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Another prisoner, Raymond Azar, testified that ten FBI
agents
had abducted him, shown him photos of his family, and told him that if he didn't “cooperate,” he would never see them again.
Principals, be they investors or voters, determine the incentives of agents, be they asset managers or elected officials and policymakers.
If principals misunderstand systemic risk, their agents, even if they do understand it, may not be able to respond without losing support, whether in the form of votes or assets under management.
As soon as we abandon the fiction that economic
agents
are Robinson Crusoes, absolute needs turn out to be indistinguishable from relative needs, because the goods that satisfy our needs change.
Since then, Russia’s government has unilaterally declared 88 organizations to be “foreign agents” – a term that sounds a lot like “spy.”
After all, Milosevic’s critics and political rivals such as the journalist Slavko Curuvija and Milosevic’s former mentor, Ivan Stambolic, were assasinated by Serb police agents, who also tried three times to murder the opposition leader Vuk Draskovic.
Moreover, in a list of “trusted professions” compiled by the Global Trust Report last year, German politicians came in dead last – well behind insurance
agents
and advertising specialists.
And, given such blatant disregard for the international order, it is no surprise that Putin's
agents
have been implicated in the murder of at least one opponent on the streets of London.
Allowing the use of chemical weapons to go unpunished not only could reverse one of the few promising developments in the Syrian conflict; it also threatens to undermine international norms on the use of toxic gas and nerve agents, increasing the possibility that they will be used in terrorist attacks.
Work to clarify certain aspects of the government’s initial declaration about its weapons program is ongoing; but 1,300 metric tons of chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard and precursors for deadly nerve agents, have been accounted for and destroyed under the watchful eyes of OPCW inspectors.
Manufacturing nerve
agents
is a complex process, but extremists can easily deploy toxic industrial chemicals – such as chlorine gas – if they have them in their possession.
The threat that toxic gas or nerve
agents
will be deployed in a conflict between countries has been all but eliminated.
Here are judges, they will say, who do not understand that they have no legitimate qualifications to act as
agents
of American foreign policy, a job committed by the Constitution to the President and (they may grudgingly admit) Congress.
A few major drug seizures by a professional group of counter-narcotics
agents
would make drug traffickers change their perception of West Africa as a low risk/high benefit transit route.
And yet there is another way to view nomads: as survivors, entrepreneurs, providers, and
agents
of transformation.
Piping clean water without improving sanitation can in some cases actually exacerbate the spread of infectious
agents.
That is how Brazil developed a regulatory framework that has enabled banks to build a network of 95,000 banking
agents.
If the government’s
agents
break privacy laws, at home or abroad, the Department of Justice should prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
He rejects the Colombian model, which would put American advisers, instructors, mechanics, agents, and maintenance personnel on the ground in Mexico.
Moreover, both Kushner, who has been accused of attempting to set up a back channel for secure communication between the White House and the Kremlin, and Ivanka would be subject to prosecution if they were found to have engaged in illegal communications or activities with Russian
agents
or officials.
In particular, recognition of the rights of parliament – of a representative assembly – ensured that the
agents
of the creditor classes would have permanent control of the budgetary process.
And they interact with drugs that patients may be taking for other long-term conditions, such as chemotherapy
agents
and immunosuppressants.
Second, because expats are usually the least satisfied with the status quo, Italy loses the most likely
agents
of change – those who would disrupt a stagnant economy and push the technology frontier outward.
Like other young people around them, they want to be the
agents
of their own destiny.
The post-war project of enlightened internationalism allowed multiple countries to align their interests as economic agents, and integrated states and markets.
The great waves of decolonization were just stirring; the few developing countries were seen as marginal players in the global system – not as central actors or
agents
of history.
Students of economics eager to escape from the skeletal world of optimizing
agents
into one of fully-rounded humans, set in their histories, cultures, and institutions will find Keynes’s economics inherently sympathetic.
Iran is already sending many
agents
into Iraq and supporting clients seeking to turn that country into a clone.
When they become the main
agents
of the Chinese economy – that is, when they reach middle age – China’s consumption landscape may be completely different, with the country acting as a global buyer, rather than a global seller.
Even in the United States – long admired for its robust free press, protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and powerful investigative journalism, which once brought down a president – President Donald Trump’s administration routinely attacks independent journalists, labeling them traitors, paid agents, and purveyors of “fake news.”
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