Through fostering smart ideas, mobilizing smart people and supporting the co-creation of smart ventures with community leaders, George Roter has been able to transform EWB into an organization capable of producing sustainable system-changing solutions.
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In choosing the topic for this year's symposium--maintaining stability in a changing financial system--the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City staff is, once again, right on target.
"The financial system keeps changing so quickly - in every country, in every market, " he says.
Many investors lack confidence in Algeria's oft-changing legal system.
So it has fallen to this government to sort out the system - and we are completely changing the way it works so it is truly geared to the needs of our economy.
The Healthy Americans Act I am currently co-sponsoring represents a complete break with the past as far as legislative initiatives are concerned--the past is nibbling around the edges of the current system--and this act says we are going to break with the current system by changing the tax laws and allowing the individual to purchase their own plan.
Power-operated curtains provide privacy for the rear passengers and together with an innovative color-changing interior lighting system create a serene atmosphere.
You can now even order the Cayman with the mighty, life-changing Burmester premium sound system.
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Boeing's chairman, Phil Condit, says that Boeing tried to accelerate its production too fast, without changing a production-engineering system that had barely altered since the second world war.
Those choosing the Advance Package also get ventilated front seats and a blind-spot warning system for added safety while changing lanes on the highway, which is a feature we think should be standard across the line.
In the case of Ecuador, a constitutional reform could have made sense in the framework of political reform aimed at increasing relations between constituencies and elected officials, changing the current system of party-rule (partidocracia) and ensuring that all sectors are properly represented within the system.
This is the vision of a growing number of education reformers who feel that the standard certification system no longer works in today's fast-changing job market.
There is cross-party support for changing the funding system as the parties agree that the current devolved funding settlement for Wales is no longer fit for purpose.
The bill paves the way for a referendum on changing the Westminster electoral system from first-past-the-post to the Alternative Vote (AV) system, whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper.
But this pension system is ripe for common-sense reforms, including changing eligibility ages and benefit structures for those with greater means, ridding the Social Security disability program of pervasive fraud, and removing disincentives for those who would rather work in their later years.
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With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
The South East, like the country as a whole, voted overwhelmingly ' No' to changing the voting system from the current first-past-the-post system to the alternative vote.
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But, he added, new devices and innovations from Samsung, HTC and Blackberry, show that Apple has become complacent, leaving the iPhone with an operating system in iOS that is now old in the fast-changing mobile market.
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The Lib Dems have faced an onslaught of voter anger over the past year, over the U-turn on tuition fees and support for spending cuts - and saw a long-cherished dream of changing the UK voting system dashed, when the AV referendum resulted in a resounding "no" from the electorate.
Countries considering changing their first-past-the post system had been alarmed by the results of the New Zealand experiment.
It means following the advice of Charlotte Bunch, and changing -- even destroying -- the system that the Lean In women are so happy and eager to run.
Make sure the system you pick is user-friendly and can be readily adapted to changing household schedules in order to avoid false alarms.
And while I think success for start-ups like hers is absolutely necessary for changing the food system, the ethos of the meeting put more value on helping others than on making money.
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The BCS, long opposed to changing its illustrious bowl system, will officially support implementing a four-team playoff system for the 2014 college football season.
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Since Republicans are going to get hammered for even considering changing the current on-its-way-to-going-broke system, they might as well be bold instead of tentative.
Technical tinkering, such as changing the formulation of a drug from a fast-acting pill to a slow-release system, is a common tactic.
Formula apportionment would allow tax bureaucrats to concoct a system for arbitrarily changing the existing distribution of business income, with a clear goal of forcing companies to over-state their taxable income in high-tax nations.
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It has a simple-to-move foot bar that lifts and clicks into place to reduce transition time between exercises, patent-pending collars on the springs to make them easier to grip when changing settings and a rope system that lets you adjust length with the pull of a lever.
The system can also help give a rider information about traffic further behind in adjoining lanes to help with overtaking or lane-changing.
In the wide-ranging speech, Ed Miliband pledged to vote "yes" in a referendum on changing the voting system to AV, said Labour should have recognised concerns about jobs and wages resulting from immigration.
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