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Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

«America's strengths include [the fact it is a] society that attracts talent from around the world and assimilates them comfortably as Americans; and a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.»

After arriving and toasting with a bottle of sparkling rosé, we walked around Bacara's 77 acres, taking in classic California coastal views and snapping photos before heading to the newly opened Foley Food and Wine Society Tasting Room.

And in response to criticism from the likes of Oxfam, Global Witness, and the Open Society Foundations, they instituted some limited governance reforms that increased, albeit marginally, the transparency around opaque oil dealings.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve commenting on Monday's open letter sent by 60 British Humanist Association supporters is quoted in today's Telegraph as saying «As I go around and look at the way we make laws, and indeed many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian - based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life.

George Soros, the hedge fund manager and Democratic donor, has moved the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy and human rights around the world.

«Geoff's inappropriate actions toward and around women in astronomy is one of the biggest «open secrets» at any exoplanets or AAS [American Astronomical Society] meeting,» said John Johnson of Harvard University, a former student of Marcy's, in a blog post about his actions.

The study, published this week in mBio ®, an open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, highlights the advances in genomic sequencing that now enable precise tracking of bacterial strains used in biological warfare and terrorist attacks around the world.

Intelligent open minded, fun to be around 5/11 220pds in shape military man who is not a person who rolls with society as far as its views I always think outside of the box and I do nt like A salad eating woman (lol) I like a woman who is happy with who she is

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8)- The nation's first Kitten Nursery is open for its 10th season and News 8's Ashley Jacobs takes you behind the scenes as volunteers and San Diego Humane Society staff members nurse the kittens around the clock.

Whether it's the inclusion of all as represented by the Andrew Edlin Gallery's show of art from around the world, The Open Society...

Opening October 27, Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed will feature sixty - five oil paintings and a selection of drawings and prints — many of which have rarely or never been exhibited — from public and private collections around the world, including Britain, India, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, and the United States.

A Royal Horticultural Society experiment using black plastic bins, wooden bins and open heaps revealed that all bin types irrespective of turning, yielded around 1/3 less compost than the starting volume, of which 80 % was determined as being made up of fine (less than 10 mm) particles.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

a language that is the equivalent of an open system that is clearly the lingua franca of the leaders in science, technology, invention, business, education, diplomacy, and those who rise to the top of their own societies around the world.

Soros, who created the Open Society Foundations to support democracy and human rights in countries around the world, said that social media companies deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide.