The U.S. needs an honest-to-God 12-step program to recover its long-term 3.5% annual growth potential.
Specialty hospitals are only a more dramatic step in the long-term expansion of medical services beyond hospital walls.
In a step towards the long-awaited era of personalized medicine, Iceland's DeCode Genetics has discovered a new genetic risk factor for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities.
They have also taken an even bolder step - rejecting a long-established rule of Muslim scholars that later (and often more conservative) texts override earlier ones.
"Let's take the proposal one step further with a long-term solution that will give Long Islanders a stronger voice in the utility regulatory process, " said Beth Finkel of AARP in New York.
Probably then the ECB will step in with its long-awaited couple of hundred billion - which is already out there in the marketplace and just needs to be unleashed as long term rather than short term lending.
This whole experience won't be too foreign to long-time users, but is the next step in the right direction.
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So some might be forgiven for thinking they were taking a backward step bringing their hour-long show, entitled Chase the Dream, Not The Competition, to Edinburgh's Udderbelly, which holds just 410 people.
"4K is a technology that is an evolutionary step that - maybe a long way down the line - will be the successor to today's HD televisions, " said Daniel Simmons from IHS Screen Digest.
Tying all of these together, as both the Gartner report and the foundational concepts of Matrix Commerce illustrate, deliver gains not just in customer satisfaction but the ability of any company to stay in step with customers over the long-term.
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Certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney led the Republican counterattack, accusing President Barack Obama of undermining the possibility of long-term immigration reform by taking the partial step of halting deportations of some young illegal immigrants who came to America as children.
The biggest question that remains unanswered is whether players will ever be fully paid for the services they have and will henceforth render, with the knowledge that they are risking their long-term health and welfare every time they step foot onto a football field.
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America needs something like a 12-step recovery program to return its long-term 3.5% growth potential.
Perhaps it will be the first step towards fully integrating medical and long-term care for all Medicare beneficiaries.
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If Hartz IV succeeds, Germany will have taken a big step towards helping its army of long-term unemployed off the dole and into work.
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However, a better first step might be a system of long-term quotas that are transferable between countries, similar to the recently established global carbon-trading scheme.
The peace they made removed Egypt from the circle of conflict with Israel and marked the first step in ending the generations-long conflict between Arabs and Jews.
As you can see, this step-by-step approach shows you what you need to accomplish each and every day to realize your long-term vision.
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Aligning sales and marketing is a crucial first step for both short-term and long-term success.
The North East Rail Passengers Committee said the SRA had failed to step in to resolve a year-long conductors' strike at Arriva Trains Northern.
But the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul says the announcement is potentially an important step towards ending the three-decade long conflict between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state.
So if you stand in the middle of it and scream really loudly when you can't have the same Doctor Who book you've borrowed for the last 18 months, you get a brilliant echo that goes on and on and on - long after the security guard has asked you to step outside.
Step 3: Create a realistic view of long-term risk and return estimates for each asset class.
That is, I hope, a first step toward solving the difficult challenge of financing long-term care services.
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And as you will see, each step you take toward re-acquiring this long-forgotten skill will build your competence and confidence.
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In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour.
These areas are vital to the nation's long-term growth, the official said, and the state must step in when businesses don't.
Just getting a bipartisan commission of Congress to acknowledge the importance of the challenges facing those receiving long-term supports and services and their caregivers would be a huge step forward.
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