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Broader questions about their contributions to labor displacement and effects on wage growth have also arisen, even as societies increasingly recognize that technological disruption implies the need for education reform and improvements in skills
acquisition
and retraining.
In March, tens of thousands of mainly young people, led by Navalny, took to the streets to protest the alleged
acquisition
of untold (and undeserved) riches by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and current prime minister.
Public policies have a role to play not only in providing a cushion for workers in transition, via income support, but also in creating incentives and opportunities for skills
acquisition.
Global security challenges are serious enough without the risks from nuclear weapons or their
acquisition
by additional states or non-state actors.
Ultimately, that means guaranteeing the eurozone’s survival with Germany’s economic might and assets: unlimited
acquisition
of the crisis countries’ government bonds by the European Central Bank, Europeanization of national debts via Eurobonds, and growth programs to avoid a eurozone depression and boost recovery.
Moreover, a cursory glance at the PLA's readiness training, research and development, weapons acquisition, and indoctrination programs shows that Chinese officials are preparing to fight future wars not only against regional powers, but against a superpower.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the
acquisition
of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export controls and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the
acquisition
of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.
Then there are the persistent slippages in skill
acquisition
programs.
There is massive scope to accelerate approvals and land acquisition, structure contracts to encourage innovation and savings, and improve collaboration with contractors.
Beyond the matter of control, the
acquisition
of technology companies also requires SOEs and SWFs to take a different approach to risk management, owing to the unstable nature of valuations in this sector.
Even if many emerging-market sovereign funds would prefer to remain quiet, non-voting investors with passive stakes in foreign companies, the tech-sector
acquisition
spree that is currently underway demands that they gain a better understanding of their rights as shareholders.
It was a major
acquisition
for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – which President Xi Jinping calls the “project of the century” – and proof of just how effective China’s debt-trap diplomacy can be.
It all began a year ago, when Ulyukaev was detained at Rosneft’s Moscow headquarters, where he was allegedly attempting to secure a $2 million bribe from Sechin, in exchange for his support for Rosneft’s planned
acquisition
of a majority of state shares in Bashneft, a regional oil company.
For example, Black Rhino, a fund set up by Blackstone, one of the world’s largest multinational private equity firms, focuses on the development and
acquisition
of energy projects, such as fuel storage, pipelines, and transmission networks.
France is blocking the
acquisition
of French utilities by the Italian electricity company Enel.
Wars of conquest, territorial acquisition, continental surveying, and canal and then railroad subsidies were good for voters, immigrants, and pretty much everyone else except the outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans who got in the way.
Better repayment prospects and lower regulatory capital costs then fuel the asset-based financing of further
acquisition
of assets.
For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to
acquisition
disappeared.
But, over the last decade, major European banks have acquired foreign banks through such mergers as the
acquisition
by Spain’s Banco Santander of the UK’s Abbey National, Italy’s UniCredito of Austria’s Hypovereinsbank and Holland’s ABN-AMRO.
Iran’s
acquisition
of the bomb, on the other hand, could bring increased stability to the region, as the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction demonstrated in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It will even compensate tenant farmers for their loss of livelihoods and require that those displaced by land
acquisition
be offered employment in the institutions that displace them.
What most people mean by better education is more schooling; and, by higher-quality education, they mean the effective
acquisition
of skills (as revealed, say, by the test scores in the OECD’s standardized PISA exam).
Everything must be done, even a unilateral military strike, to prevent or at least delay Iran’s
acquisition
of such a weapon.
If they don’t, Uber will become an
acquisition
target or, worse, a zombie company, unable to compete with more vital competitors that learn from it what not to do.
With investigative journalists getting into the act, land
acquisition
became a political land mine.
So any arrangement with European countries (presumably France and the UK) that are prepared to take the lead in Africa should include a commitment on their part to increase
acquisition
of this equipment.
In manufacturing and services (particularly software, business processing, etc.), respectively, China and India have made huge strides internationally, and their
acquisition
of global companies has attracted considerable attention.
Prices should pass on to end users the full cost not only of production and acquisition, but also of the damage – including air pollution and climate change – caused by intensive reliance on fossil fuels.
But China’s development and
acquisition
of advanced weapons, including precision anti-ship missiles, makes it implausible that the US can maintain its forces’ decades-long invulnerability in the region, including the ability to operate with impunity near China’s shores.
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