Faced with Mr Toledo's challenge, he made many expensive promises, from free building-plots to higher pensions.
Experts and academics from the participating Lebanese, Arab and International universities discussed ways to introduce concepts of peace-building in higher education and the integration of a culture of dialogue and conflict transformation in the curriculum of Lebanese universities.
The government even wants to ban some raw-material exports, hoping to dragoon mining companies into building smelters and exporting higher-value goods.
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First, Toyota is busy building ever-bigger, higher-profit, gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks in the U.S. Trucks will help Toyota's profit margins today, while fuel cells in particular could take decades to roll down the road, if they ever become a commercial success.
Many delegations in attendance from developing regions emphasized the longer-term challenges of sustainable higher education reform and capacity-building.
The government has already produced revised planning guidance on the need for higher-density building in cities.
With taxes and transport costs, local building costs are 15-30% higher than in America.
The frequency of lunches, performance reviews, volunteer program outings and team-building exercises does not produce higher levels of employee engagement.
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The need for higher-density urban building has already been reflected in new planning guidance.
That's why it's so important to train our folks more effectively and that's why it's so important for us to find new industries -- building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs.
Revenue climbed 27% on higher global volumes, offsetting bottom-line pressures from higher commodity costs, heavier investment on brand building and emerging markets infrastructure, and losses associated with the operations of bottlers that the company acquired last year.
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You can improve building management to stop waste, sign up higher-paying tenants and renovate to attract more of them.
The UNESCO UNITWIN programme seeks to advance research, training and programme development in higher education by building university networks and encouraging inter-university cooperation worldwide.
Spending on new projects and major renovations dipped in the 1970s and 1980s, but has since risen and is now higher even than in the golden era of highway-building.
Ten miles from there, Oberlin College, one of the great private institutions of higher learning in this country -- at Oberlin College, there was a building built there seven or eight years ago, fully powered by solar panels.
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Ending subsidies for hurricane insurance to discourage building in vulnerable zones would also help, as would investing in better infrastructure (from stronger levees to higher-capacity sewers).
If this characterizes your own behavior, consider building a diversified portfolio for the core 80-90% of your assets, while limiting headline-grabbing and higher risk themes to 10% at a time in order to avoid too much damage should your positions turn against you.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover is also reportedly building a factory there, to meet auto demand and probably to avoid higher taxes on imported cars recently enacted by the country.
Known for the elegance of his designs, Calatrava discusses the relationship between art and architecture and man's desire to build increasingly higher -- he has recently conceived the proposed Chicago Spire, soon to be the tallest residential building in the world.
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