The other day I ran into an important U.S. official who pointed out that there's now something of a competition in a number of developing countries to see which one can improve most in the Doing Business annual survey.
What went on in the officer's head is something that I can only guess but, based on over 30 years of experience in the doing, teaching and studying of the police profession, I would venture to say that race had nothing to do with the behavior displayed and that the sub-culture of police work dictated the action, more than any possible bias or prejudice.
Largely what we've ended up doing in the 30 years I've been in the organisation is doing the same old thing.
One of the officials said Obama challenged his economic team to "think bolder" as some economists warn there is danger in the government doing too little to curb the recession.
The rebound petered out in April 1930, and perhaps the rally that began in March 2009 is doing the same in April 2010.
And there is going to be an overlap between what we're doing on the Recovery Act and what we need to do in terms of bank policy, what we're doing -- what the Fed is doing in terms of the credit markets.
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Steven and Margret are unlikely friends, living and working half a world apart, but are united by a common desire to facilitate all of the good things people are doing in the world to build self-reliance through financial empowerment and education, and in so doing, they are leaving their marks on the world.
Do you have the right people in the right roles doing the right things?
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The only people who may really know are those in the companies actually doing the drilling at Kashagan.
And so, to the extent that we can all be on the same page in doing the one thing we all want to do, we want to provide people with jobs.
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It's a bit rich for France and Germany to talk about Greece holding the rest of Europe to ransom, when the eurozone is in the process of doing the same to the global economy.
Yet corporate counsel must now view LSO as a strategic value proposition the benefits of which inure not only to the Legal Department, but to the company as a whole by putting the right people in the right place doing the right thing both (i) internally and (ii) with outside counsel and LSO providers.
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However, in the brouhaha of lack of women in the industry we are doing the biggest disservice to young women who might join the technical ranks.
There are only a handful of other laboratories in the world doing similar research, and none of those labs has as many mechanical creatures to work with as Mataric has.
They started out in the 1970s doing claims adjudication for pharmacies and insurers, but moved into negotiating drug prices with manufacturers, designing health plans for employers and insurers and running mail-order shops.
In 1910 Portugal overthrew its 700-year-old monarchy and proclaimed itself a republic, in the process doing away with the old royal currency, the rei - 'king' - and introducing the escudo as its successor.
Determining whether someone who was initially attracted to you for whatever reason--because you've spent the last three years in the gym doing crunches, or because you're Ronald Perelman--is sincerely in love with you for who you are requires emotional insight, the advice of trusted friends and a good pre-nup lawyer.
Repeatedly, the company makes the case (in the SEC filing) that the new debt required for the deal will not get in the way of the company doing deals to transform its business.
The purpose of the meeting in Lima tomorrow is NOT whether to discuss actually doing any of these things, but rather whether to support research on the feasibility of doing so in the worst-case scenarios of climate change.
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts and Kings College in London found the mutation by doing detailed sequencing of the genes in several families with an inherited form of ALS. The findings are published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science and were partially funded by the ALS Association.
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It also affirmed that the victim compensation fund failed to notify people who were entitled to the scholarships by the July 2003 deadline prescribed in the law, doing so only in April 2005, just three months before the program ended.
The Obama administration seems interested in doing the same.
This grants immunity for actions a foreign government takes when it is acting as a government, but not for actions taken when it is acting as, for example, a commercial enterprise, which might occur when the government in question owns a company doing business in the United States.
Spurs has also managed to keep its best players, like Jermain Defoe and Gareth Bale (though his future seems in the balance), while doing shrewd work in the transfer market by picking up the likes of central defender Jan Vertonghen and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
But he is willing to do, in the name of doing something big and comprehensive, talk about what he talked about in the State of the Union, which is take measures that would strengthen it and increase its solvency.
The debt needs to be written off before growth will resume, and in the process of doing that Europe and the U.S. will necessarily print a lot of money to fuel inflation.
In the course of doing that, I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated.
If running an internet ad campaign becomes just a matter of asking for 50 million slots and hoping for the best then where is all the budget for the high paid and interesting jobs in doing the tracking of the consumers?
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The economy has certainly been doing better in the past few years than it was doing earlier.
What were Israel's representatives at the UN doing in the days preceding the vote?
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