Second, having a unified, single-minded governing body and a mass society that generally trusts and believes in the decisions of its government does have its unique advantages.
Then we did it again in the 20th century with the convergence of communication and energy: Centralized electricity especially the telephone and then later radio and television became the communication vehicles to manage a more dispersed Second Industrial Revolution, organized around the oil-powered internal combustion engine, suburban construction and the creation of a mass consumer society.
Research is being carried out by the Marine Conservation Society following mass strandings of moon jellyfish in north Wales.
Mass-commercial junk of modern society is a symptom of the riches we enjoy.
After mass layoff announcements this fall, Society for Human Resource Management found that 23% of human-resource professionals surveyed have encountered significantly more cases of eavesdropping in the workplace over the past 12 months.
But what will allow the shared value economy to gain mass adoption, and benefit an entire society?
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Lai Oso, Professor of Mass Communication and expert in media and society will deliver a paper on "New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies".
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The Mental Health Bill will create misconceptions in society that people with mental health problems are mass murderers when the reality is that they are much more likely to harm themselves than others, hence discouraging them from getting the help they need.
Without more explicit (and testable) details, it is always possible that these benefits would be generated anyway in society, perhaps by religious organizations or the mass media, or that they could be delivered more economically by less fashionable methods, such as reinstituting the draft or spending more money on the police.
And when you have that in any society, what you have is a recipe for mass social instability.
"Mass civilian casualties, enormous property losses, an increasingly turbulent society ... the lessons learnt from mistakes made in Libya are still fresh, " the paper said.
There was mass unemployment, that people who were at the bottom of society were really suffering, especially with the recessions, and Labour has focused on cutting unemployment and ensuring that there are good public services, and that's what we stand for, and that's what that's illustrating.
The paper-less office and the cash-less society have long been held up as desirable outcomes of mass computerization.
The Soviet SS-24 (a ten-warheaded ballistic missile capable of being launched from railroad cars and fixed silos) and SS-25 (intercontinental variant of the intermediate range SS-20, currently assessed to be equipped with one warhead) are deployed in ways that take full advantage of the barrenness and enormity of the Soviet land-mass, and the absolute priority enjoyed by the military in that society.
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They also aim at building up a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that the beneficiary countries will be equipped with an appropriate sustainable framework for safeguarding intangible heritage and implementing the Convention on a long term basis.
We talk about our commitment to mass transit but it's still really puny compared to that of European society or Japan.
Wants any tribunal to investigate all mass murderers, including those he alleges are in the cabinet and top strata of Cambodian society.
It's not like the cracking of the state, or mass unrest, but simply that the Greek state - whose reach was never far into society - is beginning to lose its grip slightly on the actual functions a state should do.
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Before we answer this, one needs to revisit the American Economic Historian W.W. Rostow who in the sixties had suggested that countries passed through 5 stages of economic development as Traditional Society, Transitional Stage, Take-off, Drive to Maturity and High Mass Consumption.
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It is a defining moment on whether a kinship-based society, dominated by tribal, religious and ethnic loyalty has reached a level of critical mass sufficient for national unity.
It is hard to think of a more despicable comment on the state of Palestinian society than their wall to wall support for the taking and holding of hostages or their desire to see mass murderers released from jail.
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