“I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.” CoursesSocialEconomicSeriousDevelopmentCitizensCommitmentMeetingsOilBudgetsGasComponentsRevenueFundingProgrammesEconomic DevelopmentOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealSchoolMillionsFiveProductsDevelopmentHighestModelsPercentThirdsThreatMeetingsRateDefeatPrimariesVietnamAsiaLiteracyGrossThird WorldBasic NeedsUnescoSecondary SchoolEnrollment Author:John Pilger
“The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.” ProblemRealizingPlansDevelopmentAnxietyMeetingsDefenseMinistryParticipantsFuture Development Author:Vladimir Putin
“For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.” YearsKindLongDoeMatterFactsPastInterestInterestingSpecialConditionsDevelopmentMeetingsMedicalAll KindsEtcLong AgoCommitteesJungleObservingCompensationMatter Of FactSyndromesBurmaParkinsonParkinson's Author:Fuller Albright
“Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.” PeopleMadeEnergyPresidentClearDevelopmentWeaponsCourtMeetingsAccessNuclearSupremeObligationPeacefulIranNuclear WeaponsSupreme CourtIranianNuclear EnergyHassan Author:Barack Obama
“Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.” WayNeedsAbleVisionRiskSpecialPossibilityReadyDevelopmentCreatingTablesEntrepreneurMeetingsPatientMarketingCaringCriticalEnormousEnterpriseAlsRisk-takingCaring For OthersCreating SomethingTreating Patients Author:Tony Robbins
“Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.” KnowsBookCharacterHappensSimpleStageDevelopmentDisciplineMeetingsPreparedTrackThings HappenSmoothEditingBe PreparedTrickyMeeting Someone Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ; and employment is enabled by skills. Where skills are synced with production; and production is benchmarked to quality. Where quality meets global standards; and meeting global standards drives prosperity. Most importantly, this prosperity is for the welfare of all. That is my concept ofeconomic good governance and all round development.” GovernmentGrowthQualityEconomyDevelopmentSkillsStandardsConceptsIndiaMeetingsRoundsProsperityProductionsEmploymentWelfareNurtureGovernanceEcoGood Governance Author:Narendra Modi
“Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life” NeedsLongUseEnergyTermNaturalVisionGenerationsBuildingDevelopmentFutureResourcesMeetingsCompromiseEfficiencyMinimumFlexibilityLong LifeFuture GenerationNatural ResourcesSustainable DevelopmentEnergy Use Author:Richard Rogers
“I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.” I CanFilmDevelopmentTravelMeetingsFunny TravelDisabledGary Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on the development project under construction to design meetings for an upcoming apparel delivery to acquisition meetings about projects we're looking to acquire. It's very diverse in terms of content, substance, and what I address on a typical day.” CoursesTermDesignDevelopmentProjectsMeetingsSubstanceAcquireAddressesTransitionConstructionDiverseTypicalAcquisitionDeliveryApparelUnder Construction Author:Ivanka Trump
“The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.” MonthsDevelopmentIndiaMeetingsMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:Maurice Strong
“The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs” IfsMadeSeemsLanguageHeavenChanceWorstDevelopmentBecomingGloryMeetingsSorrySakeBunchEducatedLoserDeafEnglish LanguageVerbsDenseIrritatedNounsLanguage Development Author:Stephen Fry