And the floods were a major challenge to the -- not only the people of Pakistan but also to our strategy, because we had adopted an approach to change how we were doing aid to be much more responsive to what the Pakistanis themselves needed and wanted as opposed to what we thought they should need or want.
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But in New York City, where Rafi lives, a group of neighborhood mothers is hoping to change that, and in doing so, they are helping to change the way rare disease research is funded in the United States.
The total energy system cost of tackling climate change could be similar to doing nothing and may even be cheaper than remaining fossil fuel dependent (even if fossil fuel prices are not high).
It is important to focus on the things you are doing that you CAN change to ensure you achieve your goals.
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Apple leverages elegant software solutions into fabulously designed products to change how people behave doing the most common activities: creating, communicating and interacting with friends and media.
As a public policy tool to help catalyze positive change or penalize wrong-doing, greater scrutiny of foreign entrants to the U.S. capital markets offers distinct advantages over measures in the trade portfolio.
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General PETER PACE (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff): We need to give ourselves a good honest scrub about what is working and what is not working, what are the impediments to progress and what should we change about the way we're doing it to ensure that we get to the objective that we've set for ourselves.
Experience has shown that the best way to change a process is to set up the new way of doing things, then flip the switch (flip method), rather than making incremental changes (drip method).
And then on the military side, we have to change how we go about doing things on the ground, and truly move towards the principle of successful counterinsurgency, which is protect and support the people.
He says Wall Street's business model is broken: While banks such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch are raising millions through investments by sovereign wealth funds they're doing little to change the way they price risk.
And then as I grew up, you know, I started to appreciate my culture and where they're from and so I decided, like you know, I don't like what's out there, so why don't I try doing something to change it too?
Mr Paul thus shows his colours as an advocate of Austrian economics a resurgent school of thought that, unlike market monetarism, has not been doing much to change the minds of most mainstream economists but, unlike neo-chartalism, has built up a broad constituency on and through the web.
Many of us are inclined to stick to doing something unless there's a good reason to change.
"What we're doing is trying to change the face of bedding in the world, " Marciniak said.
Instead, the solution has to be fundamental change, not people doing bits and pieces at the margin.
The crisis is so severe that European insurers will have to change some of their ways of doing business.
Mrs Merkel is often accused of doing too little to change attitudes.
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LG's doing its best to change that with its Thinq lineup of connected appliances announced and demonstrated for the first time here in Las Vegas.
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Mr Cameron said Mr Barker, a Conservative MP who visited the Arctic Circle with him in 2006 to investigate climate change, was "doing an excellent job".
What are you doing to stop climate change?
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Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.
"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now, " says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.
"Older brokers are often pretty set in their ways and don't want to change their style, while Oren was really opening to listening to me and to doing different kinds of deals, " says Mr. Ferraro.
Given the serendipity behind so much innovation, it may seem like folly to predict who will change the world--but we're doing it anyway, if for no other reason than to spark creative discussion.
She said nurses were "too busy doing their jobs" to change times on discharge documents.
Is he making calls or doing anything to try to change that and fight for that provision?
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Some credit a 16-year-old schoolboy with doing more than anyone to change public opinion on the issue.
Change is finally doing something about our addiction to oil and raising fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 30 years.
But even more importantly than that a 40 to 50 year timescale gives us the opportunity to deal with climate change pretty much without doing anything at all.
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"Some of the work we have been doing has helped to encourage change, and I think we'll see more changes in the GAA in the future, " he said.
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