Brazil was one of the first to successfully scrap the old Washington Consensus model of debt service and budget cuts, paying off its loans with the International Monetary Fund in the first few years of the Lula presidency.
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The act has had an impact beyond Oregon, serving as a model for a Washington State law that took effect in 2009.
It was not until researchers at the University of Washington proposed converting the research model into Foldit, a Halo-like game that uses 3D visual icons.
Chavez was a believer that the days of the "Washington consensus, " a model of economic reforms favored by the United States for developing countries, were over.
Shanker goes on to say that the military is trying to develop the new type of leaders it needs by training its senior commanders to model themselves after George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, George C.
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Between data logs, rebuttals and general drama, it's easy to get confused: can a Tesla Model S make the trek from Washington DC to Connecticut?
The exclusion of one Orthodox Jewish enclave isn't likely to undermine the city's bike-share system, which is based on a model that has proved successful in cities like Washington, D.
Washington here is just marching Detroit deeper into an unsustainable business model, requiring ever more interventions in the future.
America's marines are creating a smaller model FOB at their base in Quantico, near Washington, DC, to test systems for deployment in Afghanistan by mid-2010.
The issue that GM, the Washington Post, Forbes and all media companies using the traditional advertising model need to face is not whether Facebook is a media company so much as whether or not advertising techniques have fallen behind these digital times.
"There are those of us who genuinely love these things and see something in them that a lot of people don't see, but it doesn't really convert to a commercial reality, " says Donald Kelly, the former executive director of the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, who now runs Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a Washington, D.
The governor "transformed Albany, " they both said, from a place with "corruption and scandal" into "a national model for effective government by avoiding the gridlock and partisan politics" of Washington.
"It's a stunning transformation of public education, given that there was nothing there to begin with that could provide a model, " says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform in Washington, D.
His most successful buildings were small ones, the jewel-like pavilions of the exquisite museum in the gardens at Washington's Dumbarton Oaks, and his own, iconic glass house in Connecticut built on the Miesien model, although Mies himself remarked how un-Miesian it was in its details.
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