It floated, small and white, like a dove, a peace offering to my old self.
It plays an important social role by offering a chance for self-expression in a communal setting.
Which means that the pain that Apple is now feeling, as people lambast it for flaws in its maps offering, is entirely self-inflicted.
California's demonstration projects promote education and self-sufficiency by offering cash incentives to teenage welfare parents who attend school and maintain a C average.
He has since gone on to experiment with the idea of self-learning, offering software to children living in remote parts of India so that they can teach themselves.
In this scenario, there are no direct broker fees or commissions paid but the inherent conflict of interest is self-serving when offering research and recommendations on proprietary and non-proprietary funds where indirect and undisclosed revenue can be captured.
That can be employing workers on day rates, with little stability or security, though it can be more positive than that, appealing to employers and the self-employed person by offering flexibility.
Unlike others who lament black history's segregation into a month and therefore seek to get rid of the celebration, Holder sees the need for weaving black history into the fabric of ordinary American life and offering our citizens a critical tool of self-inventory while broadening the horizon of our nation's self-awareness around racial issues.
So nowadays the shelves in the business section of your local bookstore groan with self-help-style books offering advice about getting back to basics, regaining focus and growing organically.
This serves to counter Romantic (and, some would say, ultimately male) myths about the self-sufficiency of art, thus offering a subtle statement of her own feminist aesthetic.
This year it is expanding the offering to include more robust methods of collaboration, education and self-promotion.
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That sounds a bit premature, since Fleck also concedes that the company has a lot more work to do in the coming year, including instituting a self-serve system to attract more advertisers, offering geographical and mobile targeting, and providing real-time performance data.
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It has also started to compete against traditional book publishers, offering leading authors a far-better payout on sales if they self-publish under an Amazon imprint.
Facebook isn't alone, of course, in offering this seductive fantasy of a radically transparent digital society in which our self esteem is determined by our updates, tweets and check-ins.
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As a recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Yunnus began offering microloans to impoverished people in Bangladesh in 1976, thereby empowering them to become economically self-sufficient and proving the microcredit model that has now been replicated around the world.
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Individual wards (self-governing Tokyo sub-divisions) do their best to meet needs, offering subsidized lunches for the elderly.
Inside, the lounge is split into First and Business class dining areas, with First offering serviced private dining booths and Business, which the airline calls Club World, customers enjoying self-service.
In addition, a real-world school will be built in India offering children a place to receive the remote lessons, and it well also serve as a research centre into self-directed learning.
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