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Thousands of names fell out of the history, people’s deeds were “passed” to others, and the nature, motives, and activities of parties, groups, national movements, and classes were distorted.
There’s a diffuse but gradually sharpening trend for people to manage their own information online – not just their finances at Mint or Wesabe, but also their book preferences at Amazon, cellphone records (Skydeck), physical activities (Nike, Garmin, and the like), friendships and friends’ activities (Facebook/Friendfeed and others), travel (Dopplr and TripIt), health (Polka.com),
Similarly, the smart phone has shaped the minds of young people, who barely remember what it was like before addictive activities – from video games to social media – were constantly at their fingertips.
According to one recent study, recreational computer activities partly explain a decline in labor supply among men ages 21 to 30.
While their activities and clientele are steadily increasing, many of the results currently are of only limited value for determining physical and behavioral characteristics or risks of common diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and depression.
That is why the bureaucracy must be given incentives – higher salaries, clear performance indicators, and awareness that abuses of power will not be tolerated – to abandon the micro-management of market activities.
The effects of their activities can be seen in the conduct of foreign policy and in attempts to mobilize votes against the government.
Russia has not been the only beneficiary of its activities in the Caucasus, especially since 2000.
The impact would be to require a bank carrying out retail activities in the UK to put them in a separately capitalized subsidiary.
Such a doctrine could include classified war plans; but it should center on a much broader range of twenty-first-century maritime activities, some of which should include China (such as the ongoing counter-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden and some military exercises in the Pacific).
To reintegrate these fighters into the productive economy will require a change in policies, including a rapid reactivation of rural development schemes and the promotion of local entrepreneurship, public works, and other legal activities.
Fifth, ensure that such aid moves quickly from short-run humanitarian purposes – to save lives and feed those giving up war – to reconstruction activities aimed at creating investment, productivity growth, and the sustainable employment that will enable people to live dignified lives.
The independence of the central bank and the “no overdraft” rule for budget financing will almost certainly prove too restrictive to carry out critical peace-supporting activities in Afghanistan.
The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the profit and loss statement of any central bank – or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.
In addition to removing the damaging specter of the fiscal cliff – a potentially disruptive economic hindrance equivalent to some 4% of GDP, in the form of excessively blunt spending cuts and across-the-board tax increases – greater political effectiveness would serve to remove other uncertainties that inhibit certain economic activities.
Consistent with what the social-network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society’s penchant for unlocking the “cognitive surplus” embedded in net-based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online – a full hour longer than the average 15-49-year-old Chinese citizen spends watching television.
Already, criticism of China’s territorial grabs focuses on dissuading its leaders from further expansionary activities, rather than on forcing it to vacate the seven reefs and outcroppings it has already turned into nascent military outposts in the South China Sea.
For example, when UPS complained to Brussels about Deutsche Post cross-subsidizing its courier services the Commission limited the remedy to imposing an accounting separation between the market and non-market activities of the German Post Office, something very different from a break-up.
To be sure, Iran’s accelerating uranium enrichment program and associated nuclear- and missile-related activities warrant concern.
In Iran, a similar pattern has emerged: Western sanctions have cast the Revolutionary Guard, with all of its seedy economic activities, in the role of organized crime.
Most observers categorize the economy’s most modern and dynamic activities – and many of its high-paying jobs – among the latter activities.
Their behavior is usually viewed as kleptocratic, though Putin has used his legislative authority to ensure that many of their dubious activities are technically legal.
In general, Western governments do not really exert much control over such activities within their borders.
All candid accounts indicate their internal incentives are not much changed, and restrictions on their activities are unlikely to prove effective as global growth picks up.
But there are two radically different attitudes regarding Belarus’s participation in European activities.
Time for a Boardroom ReckoningLONDON – Gone are the days when annual general meeting season – the time of year when executives and directors of publicly traded companies gather to report on their activities, accounts, and plans to shareholders – went by unnoticed.
Most people engaged in these activities would respond with answers like, “because I like to” or, “because it fulfills me,” if not, “I feel obliged not to waste my talent.”
Citizens who can help to shape their country’s public policies through elections and other legal political activities are less likely to resort to extra-constitutional means.
As a result, they are finding it hard to “pay for” the tax cuts with any reduction in tax expenditures (incentives for various activities such as corporate borrowing, mortgage financing, or retirement saving).
Saying No to the WarmongersNEW YORK – The accord struck in Vienna to rein in Iran’s nuclear activities has warmongers fulminating.
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