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...Intended as a how-to-do-it for his civil service juniors, it became the bible for impactful writing. This book is in the same tradition....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 15 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...“Cochlear implants have been established as the standard of care for newborns in many developed markets but an ageing society creates a big market,” said Mr Howitt....
...“The reason I believe business should be around is to serve society.” Mr Polman’s aim soon after he took over in 2009 was to double the company’s revenues while halving its environmental impact....
...Instead of cultivating this spirit of unity, the government has launched a widespread purge across society....
...His complaints fell on deaf ears. Looking at it from today’s point of view, however, it’s clear the trading stamp concept succeeded for two key reasons above all....
...The Bible represented the opinions and biases of a few priests in ancient Jerusalem....
...Show me the introverts and the extroverts, the musical and the tone deaf, the happy and the melancholy, the short and the tall....
...The Communist party may be an autocracy but it is not deaf, and its longevity has stemmed from an ability to listen and to absorb the views of the people....
...And it creates a tone-deaf society in which wider social and economic issues can feel distant. Success comes to be measured out in clicks or app downloads rather than real impact on the world....
...Ms Cheung’s experience reflects the opportunities and challenges of doing business in China, the world’s largest and fastest-growing market for an increasing range of goods but one that is also changing...
...Both novelists were intimately acquainted with the hierarchy of wealth in their respective societies....
...Some of the plans are downright weird: Bible Storyland, apparently inspired by Disneyland, would have occupied a site to the east of Los Angeles, and featured a reconstruction of the Garden of Eden....
...The bible of classic progressives was Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life, published in 1909....
...Stephen Fincher, a Republican congressman from Tennessee, invoked Bible verses to argue in favour of the cuts during a House agriculture committee hearing last month....
...Almost 15 per cent of US mobile phone owners have downloaded a Bible app, according to data from the Barna Group and the American Bible Society....
...She and her friend were carrying a placard inscribed with bible verse. The passage, from Isaiah, said “those who have been ransomed will return”....
...The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer, Faber, RRP£20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27 A downbeat take on the US that sees an economy and society increasingly divided into...
...Robinson is hard to place within the simple categories of left and right, and these essays on American politics and culture feel oddly timeless, borrowing more from her impressive reading of history and the Bible...
...Mr Romney admitted he was fighting an uphill battle in the Bible Belt states of Alabama and Mississippi, which voted on Tuesday, but was on track to accrue more of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination...
...The transition from closed to open societies will be slow and painful for the Arab-Muslim world....
...We are not blind or deaf. But we are confident that we are doing what has to be done,” Mr Piñera says....
...We speak north-eastern; they speak middle [America], Bible belt....
...Mr Obama read from Psalm 46 from the Bible. At 8:50am, a roll call of the names of those killed in the attacks began....
...Even Bill Cunningham, the society photographer, was ‘very, very, very dangerous. So watch it.’”...
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