For clever, hardworking women, Brazil's system of open examinations for many public-sector jobs offers a starting point.
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Fast-forward to today, and that system of open protocols brings the enormous benefits of the Web to civilian life.
Washington is hardly unique in wanting a liberal world system of open trade, freedom of the seas, enforceable rules of contract and protection for foreign investment.
The UNESCO Moscow Office has initiated a high level round table "Creation of the system of open and universal access to public information in Bashkortostan" in Ufa, the capital of the Republic, 26 - 27th October 2006.
As difficult as this is for companies like Skype and Microsoft to deal with, the hacker layer is an important part of the immune system of the open internet.
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He also praised Google's Android operating system as an example of the sort of open operating system that would allow for the full potential of wireless devices.
Lindsey, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is open to the idea of free-market currencies, and there is a growing movement to incorporate gold into the global monetary system.
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We must be eternally vigilant in order to ensure that our system of corporate governance is open and transparent and is not abused.
The primary difference is the presentation of all System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities holdings at amortized cost rather than the fair value presentation required by GAAP.
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Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, a political scientist, says that previous reviews of the voting system have been deliberately composed of people with open minds.
Watching his colleagues leave, Lavender has become an even louder and more passionate defender of the chaotic open outcry system that defined securities trading around the world for most of the past two centuries.
Hence the voters' rejection of the old system in favour of something unfamiliar in Japan: an open and accountable government.
They happily accept the strange mix of genres and the funneling of what might have been an open and engaging battle system through choke points of special object stickers.
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Mr Almunia said a separate and less advanced probe into Google's Android operating system will remain open and outside of the settlement.
Further delays were feared when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes asked for changes to the European edition of the operating system to better open it up to rival software providers.
However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
"We've got a perfectly open system in terms of people who want to come forward and suggest themselves to be academy sponsors, and then it's a question of us then marrying those up with projects that will work for the communities and the sponsors, " he adds.
Though Symbian's certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it's certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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She says her firm's use of Google's open source Android system should change that, but adds that she wants to see more than just ports of games designed to run on tablets and phones.
While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
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The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.
We're not totally clear on why these guys need this on top of the Android Market and China Mobile's own Open Mobile System initiative, but for what it's worth, Chinese buyers of the XT701, MT710, and XT800 will have yet another way to find, buy, and store purchases for their phones.
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With the increasing popularity of the open-source operating system, customer demands on Linux are changing, Dryhoff said.
Recent investigations into the paid fiduciary system have revealed a lack of oversight, leaving open the possibility of mismanagement and fraud.
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Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was determined that the web should be an open system, not a series of walled gardens controlled by governments or corporations.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
And the system would have given her choices of neurologists with open appointments within three to four days with less than 10 minutes of scheduling effort.
Privately, however, SIA attendees say what the merger really represents is the beginning of the end of the open-outcry auction system that makes NYSE and some other exchanges unique.
As smartphones come down in price and achieve greater penetration among the masses, Google says its free Android operating system will allow it to take advantage of the open Web to generate more advertising and search-related revenue.
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