Smart State, capable of making plans and initiating positive change.
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Doing so will help shift them out of their fear-driven Critter State (where all decisions are based on what they perceive will help them survive) and into their Smart State (where they can innovate, collaborate, feel emotionally engaged, and move the company forward).
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The Palmer House Hilton, a smart hotel just off State Street, is enjoying its highest occupancy rate since it opened in 1924.
Thanks to its commitment to renewable energy, Hawaii is now also becoming something of a test bed for renewable energy technologies, from the study of various geothermal and algae-based biofuel technologies happening at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority on the Big Island to smart grid experiments the state is conducting along with representatives from Japan and China.
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Nokia seems to be confused about the current state of the smart phone market, and its position relative to Apple and Android phones.
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The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.
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Ask for a Discount Good news for smart rich kids: Penn State education professor Donald Heller reports that between 1992 and 1999 the number of non-need-based price cuts that colleges awarded to families in the top income quartile jumped 160%, with one-fifth of the kids in this group getting deals in 1999.
Being a keynote speaker achieved a goal I set 13 years ago when I attended the Smart Women Smart Money Conference hosted by Idaho State Treasurer Ron Crane.
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Wednesday 6th February, 2013: Leading music subscription service Deezer today announced partnerships with big-name TV manufacturers Samsung, LG and Toshiba to give music lovers across the globe unlimited access to a catalogue of over 20 million tracks via state of the art smart TV sets.
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Other sources VoterHub uses include Rock the Vote, Turbo Vote, Google Election Center, official state election websites, Vote Smart, and Pollster.
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This technology is geared towards utilization by smart phones, tablets and high capacity solid state drives.
On the contrary, the concrete answer to how we define smart-grid investments will be resolved by every state utility commission when they evaluate utilities request to recover investment costs.
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This would be smart and one potential method would be to simply stop hiring new state workers.
To drive future growth, the company has a pipeline of products for solid-state drive controllers, digital entertainment, cloud computing and smart energy.
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Another was the appointment on September 15th of Gregory Craig, a State Department lawyer with a reputation for being a lot more street-smart in politics than Mr Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, to liaise with Congress.
Over 8 times as many gigabytes of NAND flash memory has shipped than DRAM, making flash memory the largest solid state memory device on the market and enabling many mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers.
According to The Times, Indiana appears to be the state having the most trouble today, with 75 precincts using incorrectly programmed smart cards and nearly half of Marion County's 914 precincts having trouble getting their machines to boot up in the first place.
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For all its benefits, the state of being relaxed may have a significant downside when it comes to making smart purchasing decisions.
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Marvell's ARMADA 1500 platform provides state-of-the-art video performance and can be built into any smart TV device.
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So converting smart city atheists may be a matter of having more good examples of people working together using state-of-the-art technology to manage logistics and other urban tasks more efficiently, saving time and money for everyone.
"You need to be smart about how you spend money for a game like this, " said David Harris, Iowa State's senior associate athletic director for student services.
But Victoria Nuland, the state department spokeswoman, added that it was a separate issue "whether it's politically smart or helpful to be taking steps that antagonise countries".
Senior State Department officials said the administration was still hoping to coax the Russians into signing off on a "smart sanctions" package for Iraq that would end the embargo on humanitarian goods while strengthening military and financial controls on President Saddam Hussein's regime.
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