Bottom Line: the workforce of today is specialized and highly virtual: working part-time, mobile, from home, and often on a contract basis.
Most of what makes learning difficult is specialized language and it usually takes me five books to begin to have a feel for this language.
Esterline Technologies Corporation is a specialized engineering and manufacturing company principally serving aerospace and defense markets.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, with 189 members.
Based on his success raising funds, Stevenson observes that fund raising is a specialized form of selling.
Rational also gives IBM greater means to drive its pervasive computing goals--that is, specialized software for specific devices.
The M-Monochrom is a specialized solution to a certain set of photographic problems.
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Often the technology is so specialized, and the precision standards so high, that Japanese manufacturers will continue to be competitive.
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It will enhance the scientific credibility of the process, as UNESCO is the specialized agency of the UN system in charge of science.
No doubt, this is a specialized area, and that's why the company's CEO, Patrick Taylor , thought it was imperative to form an advisory board.
"Our clinical team is highly specialized in the treatment of substance abuse and more importantly, the psychiatric illnesses which often accompany individuals suffering" from chemical dependency issues.
The safest route for valuation discounting is to have specialized split interest trusts and other discounting methods crafted specifically for artwork, so that the valuation issue is old and cold by the time the estate tax return is filed.
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Facebook is great, but like everything else, the world is a more specialized place.
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On the one hand, these types of filtered searches are more likely to occur when a recruiter is seeking highly specialized talent.
Instead, flood coverage is sold through specialized policies, dominated by the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program, covering 5.6 million consumers and businesses.
Specialized is still situated in Morgan Hill, Calif.
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There is nothing wrong with using specialized language to convey complex concepts to sophisticated audiences, but that is not what many business communicators do.
Yet, there are many industries where a specialized network is critical.
Some readers will be willing to make that trade-off, especially if Irex is able to add specialized stores in the future that offer, say, a large selection of non-English-language books.
Perhaps more importantly, I also taught that their mastery of this specialized knowledge is only as valuable as their ability to communicate it to patients coming from different cultures, education level, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Green, who recently upped his hiring target from 37, 000 to 47, 000, with major plans to build out staff in India, says talent may be considered a global commodity but it is also mostly highly specialized.
In people with defective immune systems, the normally mild infection can be severe, so eradicating smallpox not only saved people from smallpox but from needing the vaccine (it is still used in specialized settings such as the military).
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In 1999 I moved to Florida to start another hedge fund and opened a brokerage firm catering to big traders and institutions looking for direct access trading of their high frequency algorithms, which is what my funds specialized in.
In Specialized's visitors lobby is a replica of Sinyard's VW, along with Specialized's racing bikes ridden by time-trial world champion Fabian Cancellara and the 2010 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador.
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Look, gas is certainly far cheaper than it was -- is far cheaper now than it was last summer, but -- I'm not entirely sure that Hummer is such a bad example when you had a very specialized, luxury SUV that GM is looking to sell.
Enterprise Products (nyse: EPD - news - people) is a master limited partnership, a specialized investment vehicle somewhat like a real estate investment trust, which is exempt from corporate income taxes as long as it pays out almost all of its profits to investors.
Meetings are a critical step to ensure that a student is achieving educational milestones, has adequate access to therapies and specialized services for their disability, and is poised to progress to the next grade and more independent living.
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This extremely specialized career option is brought to you by our wonderfully complicated tax code.
Separately, another Army division is testing phones running a specialized version of Google's open-source Android software, officials say.
Robert Half International is one of the largest specialized staffing firms in the United States providing temporary, project, and full-time professionals in a variety of fields.
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