Sentences with phrase «people in the world of today»

In it, she argues that the design machine we have for making rules that work for people in the world of today is broken.

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Now that everyone has caller ID and most people are weary of telemarketers, the question arises whether cold - calling is still viable in today's world.
«Kids growing up anywhere in the rest of the world, regardless of what you see in the news today, America still holds a place in most people's hearts and minds as the place where you can be anything,» says Conlon.
If we make the assumption that the youngest players of those consoles were six or seven at the time, the oldest people in the world today who have always played video games are in their mid-forties.
Today, hundreds of millions — if not billions — of people use the radio to keep informed about goings - on in the world, listen to music, and be entertained.
Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the real world.
It's a fun watch, but aside from that it can teach people a lot about the reality of running a startup in the world of today.
«In today's social world, every person has an extended circle of personal influence and an opportunity to build their own personal «brand.»
Too many of us techies today live in an insulated and isolated world that is basically a shiny, buffed - up bubble that completely ignores the day - to - day concerns and financial realities of the people who inhabit most of the world.
In every election around the world, we keep improving our tools to help more people register and vote, and we hope to eventually enable hundreds of millions of more people to vote in elections than do today, in every democratic country around the worlIn every election around the world, we keep improving our tools to help more people register and vote, and we hope to eventually enable hundreds of millions of more people to vote in elections than do today, in every democratic country around the worlin elections than do today, in every democratic country around the worlin every democratic country around the world.
Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.
When the movie came out in 1999, almost two decades ago, the world was still trying to figure out how to address the Y2K bug, and people didn't have most of the technology in their houses that we use today.
Irrespective of whether we did everything that is being said about us in London today (and to be clear, I don't think we did), it really matters what people think of us, especially in a global business like ours, where actions in one part of the world can have serious consequences in another.
In a globalised world, with circular flows of culture, ideas, money and people, the very companies that are at the forefront of engineering and IT - driven industries in India, are also major investors in the UK todaIn a globalised world, with circular flows of culture, ideas, money and people, the very companies that are at the forefront of engineering and IT - driven industries in India, are also major investors in the UK todain India, are also major investors in the UK todain the UK today.
The most successful people in history and the world today are noted for their habits — success by their own standards, which could be money but could also be artistic output, peace of mind, or whatever they valued.
«The people who are at the vanguard of the investment community in and around San Francisco are starting to come to grips with the fact that there's a gaping hole in the strategy that investors are using today, and are now looking at things that are disruptively world - changing, fundamental technologies that will take five to 15 years to develop and are extremely capital intensive,» he says.
To be successful in today's business world, you need a team of people working together.
It's International Women's Day today, which means across the world concerned, thoughtful people will be discussing how to best close the gender gap that keeps the proportion of women in leadership positions so frustratingly small.
«Meow Parlour is a really good starting point for people to come here and learn about some of the issues facing cats in the world today,» Ha said.
No one really likes annual performance reviews, yes they serve a purpose, but most people like to have on the spot feedback, and in today's always on, always connected the world the demand for that type of feedback is higher than ever.
I think the luckiest person in the history of the world is the baby being born today in this country.
This kind of Cold War - era fallout killed scores of innocent people in the Pacific, including Japanese fishermen, and is still causing cancer and health problems around the world today.
I say the luckiest person in the history of the world is a baby being born today in this country.
YC estimates that of the more than 1,200 active YC companies in the world today, about 60 or so employ more than 100 people.
All of this adversely impacts < br / > the average person's ability to access credible media outlets that allow them < br / > to remain informed in today's ever - changing world.
Global mutual funds allow people to invest in the stocks, bonds and other forms of global equity in the world today.
His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).
As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.
Hence, if we look at the world of altcoins today, you would find that every single one has a small group of people actively marketing it, promoting it, writing ridiculously overhyped nonsensical puff pieces about it in the press, as well as coding it and mining it.
In this world today, I don't care who you are, you need to use a little common sense... and considering what happened on 9/11, in the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitivIn this world today, I don't care who you are, you need to use a little common sense... and considering what happened on 9/11, in the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitivin the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitive.
I, being a lowly «closeted» Christian do see the immoralities of today's mega-monolithic styled churches whose upkeep and maintainence dollars would feed in the 3rd world countries and even in the US of A bookoo people!
Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome by ourselves and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully, and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH and do good by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.
Those frightened by the seeming power of the wicked in the world today can take heart from what John Paul II said to young people in Cracow in June 1979: «Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity.»
I wonder just how empty your life is that you need to cling to a make believe religion made up by a small group of people 2000 years ago that has no relevance in todays world.
It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents newly facing the daunting prospect of raising Christian children in a largely hostile world.
There is not one person in the world today who really knows anything about it regardless of their religion or lack of same.
In the mail today came an extra-large tee - shirt from Wheaton College — more proof that the people out there on the plains west of Chicago are among the nicest people in the worlIn the mail today came an extra-large tee - shirt from Wheaton College — more proof that the people out there on the plains west of Chicago are among the nicest people in the worlin the world.
In today's world, you don't have to go far to encounter people being critical of just about anything.
Even today in some parts of the world there are cultures where people believe evil spirits and demon possessions cause illness.
I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.
Of all the people admired in the world today, Jesus of Nazareth continually ranks at the top of the lisOf all the people admired in the world today, Jesus of Nazareth continually ranks at the top of the lisof Nazareth continually ranks at the top of the lisof the list.
Ever since her story was featured in Christianity Today nearly a year ago, Butterfield has become something of a celebrity within the conservative evangelical world, and every time I'm in conversation with someone about the potential dangers of «conversion therapy» (which seeks to change a person's sexual orientation through counseling and prayer), her name invariably comes up.
There is a dissatisfaction in the young people of today; there is an inner drive, quite undefined, which looks for something much more, for something bigger than life, wider than the world, larger than culture and higher than man - made things, which their formal education has not given them.
And the proof of this is that today, in order to remain human or to become more fully human, all the peoples from end to end of the earth are being inexorably led to formulate the world's hopes and problems in the very terms devised by the West.
François Houtart: «I would like to remind you that the diversity of people participating in this press conference is very great, and that the unity of the group rests on the struggle against the world capitalist system and against the new strategies being discussed by the men present today at Davos.
Now, people who are familiar with shepherds in that part of the world know that shepherds never have, and still today, never watch their flocks at night in the fields in wintertime.
Over 1 billion people in the world today live under unacceptable conditions of poverty, mostly in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas of low - income Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the least developed countries.
While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.
There are people all around the world dying because of their faith, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, or etc. «Martyrdom» may remind you of Christianity's history of «violence, intolerance, and fanaticism»... but why be reminded of something that ocurred in the past when religious persecution is still happening today among people of all kinds of faiths, including Christians?
There is no other group of people in the world today causing the kind of death destruction and evil as the Muslim community.
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