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Through online learning, it would be far easier to measure progress and ensure that students are
acquiring
knowledge and skills they can actually use.
Moreover, India’s institutions for allocating natural resources, granting clearances, and
acquiring
land were overwhelmed during the period of strong growth.
As a result, the
acquiring
country will, if anything, make suboptimal economic decisions.
To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in
acquiring
information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.
Until a few decades ago, democratic leaders had to climb the electoral ladder, rung by rung,
acquiring
along the way a facility for retail politics, stump speaking, and the demands of assembling a working majority.
From this long process, in which surviving and thriving meant
acquiring
and adhering to the local social rules, we emerged as potent social learners.
“Short of using military force,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs in September 2012, “it is difficult to imagine how Iran could be prevented from
acquiring
nuclear weapons if it is determined to do so.”
The energy market – most importantly, the market for natural gas – and the market for tourist rentals were liberalized, and the process for
acquiring
an investment license was streamlined.
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) owning the rights could use the ECB to finance the cost of
acquiring
the bonds without violating Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Preventing such groups from
acquiring
the power they seek will require not just military defeats, but also a concerted effort to bring order to the political arena, strengthen the rule of law, and ensure broad representation.
In some cases, no further information may be needed to make a sound decision; in others,
acquiring
further data could be worth millions of dollars.
This process is repeated until there is no further value in
acquiring
data and a sound decision – a logical conclusion, based on the information, values, and preferences of the decision-makers or decision-making body – is reached.
The US has consistently pursued a grand strategy “focused on
acquiring
and maintaining preeminent power over various rivals,” they wrote, and “primacy ought to remain the central objective of US grand strategy in the twenty-first century.”
But others are startling, which partly reflects skewed public perceptions of poverty’s prevalence and severity, as well as the challenge of
acquiring
accurate data.
As I argued last year, in the second edition of my book Irrational Exuberance , the boom is rooted in speculative investment by ordinary homebuyers, fueled substantially by the worldwide perception that capitalism has triumphed, and that all people must look out for themselves by
acquiring
property.
If the EU’s entire development budget was similarly maximized, we could mobilize about €300 billion of capital, which, if spent on
acquiring
equipment, plant, and technology from Europe, could give an enormous boost to the current sluggish growth of the European economies.
Or it might mean
acquiring
the knowledge and skills needed to secure a job that takes advantage of this new economy.
And most of the new capabilities that NATO is
acquiring
are aimed at bolstering its expeditionary capabilities, rather than traditional conventional defenses.
Today’s schools and universities, which are dominated by approaches to learning that are fundamentally individualistic and competitive in nature, must be redesigned to focus on learning to learn and
acquiring
the skills needed to collaborate with others.
Cristina dreamed and built her project together with her husband from the start,
acquiring
more visibility every day.
After all, central banks seeking to accumulate foreign-currency reserves will have alternatives to
acquiring
dollars, so foreigners won’t give America so much rope with which to hang itself.
The costs of
acquiring
and using new technologies protected by copyrights pose huge obstacles for developing countries.
Most Europeans who have been dealing with the issue also assume that Iran is aiming at capacities that would eventually make available all options, including quick development of a nuclear weapon, rather than actually acquiring, let alone testing, a weapon and thereby violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Moreover, those who would like to devote their college years to
acquiring
technical skills in a narrow field that they love would be wrong to conclude that they must give up their dream.
At the same time, they should invest in
acquiring
the communications skills that will be similarly crucial to a successful career.
The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from
acquiring
shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.
Holding euros and
acquiring
euro-denominated securities have become attractive again around the world, pushing up the exchange rate and causing new difficulties.
And if the US no longer guarantees its Sunni allies’ security, all regional powers – including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt – might decide that they can defend themselves only by
acquiring
nuclear weapons, and even more deadly conflict will ensue.
The Northern Caucasus and its vicinity already is a tinderbox;
acquiring
more territory with disaffected Muslims would undoubtedly yield further security challenges.
Yet, as the CEO of a major company based in Sub-Saharan Africa recently lamented to me,
acquiring
work visas for Africans is extremely difficult.
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