Is it diet, healthcare, social structure, even climate - and which is the most important?
Behind their impenetrable mountains, language, social structure and the whole way of life were distinct.
Moreover, it can affect not only economic growth but also a country's social structure.
Normally, there is a skewed social structure through which, at least in pockets, humanity has regrouped.
As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
Health care reform in China reflects a sea change in demographics and social structure.
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The economic and the social structure of the slum does not depend on these types of gangs.
In an ideal scenario, this social structure gives users a say in editorial decisions while maintaining general decorum and content standard.
Nagatomo believes women like her stay single because Japanese women have changed while the men and the surrounding social structure have not.
And Oregon has a weak social structure, with many recent immigrants who lack the family and community ties to weather hard times.
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In one sense, we should understand that Europeans are trying to protect their preferred standards when it comes to culture, social structure and lifestyle.
The book is, at its heart, a tale of forbidden love, as well as being a commentary on life and the social structure of the times, especially among the aristocracy.
It's one reason that institutions such as the economy, the political system and the social structure haven't matured as quickly as they should have, given Mexico's advantages.
Otherwise, the social structure of badger groups broke down when some were killed, and the animals ranged further afield - infecting more cattle and leading to increased TB incidence.
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By transforming the social structure through economic alliances, corporations and their partners in government and the nonprofit sector may be able to promote social change through aggressive corporate philanthropy and citizenship.
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The mohajirs, who did not own land, and so consequently had no place in the traditional political and social structure, were now having their power-base in the civil service whipped from under them.
One of the most alarming speculations is that by the year 2010 there will be 40 million AIDS orphans in Africa, most of whom will have grown up with little or no social structure.
Southerners also have a more highly developed sense of individualism because the social structure in the south is not graded into an infinite number of vocation-specific intermediate castes, as is the case in the north.
In Canada, where the social structure is similar, a recent report concludes that microfinance has failed to get off the ground because poor borrowers are wary of forming groups of mutual liability with one another.
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Indeed, marmot social structure actively encourages inbreeding.
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Not many animals have enough charisma to pull off a wildly popular television series watched in 164 countries, but it is all in a day's work for South Africa's goofy meerkats, whose behaviour and cooperative social structure make these mongoose cousins unique.
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According to these researchers, at any given time, each of us has around hundred pursuits, ranging from mundane aims, such as picking up toilet paper on the way home from work, all the way to lofty ambitions, such as changing the underlying social structure of the western world.
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Investigating the evolution of the lion social structure in such detail, Prof Packer and his team have had to look closely at the many theories for this lifestyle that have been suggested over the years, such as co-operative hunting, communal suckling of cubs and defence of young against attack.
If an organization like MITRE, that does complex consulting, often for highly secret government projects, can structure an ecosystem that supports such collaborative consulting then surely most any kind of organization can thrive by creating the social structure that benefits all stakeholders, including their customers, employees, vendors and the media that covers their sector.
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But everybody talks about the structure of Social Security as if the structure of Social Security relates to how sustainable Social Security is.
Yes, a social media currency combined with a social class structure.
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Spreadfast has a social organizational structure model.
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Northwestern Europe's new social and economic structure consigned the vast majority of the population to miserably impoverished lives.
Yet all this is threatened by an epidemic which threatens to destroy the social and business structure of the country.
Both came to Washington full of rhetorical energy about the changes to be wrought in the social and economic structure of the nation.
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