Word: paradigmes
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...This demonstrates that the left and the right have actually agreed on a plan for the country. Their issues are different—modernization of the tax system vs. freedom for the federal police, or control of the government budget vs. poverty alleviation. But Brazil has reached a new paradigm in its economic history: One of fixing the country’s problems without compromising macroeconomic stability...
...multi-tasking minion. There are two "Littlepeople" and two mice. All of them live in a maze. For a time, they have an abundance of cheese to eat (i.e., whatever they want in life). One day, though, the cheese disappears. The mice (Sniff and Scurry) instinctively understand that the paradigm has shifted--they need to adapt and look for cheese in a different place. So they do, and they find New Cheese. The humans are more resistant to change. Hem, the tale's dunderhead, indignantly bellows, "Who moved my cheese?" and refuses to accept reality. Haw too is initially resistant...
...size-fits-all approach. There's not much here from the point of view of the recipients of the changes." The problem, he says, is that some employees have been burned out by too much corporate change: layoffs, restructuring, mergers; the cheese never stops moving. That's not a paradigm shift. It's management bereft of ideas...
...It’s a paradigm-shifting study,” he said. “It really does change the whole way we think of things. The majority of [doctors] are embracing this as a breakthrough study...
...Japan Paradigm As a kid growing up on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Alimansyar knew Japan stood for one thing: really hip stuff. His parents' generation might have looked askance at the historic aggressor, given its wartime record in East Asia. But for Alimansyar and other younger Indonesians, Japan represents a nation that transformed itself in record time from vanquished pauper to cutting-edge innovator. Today, Alimansyar teaches Japanese at the University of North Sumatra, and the school's rapidly growing Japanese-language program is filled with 500 students who are often lured by Japanese cars, electronics and anim...