Two years ago, the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) identified an urgent need to take the initiative to improve media and journalism in the Solomon Islands.

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Accustomed to an adversarial system in which they seldom take initiative, judges defer.

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"This encourages each individual unit to take the initiative, to take responsibility and display an independent spirit, to strive to be the best, " says Kao.

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At a time when there are those who are not fulfilling their obligations and others who seek to undermine the peace process, it could be argued that the IRA should not take such an initiative.

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The campaign coincides with the launch of an initiative by the children's charity Barnardo's to encourage toddlers to take more exercise.

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Nokia will support MeeGo as an open source initiative and expects to ship one MeeGo device in 2011, but my take here made it feel like the MeeGo effort more as a science experiment, than a product strategy.

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This means that the initiative to take a free online course on programming can be the key element that helps an art history major be a more viable candidate for a position at a tech company possibly even as a programmer.

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Finance needs to take the initiative to be more involved with the rest of the business, while other departments need to make an effort to involve finance early and often.

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