Some remain invitational but most have loosened their eligibility terms to foster interdisciplinary, international and intercollegiate collaboration (in other words, you don't have to attend most business schools to enter their competitions).
Mr. Nieker wrote that the foundation trips reflect "a long-term commitment to foster a productive dialogue between education leaders from the United States and some of the world's best-performing and most improving school systems".
He emphasized that while the United States had short-term goals to help Yemen improve its counterterrorism forces, its intelligence gathering skills and its security screening processes, these aims were part of a broader long-term strategy to foster political, economic and social changes to improve the lives of Yemeni citizens and rob Al Qaeda and other extremist groups of recruiting fodder.
We are honored to support the council and the international conference series, which represents a long-term commitment to foster a productive dialogue between education leaders from the United States and some of the world's best-performing and most-improving school systems.
Program officials say a 2004 deadline was set to encourage businesses to stay in or move to the area in the relative short term, when steps to foster a revival are vital.
Through such measures, nations hope not only to boost their economies in the short term, but also to foster relationships that will ensure companies continue to invest within their borders in the future.
In addition to adding five new European members and the one year anniversary of the Foundation's Yocto Project, they're announcing their "Long Term Support Initiative" to foster a stable kernel release suitable for use in consumer electronic devices.
In the long term, we need to foster advances in efficiency in cars and trucks, improve our public transportation options and invest those Big Oil subsidies in clean, renewable sources of energy.
It will also provide long-term gas contracts to foster the creation of a new pipeline network built, owned and operated by private firms.
Yet the longer-term goal is to foster assembly-line production of the small reactors at a far lower cost than construction of conventional reactors.
