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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

While western engineering codes developed gradually over the last century, developing nations adopted those codes and often used them as a basis for developing their own. In Lebanon, meanwhile, French engineering standards were used as the basis for the building codes as a remnant of colonization.

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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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Insights from Israeli Central Bank [guest post]

VC Cafe

This is the wrong time to bring down debt and government expenditure. Israel’s GDP growth during the crisis was better than the developed world, but worse than the emerging markets. No strong interbank lending in Israel, the Bank of Israel is now working to develop this marketplace. More Israelis need to work. Monetary Policy.

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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? Their ballistic missile program not only threatens their neighbors, but their development of long-range ICBMs puts the entire continental United States in range of their nuclear weapons.