Whether Australia is ready or not, our economy will be reshaped by these trends.
Events like the Oceanic Viking incident were poorly handled, the adverse High Court decision on the government's agreement with Malaysia was a blow and policy had to be shaped and reshaped in the face of rising arrival numbers.
Leftwing parties have triumphed where politics has been reshaped by powerful social movements, and failed where they rely on passive support.
From Las Vegas to Seoul, city governments reshaped their convention and visitors' bureaus into more professional, market-savvy organisations, revved up their advertising budgets and hired brand consultants to show them the ropes.
In both UK and Australia higher education has been reshaped by business models and a new emphasis on students as customers.
This new breed of electioneering outfit, brought into being by a Supreme Court ruling in 2010, has already reshaped the presidential campaign and its influence is only likely to grow.Laws passed in the 1970s in the wake of the Watergate scandal strictly limit the amount individuals and groups can give to campaigns, to $5,000 per election cycle in most instances.
The big deals of the late 1990s reshaped the business landscape, even if not all of them were judicious.
In many eyes, the events of September 11th last year reinforced the perceived importance of making global economic development an inclusive process.And, on the face of it, the development agenda has been reshaped to reflect that objective.
Roosevelt, a Progressive Republican, radically reshaped America's economic landscape and, in the end, left his party.
The bill is essentially a reshaped version of the Calderón administration's own proposals, though it removes the controversial provision to allow private investment in refining, pipelines and storage.
Not so easy In rude health ReprintsAs our special report this week on Judaism points out, most ultra-Orthodox Jews, known as haredim, who now reside in settlements on the West Bank, are close to the old line, and would therefore be embraced within a reshaped Israel.
