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Scientists and engineers who work on climate change stress that governments need to adopt two main responses.
But some other countries sloughing off the skin of communism are only too ready to adopt a new history--even one based on fancy and invention--to suit current needs.
The Brexit vote is no more irreversible than any other election or referendum, provided the EU is willing to adopt some modest reforms.
It is imperative to adopt a more holistic approach to both of these problems.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
China's government may well adopt a new Hong Kong policy after the election.
But to shift from clear-cut goals like “zero emissions,” “full decarbonization,” and “100% renewable energy” to the far hazier objective of net-zero emissions is to adopt a dangerous stance.
As experience in the telecommunications sector shows, the ability to adopt new technologies without first having to dismantle old systems can enable rapid progress.
It ensures that South Korea will adopt a defensive stance against its bellicose neighbor, which opens up the possibility that high-tech US anti-missile batteries will be deployed.
The visible and persistent failure of education systems to adopt exciting technological breakthroughs is a well-known example of this inertia.
Probably the most important task is to finalize the draft constitution by May 2012 in consultation with all Somali stakeholders, and to adopt it provisionally through a Constituent Assembly until conditions permit a referendum.
The UK must adopt a more balanced approach that gives each region the power to develop its economic potential and bridges the divide between the core and periphery.
Not only will the world adopt a new set of goals to achieve sustainable development, but it will also have a new global network of expertise to help achieve those vital objectives.
And it needs to adopt energy-saving technologies that consume less commercial energy.
Most of these new crop varieties are designed to resist herbicides, so that farmers can adopt more environmentally friendly, no-till cultivation practices, and many have also been engineered to resist pests and diseases that ravage crops.
The situation in Indonesia led the UN to adopt a new “cluster” system to improve coordination.
It is time to adopt a more comprehensive, integrated, and long-term approach to the management and planning of energy, water, and other resources, with a view toward broader environmental protection.
Meanwhile, China is able to adopt a modern version of Mao’s strategy to “encircle the cities from the countryside.”
The deep price cuts and improved service ushered in by these regulatory changes prompted other countries to adopt the American model.
Europe’s leaders should adopt that maxim as their motto: This is not the time for more Europe; it is a time for a Europe that fulfills its mandate.
So should every country adopt a recall procedure to maintain the legitimacy of governments?
First, we need to adopt a public health model for prevention of violence, spouse abuse, bullying, prejudice, and more that identifies vectors of social disease to be inoculated against.
Do you think the World Bank should do more to encourage countries to adopt core labor standards?
Alas, Europe’s political establishment, unwilling to adopt either option, has chosen to extend Greece’s insolvency – which it pretends has been resolved through new loan tranches.
By contrast, were the ECB to adopt decisive measures, it could reflate the entire eurozone and obviate the need for countries to act unilaterally.
Containment, not AppeasementAmerica and the world are focused on whether the Bush administration will adopt the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations for an exit strategy from Iraq.
From dirigiste France to communist China, countries with widely divergent economic models began to adopt a more laissez-faire policymaking approach, predicated on the idea that the less state intervention, the better.
Were China to adopt an exchange-rate regime characterized by a multiple-currency, basket-based reference rate with a reasonably wide band – a policy first proposed by Willem Thorbecke of the Asian Development Bank Institute – the huge surpluses generated within Asia’s production networks would cause the region’s currencies to appreciate together, instead of putting pressure on just one or two, as is happening today.
In the past, when women fought their way to the top of organizations, they often had to adopt a “masculine style,” violating the broader social norm of female “niceness.”
The government would adopt a two-year program consisting of only two items: the conclusion of a “soft” Brexit deal with the EU and a big public investment program in housing, infrastructure, and green energy.
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