But social changes can take longer than expected, says the 75-year-old, who quit the industry in 1993.
Economic and social changes have obvious consequences for water use and the demands placed on the resource.
More recently, he has become the go-to pundit for people lamenting the social changes wrought by modern technology.
It was a bruising election season and it revealed that the nation is experiencing profound demographic and social changes.
Much more interesting is the way in which the status and reputation of cabin crews mirrored other social changes.
But, surprisingly, getting the economy to improve is the easy bit, compared to dealing with some of the social changes.
However, due to several unprecedented demographic and social changes, there will be fewer family caregivers available in the years ahead.
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Over the past few years China has been swept by two broad social changes, both of which reflect middle-class influence.
Lewis Wu, project manager for smart cards at Singapore's National Computer Board, charts several social changes that have promoted smart tech.
Our weapon is our ability to identify such radical options and make the social changes that are necessary to adopt them.
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Recognizing social changes that previously might have been shrugged off could allow for earlier diagnosis of a disorder and treatment, doctors say.
Lastly, Republicans think that the social changes in the South may have altered the region, but have not made it less distinctive.
This will constitute one of the greatest social changes of modern times.
They need to wake up to the huge social changes happening in their countries and think about how to cope with the consequences.
Through all of the panics and wars and industrialization and social changes, the economy grew in real terms an average of 3.9% a year.
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"Our generation directly experienced the way that social changes can be brought about through the power and participation of ordinary people, " Lee told CNN.
Conversely, countries that accept change will be rewarded with a more vibrant and better-off society, even if they have to accept social changes that they may not welcome.
All of this was then multiplied in effect, by the economic and social changes that altered the established pattern of community life in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and throughout the developed world.
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He writes and advises about the new social environment of the enterprise, enterprise 2.0, open management and API strategies, as well as the key social changes that enterprise decision makers need to know about.
As with other social changes involving race, gender, sexual orientation, the status of women, and abortion, change happens slowly, then all of a sudden we realize we are living in a different social world than before.
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The so-called Lisbon Agenda called on EU governments to implement a range of economic and social changes, including tax cuts, reform of heath care and pension systems, and making it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.
But the social changes over the coming decades are likely to be much more extensive, and to happen much faster, than any in the past, because the technologies driving them are continuing to develop at a breakneck pace.
The report's author, Dr Peter Brierley, believes that the decline reflects wider social changes - such as the decline in church attendance and the shift towards Sunday as a day for shopping or for divorced parents to see their children.
The leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, has said the law should not be used as a tool to bring about such social changes such as gay marriage, and may turn out to be ahead of majority opinion.
The world has changed drastically, but some South-East Asian governments have not adapted: to the globalisation of the marketplace, to the social changes their own economic triumphs have wrought, or even to the transformation of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Urbanization and rapid social changes, which have split extended families and sent all those who are capable of working into the marketplace, mean that many hands once available to care for elderly relatives - whether suffering from dementia or simple infirmity - are not there.
That is going to be a result of the side effects of the combination of the globalisation of economy and all the social changes that have diminished the value of human labour and diminished the value of people's relationships and their symbiotic relationships with land.
These things - these big social policy changes just take more time than that.
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