Word: shifts
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...money. We have a culture where we spend what we haven't earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like, and now the situation is such that we are being drawn to find the real meaning in our lives. When we shift from consumption to relationship, then we will be doing what Jesus would...
...Stock markets are fickle, of course, and soon they returned to their downward drift. But the impact of the stimulus will last far longer because it marks the shift of China's economy away from manufacturing and exports to other means of growth. Says Ben Simpfendorfer, a China economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong: "In a decade we'll be looking back at this moment and saying, 'This was it, this was when things really changed.'" The number doesn...
Beck told the packed crowd in Tsai that these three crises could lead to a positive shift in the way nations interact with each other...
...well, too, in terms of taxes: its corporate tax rate of 12.5% is one of the E.U.'s lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival of new companies, and a greater emphasis on trade, should help Ireland to average growth of around 3.5% over the next decade, according...
...over the next year in the Middle East and its outer fringes - all of them potentially affected by Barack Obama's historic win on Tuesday - could substantially alter the region's troubled dynamic. Obama's victory will be, rightly or wrongly, viewed by many abroad as heralding a tectonic shift in U.S. foreign policy. And that perception could shape the outcome of a number of different races across the troubled region in ways that could affect long-term U.S. goals, for better and worse. (Read "The World's View of Obama...