Alternative
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We must focus sharply on research and development to drive down
alternative
energy prices over coming decades.
It will not do simply to reaffirm the post-war European model of democracy, as if the only
alternative
were totalitarianism of one sort or another.
But there is another alternative: to detect in the prospect of answers without questions and choices, without deliberation or even thought, a path that will lead eventually only to more inhumanity, owing to the urges that may at any moment take hold of a people that senses itself withering away.
If the ties that have bound Europe together for two generations are fraying, what
alternative
bonds can be found?
According to the CBO’s
alternative
fiscal scenario, growth in Social Security is comparatively modest, from 4.8% of GDP in 2010 to 6.2% in 2035.
For example, if China took measures in a future crisis scenario to disrupt the buildup of American combat power in certain places and at certain times, the US would need to create
alternative
points of entry for its reinforcements, delaying its initial and follow-on responses.
Here as elsewhere, central bankers have no
alternative
but to consider the broader context and rely on their judgment.
Harrison’s
alternative
was “direct pressure” – that is, using the Fed’s regulatory powers and moral suasion to persuade member banks to curtail their lending to the stock market.
The immediate consequence of this week’s trial of strength is that the Member States will be compelled to offer the Parliament a more moderate
alternative
to the use of the "nuclear weapon".
The other is that they will resort to neither, and that no
alternative
growth engines will have been started, leading to an extended slowdown with unpredictable political consequences at home and serious economic consequences abroad.
Moreover,
alternative
approaches to stimulate private demand might have fewer undesirable distributional consequences, as MGI has discussed.
These tools, along with excessive fiscal austerity, may have higher costs in terms of foregone employment and growth – and rising political discontent – than “risky”
alternative
options.
The problem is a broader failure of market competition to give rise to
alternative
providers and underbid the fortunes demanded for their work by our current generation of mercantile princes.
Unfortunately, SME owners generally have trouble securing bank loans, and instead must turn to informal lending and
alternative
funding sources to support their businesses.
There are
alternative
drugs, such as prasugrel or ticagrelor, which can be used instead of Plavix to bypass the problem.
Should China cut off those supplies, under the legal fig leaf of “export restraint,” US companies would be unable, at least in the short term, to find
alternative
sources that could cover all of their needs.
Setting up a new, independent
alternative
dispute-resolution system outside the courts would cost something, but it would ensure quicker and more acceptable resolution of routine disputes.
Colombia has successfully implemented an
alternative
judicial system using “Community Boards” that deal with land title disputes.
Exiles living in the West know the
alternative
to the often stupefying spectacle of man in freedom.
As it happens, there is a more precise
alternative
to “resistance” that is rarely mentioned nowadays: civil disobedience.
They also recognized that they lacked the power to challenge the US-led security order or offer a feasible
alternative.
The
alternative
is an Asia left to its own devices – and an Asian century that is dominated by China or characterized by frequent bouts of diplomatic tension or even conflict.
But this situation cannot last forever; if the flow of funds slows, or alternative, higher-yielding assets become available, demand for government bonds could drop markedly.
They doubt that an
alternative
development strategy based on boosting domestic demand would succeed.
But its representatives missed a golden opportunity when US President Donald Trump, who might as well have written the chaos playbook, offered an
alternative
to the trade wars he himself launched: the complete dismantling of tariff barriers.
Looking ahead, the world economy will need to introduce
alternative
technologies that conserve energy, water, and land, or that enable us to use new forms of renewable energy (such as solar and wind power) at much lower cost than today.
One key problem is that the
alternative
technologies are often more expensive than the resource-depleting technologies now in use.
Since then, the country has been experimenting with an alternative, holistic approach to development that emphasizes not only economic growth, but also culture, mental health, compassion, and community.
In this sense, Europe has come to see itself, at least in part, as an
alternative
dream for everyone who had stopped dreaming about America.
For Germany, this will leave a gap that it cannot fill with
alternative
energy sources, leaving it little choice but to rely more heavily on coal power.
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