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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

In Lebanon, meanwhile, French engineering standards were used as the basis for the building codes as a remnant of colonization. The standard was set that suited the government or the client, either due to the lack of a government-enforced standard or due to the inadequacies and shortcomings of local ones.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started CedarLane Natural Foods over thirty years ago after emigrating from Lebanon to escape war and social unrest. I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). Image Credit: Robert Atallah. That’s why I went into food.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. How much is he the system of government versus the product of a system? And after two decades focused on counter terrorism the U.S. is engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. To what degree is Vladimir Putin a unitary actor?

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Insights from Israeli Central Bank [guest post]

VC Cafe

This is the wrong time to bring down debt and government expenditure. This gas was found in 2009 and exploration expected to begin 2012, though there are disputes with Lebanon. Read: mortgages will not get cheaper, interest-wise, but the government is doing their best to ward off a real estate bubble. More Israelis need to work.

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I?m Honored That I Get To Work With Ayah Bdeir At littleBits

Feld Thoughts

As one of the original advocates of the Startup Visa , I continue to be bummed out that our government can’t seem to figure out why this is important or doing anything productive around it.

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