In the 1990s there was quite the cold war going on in the world of networks between the very idea of stateful and stateless networks.
The very notion of World Heritage draws on the idea of collective responsibility for a common good.
The Angolan Africa Cup of Nations is arguably the continent's most important -- with South Africa hosting Africa's first World Cup finals in the same year -- it will give the world an idea of just how strong teams like Drogba's Ivory Coast, Essien's Ghana and Eto'o's Cameroon will be in football's showpiece event in June.
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And we have the weight of our idea in the world of public opinion.
What is a winning idea in this world of real-time optimization, where the idea is never static, but constantly shifting by design?
Among the first things likely to go, according to Peter Thomson and Alison Maitland, co-authors of the book "Future Work: How businesses can adapt and thrive in the new world of work, " is the idea of a fulltime job.
In fact, many of her clients were world travellers themselves, and they liked the idea of using a lawyer who understood their world.
India and BRICS have captured the attention of world by the announcement of contribution and tried to woo investments by coining the idea of investment in infrastructure segment of developing world, without paying a penny.
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Much of the rhetoric from Bush Administration officials in the lead-up to the invasion was reflective of the idea that the world is full of threats that are unseen and unknown, perhaps even unknowable.
Of course, the rest of the world will have no idea at all about the seriousness of this problem.
"If they have any -- and still, that's a big if -- I would doubt that they would use it because a lot of countries and people in the world are negative to the idea of waging war, " Blix said.
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
It sounds like a lot of people in the Arab world did accept the idea that many or most of the detainees at Guantanamo were not nice people.
And it was not only Peter Mandelson, I enquired from a couple of others, people in the political world, whether they have any idea of the legislation - or what is happening with my passport application.
The companies of Silicon Valley often start life with the idea of changing the world, but as they mature they must answer to their employees and investors, just like every other company.
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The movie is a sardonic look at the mechanics of the rock world: we get the clear idea that in this kind of high-schlock touring band no difference exists between the original and the copy.
The theory of the permanent campaign is an attempt to explain the politics of the world through one idea that more or less applies everywhere.
This was one of the first attempts by a central bank to try out the big new idea of the postcrisis world: macro-prudential regulation.
Weinland developed something of a following for his controversial beliefs, including the idea that the end of the world was fast approaching.
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It's not about the child or Santa or Christmas or anything, but the parents' idea of a world they cannot make work for them.
The high art world might scoff at the idea of creating a lower-priced mass product line, but the Ladd brothers have done things differently from the start.
But for many, such issues pale against the idea of a world without "free" mobile maps, and Apple's entry into the sector is seen as a driving force for further innovation.
It was beyond exciting and everything that I wanted- I knew that going to school abroad would allow me to be able to broaden my horizons and give me a better idea of the world.
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Although the western world reckons it has some idea of what sort of rocketry other countries possess, it is much less sure whether they can equip those rockets with non-conventional warheads: nuclear, chemical or biological.
Davos, a gathering of the world's elite, could not be further from the idea of digital hippies, but it serves an important role, Le Meur says.
After the first world war, America's big idea to create perpetual world peace was the League of Nations.
The 50th anniversary of the end of World War II gave Natume an idea.
However, the rest of the world caught on to the idea.
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In the 1970s, the idea of a New World Information Order (NWICO) was launched to strengthen the media of what was then termed the Third World.
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Yet despite what seems to be an innate preference for more or less literal representation of the visible world, the abstract idea remains to this day both seductive and perennially relevant.
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