Diversity management is about acquiring global market perspective and know-how to forge meaningful strategic business alliances that strengthen the supply chain.

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When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.

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From a global, biological perspective this in-fighting over alleged medical and religious ethics is in fact nothing less than an all out affront to environmental sustainability.

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The scientists did the study to put the global temperature trends into a long-range perspective, Marcott said.

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But it is irrational from the perspective of fast-moving global markets, where consumers rather than central planners are at the center of the economic universe.

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An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".

BBC: Russia country profile

For some valuable perspective (and perhaps belt-tightening inspiration), take a look at global consumer-spending patterns.

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But, from my perspective, the fundamentals that are driving the global economy are key to the long-term growth of these markets.

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In my view, injecting this post-consumerist perspective into environmental and energy policy would not address the gravamen of the global warming problem, which is not over-consumption but under-consumption.

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And with the majority of the global markets closed tomorrow, the market may be in a rather vulnerable position from a short-term perspective.

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In 2010, officials persuaded lawmakers to exclude foreign students from the cap on out-of-staters currently 45% of freshmen arguing that the foreigners would add more global perspective.

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From a broader perspective, 39 percent of all global mobile devices (more than 4 billion), could be IPv6-capable by 2016.

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