Now the gamblers are becoming long-term investors, and the balance of power is shifting.
The locus of shareholder power is shifting rapidly from entrenched management to activist shareholders.
Sure, some power is shifting towards the financial markets, multinational corporations and supranational bodies such as the European Union.
Yet the curriculum battles also reveal how the balance of power is shifting.
Robert McNamara and his fellow whizz kids flourished in post-war America because they realised that power was shifting to finance.
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Political and economic power is shifting from Europe, where distances are relatively small, to the Western Pacific, where distances are huge.
Power is shifting from West to East, technology is rejiggering the relationship between growth and jobs, and both trends are intersecting in ways that have undercut the upward trajectory of our economy.
Europe may now be the most successful region both in terms of money and success on the pitch but the balance of power is shifting, to South America, Asia, the Middle East and the new Europe.
Mr Garman argues that long-term trends are shifting power from the executive to Congress.
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The balance of power is now shifting back from risk-takers to those who police them internally.
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But adopting an open standard means shifting power from one competitor to everyone else.
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Undaunted, cyber-enthusiasts maintain that social technologies are shifting power from a few Goliaths to many Davids.
In 2007 it was the "shifting power equation, " and this year it is the "power of collaborative innovation" looking at how to develop a common agenda in a time of rapid innovation and change.
Now he is shifting power to the Yugoslav federal presidency, a supposedly ceremonial job he was obliged to take last July because the constitution prevented him from running for a third term as president of Serbia.
Our 2011 list admittedly left off several women shifting the power dynamic here in Silicon Valley.
Like today, that crisis featured public profligacy, shifting economic power in the world and a cowed Federal Reserve.
The NLRA was an attempt to create fairer labor markets by shifting bargaining power from the employers to the employees through statutory regulation.
The industry has become far more competitive, and the balance of power seems to be shifting away from Nokia towards both network operators and Asian handset-makers.
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In part, this is because of disappointment at Romano Prodi, the new president of the European Commission (see article), but also because power has anyway been shifting away from the commission and towards the governments themselves, making decisions in the Council of Ministers.
This might make sense for large scale solar farms, since the integration of PV would allow the overall price of power to be lower than CSP alone, while CSP would be able to compensate for the rapid output changes from PV that occur whenever a cloud passes over, as well as producing power at night, or shifting it ot peak afternoon periods.
Adroitly managing this shifting international balance of power from summit to summit could prove to be the biggest challenge.
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Consolidation in the wireless industry risks shifting the balance of power away from Silicon Valley toward the much less innovative wireless carriers.
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But new technologies like digital video recorders, TiVo, digital cable and Web-based television are shifting the balance of power from traditional broadcasters to consumers.
Achieving greater clarity in government policies, avoiding the temptation to micromanage markets, and remaining open to innovation should be overarching strategies that take into account the shifting international balance of power.
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Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington.
The golden age of American productivity growth followed what is called the second industrial revolution, in 1860-1900, which yielded a cluster of genuinely paradigm-shifting inventions: electric power, the internal combustion engine, modern industrial chemistry and telecommunications.
This aspiration compels it to promote industrial development and higher education, which has the inevitable effect of shifting much opinion and the power to make decisions to private citizens.
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The report and campaign aim to empower citizens and retailers with the economic, labeling and consumer insight data necessary to make more informed food choices, ultimately shifting antibiotic use through purchasing power.
Two issues will concern the military: maintaining combat power for as long as possible and shifting what forces do remain there more to the east of Afghanistan, where the insurgency is still stronger than in the south.
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Now shifting to talk about electrical power.
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