Word: sparking
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...biggest challenge, though, is stimulating the critical creative spark. "We need to change the paradigm of people's thinking," says Antonio Dieck, Tech's business school (EGADE) dean. But for all of Monterrey's impressive start, not all the necessary pieces are yet in place. The venture-capital industry is in its infancy, there is no Mexican NASDAQ (although a draft bill to create one recently surfaced), and minority-shareholder rights need to be strengthened. More important, the Mexican business culture does not carry much appetite for risk in its DNA or an appreciation for failure. As a result...
...free-market reforms and open up to the world. There's a sound reason to think things are different this time. Last week, after many years of trying, Vietnam won its bid to join the World Trade Organization, a move that could help liberalize the country's economy and spark an export-driven boom similar to the boost China received after it joined the WTO in 2001. Vietnam is already on a roll. It's GDP growth rate this year is projected to be 8.2%, the second-fastest pace in Asia behind China and in a dead heat with India...
...Labor has lacked spark and concord for most of the Howard years. Since Beazley regained the leadership last year, the parliamentary party has settled in behind him. Tanner says knocking off the incumbents will be difficult, particularly on the issue of economic management. "The bar is very high," he says of the obstacles. "We have to be seen as competent, coherent and unified?that we have a clear purpose." It's too early to tell how Labor will play the election, but Beazley and his colleagues have been road-testing their ripest ideas. In the hand-to-hand combat...
With purses heavy from a recent donation, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is hoping to spark College students’ interest in the continent’s culture and politics as part of a new initiative, Internationalize Undergraduate Education. The program—including faculty-student dinners, thesis workshops, and research opportunities—hopes to engage students in Europoean studies throughout their college careers, according to the center’s executive director, Patricia H. Craig. “We are helping students make sense of what they are learning, not only within the general context...
...right away had a lot of commitment to the team,” Odorczyk said. “She got herself right into it.” “I have basically looked at it as a great opportunity for me to give the team a little spark,” Wilson said. “Our bench is so short, to give fresh legs even for ten minutes is essential.” No matter how much energy she brings, Wilson will not be able to repair the woes of a team that has more injuries than experience...