These are things countries are doing to make themselves more conducive to innovation in the future.
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In recent years, more men than women have gone to school to make themselves more employable.
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Schools are trying to make themselves more attractive to students, for example by buying iPads.
The ratio between the sexes means that men have to pile up savings to make themselves more attractive marriage candidates.
The only chance that the Republicans have of thriving in the long term is to make themselves more open to minorities and immigrants.
Meanwhile, companies are learning to make themselves more attractive to lenders.
In the fight for market share, fund-management houses have sometimes been forced to rein in their fund managers to make themselves more attractive to the advisers.
Greece will soon be there, once they have to meet market rates for their debt, or force their labor markets to endure a very serious deflation to make themselves more competitive.
And conversely, now is the time for job seekers to make themselves more marketable by getting more training and using contract assignments as a way to get the on-the-job experience that employers like to see on resumes.
In recent months, my Auto Task Force has been reviewing requests by General Motors and Chrysler for additional government assistance, as well as plans developed by each of these companies to restructure, to modernize, and to make themselves more competitive.
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Neighbors also tend to selectively share their winners while hiding losers in order to make themselves appear more successful than they really are.
We had to work hard to make people more expressive, and more confident to expose themselves and make themselves vulnerable.
Second, there will be further costs for banks from the rebuilding and reorganisation they require to make themselves viable once more.
Faced with such troubles, mining houses are scrambling to restructure, cut costs, and make themselves more attractive to foreign capital.
The Wii was designed, in some respects, to bring gaming out of the basement and into the living room to make it more acceptable to parents, many of them retired gamers themselves, and to reach more eyeballs and thumbs.
But he has made no secret that he believes users should and will want to make more information about themselves public over time.
Banks and other lenders repackaged the mortgage loans into securities and dumped them on investors, freeing themselves up to make even more loans.
To make money for themselves they reach for yield by lending to more speculative borrowers whom they can charge more interest to, and they too often lend to high interest paying governments whose junkie bonds they buy for a fat yield as well as their implicit security.
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By working out in the open CEOs make themselves more accessible to staffers.
He said that if the reform is going to work "we've got to underpin it with much more robust rules and incentives to make sure the banks behave themselves in the long run".
The main result of the raids is probably to make German tax-evaders themselves a bit more systematic.
But the modified behaviours would also make the perch more vulnerable to predation themselves by the likes of pike.
Reports from weekend shopping patterns and our data suggest we might see something similar this year because people may be more inclined to make purchases for themselves, rather than gifts.
In the same way, there are some studies showing that the genes that increase the risk of depression may also make people a little more likely to put themselves in stressful and painful environments.
In the case of Tencent, to which the market has gifted an awesome market cap, buying into an immediate, leading position for a tiny percentage of that market cap may make more sense than trying to build it themselves.
To make the trip a little more adventurous, they gave themselves a mere six days.
That expectation may make them more defensive and more likely to respond with aggression themselves, as we saw in this study and in other studies we have conducted.
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The implication of all this is that people's efforts to make themselves happier by working harder in order to earn and spend more are partly self-defeating: they may make more money, but because others do too, they do not get much happier.
Employees who represent true tier-one talent see themselves as part of the team seeking to make those around them more successful.
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Without a doubt, letting employees arm themselves with a mobile device to access the corporate network will make them more productive.
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