This is not simply because they deserve to be heard but because their experiences can bring about real change for those to whom good care often means the most.

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In addition to resonating more with people of all ages for whom social change has become a high priority, being a social purpose leader is a competitive imperative: Samsung, Microsoft, and Research in Motion are much more evolved in this area.

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The researchers say if these results are replicated, it could change the standard of care for such patients, most of whom have to be cared for in long-term nursing facilities.

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In an interview, he said Continental's push for change at Smithfield was no factor in the deal with Shuanghui, with whom Smithfield had held talks on a combination as far back as 2009.

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And it was not clear that Mr Powell's case would change many minds among the public, many of whom have been debating the Iraq issue for months.

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Nurtured in the atmosphere of committed liberalism generated by the New Deal, and by such musicians as Aaron Copland, for whom artistic progress and the formation of an authentically American artistic identity were inseparable from ideas of social change, Bernstein developed quickly into an able spokesman for American cosmopolitan progressivism's short-lived ascendancy.

ECONOMIST: Leonard Bernstein