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Art fairs and similar events aimed at bringing wealthy tourists and international recognition (and to toss blows in a new, intra-Arab competition for cultural superiority as countries stage ever-bigger and ever-splashier projects) mean that artists have begun to matter.
FORBES: Artists Form the Instruments of War Across the Middle East
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Yet we also want to be protected from the downside, the job insecurity that results from greater foreign competition and the cultural hegemony of the United States.
ECONOMIST: Economic globalisation
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The rationalised process is part of a competition to find more cultural and natural heritage places of global importance, which are fit to become future UK World Heritage Sites.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: UK to put forward ��fewer and fitter�� places for future UNESCO World Heritage Site designation
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The New York office was opened when the firm won the competition for a building for two of the cultural institutions originally designated for inclusion on the World Trade Center site, the Freedom Museum and the Drawing Center.
WSJ: Sn?hetta: architecture �� landscape �� interior, at Scandinavia House
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First that it is incredibly difficult to stimulate competition in banking, because of the regulatory and cultural obstacles faced by any start-up.
BBC: Co-op set to become big banker
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Tahiti's acclaimed cultural heart beats fastest in July during the annual dancing and sporting competition, the Heiva, when the streets of the capital bloom with dazzling costumes and the air hums with the sweetest of South Pacific songs.
BBC: Getting in the Tahitian spirit
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It includes almost 50 buildings -- houses, churches, commercial and industrial structures, cultural and civic centers, universities and museums, many of them competition-winning projects -- as well as his activity as a town planner and designer for industry, presented in drawings, models, photographs and "walk-through" videos.
WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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Competition between regions is expected to eclipse any tribal, ethnic or cultural splits.
BBC: Libya after Gaddafi: Who's in charge?
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It also promoted an online architectural competition that is taking place this fall, in which three Albanian cultural monuments will be featured for architects around the world to compete in designing new economic uses for these historic structures.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
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The bid is based on France's so-called "cultural exception" policy, which aims to protect culture from market forces and foreign competition.
BBC: French MPs use tablets in parliament (19 February 2013)