In unglamorous, non-export oriented services Germany is in a much sorrier state.

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Fortunately, just in the past week California has paved the way for a non-disruptive, market-oriented solution to this political firestorm-in-the-making.

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It seems that Mr Riordan is fulfilling the promise another multimillionaire, Ross Perot, unsuccessfully held out in 1992: to run a business-oriented, non-partisan, problem-solving government.

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And where the work follows clear strategies, opportunity and is terribly sales oriented, in spite of (non-serious) appearances.

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Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.

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Traditional higher education has historically done a lackluster job of offering vocationally-oriented education programs and meeting the needs of non-traditional students.

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The participants of the workshop were oriented with global best practices, structural and non-structural measures including appropriate preparedness measures at school level in the context of school safety.

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