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The body releases glutamate during physical activity to enable motor neurons to fire more often.
The Fed has pursued its strategy of low long-term interest rates in the hope of stimulating economic activity.
The level of entrepreneurial activity in the country as a whole doubled as a result, but the response was very different from one municipality to another.
Investors are talking of “green shoots” of recovery and of positive “second derivatives of economic activity” (continuing economic contraction is the first, negative, derivative, but the slower rate suggests that the bottom is near).
Trump also denies any link between human activity and climate change, again bucking the overwhelming scientific consensus.
It offers opportunities to meet challenges that call on a variety of skills, both physical and mental; but the challenges are intrinsic to the activity and do not involve beating an opponent.
But when we make surfing competitive, a recreational activity in which millions of people can happily participate is transformed into a spectator sport to be watched, for most, on a screen.
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter attributed the boom-and-bust cycles of the 19th century to periodic bursts of "creative destruction" followed by lulls in innovative activity.
This means that we should view the economy and society not as rigid hierarchies or mechanical markets, but as networks or webs of life, in which contracts, formal and informal, fulfilled or violated, are the essence of human activity.
Any such conflict would involve massive loss of life and trigger a large regional, perhaps global, contraction in economic activity.
Since the Industrial Revolution began, human activity has substantially changed the atmosphere’s composition.
In other words, financial markets are responding to environment-related risks and opportunities, but far too slowly to halt, let alone reverse, the potentially catastrophic damage being wrought by human activity.
After World War II, however, long swings in economic activity continued, while only moderate price and inflation patterns emerged.
As the world’s center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.
But the more important question for the traditional financial centers is whether international activity that can move really is moving.
Indeed, the location of financial activity has changed through the centuries.
The successors to those dictators, however, found this turn of events to be an unwanted complication in their political “thaws”; more sophisticated mechanisms to induce fear among their peoples were needed, and there are few deterrents to dissident activity more potent than the threat of removal to an institution for the criminally insane.
And, as it happens, a UK parliamentary committee has just seized internal Facebook emails showing that the company may have known about malicious Russian activity on its platform as far back as 2014.
In the post-war period, the advanced economies used their position to set the rules for global economic activity.
A reflection of this contradictory mindset is a surge in private activity to address social problems.
The shops and office buildings are bustling with activity.
India’s economic activity in Africa goes far beyond its ever popular Bollywood movies.
Evict the state from direct economic activity, curb its discretionary powers, and both economic efficiency and governance will improve.
But one is clear: if a government activity is to be privatized or eliminated, do it completely.
While the debate about China’s near-term outlook should hardly be trivialized, the far bigger story is its economy’s solid progress on the road to rebalancing – namely, a structural shift away from manufacturing and construction activity toward services.
And the gap is continuing to widen – services activity grew 8.4% year on year in the first half of 2015, far outstripping the 6.1% growth in manufacturing and construction.
Austerity in Europe has confirmed the International Monetary Fund’s warning that overdoing fiscal consolidation weakens economic activity, undermines market confidence, and diminishes popular support for adjustment.
The right to equality would exist in all areas of activity regulated by domestic, international or regional law.
What many analysts still see as a temporary bubble, pumped up by artificial and unsustainable monetary stimulus, is maturing into a structural expansion of economic activity, profits, and employment that probably has many more years to run.
Monetary stimulus was often compared to an illegal performance drug, which would produce a brief rebound in economic activity and asset prices, inevitably followed by a slump once the artificial stimulus was withdrawn or even just reduced.
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