For locals, though, there was a more pressing question: what would be the next phase in the evolution of Catalan cuisine?

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"The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a potentially revolutionary change to the platform and the next phase in the evolution of highly efficient, scalable processing opening up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single highly integrated system, " said Martin Kennedy, Managing Director, Citi's Enterprise System Infrastructure.

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So I think it is part of the natural evolution but clearly going towards that passing the torch phase, which most people miss, can be a fantastic capstone to a long career.

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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution.

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The challenge for the recently established devolved administration will be to manage the next phase of this evolution from an economy heavily dependent on traditional 'low value added' businesses, to one that will be increasingly reliant on knowledge based and services industries.

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In each phase of this business evolution, companies that developed an early mastery of a particular part of the business value chain created significant value.

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