Communities and local civil society organizations need to be actively involved in decision-making in order to generate bottom up demand for change and hold governments to account for public investment in water and sanitation.
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The 133-year-old company announced it was to stop making digital cameras in order to focus on more profitable divisions.
Such firms are rather good at making specialist gear to order in small or medium-sized batches.
So that is part of kind of an internal rebalancing within Asia that the United States is making in order to be effective, efficient, cost-effective, and able to take on the challenges that we face.
In particular, the article probes the deals games studios may find themselves making in order to provide the verisimilitude that players of modern-day military FPSes apparently crave, and the way gun makers can see them not only as a potential revenue stream, but also as a way to promote their products.
It would also be a mistake to assume that health care corporations are making contributions and lobbying in order to make the overhaul fail.
Unfortunately, it also means I'm making compromises in order to use BlackBerry 10, but I'm hopeful that we'll start seeing third-party apps that throw in more options.
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Also, with the split in the NKP, no single party will have a working majority in the 299-seat National Assembly, and the coalition may find itself making deals in order to legislate bills.
When the Race to Dubai was launched last year in China many top players, like American Anthony Kim and Colombian Camillio Villegas, committed themselves to making more appearances on the European Tour in order to qualify for the lucrative tournament.
Deliberate measures were said to be needed at the policy level but also in global businesses, decision-making and the media in order to enhance gender parity.
The instruments of social media are well suited to making the existing social order more efficient.
The Trumpf machinery allows a piece's size, shape and pattern to be changed to order, making mass customization possible.
The government plugged that loophole, but other dodges remain, such as making payments to bogus reinsurers in order to funnel money offshore.
Moreover, many senior women reported making personal sacrifices in order to succeed in corporate structures that assumed a partner would be home to care for the family.
Once again we see the armed services adapting to such a prospect, teaching soldiers Iraqi Arabic before deployment and making use of Civilian Affairs in order to foster good relations with the populace.
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Fujitsu is eager to shed its loss-making hard-disk drive business, in order to focus on gaining ground against formidable rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard in information technology services consulting.
There appears to be a new trend making its way through the MMO ranks in order to boost subscription and compete with the behemoth that is World of Warcraft.
For years, this is what happened if you wanted to buy or sell a Nasdaq stock: Your buy order went to a market making firm, which charged you the offer side of the market, pocketing the difference between that price and the lower bid.
Business leaders need to understand that if, in the end, it is going to be disclosed that they have erred, it's better to own up as quickly as possible in order to have a hand in making repairs.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together a host of participants from the academia, NGOs, policy making bodies and the bureaucracy, in order to share their research experiences on the existing programs, best practices, issues, concerns and policies in different parts of the globe, particularly the developing countries, and to submit a policy paper to Government of India to improve social protection policies in India.
He skipped college in order to try making money in Hollywood as a musician and songwriter.
President Obama recently issued an Executive Order making it illegal to sell filtering technology to Syria and Iran.
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But they are all 80 years of age or older, making it imperative to act now in order to preserve it before it's too late.
At least in America, we do not follow the archaic lead of the paternalistic French, who recently fined Google, on competition grounds, for making Google Maps free to users in order to protect legacy publishers of printed street maps.
Arrange the message in 73 rows of 23 numbers, and you get a picture painted in bits. ( Click here to see the decoded Arecibo message.) It was a novel approach, but the message was hidden, and it depended on aliens making leaps of logic in order to decipher it.
So we are making sensible choices that reflect our need to get our fiscal house in order, and we are making those choices driven by a strategy rather than just giving the Defense Department an across-the-board haircut, because that would be irresponsible.
Currently, manufacturing wages are hovering around their 2000 level and as The Wall Street Journal notes, high unemployment and rising global competition means that employers are able to wring wage and benefit concessions from unions and employees in order to avoid outright job cuts, making the sector as a whole less attractive to potential hirees.
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"But the momentum of change needs to continue in order to ensure sustainable improvements, and the council is making progress in delivering improvements in most of its priorities, " Mr Owen continued.
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