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But that requires abandoning an anti-growth mentality and using our enormous potential to create a brighter future.
But political and historical tensions continue to shape daily life in Kaesong, where companies operate under the constant threat that North Korea, for whatever reason, will react rashly, even abandoning the joint project altogether.
It also requires abandoning the longstanding and widespread assumption that understanding science means simply learning a requisite body of facts and problem-solving recipes, and that mastery of those facts is the sole qualification needed to be a science teacher.
Abandoning Asia’s PoorNEW YORK -- More than half of Asia’s population -- 1.8 billion people -- live on less than $2 a day; more than 600 million of them try to survive on less than $1 a day.
The ADB is abandoning crucial public support for social development.
So Japan's future prospects ultimately depend on the US abandoning its strong-yen policy.
We have no intention of abandoning that process.
These so-called TARGET2 balances are often taken as a sign of capital flight: investors in countries at risk of abandoning the euro might be tempted to transfer their funds to Germany.
Working-class southern whites would have much to gain from abandoning the Republicans’ race-based politics in favor of class-based politics.
That means abandoning Blair’s strategy of confronting the “arc of extremism” with putative “moderates” who, besides offering lucrative markets for arms sales, are in fact autocrats whose conduct has helped fuel the growth of radical Islam.
Indeed, either the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests, thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle, and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself.
Moreover, biomedical research firms are abandoning certain diseases in order to avoid the large-scale trials that they require, focusing instead on “orphan diseases” like cystic fibrosis, which demand smaller clinical trials that have a higher probability of success, leading to drugs that can cost more than $100,000 annually per patient.
But, for Europeans, abandoning any ambition to shape the wider world would be a major strategic mistake.
If Florida is devastated by a hurricane, its governor would only make matters worse if he responded by abandoning trade with other states.
The fact is that no Palestinian leader can agree to anything – even what is technically a good deal – if it seems like they are capitulating to threats, especially when it means abandoning what Palestinians view as their birthright.
If Italians were confronted with the choice of retaining or abandoning the single currency, recent polls suggest that they would initially decide to stay, for fear of a run on Italian banks and public debt, as Greece experienced in 2012-2015.
The consequences of abandoning the euro are highly uncertain, and few European leaders are willing to go there.
Since January, when Switzerland responded to the euro’s depreciation against the dollar by abandoning its peg to the European currency, the country’s economy has experienced a downturn.
This requires abandoning the myopic focus of the past, which denied so many a decent living, and instead basing macroeconomic and fiscal policy decisions on their potential to foster human development and employment-generating growth.
Actions that are criticized as “short-term thinking” may, in some cases, be steps toward abandoning old businesses and failed solutions, helping the company adjust to a changing economy.
That is a powerful argument for not abandoning a long-term commitment to the sort of pluralist values embraced by – among others – the authors of the 2002 report.
The alternative is to return control of fiscal policy to national governments, abandoning the pretense that policy can be regimented by EU rules.
Inexplicably, Trump sacrificed (once again) a crucial US national interest, this time by abandoning the sole force in the Middle East region (outside of Israel) on which America could safely and seriously rely.
It is easy to imagine situations in which flexibility can be increased by curtailing individual rights and abandoning pre-established decision-making rules.
So far, China’s leaders have not seen the merits of abandoning non-interference.
But this is no justification for abandoning its mandate to pursue price and financial stability.
Risk models do not justify abandoning one’s natural sense of incredulity.
STOCKHOLM – Even after abandoning its empire, the United Kingdom hesitated for decades to join Europe.
In his rush to enrich himself and consolidate power, while abandoning all civility and decorum, he has shown contempt for the separation of powers, the freedom of the press, the norms of governance, and the rule of law.
True, more flexible exchange-rate arrangements have mostly eliminated the drama of abandoning pre-announced pegged or semi-pegged exchange rates.
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