Sentences with phrase «of society change»

This includes a recognition that the attitudes of society change over time.

As a consequence, the new concepts have no stable or single content: they are processes of constant change, enlarging themselves as often as the values of society change, as often as possibilities for new choices emerge.

Or are we only seeing a different refraction of the light as the prism of society changes?

Blacks watched minor concessions being made, token integration here and there, while the power base of the society changed very little.

«As the pattern of a society changes, we might therefore expect to see those changes reflected in the structure of the content of the curriculum.»

When the interactive manual that teaches dominant tribe members how to maintain power in a nanotechnologized future world falls into the hands of a lower - caste girl, the destiny of society changes irrevocably in Stephenson's dazzlingly inventive second novel.

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She cites the fact that women are 57 % of today's college graduates, as well as the 4 million copies of Lean In sold, as indicators of how there have been major changes in terms of how women are perceived in American society.

«Our stance in support of the liberties of peaceful, personal expression afforded to all Americans will remains strong and we will continue to encourage our players to respectfully use their earned platform to inspire positive change in our nation and throughout society.»

It's going to mean big changes for society considering they're vastly different kind of workers compared with the generations that have come before them.

He has personally participated in vision clinics for low income societies in the United States and South America, and doing so completely changed his perspective of the world.

When I talk to my mother, who is of that same generation, she speaks of the women who attended Seven Sisters» colleges as strong and independent, career - minded, and determined to change society — certainly not the idea I had in my head.

«Social is the only revolution out of all the tech revolutions that is actually changing society, that bleeds into our social fabric,» he said.

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked with preventing the sexual abuse of children.

It says that Bushmen societies seem not to have changed over tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of years — longer than most societies have existed.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

The Internet of Things has the potential to bring great change to society — both in the office and in our personal lives.

If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

Something is off in our society when we spend more time worrying about the color of a dress as opposed to climate change.»

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

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One is to increase corporate director and investor awareness of the privileges society bestows on corporations and the rights of society to change the terms of that contract.

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

Megatrends, per Bradford's PowerPoint, «are global, sustained, and macroeconomic forces of development that impact business, economy, society, culture, and personal lives, thereby defining our world and its increasing pace of change.»

Though BCE claimed it desperately needed the deal for its Bell Media division to compete in an ever - changing and increasingly international market (not to mention to bulk up its presence in Quebec), and altruistically promised to undertake a variety of tangible benefits for the greater good of Canadian society, Blais was having none of it.

Capital gains tax changes proposed under the Ralph review could be both a boon and a burden to mum - and - dad investors, according to the Australian Society of CPAs.

The basic elements of TQM, as expounded by the American Society for Quality Control, are 1) policy, planning, and administration; 2) product design and design change control; 3) control of purchased material; 4) production quality control; 5) user contact and field performance; 6) corrective action; and 7) employee selection, training, and motivation.

The Ralph Review heralds a sea change in the way small business interacts with the tax system, according to the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

John Mauldin: The author of Thoughts from The Frontline who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to keeping people informed about risk, John has written at length about the fragmentation of society and the changing nature of employment.

Titov, who is reportedly a friend of Putin's as well as a «part of the Kremlin establishment,» seconded the president's fervor and opined that there exists «a need for change in [Russian] society» that may be addressed, at least in part, through the «development of the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, IT spheres.»

In fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil society.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

And while it isn't an altruistic investment, he said he hoped the effort creates «more jobs, more wealth, better products and helps our society deal with a lot of jarring employment changes.»

«Growing concern about climate change — from society in general, and from long - term shareholders in particular — has forced oil companies to think about the implications of a transition to a low - carbon economy.

The President of the 800 - member Nueces County Medical Society on Thursday questioned not only the wisdom of Christus Spohn's decision to change anesthesia service providers, but also the system's unwillingness to be up - front with the community about it.

If the past two decades are any indication, the role of business in society has changed.

This is denying a person access to life changing capital and making an otherwise capable member of society dependent on systems that will only hurt their credit and ability to pay further.

Yet an eclectic bunch of investors and iconoclasts in the Valley have also plummeted head long into worries over AI coming too soon, and changing human society too fast.

Please see my 2 part explanation on my reasons for working on crypto - currencies and how it can change all of society for the better.

This greater level of understanding and awareness of the threats to growth that are beyond the control of business alone is an important aspect of the changing role of business in society.

It does not have to be this way and through our mission we want to change the statistic of 99 % of businesses failing in the first 5 years to 99 % being successful and having an amazing positive influence on society and our communities.

Do you think that there is a change in the mindset of society, and how should the big tech companies, how should Amazon deal with that?

With no concept of how civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk of change that they have.

China and Singapore, by the way, are nondemocratic capitalistic societies, and so it's actually easier for those types of governments to make wholesale change than it is in our case, so they can make the types of systems that we've been talking about, or they could decide to mirror Singapore or whatever, and everybody just kind of has to take it.

The role of women in families, businesses and society is in a greater state of change than ever before.

Our biggest architectural accomplishments are highly visible symbols of what society values most, and those values have changed over time.

These changes, Bloomberg argues, have further divided an already unequal society and decreased the number of middle class consumers.