In the modern economy, supply chains stretch across the globe, creating both efficiencies and risks.
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Neither had perfect answers for the problems technology has created in the modern economy.
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Thus the Oxford English Dictionary explains one of the most basic institutions in a modern economy.
In fact, happiness is the single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy.
Mr Engle's work has helped build the foundations for measuring and avoiding myriad types of risks in the modern economy.
That may mean recognizing that while removing the government backstop is philosophically desirable, it may not be practically possible in a modern economy.
Workers in their 40s are already considered old, and many of those in their 50s may indeed lack the skills needed in a modern economy.
For him, digital distribution is the tool that independent musicians, like the ones in the clubs of New Orleans, need to support themselves in a modern economy.
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Innovation is the key competitive advantage in the modern economy.
At first glance, the idea of "bitter money" looks like a legacy of a traditional society--a relic that has nothing to do with the way consumers and investors handle money in a modern economy.
This is of particular concern when you consider the incredible costs to society of not making the right investments to ensure that every child is prepared to participate in the modern economy and contribute as a citizen.
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Paul Seabright, an economist at the University of Toulouse in France, observes that trust in a modern economy has evolved to the miraculous point where people give complete strangers sums of money they would not dream of entrusting to their next-door neighbours.
Plus, in the modern economy, there's no longer a secretarial pool: More likely, a group of employees and managers will be pooled together to use the resources of one administrative assistant, who then gets to juggle not only their work demands but their desire to have their demands met before those of their colleagues.
Blinded by inexplicable-to-me ideologies, what is astounding is the cavalier attitude that some demonstrate towards energy supply and its role in the modern world economy.
Transport in our modern-day economy is far too important to be left to the whims of politics.
That's why there's so much emphasis now on how do we get our schools better, because in today's modern economy, more educated workers tend to be more productive.
Defenders of the single market point to how national governments and the European Parliament watered down a directive that aimed to free trade in services (the bulk of any modern economy), long before the bubble burst in 2008.
And just as EU membership served as an incentive for reform in Europe, so should the vision of a modern and prosperous economy create a powerful force for reform in the Middle East and North Africa.
But behind it sits a big debate not only about the direction of the European Union, the world's biggest economic unit, but also about what sort of economy works best in the modern world.
Whether it's Sandy, or the Gulf, or the economy, in a complex modern world acting as a co-ordinator, allowing experts to do their job, may be the most grown-up and effective way of dealing with problems.
It is as true now as it ever was that the weakest part of a chain is where you should attack, and the supply chains in our modern global, hyper-connected economy are highly extended and, for larger international corporations, you can have upwards of 5, 000 to 10, 000 smaller suppliers inputting to your end products and services.
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In a modern jet airliner there are really just two ways to increase fuel economy, the most critical selling point in an era of tiny margins and volatile costs for carriers.
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Modern governments play a much larger role in the economy than the ancient Greeks or the founding fathers could have imagined.
We need high schools that produce in students the kind of skills necessary for the modern economy: flexibility, creativity, social intelligence, lateral thinking, entrepreneurial spirit.
Why try it in Morocco, which has a diversified modern and relatively free economy?
As far as our own experience, well-known experiences, I would very much like to see the Afghan people in the near future having an effective state and a modern economy, which requires toiling more than a year.
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The economy may have become the single most important issue in modern-day politics.
There will be enough people to participate in every sector of the economy and be at the forefront of modern technologies.
Because information is a powerful business asset, it is imperative that modern businesses have the know-how to operate in this increasingly global economy.
The genesis of the modern-day share economy is best traced to San Francisco in 2008, where Chesky and Joe Gebbia, recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates who had fled west, thought they could make some pocket cash by housing attendees at an industrial design conference on air beds in their apartment.
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