So I think the things to watch at the East Asia Summit are, first of all, what is the program of work that the leaders set for themselves in the course of 2013.
As I look at my team at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and at a handful of other SETI teams around the globe, I see very clever individuals who have been willing to forgo the traditional challenges and rewards of academic research to work on a program of immense potential -- to do work that can literally change the world.
It is all part of an overall program of "missionary work, " in Zeitler's words, to get customers consolidating their gear and buying computing power as if it were electricity from a utility.
Some of you earned your tickets through the 9-3-1 program -- nine hours of volunteer work over three days for a community credential ticket.
Mr. Fischer has painted the surface with a faded pale blue hue, a gradient of color he distilled from a landscape photograph using Photoshop, a computer program he employs in much of his work.
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At a recent conference in Washington, Ambassador Urs Ziswiler touted the skilled labor force in Switzerland, where 75% of young people work in some type of apprenticeship program.
Under those 1996 reforms, two-thirds of the poor on the program left for work, resulting in a documented increase in their incomes of 25%, while saving taxpayers 50% of the costs of the old program.
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The essays on Latin American liberalism complement the research program exemplified in the work of Hernando de Soto.
As part of the program, interns work closely with Center executives gaining unmatched exposure to the policy community and national security arena.
Despite the obvious and growing salience of this work program, the Institute has since its inception been the only public policy organization in the United States exclusively concerned with it.
Johnson is part of a small but impressive welfare-to-work program Sprint began last October in one of Kansas City's poorest neighborhoods.
They include Iran's ongoing uranium enrichment program, experiments with small amounts of plutonium, and a possible program that combines work on high explosives, missiles, and uranium.
NASA's Game Changing Development Program, part of NASA's Space Technology Program, funds the X1 work.
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This year the Harvard Business School started sending its entire class of 900 students to learn and work overseas as part of its Global Immersion Program.
This month, Rosewood San Miguel de Allende in Mexico launched a "Little Picassos" program that has children study the work of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso and then create their own pictures.
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This Forum includes an intensive three-day work program allowing a group of about 100 students from all over the region to meet and discuss the central theme of the event, which follows the themes of the Summit.
In 2005 and 2007, respectively, Systrom and Krieger were awarded Mayfield fellowships. (Only a dozen upperclassmen are chosen each year.) In an intense nine-month work-study program, fellows immerse themselves in the theoretical study of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership, and work during the summer in a Valley start-up.
In about 30 minutes an hourly worker can program the robot to do a full day of work.
The program will work by showing users a list of statements about a topic and then asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with each.
The schools would develop an annual program based around a series of sustainability themes and work with government, community and private sector partners to develop school activities around these themes including special events, lesson content, competitions and exchanges between the schools.
So, while it's a lot of work, choosing the right airline program to accrue miles with can make a big difference.
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Bush later heard from three single mothers who made the transition from welfare to work through the help of a program administered by a local church.
With those radically reversed incentives, within a few years two thirds of those on the old AFDC program went to work, ultimately saving taxpayers 50% from where spending was heading under prior trends.
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Interest in work sharing grew during the recent recession, but fewer than half of the states operate a work sharing program, and employers may not know about work sharing even where it is available.
Indeed, it was the highly successful merger of Bill Casey's Wall Street and national security experiences that largely gave birth to the field of International Economic Security--the overarching theme of the Casey Institute's work program and raison d'etre.
"You don't want one person to bear an inordinate part of the more stressful household tasks, because that's going to come back and bite you, " says Rosalind Barnett, executive director of the Communities, Families and Work Program at Brandeis University.
That combination of meaningful work experience, pay, perks and career opportunities lands the Capital Fellows Program on a new list of the nation's top internships, put out by career Web site Vault.com.
At the same time, because of the resulting increased work by former welfare dependents, the incomes of the families formerly on the program rose by 25%, and poverty among those families plummeted.
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Johnson examined data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and concluded that gender has a significant influence on the relationship between work hours and increases in the probability of divorce.
If a program does not work in training people for the jobs of the future and getting them a job, we should eliminate that program.
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