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When the truth is unimaginable, human psychology finds an alternative reality in which to dwell.
The deeper problem in the UK is that there is no alternative.
Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds.
Alternative energy sources such as solar and wind create significantly more expensive fuel and electricity than traditional energy sources.
In addition to job creation, some researchers have blithely claimed that all sorts of other economic benefits will accrue from investment in alternative energy, including increased productivity, higher disposable incomes, and lower operating costs for businesses.
(For Iceland in the fall of 2008, for example, the only alternative to IMF financing was to eat locally obtained goods, which mostly means fish.)
As long as each remains convinced that no alternative to cooperation exists within the EU, and that European cooperation remains a priority for both, it should not be overly difficult to restore their leadership.
The alternative, a targeted tax holiday, constitutes a welcome break with the culture of “time off,” and an encouragement to those who, as Sarkozy’s campaign slogan put it, want to “work more in order to earn more.”
To pose these questions is to conclude that there is no practical alternative to a European FSA with the sole authority to supervise multinational financial institutions, including all their subsidiaries and branches within the EU and globally.
From a model applicable to the minority of the world’s population, “Western consumer society” is becoming the dominant economic model of the world, one to which there is increasingly no alternative.
Putin’s recent public statements point to such a vision: a dominant center-right ruling party, with a (non-communist) social democratic alternative waiting in the wings to maintain stable government should the main party falter.
Now imagine the alternative and ask yourself: Which world do I want to live in?
Merkel, too, has become the central figure in a changing Christian Democratic Union party, which lacks alternative leaders.
The euro has been touted as the replacement for or alternative to the dollar.
But there is an alternative that could help us get past this political divisiveness: using data to help us focus on the policies and investments that would have the biggest positive impact on society.
Reform, after all, implies that traditional norms and institutions may have already been discredited, but that alternative structures have yet to be firmly established.
Larger dividends paid to the budget from the highly profitable state-enterprise sector could also provide an alternative source of funds.
Before he turns to lying as an instrument of statecraft, he should consider the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, and whether the deception can be contained or is likely to establish a pattern.
If they back Tung unconditionally for the rest of his term, they can look forward to the collapse of their long-term strategy to re-absorb Taiwan, for the alternative to peaceful reunification with Taiwan is coercion.
These institutions represent a viable alternative to the extremes of capitalism that have given rise to morally reprehensible practices, from predatory lending and market manipulation in the financial sector to tech companies’ abuse of personal data and emissions cheating in the automobile industry.
In the absence of formal enforcement powers, the pragmatic alternative is to develop mechanisms for monitoring implementation of standards on an ongoing basis, and to incorporate systematic, impartial peer reviews.
According to Summers, high savings caused weak growth; under the alternative explanation offered here, it was primarily rapid growth – and its distinctive features – that drove high savings.
In such situations, the playwright Bertolt Brecht once quipped ironically, the only alternative is to “dissolve the people and elect another.”
Arrogance of this sort cuts a party off from its actual supporters, who then find it easier to search, and to find, a viable alternative.
The alternative is a wall of instability in what is, after all, Europe’s neighborhood.
More specifically, the law suggests a specific interest-rate rule (the Reference Policy Rule) while giving the Fed the opportunity to adopt a different rule if it explains to Congress why it prefers the alternative.
What, though, is the alternative?
Implementing a Marshall Plan-type initiative by mobilizing EU budget resources and additional lending by the European Investment Bank to finance investments in weaker countries could be an alternative, but it lacks political support.
But then, on February 27, the Financial Times reported that the Polish government was sounding out the possibility of presenting an alternative candidate, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, an MEP from Civic Platform, the party Tusk founded.
The most the PiS, for its part, can hope for is that some coalition of countries (for example, those ruled by Social Democrats) will propose another alternative to Tusk, whom EU member states will elect in order to avoid escalating the conflict with Poland.
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