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Japan's 19 th century Meiji rulers were interested in weaponry and hence enthusiastic about
acquiring
Western science and technology.
For example, industrialization requires a transparent system for
acquiring
land from farmers and tribal people, which in turn presupposes much better land-ownership records than India has.
Officially, these laws were meant to prevent people from
acquiring
citizenship through fraud; in reality, they were also used to enforce loyalty to the state.
For example, China has become a significant player in providing economic development assistance (often tied to its strategy for
acquiring
natural resources).
South Ossetia, together with Abkhazia (combined population 300,000), promptly declared their “independence,” creating two new fictional sovereignties, and
acquiring
in the process all the official trappings of statehood: national heroes, colorful uniforms, anthems, flags, frontier posts, military forces, presidents, parliaments, and, most important, new opportunities for smuggling and corruption.
Back in September 2008, when then-US Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson introduced the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), he proposed using the funds to bail out the banks, but without
acquiring
any equity ownership in them.
It is still not permissible in polite company to talk about these frontline states
acquiring
their own nuclear weapons.
But putting US weapons back into South Korea;
acquiring
real missile capability; allowing the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel; moving closer to breakout capability – all of these steps now have their advocates, and these voices will grow louder.
Since the early 1990’s, one prediction after another regarding how close Iran was to
acquiring
a nuclear bomb has proved baseless.
We never even contemplated the option of
acquiring
nuclear weapons, because we believe that such weapons could undermine our national-security interests; as a result, they have no place in Iran’s security doctrine.
These roving bands don't appear to spend their time and energy on
acquiring
money, or receiving concessions, or fighting for high positions.
It is because Netanyahu is driven by an almost Messianic determination to prevent Iran from
acquiring
the means to destroy Israel, that he might be amenable to a fundamental change in his position on Palestine, provided Obama makes visible headway in his drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
For still others, the quality of education is so poor – owing to a lack of adequately trained teachers or appropriate materials – that they are not
acquiring
even basic reading and writing skills.
Iran is shown a stick to dissuade it from
acquiring
nuclear weapons, but is offered no carrot in the form of increased trade and investment or the possibility of an end to the sanctions that have crippled its economy.
Second, China’s businesses have been encouraged to “go global” and invest abroad to find new markets, secure access to energy and raw materials, and enhance their competitiveness by
acquiring
new technologies, brands, and management skills.
So far, China’s FDI outflows have been concentrated in developing countries and a handful of resource-rich developed countries, including Australia and Canada, and have been aimed at facilitating trade and
acquiring
access to natural resources.
Nestlé scores better, because its guidelines for suppliers – used for the sourcing of sugar, soy, palm oil, and other commodities – require that they obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous and local communities before
acquiring
land.
What Lucas makes out to be a general truth – that the path to economic growth cannot lie in creating and
acquiring
the kind of knowledge that is “embodied” in books, blueprints, and machines – rests on a barely examined decision to restrict attention to only a few kinds of models.
Changes in the economy, industry, the banking system;
acquiring
new highways, better phones, or access to the Internet are all fine things, but they must not be accompanied by changes in values, by rampant individualism, or by new customs and new ways of life.
Instead, firms begin to invest, and either workers respond to the possibility of higher wages by
acquiring
(at their own cost) the required skills, or firms provide their current and future employees with the relevant training.
And some companies are stockpiling cash or
acquiring
competitors rather than using their returns to build productive capacity.
Protecting ZimbabweJOHANNESBURG – Although the Chinese ship that was carrying arms to Zimbabwe, the An Yue Jiang, has reportedly turned back, we don’t know where else President Robert Mugabe’s military and paramilitary forces may be
acquiring
weapons.
Israeli newspapers regularly carry stories about why Israel may need to attack Iran to prevent it from
acquiring
an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
The United States and its Western allies were unwilling to risk a military option, and not concluding a deal would have allowed Iran to proceed unimpeded toward
acquiring
nuclear weapons.
New brands can assert themselves by
acquiring
symbolic capital.
With their newly acquired competitive advantages, they can accrue undue profits, reinvesting part of their haul in
acquiring
even more unfair rents.
Moreover, and crucially, Brzezinski forgets that Obama’s determination to stop Iran from
acquiring
a nuclear weapon does not stem only from his concern for Israel’s security or the stability of the wider Middle East.
The doctrine according to which great powers, many of them nuclear-armed, try to stop lesser powers from
acquiring
nuclear weapons by force and threats of force – a fiasco in Iraq, nuclear-armed North Korea, and now Iran – has reached a dead end.
Concern about fuel-supply security has always been Iran’s main publicly stated justification for
acquiring
its enrichment capability – a justification that its critics assert was manufactured simply to conceal a covert weapons agenda.
With both countries on the verge of
acquiring
nuclear weapons, the rest of the world was understandably nervous.
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