and continue to improve our own ability and level of governance

This whole TED effect, it sort of ups your wisdom, somehow.

Almost across the board, productivity goes up, worker engagement goes up, worker satisfaction goes up, turnover goes down.

Others use dancing, spinning and circling to promote self transcendence.

The program intends to increase single parents' earning capabilities, while raising their employment qualifications.

We can get productivity up.

Furthermore, they should be encouraged to transfer technology, reinvest their revenues and upgrade their human capacity.

The aim of the plan is to increase the level of staffing and the space available for State ministries, so boosting institutional capacity.

It is not easy to attribute this rise to improved education, because the aspects of the tests on which scores have risen the most do not require a good vocabulary, or even mathematical ability, but instead assess powers of abstract reasoning.

If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off.

The verification capacity of the International Atomic Energy Agency must be upgraded through universal adoption of the Additional Protocol.

If the interest rate is raised too little, banks will use more reserves to support lending, leading to higher inflation. If the interest rate is raised too much, economic activity will be constrained and growth could fizzle.

In the long run, trade's positive influence comes through the utilization and upgrading of productive capacities, innovation and accumulation of physical, human and organizational capital.

and the international influence will be further enhanced.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

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Some experts were of the opinion that developing countries in general could benefit from the globalization of R D but could not use it directly to upgrade the competitiveness of their science and technology capabilities.

To foster an upgrading of domestic productive capacities, systematic policies and measures are required, including coherent efforts to strengthen enterprise competitiveness through internationalisation.

Made it go 10 percent faster on 15 percent less electricity.

East Fuel General Oil Company said, With China's domestic oil product quality standards continuing to improve, the refining capacity of the equipment also increased.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness. But where will increased competitiveness come from?

Number three, the 99 stones all have within them a mechanism that self updates.

Its main focus will be on upgrading traditional processing enterprises in rural areas to supply higher value domestic, regional or international markets.

Also in West Africa, support has been given to Ghana to upgrade national skills in marketing, product development, industrial textile engineering and applied research in the textile sector.

which comprehensively enhance Shanghai's original innovation capability and out pace the strategic competence of the world in science and technology innovation and development.

The Quartet condemned the upsurge in violence in Gaza and urged both parties to avoid and prevent any escalation in violence so that the Israeli withdrawal could proceed peacefully.

Helicopters are the only means to ensure access, with obvious implications for the effectiveness and cost of providing assistance to the population in need.

An interim tsunami advisory system has been put in place and WMO is taking steps to upgrade the necessary telecommunications capabilities.

These constraints relate essentially to their limited access to the technologies, skills, information and knowledge needed to trigger and sustain growth and capability upgrading.

But there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine. For example, planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated, less dense air, provides for less lift.

You can imagine what something like this might look like five, 10 or 20 years from now as our technical capabilities improve.

Such upgrading enhances sector and firm competitiveness, and translates into greater world market shares in tradeable goods and services.

TNCs have shown a keen interest in, and committed themselves to, assisting their supply chain partners in upgrading the capacity of SMEs.

We can fold a million times faster, we can fold in hundreds and hundreds of variations.

Productivity and profitability in manufacturing and heavy industries picked up, boosting China s national savings dramatically. Indeed, the huge increase in China s trade surplus in recent years is a consequence not of the renminbi s exchange rate, as many believe, but of the domestic savings increase.

He noted that an upgrading of Pitcairn's power generator had commenced, that an investigation into wind generated power, commissioned by the Department for International Development, was under way and that a prototype installation might follow shortly.

And the more focused my brain is, the more the circuit board is going to surge with energy.

Higher food and energy prices put upward pressure on price levels in the subregion, which was partially offset by fuel subsidies in some countries.

These outputs serve to strengthen the institutional capacity of national innovation systems, establish and strengthen international and national technology centres, ITPOs and related networks, and upgrade the innovative capacities of enterprises.

Societies and governments must drive this shift by boosting technology s role in both the form and content of educational curricula. Improved technological capacity would not only help citizens to compete for jobs it would help countries thrive in the new global environment of increasing hybridization.

Moreover, economists contend that energy consumption per capita is declining, owing to more efficient use. Fuel efficiencies in the automotive sector have increased by more than 60 in the past three decades, while overall wealth produced per unit of energy has doubled during the same period.

Sales were up.

Total economic growth amounts to roughly the sum of the growth of work hours (an increase in the number of workers or the amount of hours that they work) and productivity (output per hour of work). If productivity improves by one percentage point in a year, the improvement of living standards over the subsequent generation would be augmented by one third.

Bush s war, with its poor strategic vision and worse planning, increased Iran s regional standing in a way that the country was unlikely ever to have achieved on its own. The war enabled Iran to assert itself as the dominant power in the Gulf and the wider region, and its nuclear program serves precisely these ambitions.

It has three primary objectives to identify potential demand among TNCs, to upgrade potential domestic business partners, and to match and monitor operations.