This is not merely an environmental issue: it is an economic and social priority.
Apple has been an industry leader in both supply chain management and making corporate social responsibility a priority.
Priority social issues included a lack of community spirit and teamwork leading to increased conflicts - this is partly a result of the fact that many residents have been resettled from nearby islands.
In addition to resonating more with people of all ages for whom social change has become a high priority, being a social purpose leader is a competitive imperative: Samsung, Microsoft, and Research in Motion are much more evolved in this area.
That explains why his fellow leaders gave in so readily to the French president's insistence that the only way he could win his vote would be if they dropped talk of further economic reform, scrapped the services directive and made preservation of Europe's social model their priority.
Mr Neil was challenged by Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay who said the draft budget suggested the party no longer saw social housing as a priority.
As other social needs have taken priority in economically turbulent times, however, the country's budget for maintaining and restoring some of its greatest tourist attractions has been drastically reduced.
He has stated that the terms of Ecuador's bond restructuring following the 1999 default were too favourable to bondholders and has hinted that social spending will take priority over debt servicing.
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Moving to mobile is a key priority for many social gaming companies such as Zynga, as well as for platforms such as Facebook.
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Ben Thornley: We were surprised to discover that, even within the constraints of fiduciary duty and the strictures of conventional portfolio management, US institutional asset owners have been very creative in finding ways to support regional economies and deliver the other secondary social or environmental impacts of priority to beneficiaries.
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Mr Peacock said he also intends to write to the Scottish Social Services Council, responsible for registering social workers, asking them to ensure that child protection training was a high priority in the future registration of social workers.
"Reducing the turnover of social workers must also be a priority, " she said.
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Teignbridge District Council is considering removing band E from its social housing list - the lowest priority in its A-E banding system.
However, he said despite this social care was still a "priority for reform" and the commission's report would be "carefully considered" before the government put forward its proposals next spring.
Mr Hanson asserted that the government has made tackling anti-social behaviour not only a "continual priority but a top priority".
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Mr Thomson claims they have been able to increase spending on adult social care because they have made it a priority and have been successful in reducing back-office costs.
Brown and dozens of other universities across the country are part of a growing movement in higher education to make the social impact of their graduates a central institutional priority.
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In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.
If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.
Finally, culture, as a means of communication, social cohesion, economic growth and creativity remains a priority for UNESCO, since it continues to bridge the peoples of the world.
He said his party would tackle child poverty as a priority and would fight for tax and social security powers to enable poorer families to keep more of what they earned.
Indeed, Social Security demands equal, if not top billing among priority spending that must be off the chopping block.
He said the government's top priority would now be tackling Colombia's social problems.
We're connected to dozens of social networks at all times, with our phones sorting priority for us and assuring us that we're on top of incoming information.
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Therefore, Senators Toomey and DeMint should expand their list of priority spending beyond interest on the debt to include Social Security.
Taking corporate social responsibility to the next level also involves putting a high priority on outcomes that are qualitative and not easily measurable.
His main priority remains studying towards a PhD on the economic and social impact of wind energy development at the University of Aberystwyth in his native Wales.
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