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No matter how much encouragement Western powers give them, the protests seem all but certain to end with Islamist hardliners retaining their power bases and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps retaining control of most of the state’s assets and security activities.
The most interesting remaining argument for unequal treatment relates to activities for which there is a premium on physical qualities, as in sport.
But, as a result of human activities, planetary biodiversity is now declining faster than at any point in history.
Here, the only explanation still standing is the shift in the composition of activity away from capital-intensive forms of production, like manufacturing, to less capital-intensive activities, like services.
One measure of this deficiency is rates of borrowing; in East Africa, where my organization works, women borrow 13% less money for farm-related activities than men do.
With 173 countries having ratified the Biological Warfare Convention, states that wish to develop such weapons must do so secretly, and face widespread international condemnation if evidence of their activities becomes known.
The Commission’s decision to cut their CO2 emissions quotas may lead investors in desperately needed development projects to move outside of the EU, to countries with weaker environmental regulations, where their activities would contribute to higher global emissions.
More ominously, China ramped up its South China Sea activities in spite of the tribunal’s proceedings, vowing long ago to ignore any ruling that invalidated its claims.
As individuals, we ask, If others are not going to restrain their activities, why should I?Governments use the same logic, and this makes it difficult to agree upon effective biodiversity conventions to sustain vanishing resources.
Likewise, German legal scholars interpret the ECB’s activities as being incompatible with European treaty provisions that prohibit bailouts and monetary financing of the debt of eurozone members.
It is clear that for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, the start of indirect talks without freezing settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory.
Stubbornly refusing to talk face to face while settlement activities are not completely frozen has focused attention on what many believe is the crux of Israel’s colonial occupation regime.
Money put into banks and other financial intermediaries (such as pension and insurance funds) can finance productive activities or short-term speculation (for example, consumer loans and real estate).
The risk is that fully satisfying all the myriad demands for public services would require a public sector so big that it might well crowd out innovative activities in the private sector.
But responding with tighter regulation at the federal level seems premature, even for these specific activities – let alone for the broader tech sector.
Amazon is a powerful and rising company, spanning multiple activities – now including grocery stores and the delivery of fresh food.
Other digital-based companies, such as Google and Apple, are very strong in specific activities.
It refers to how a bank (or other firm) finances its activities, not to how it uses the funds that it has available.
In the long run, as labor shortages become acute, China will need to relinquish some low-end, labor-intensive manufacturing activities, which will translate into decelerating export performance and lower economic growth.
And maquila (assembly and re-export) activities are much sparser than in El Salvador or the Dominican Republic, let alone Mexico.
A bold innovation suddenly lowers entry barriers for certain activities.
Regulators will also likely lag initially in their response to new structures and activities.
In April, Ann Wagner, a Republican congresswoman, introduced a bill “to prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from issuing rules requiring the disclosure of an issuer’s expenditures for political activities.”
In the interest of defusing tensions, the US should scale back its monitoring activities within China’s EEZs and rely more on less obviously intrusive means.
Financial regulators' activities focus on maintaining the integrity of a country's financial system: its financial institutions and financial transactions.
Think of the myriad activities in which a one-second warning would be useful or even lifesaving.
Similarly, Belgium’s Flanders region and Scandinavia show how governments can use their procurement activities more intelligently, orienting private-sector research and development toward technological innovation.
It is perplexing because in conventional analyses of which activities should be in the public domain, running the national mortgage market is never mentioned.
In the absence of international competition regulations to prevent predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities, trade defenses are a second-best option.
And, indeed, today’s prosperous and innovative tech giants now face the prospect of redoubled efforts to regulate and tax their activities.
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