Evolution takes time, but unlike in nature, business evolution often runs stagnant without a structured and purposeful approach.
The answer to this question lies not just in the presence of a recovery, but also in its nature.
The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, was a violent shock, but only in the nature and extent of the destruction: by then, most Americans had come to believe that the country would be dragged into the global war with Fascism one way or another, though their eyes were fixed on Europe, not the Pacific.
Germany may well not be in recession but the nature of the recovery and the scant prospects for its corporate base hardly justify a 34% gain in the Dax since March, while a 43% gain in the Italian MIB Index, and a 50% gain in the Austrian market are starting to starting to take on a distinctly bubbly appearance.
One of the things not in our control, but in the control of nature, is aging, and eventually death, the final act of our being.
The work is somewhat legal in nature but frequently focuses upon little-known business practices which may be commonplace in the securities or money management industries but are, on occasion, especially harmful.
"Complex colour patterns such as spots and stripes are common in nature but the way they are formed is poorly understood, " said Dr Kathy Schwinn of the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.
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It published its results not in a major scientific journal such as Nature or Science, but in an obscure online journal called e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine, which many leading medical scientists don't read.
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Neither has been front-page news in the rest of the world, but both you might say are viral in nature.
But in modern warfare, the nature of defending and protecting the United States of America has changed.
Iran maintains the program is peaceful in nature, but international inspectors have expressed concern about possible military uses.
Voids abound in nature, but they are abhorred by most humans, who have an existential problem with the idea of non-existence.
Making the most of Meiburg's most sweetly restrained falsetto, the song paints a blurry but beautiful picture of nature in all its graceful vulnerability.
Thus the guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems.
But this one is different in nature because this one put the entire international financial community in danger if the U.S. Treasury could default.
Soul emerges on its own in nature, but not in art.
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Another site, the non-profit Kiva.org, is also social in nature, but instead of donations to charities, it lets you make interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Often the data streams that they operate on are not classified in nature, but the combination and aggregation of these streams using complex new algorithms may fall for example under the controls of ITAR.
And some things that a President can do using his or her executive authority are relatively small in nature, but that doesn't make them not worth doing -- some of them are medium-sized or large.
Nanometer-size materials occur all around us in nature, but it was only 20 years ago, thanks to IBM's introduction of the scanning tunneling microscope, that scientists began to observe and manipulate materials at the atomic level.
But that was not in his nature.
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Even the creators admit that it'll be quite some time before man made sensors can come close to mimicking those found in nature, but judging by the videos seen in the read link, they're certainly riding the right wave.
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We hear all the time about how basic income taxes, government spending and inflation are redistributive in nature, but not mentioned enough is how both political parties use the tax code to redistribute wealth to favored constituents or individuals who live as Washington would like them to.
But in some ways it runs against our nature to accept and deal with the world we live in.
"Today everyone is focused on reducing nutrient inputs to the sea in order to reduce eutrophication (the effect of excessive nutrients) in the Baltic, but by helping nature itself to deal with the phosphorus that is discharged we can create a turbo effect in the battle against eutrophication, " said Anders Stigebrandt, of the University of Gothenburg's Department of Earth Sciences.
But then, it is in the nature of investors to be caught off-guard.
They may find synthetic ways of manufacturing their products, but essentially they have their roots in nature.
Since the mid-1950s, the Fund has demanded policy reforms in exchange for the money that it lends, but in recent years the number and nature of these conditions has greatly expanded.
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But the research published this week in Nature by Bruce van Dover and his colleagues at Bell Labs (part of Lucent Technologies) in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had a more specific goal.
The incentive is to grow it, particularly for those in control, and with career civil servants ever fighting any form of downsizing, it seems the answer for true government shrinkage is not surgical strikes, but across the board cuts massive in nature.
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