Word: transformation
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...year. The pink parking spots, reserved for women drivers so they don't have to walk so far to work or the mall, are part of the South Korean capital's Women Friendly Seoul Project, an effort for the notoriously macho Asian city of more than 10 million to transform itself into a safer, more heel-friendly "space for women...
...trouble with evolution, as the Prime Minister went on to say, is that it sometimes can be "slow and frustrating." In the interview, Tsvangirai gave himself five years to transform his country. That may be realistic, but the pace can also make Tsvangirai's optimism feel premature. The power-sharing deal set out a timetable for a new constitution by October 2010, but that schedule is already slipping. The more obstacles Mugabe throws in Tsvangirai's way - the latest came on July 13 when protesting ZANU supporters forced the postponement of a conference on constitutional reform - the more what...
...Nowadays, Chang says Taiwan must transform itself again to ensure its future growth - and he's leading the charge. In June, he reclaimed TSMC's CEO post four years after relinquishing the job - even though he is 78 years old - with the goal of taking the firm into new industries, possibly solar panels and energy-saving LED lighting. "The next transformation is going to be something that requires ideas, innovation," Chang says. "My basic concern with Taiwan is that the country needs a lot of reforms...
...regional economy, which is increasingly dominated by China. "The main lesson we learned in the financial tsunami is that we are only dependent on our export industry, in particular IT," says San Gee, deputy minister of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development. The idea is to "transform our overall economy to a different stage...
...Taiwan's future as it has been to its past by attracting companies in cutting-edge industries such as alternative energy. Not far away, the government this year opened a new park for biotechnology and other medical-business start-ups. "This is the time for the park to transform from old-fashioned capital-intensive industries to intellectual-based ones," Wu says...