Word: rethinking
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...Cleary, the executive vice president of sales and operations, "We have to have organic almonds. We made a promise to consumers we would have organic almonds." He said, "You don't understand, we can't get them. They're not available anymore." I was stunned. We're having to rethink the whole way we run our business to figure out how to deal with this shortness of supply...
...There is also change in the way aid is being financed and delivered, not just because of last year's G-8 deal, but also because the focus on Africa and aid delivery in the run-up to the G-8 summit encouraged some U.N. agencies and ngos to rethink their business. "We can do it better," says Hilary Benn, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development and one of the leading figures in the debate about aid delivery. "We should all ask ourselves the question: 'What is the most effective form in which we can give support?'" ngos...
...coaches, limos and taxis waiting outside to whisk the fans to north London for the next show, Ian Brown - at the Carling Academy Islington. Of course, beer and rock music have been acquainted for a while. But at a time when technology is forcing the recorded sector to rethink the fundamentals of how music is produced, consumed and paid for, increasingly it's the communal experience of a concert that consumers are willing to splurge on - and companies want to be associated with. As lead sponsors of the Academy Music Group's eight medium-sized venues across Britain...
...familiarity displaces fear overseas, rising demand for electricity and concerns about the environmental costs of getting it from coal and gas are prompting many Australians to rethink their prejudice against nuclear power. Physicist Martin Sevior, who led a recent study of the issue at the University of Melbourne, believes "there is a credible case for nuclear power plants," provided Australia adopts lessons learned elsewhere. According to zoologist Tim Flannery, whose book The Weather Makers calls for urgent action on climate change, if Australia replaced all of its coal-fired plants with nuclear ones, "we would have done something great...
...produce a report that will redefine undergraduate education for the 21st century.As it stands, Harvard’s curricular review “puts us in line with many peer institutions, but it doesn’t really show the capacity of our faculty and our students to rethink how best to learn,” Professor of History and Science Allan M. Brandt says.STARTING WITH THE SYLLABUSBefore University administrators can articulate the curricular review’s vision for general education, professors must decide what sort of vision they are seeking. Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman says...