One impression from the exercise is the difficulty of introducing industrial-world values into industrialising-world plants.
Consider the third recent report, the world values survey run by the University of Michigan.
According to the nonprofit World Values Survey, 20% of Spaniards said they were "very happy" about their lives in 1981.
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The World Values Survey divides the world into big cultural zones (the Confucian zone, the English-speaking zone, etc) on the basis of common values.
It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.
This is what our world values.
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Destruction portrayed in Akira and other manga, Natume says, represents the Japanese desire to build a brave new world as old values are destroyed.
Your words were also very important, when you said that in the process of European integration you can see an opportunity to reenforce the world of Western values.
Every variant of the dance brings to life the myth of the birth of the universe, so that the ritual ceremony of the Voladores expresses the world view and values of the community, facilitates communication with the gods and invites prosperity.
These dreams are common to people all around the world, and the values they represent are universal.
Thanks to the recent sell-off in stocks around the globe, it's much easier to find values in world markets.
Futures markets determine foreign exchange rates, and in a world of gyrating currency values there are serious questions about whether they are the best way to determine the relative value of dollars, euros and yen.
Above all, he embodied what is best and hopeful about the Internet: its endless information, its ethos of sharing, its joy in connecting friends and strangers, its unflinching transparency about its own limitations, its promise -- by no means yet delivered -- of a world that is more open, more knowledgeable, and, above all, more fair ... a world that reflects the values of the Internet at its best.
In a trying time, the actions and reactions of a leader reveal his or her personal and organizational values to the world.
But it is an enormous focus as a security challenge and as a challenge to the expression of and -- of our values around the world.
Trying to change attitudes, values, and world views through lecturing was one of the few things that provoked my mild mannered Georgian mentor to abject apoplexy.
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The mayor, the governors, all New Yorkers have demonstrated the very best American values to a world that has been watching to see how our nation would react.
"I will tell them the necessity for our continent is to protect, in an unstable world, not only its values but its interests in the name of commercial exchange, " he added.
But the broad notion of what we want to see happen in countries in the Middle East and throughout the world is shaped by the values with which we started our country.
Overall, I think these lies were not as traumatizing as they were beneficial to growing up with self-awareness and utilitarian values in a world where you had didn't get second and third chance to create a life for yourself.
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Answering an urgent question by Labour's Denis Macshane on 26 January 2011, Mr Hague told MPs that the World Service "performs a valuable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world" and provided "a beacon to many in the poorest and most insecure countries in the world".
Many governments and audiences in the developing world do not share the same values as the Nobel committee.
They have to engage with their readers in a way that respects the shared values of the online world.
With a hand-finished ultrathin automatic movement, this power timepiece represents one of the top purchase values in the watch world.
"UNESCO welcomes the creation of the World Digital Library which reflects the values and priorities of our Organization, " Mr Matsuura declared.
Thank you. (Applause.) You have brought to life your faith and your values, and the world is a better place for it.
And it will allow Europe to contribute in shaping that "better organised world" in line with the values of freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law that we cherish and believe in.
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And, yes, there's a lot of horrible things going on all over the world, but as individuals, I think we all have to focus on our own gifts and our own values and bring those forth to the world the best we can.
All of the GDP per capita PPP values were taken from the World Bank Database and refer to 2011.
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They play an important role in our lives by allowing us to express our values and define ourselvesto the world.
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