To lose weight, governments have to do two things: learn how to do more with less, which means modernising the state, and cut back on what they offer, which among other things means tackling the social transfers.
But they have yet to specify what that means, which powers they propose to repatriate from Brussels and how they would go about it.
If a company can expand its output to meet the market demands simply by internal efficiency improvements (which is what productivity means to some extent), why should they go out and hire more labor?
Papers should concentrate on what they do best, which means, in many cases, local news and sport.
The subject of our session is emerging sustainability standards, which are defining what sustainability means in every industry, business and product class.
In fact, 59.7% indicated purchases will be influenced directly by what coupons they have, which means everyone is still looking for the best deals they can get.
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Maybe we need to learn to adopt a dose of old-fashioned conservatism, which means conserving what is good and what must last, and accepting and dealing with stern realities rather than denying and running from them.
Well, half of this money was raised on the Internet, which means that what he did was to go Howard Dean one better and create - and even perfect, I think - this technique of raising these large sums of money.
There are differences here about what this even meant, which means we've got to go back and do the work of once again rebuilding the story and the narrative so that we're telling the right story about what happened and it's not lost on good-hearted American citizens who want to help.
What she means, however, is perfectly sensible (another word which means something quite different in French).
What are ways and means through which UNESCO and UN partner institutions can strengthen and support national research agendas for the UNDESD, and propose innovative partnerships or mechanisms through public-private funding for sustainability?
The third group of symptoms relates to what has been called hyperarousal, which means an emotional, mental and physical tendency to drive one's flight-or-flight nervous system too hard, a classic sign of which is a tendency to startle too easily.
What if it's unsliced, which means it can be cut wafer-thin or doorstop thick?
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Although quasars are light days across, they are billions of light years from Earth, which means that most of what scientists know about them comes from extrapolations and not direct evidence.
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What that means is that the tax which starts only taxing about the top 8% of health insurance plans, essentially amounts to over the next 20 years to basically getting rid of the employer exclusion for employer provided health insurance.
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Instead, I think our social norm should be one which establishes a higher bar of what it means to be informed.
Another explanation is surely the slow pace of job growth, which means fewer opportunities to entice what economists call the "marginal" worker back into the labor force.
What this means to me is that businesses which have implemented productivity enhancing actions have to reach a higher top line threshold before they will consider adding jobs than in past periods.
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We've got to make sure every child is getting a good, solid education. (Applause.) And what that means is, it means we continue to invest in early childhood education, which my budget does.
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And here's what all that means: This debate, which affects millions of middle-class families, isn't happening in a typical Washington bubble where pundits and policymakers talk past each other as they try to rack up political points.
" He referred to what he called "alarming" statements made by House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer, which, he said, refute "most of what we thought was going to happen in the tax bill.
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Increased savings means increased investment, which is what creates new jobs and provides workers with the tools to be more productive.
Philosophers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, meanwhile, are exploring the various ways in which robotic technologies challenge the notion of what it means to be human.
Or more specifically, from a branding perspective, Hollywood's biggest entertainment companies appear to have lost sight of what it means to create a great brand, which is, after all, what great movies are.
And what that means is our workers have to be better trained than we've ever been, which means we've got to make sure our education system is the best in the world, and that our kids are going to -- (applause) -- get secondary school and community college and university educations.
"This is piecemeal change, dreamt up by politicians, which means no-one is quite sure what will happen next, " she said.
NASA, which is that people disagree about what the vision really means.
What has changed are the means to this end, which now encompasses not just earned media coverage, but paid, owned and ultimately shared.
Directly and indirectly, individuals control two-thirds of the market, which means that muni bond prices move in what amounts to a retail echo chamber.
Fans love it though, and especially love talking about it, which means they have plenty of control over what goes viral and becomes iconic.
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