Applied
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So far, though, that standard is not being
applied.
While Koo
applied
this framework to Japanese firms in Japan’s first lost decade of the 1990’s, it rings true for America’s crisis-battered consumers, who are still struggling with the lingering pressures of excessive debt loads, underwater mortgages, and woefully inadequate personal saving.
And his decision to accept North Korea’s invitation to hold bilateral talks on its nuclear program reflects the same “bring it on” attitude that he
applied
to the North’s earlier threats of war.
Yet the norm is not being
applied
widely enough.
The Supreme Court has declared that the death penalty should be
applied
only in the “rarest of the rare” cases.
Which country’s top judges have read the millions of pages of legislation or considered how they complement or contradict each other, much less
applied
them to the myriad different activities that comprise the economy?
Galina Arapova, the director of the Mass Media Defense Center (which has been targeted), has noted that the law can be
applied
whenever criticism is directed at entire groups or systems.
Sometimes, such laws can be
applied
in truly bizarre ways, just to hamper the workings of the news media.
The one law that is rarely
applied
is article 144 of the criminal code, which aims to protect journalists from harassment and other actions that obstruct their “lawful professional activities.”
Their vague wording allows them to be
applied
in a selective and arbitrary manner, and press-freedom advocates that seek to challenge the status quo are coming under increased scrutiny.
The granting of the pardon power reflected concerns among the US Constitution’s framers that the criminal code would be
applied
in a draconian manner, producing a surfeit of punishment.
In the first Internet revolution, the acceleration in productivity growth that started in the technology sector spread to the overall economy only many years later, as business- and consumer-facing applications of the new digital tools were
applied
in the production of goods and services far removed from the tech sector.
Macroeconomics may be the only
applied
field within economics in which more training puts greater distance between the specialist and the real world, owing to its reliance on highly unrealistic models that sacrifice relevance to technical rigor.
But even in microeconomics, where it is sometimes possible to generate precise empirical estimates using randomization techniques, the results must be extrapolated in order to be
applied
in other settings.
Much more worrying, however, is what lurks unmentioned behind the Treasury report: a serious legislative effort, supported by the Trump administration, to reduce the level of scrutiny
applied
to banks that are on the verge of becoming systemically important.
As could be expected, Che
applied
Soviet policies to the Cubans: agriculture was destroyed and ghost factories dotted the landscape.
In 1987, however, when Turkey
applied
for full membership of the European Community, the Commission gave it the thumbs down: Turkey was too poor and too populous (before the unification of Germany, it was bigger than any member state); its human rights record was unacceptable; and it was disqualified by its invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” could be
applied
to America’s Iran policy.
The connection between rape, male privilege, and female sexual vilification was one of the key insights of feminists in the 1970’s – an insight that they thought had been successfully
applied
to cultural debate about rape, and to law.
The study’s conclusions
applied
only to Germany, but its main findings were largely corroborated by a Gallup global survey.
Indeed, if the standards of domestic trade laws were
applied
internationally, perhaps a majority of firms within the US would be guilty of dumping.
What prompted the recent attacks, however, was the punitive transfer of an official who had made bigoted remarks to an interfaith couple when they
applied
for a passport.
Finally, provisions that target other central banks could also be
applied
against the US.
But it is important in those fields, both theoretical and applied, that might be used as an input in the production of new technologies: physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, etc.
For most of the twentieth century, this framework
applied
only to a core group of countries; but with the end of the Cold War, it was suddenly available to all.
First, the idea of a Japanese-style “lost decade” is misleading – even when
applied
to Japan.
Moreover, different methods of collecting consumer prices yield different results, depending on how housing costs are treated and the hedonic adjustment
applied.
Such targets could potentially be
applied
to credit, interest rates, exchange rates, asset and commodity prices, risk premiums, and/or intermediate-goods prices.
When that, too, proved ineffective at promoting competition, as countries used their national rules to block new entrants, the emphasis switched to maximum harmonization, with directives spelling out exactly how local rules must be
applied
across the EU.
These types of approaches – what I call “all good things go together” policies – could be
applied
to other sectors of the economy that are being squeezed by imperfect competition.
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