other Africa-themed organisations offering dance, theatre and music.

    ECONOMIST: Culture

  • Every year, more and more are becoming totally dependent on other family members, on social benefits or health insurance payouts - or on charity.

    BBC: What's happened to Thalidomide babies?

  • Becoming a worthy leader is like developing any other capability: it requires honest self-reflection, real openness to learning (which includes an openness to being wrong and to not knowing), and a willingness to change your behavior.

    FORBES: Two out of Three of Us Want This More Than We Want a Raise

  • My own prediction of Apple's prospects is that needs to worry about becoming a mid-packer only after the CEO Tim Cook and designer Jony Ive -- the other tow members of the triumvirate headed by Steve Jobs -- are no longer with the company.

    CNN: Is Apple losing its cool?

  • Greenpeace argues that CCS will never be competitive, since other low-carbon technologies, such as wind power, are already cheaper and becoming more so as time passes.

    ECONOMIST: Carbon capture and storage

  • She took a touring gymnastics show to more than 30 US states and graced the sofas of TV superstars Jay Leno, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres, before becoming the third Olympic gold medallist to win Dancing With The Stars (the other two being short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi).

    BBC: US gymnast Shawn Johnson seeks focus to succeed in 2012

  • England coasted home to give Andy Flower a win in his first Test since becoming team director on a permanent basis, and now anything other than a remarkable Windies fightback at Chester-le-Street next week will ensure the Wisden Trophy returns to English hands only two months after they relinquished it in Trinidad.

    BBC: England seal emphatic Lord's win

  • Other changes across the county include Ashwicken and Gayton firsts becoming primary schools, taking 4 to 11-year-olds.

    BBC: Norfolk schools close in education shake-up

  • Like other public-sector workers, they got the bad news on March 10th that pensions were becoming less generous (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Police pay

  • Simon Woolley, head of Operation Black Vote, a non-partisan group, says that black Africans are becoming more politically engaged, although they still lag far behind other minority ethnic groups.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • The coming vestibular implant is just one of several new, improving and emerging prosthetic organs, limbs and other body parts that are using ever more sensors, processors and motors--they are becoming more bionic.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So I think for African-Americans, the blogs are becoming a definite way to sort of get that news that the CNNs and other, you know, networks don't necessarily focus on, some of the incidents that, you know, we might not hear about.

    NPR: Lifestyle & Trends: Kanye West, 50 Cent Do Battle

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