But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.
Many commentators are arguing that what is needed to tackle the problem are not simply measures such as those outlined above, but rather a quantum-shift in the technology of air travel, with a radical re-think not only in how planes are designed, but also what they are actually made of.
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Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
Such a return-chasing approach might be justified if investors were rightly anticipating that a short-term improvement in the returns of a particular hedge fund indicated a long-term shift in favour of its style.
If it pans out, then Jin tombs could point to a significant shift in thinking in 12th-century China and provide one more reason to pay attention to this little-known dynasty.
But lists like this, besides providing an ego-check, do serve a purpose: they give us the chance to put the slow weeks before the holidays to get cozy with the thesaurus button (Shift-F7 for those not in-the-know) and rework out professional paperwork before the new year comes calling.
The biggest change in Windows 8 is a system-wide shift in attitude.
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The bottom floor had been turned into a make-shift hospital, with the in-house hotel doctor treating the effects of gas.
Even the most apparently anachronistic of servants, butlers and valets, survive, though with the same shift from living-in to self-employment.
And then one day in the dead of the night, he takes me for a tour of his workplace, where he works the night-shift in a nursing home.
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Stunned mourners gathered around a make-shift shrine in Norway's capital ahead of a special service to be held in the city on Sunday, that thousands are expected to attend.
Mr. Dodge, whose first automotive job was as a night-shift manager in the former Rover Cowley plant, joined Nissan in 1984 and spent the next 26 years at the company's U.K. operations.
Meanwhile in Grozny, where separatist rebels continue to battle against Russian forces, a pensioner put together a make-shift service in what remains of a church, reading from a Psalter with the help of a torch.
U.S. and U.K. authorities have stepped up enforcement of bribery in foreign business dealings, which may herald a longer-term shift in how foreign companies operate in the Gulf, lawyers say.
Part spin, part smarts and all opportunism, Kim 2.0 is an impressive creation, an example of a 180-degree image shift that was achieved in near-Internet time--hardly something anyone would have expected from Pyongyang, where cell phones are as uncommon as Cokes.
But something seems to have worried them, and they will now be reading the runes of a summit that ended with an unprecedented decision to cut EU spending, trying to evaluate whether this is a one-off or a symptom of a more troubling shift in Europe's centre of gravity - a move in a more sceptic direction.
This is ultimately a non-problem with the continual decline in the costs of smartphones, bandwidth, and Cloud-centric analytics, and the ever-deeper cultural shift in consumer comfort and the daily use of on-line services.
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Slate's Will Oremus thinks Cook's teases about mind-blowing future products reflect a shift in Apple's approach to promotion since co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011.
In fact, there was a huge shift to part-time employment in the fast food industry beginning in January.
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The consultative nature of the brand detail will shift in parallel with the technology-driven changes in practice.
In a sense, this is just a logical continuation of the shift in policy announced in the autumn - which I wrote about at the time.
The bubble societies of Asia, and the failure of the Muslim world to achieve even middling levels of prosperity, show that economic development is unsustainable without a shift in people's mind-sets and in social structures.
That said, when they switched out the stock cooler for a third-party cooler, the site achieved a big reduction in decibels, and most partner boards are expected to shift with third-party coolers in the first place.
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The last big shift in the sleeping-pill market came 12 years ago, when Ambien hit pharmacy shelves in the U.S. The drug is viewed as having fewer side effects than older sleep aids such as Halcion, which left patients feeling groggy in the morning.
Reorganize for Resilience by Ranjay Gulati talks about it in terms of the shift from inside-out to outside-in.
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The second shift in the investment-banking landscape is a hollowing-out of the midsized banks as the very biggest in the industry grab a greater share of trading revenues.
Mr. FOUKARA: I don't think that they are expecting a 180-degree shift in U.S. foreign policy.
Yet this innovation is probably just the beginning of a huge customer-centered shift in interactivity.
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The hard-line shift in Pyongyang's ruling elite has resulted in fewer contacts between North Korea and other countries.
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