These centre on measures of literacy, understood in the widest sense as the ability to use different kinds of written material to perform real-world tasks of varying complexity.
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In terms of real-world tasks, we weren't left wanting.
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We are moving from a world of push, where people are expected to follow detailed scripts to accomplish specified tasks, to a world of pull, where everyone must master the techniques of drawing out people and resources when needed to address unanticipated opportunities and challenges.
Yes, there are tens of millions of people in the developing world who can perform the same tasks as our manufacturing workers for a fraction of the pay.
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Larry Page, who takes on his Google CEO role today, is a believer in systemic innovation, that is, the need to undertake the research and transformation tasks that shift the world into a different gear.
Brown called on world leaders to cooperate in achieving five tasks at the one-day summit, starting with restoring growth to emerging market economies and agreeing to "clean up" the global banking system.
No matter how impressive, world-class athletes mostly excel at single tasks.
The tools available today also make it easier for a business owner like me to outsource specific tasks to contractors anywhere around the world without having to hire someone full time.
Even though I perpetually forget it, these tasks have a beautiful effect on my immediate world, and I actually really enjoy yard work.
Independence came, or was won as in Algeria, and the ruling class in the Muslim world made a bid to establish political order and engage with tasks that Smith described.
But in Ricardo's world, a country must still take care of all of the separate tasks required to finish the goods it makes.
These workers carry out specialised tasks on our tunnel-boring operation and travel around the world as employees of the Italian company that is doing the work.
In his new book Mr Gazzaniga uses animal studies to argue that the brain is shaped by the tasks before it, pointing out that the brains of New World carnivorous bats are more similar to those of Old World carnivorous bats than they are to New World fruit bats, despite these being their closer cousins.
Our tasks are to use all of the possibilities to make our new world much more fair and just.
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The meeting raised a variety of key problems and tasks in the field of hydrology and water resources both in the world and CIS countries, specific features and priorities of which were evaluate as well.
For starters, Luan and Zhu are tackling the world of biotech labs, building a benchtop robot that will help coordinate and automate lab tasks.
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The idea was to redeem the world, not by retreating from it, but by "Christianizing it, " carrying out all the tasks of daily living with a new spirit.
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