One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.
Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.
In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.
Women can overdo it in their commitment to muscle development.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk.
Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
