It would be foolish of us as a culture to miss the pain the Dr. Pepper soft drink is meant to alleviate during an era where traditionally male jobs are disappearing (construction, manufacturing) and there is increasing competition for knowledge work from women, as well as a general feminization of the culture (a topic too big to talk about in a comment).

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They are repositories of antitrust knowledge who use their unique positions to modernize competition policy in responsible ways.

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For those knowledge workers concerned about outsourcing and those American businesses worried about competition from BRIC countries, consider these statistics from a guide to U.S. MBA admissions for students applying from India.

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The globalisation of the world economy, together with declining demand for manual labour and the simplistic belief that this must put nations increasingly in competition with one another, has lately given investment in knowledge a political resonance it lacked before.

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The competition tests brain power, composure and, for the first time, knowledge of vocabulary.

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With the generous support of Wendy Schmidt, we will be launching a global competition for the development of effective and affordable pH sensors to profoundly improve our knowledge of ocean chemistry and the understanding of the global effects of ocean acidification.

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