Indeed, the watch underpins the modern economy, full of tightly scheduled trains, planes, meetings and calls.
In the modern economy, supply chains stretch across the globe, creating both efficiencies and risks.
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Neither had perfect answers for the problems technology has created in the modern economy.
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In fact, happiness is the single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy.
Mr Engle's work has helped build the foundations for measuring and avoiding myriad types of risks in the modern economy.
Many consider the impossibility of running perpetual deficits under the gold standard as proof of its unsuitability to the modern economy.
In addition, Capitol Hill should deny the International Monetary Fund -- the Typhoid Mary of the modern economy -- more money.
Income gaps at this level have less to do with the skills-bias of the modern economy and more to do with its global reach.
We need high schools that produce in students the kind of skills necessary for the modern economy: flexibility, creativity, social intelligence, lateral thinking, entrepreneurial spirit.
Innovation is the key competitive advantage in the modern economy.
This is of particular concern when you consider the incredible costs to society of not making the right investments to ensure that every child is prepared to participate in the modern economy and contribute as a citizen.
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Would-be business titans need to learn that economic history is punctuated with crises and disasters, that booms inevitably give way to busts, and that the business cycle, having survived many predictions of extinction, continues to prey on the modern economy.
Plus, in the modern economy, there's no longer a secretarial pool: More likely, a group of employees and managers will be pooled together to use the resources of one administrative assistant, who then gets to juggle not only their work demands but their desire to have their demands met before those of their colleagues.
Indonesia for its part is holding together and staying engaged with the modern world economy.
Because all these policies misunderstand the fundamental nature of wealth, and thus of the modern American economy.
Low rates are the root cause of the misallocation of resources that define the modern American economy.
Welcome to the modern political economy: small, isolated problems are rolled up into bigger and bigger ones.
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This runs right against the grain of what that old-school capitalist Henry Ford envisaged for the modern US economy.
Blinded by inexplicable-to-me ideologies, what is astounding is the cavalier attitude that some demonstrate towards energy supply and its role in the modern world economy.
Gates is right: the modern knowledge economy requires boatloads of IQ.
In the modern global economy, overlaid by new national-security fears and today's instant and shrill political jousting, this particular transaction lit a fire of rebellion and disunity.
Storing this information and utilizing connections between the different pieces of information is an important driver of the modern information economy and a rich prospect for hardware and software providers that serve this market.
In time the chip gathered enough mass and momentum to propel it to where it now drives the modern global economy, creating an unprecedented level of prosperity and reasserting democratic capitalism as a moral force.
We are not talking here about the vast wealth that closed, crony economies direct toward a small plutocracy and no one else, though this rigged scam seems to be Barack Obama's understanding of the modern American economy.
This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.
He has few convincing plans to trim the state and create the sort of modern economy that might tempt back the 1m-plus Poles working abroad.
Defenders of the single market point to how national governments and the European Parliament watered down a directive that aimed to free trade in services (the bulk of any modern economy), long before the bubble burst in 2008.
If part of the point is to equip the judiciary to handle the demands of a modern economy, both silent reform and the government's vocal one, ambitious as it is, fall short.
The popular sense of English difference, however much it may have been tinged with Calvinist zeal, ultimately rested not on theological but on social foundations: the unprecedented prosperity and power of the first sizeable modern economy.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
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