The world got--excuse my lame phrase--a paradigm shift.

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For long-term investors, the oil-to-gas ratio is indicative of a paradigm shift in the markets.

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The good-and-bad news is that this is a really big paradigm shift for customers, one that forces them to consolidate service providers, not something that has come naturally.

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The casual observer might presume that soccer has experienced some kind of paradigm shift akin to baseball's transition from the dead-ball era or the NFL's recent transformation into a pass-happy league.

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But, a-ha, when you pick up your iPad, a funny paradigm shift happens.

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"What's happened in the last five years is a paradigm shift, where you have general collectors of American art interested in adding African-American art to their collections, " observes Steven L. Jones, 61, an African-American dealer in Philadelphia.

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The mission of the SMILE Consortium is to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their learning through an inquiry-based learning model.

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The paradigm shift, which began with SpaceShipOne's first flight into space in June, is away from government-funded space programmes to a dynamic bevy of private efforts.

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