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Behind them, however, Libyan Military Intelligence, headed by Abdullah al-Sanosi, was giving conditional support and setting the general direction for their activities.
Instead, they tend to outsource activities like grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning.
And in 2008, the party narrowly escaped being shut down by the country’s top court for “anti-secular activities.”
Some commercial-banking activities are closer to securities trading.
As for the environment, human activities have already impacted every ecosystem on Earth, with far-reaching consequences – for us and many other species – many of which are yet to unfold.
The wealthy G8 nations – which alone can afford to invest in such an ambitious worldwide project – together spend several hundred million dollars a year on global conservation activities.
Exactly what they will do with (or to) the federal Environmental Protection Agency remains to be seen, but the initial signs are that scientific researchers will be muzzled or their activities shut down.
Because they have a double cultural capital, they can circulate relatively freely between different activities and spaces--home, school, youth associations, and urban leisure space.
The problem is that many older activities – be it driving in difficult conditions on a mountain road or taking on a complex legal case – are a source of fulfillment for countless people, because they provide opportunities to confront difficult, intrinsically motivated challenges.
Soon, those activities, like plowing a medieval field, may be lost forever.
They must expand into other avenues of appeal: public hearings, welfare lawsuits, enhanced media coverage, and other voluntary activities.
Because most crime syndicates that are involved in the drug business also engage in other illegal activities – like smuggling goods, weapons, and people – law enforcement officials must focus on fighting organized crime in all its facets, including corruption and money laundering.
In the case of nascent democracies, the formula that is now often made compulsory is this: lift all bans on political activities, liberalize the media, hold elections (the sooner, the better), resolve all minority issues in favor of the minorities, abandon trade barriers, and rid the country of corruption, preferably overnight.
But the more tainted the market's reputation for fairness, the more average citizens will see income differences merely as the result of corruption, illegal activities, connections with public officials, and so on.
So, for reasons of Realpolitik, India expanded its activities and investments in Burma throughout the last two decades of the junta’s rule.
For example, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust sharply rejected divestment in 2013; the purpose of Harvard’s endowment, she argued, is to finance the university’s academic activities.
Moreover, there must be greater balance between capital-intensive and labor-intensive activities.
Third, foreign direct investment (FDI) helps American companies acquire some inputs at less cost, while engaging in more research and development and other activities.
FDI also often helps save jobs in the US, when firms facing competition from abroad must choose between offshoring their unskilled-labor activities and going out of business.
These issues require attention now, and an integral part of the EU’s search for new global strategies should be to invite, rather than avoid, criticism of its activities.
A low return on investment could be the result of demand-side factors, related to, say, income distribution or financial-sector activities.
Pigments, probably used in symbolic activities such as tattooing or body painting, are found at Southern African sites since 300,000 years, but also at contemporaneous and more recent Neanderthal sites in Europe.
A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and risky energy-exploration activities by making them unprofitable.
If the IMF reoriented a substantial portion of its activities towards influencing the influential among the world’s public, it could have far more impact on global macroeconomic policy, especially policies followed by countries that do not need its loans, than it does today.
The IMF’s expression of its economic views to local publics should then be protected by international agreement, much like embassies and their activities.
At the same time, the speed of technological innovation is outpacing that of legislation, meaning that corporate activities are routinely entering seemingly gray areas devoid of regulation.
Most important, all of these activities should be continuous and not limited to election years.
At present, a web of legislation – including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines, and the Fish Stocks Agreement, as well as the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals – governs activities that may affect biodiversity on the high seas.
But the main challenge facing the World Bank consists in defining its mission and core activities.
They are denied rehabilitation and recreational activities.
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