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I'm with everyone here astonished that this film's still not available for personal
acquisition.
When the script is drawn from the Collected Cliches of North America and the largest line item on the budget is cocaine acquisition, the result must be worth far less than the life force used to view it.
As a result, a debate has been underway in Turkey over whether to pursue the development and
acquisition
of nuclear weapons.
Indeed, the growing contest between India and China is not only military in nature, but also concerns the
acquisition
of natural resources.
Technically, this should be recorded as a bigger surplus on the investment-income account, matched by greater
acquisition
of assets overseas.
Following nationalizations (both overt and through
acquisition
by state-owned companies), Russia’s government has regained control over the commanding heights of the economy.
That is why there is a whole separate vertical market for travel, but one that first Bing, and now Google (with the
acquisition
of ITA Software), may be claiming.
Finally, farmers’ rights need to be protected, the efficiency of land use must be increased, and policies for
acquisition
of rural land for urban use should be overhauled.
Google's
acquisition
of Nest Labs for $3.2 billion is a good example of the value that companies are placing on this kind of data.
This fear has led to the narrowing of the concept of education to mean the
acquisition
of practical skills.
In response, China is now holding up the US chipmaker Qualcomm’s
acquisition
of the Dutch semiconductor firm NXP.
But such efforts have so far focused on “hardware” modernization – allocating resources for the procurement and
acquisition
of selected advanced weapons technologies, systems, and platforms, and integrating them into existing organizational force structures and operational concepts.
Iran’s
acquisition
of nuclear weapons would only heighten Saudi Arabia’s second major concern: the Iranian government’s policy of destabilizing its neighbors.
Iran’s
acquisition
of a nuclear bomb – or even its ability to produce one – would be interpreted by Israel as fundamental threat to its existence, thereby compelling the West, and Europe in particular, to take sides.
This evidence became compelling in the 1980s, based on observations made while studying parts of the songbird brain involved in the
acquisition
and production of learned song.
Meanwhile, Europe's zombie banks will have to be rapidly resolved by
acquisition
or temporary takeover, cleanup, and asset sale, as was done by the Resolution Trust Corporation during the US savings and loan crisis in the 1980s.
The third option,
acquisition
of nuclear armaments by potentially threatened countries, was based on the assumption that a government would be willing to use such weapons to defend its own country, if not another one.
That is why King Salman is overseeing the greatest military
acquisition
and expansion program in Saudi Arabia’s history.
It will actively work against Iran's
acquisition
of nuclear knowledge and energy, and may yet attempt to weaken Iran's military capability altogether.
Growth ultimately depends on supply-side factors – investment in and
acquisition
of new technologies – and the stock of technologies that can be adopted by poor countries does not disappear when advanced countries’ growth is sluggish.
How Corruption Fuels Climate ChangeLONDON, BERLIN – Anti-corruption campaigners achieved a number of crucial victories in 2016, not least by ensuring accountability for one of Big Oil’s most crooked deals: the
acquisition
of Nigerian offshore oil block OPL 245 in 2011 by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, Italy’s largest corporation.
And then there is America’s current-account deficit, which is not necessarily a bad thing, as it implies the
acquisition
of large amounts of foreign capital.
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and
acquisition
league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
Most important, governments must make skills
acquisition
a central feature of national development policies.
In response, the World Bank agreed that there are instances of abuse in land acquisition, particularly in developing countries in which governance is weak, and said that it supported more transparent and inclusive participation.
The shareholders of the companies that buy will lose roughly $300 billion in market value, as markets interpret the
acquisition
as a signal that managers are exuberant and uncontrolled empire-builders rather than flinty-eyed trustees maximizing payouts to investors.
India’s population may stabilize within 50 years; but, with the number of people per square kilometer 2.5 times that of Western Europe and 11 times that of the contiguous United States, disputes over land
acquisition
for industrial development create serious barriers to economic growth.
More to the point, it is time for those in a position to rein them in to believe what Murdoch’s companies are saying – beginning with the independent British media regulator Ofcom, which is now deciding whether 21st Century Fox, and the Murdoch family that runs it, is fit to proceed with its
acquisition
of Sky.
This fits with United Nations Security Council resolutions, among them Number 242, which stated the "inadmissibility of the
acquisition
of territory by war."
Developmental influences involving the quality of parenting and
acquisition
of attachment have a powerful influence on subsequent stress vulnerability during the rest of our lives – for example, abuse and neglect in childhood increase our vulnerability to physical and mental disorders, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and antisocial behavior.
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