"At the time we made this discovery, it was just a fundamental, curiosity-driven question, " she said.

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The report says that the Nepal experience highlights the question of whether primary textbook-driven curriculum development can meet the skills and dispositional learning outcome ambitions of DRR Education.

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The answer to this question has become an obsession for data-driven scientist Paul Wicks.

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Accountants' assertions that recent consolidation has been client-driven were put into question when Britain's One Hundred Group of top-company finance directors expressed concern about it.

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But perhaps the best reason to be optimistic is that the companies in question are driven by a powerful motivator that is lacking in donor-led rural programmes: profit.

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Written by Rob Markey and Fred Reichheld, authors of The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World.

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Although RSS-driven traffic to websites is notoriously difficult to track, there is no question in my mind that RSS is good for publishers.

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