It seemed to provide a focus on long-term investment and management techniques that U.S. corporations could not match and from which it was thought that U.S. management needed to learn if they were going to survive.

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In most cases, a country must learn to live with and survive on its own water resources.

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According to Medina, the human brain evolved over millions of years to learn, problem-solve and survive while in motion.

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Hawking, in an exclusive CNN interview, said that if humans can survive the next 200 years and learn to live in space, then our future will be bright.

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All hires attend a four-to-six-week training course in London in which they learn to incorporate Thai, Indian, Swedish and other massage techniques, and they get advice on how to survive the shipboard life.

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Just like apes learned the value of imitation to survive in an ancient hostile jungle, entrepreneurs need to learn the same value in the new business jungle.

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But understand this, because your future might very well depend on it: If you want to survive in this economy, you'd be well-advised to learn how to speak computer code.

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The publishing firms that survive what promises to be a wrenching transition will be those whose bosses and employees can learn quickly to think like multimedia impresarios rather than purveyors of perfect prose.

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