Bullet
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In a country where rail passengers cannot even expect a clean toilet, let alone an on-time arrival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken of introducing
bullet
trains – the latest in a string of irrationally grandiose aspirations.
Of course, no magic
bullet
will do away with the forces that divide India.
Development zones cannot be a silver
bullet.
Uncertain governments in the region think oil as a magic
bullet
with which to buy prosperity and social peace without hard work and risky reforms.
Unfortunately, thus far, there is no sign that the crisis countries, above all France, are ready to bite the
bullet.
Technological solutions like artificial intelligence are not a silver
bullet.
Houses are riddled with
bullet
holes.
And new research for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, the think tank I direct, highlights the counter-intuitive fact that equipping classrooms with additional textbooks or computers is no educational silver bullet, either.
The third development involves the emergence (and promise) of new technologies that make the prospect of intercepting ballistic missiles at one or another stage of their flight – hitting a
bullet
with a
bullet
– more real than ever before.
Having been sold on gene drives as a possible magic bullet, farming organizations such as the California Cherry Board and the US Citrus Research Board are collaborating with Agragene Inc., the world’s first agricultural gene-drive company.
In the United States, you can buy a gun and put a
bullet
through your brain without breaking any laws.
While France has dodged the xenophobic
bullet
this time, the dust has not yet settled.
Whistling Past the Geopolitical GraveyardNEW YORK – With Emmanuel Macron’s defeat of the right-wing populist Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, the European Union and the euro have dodged a
bullet.
The failure of other ‘magic bullet’ cures for development should make everyone pause before placing unbounded faith in what the Internet can deliver.
From
bullet
trains to the Mars rover, humanity has an insatiable appetite for pushing boundaries and breaking records.
She pointed out that no reputable economists today regard a simple monetary-policy rule as a magic
bullet
for avoiding depressions and inflationary spirals, whereas many once did.
Governments and the energy industry have long framed CCS as a silver
bullet
for climate change, and thus as a perfect excuse for postponing meaningful reductions in fossil-fuel use.
Alas, there is no single or silver
bullet.
But fostering innovation is not a silver
bullet.
While the high court decision and the appeal to the electorate means that Turkish democracy has dodged a
bullet
for now, the progress of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations has been further slowed.
In the Eastern Province, a good start has been made, with former terrorists now winning through the ballot box and not the
bullet.
Then there are the joeys; as many as 800,000 die each year, usually clubbed to death by shooters who don’t want to waste another
bullet.
The US obsession with renminbi appreciation as the silver
bullet
for the bilateral trade imbalance has merely diverted attention from addressing its real causes.
But bioplastics are not a silver
bullet
for managing plastics waste.
Like most Americans, China’s leaders believe that the US will ultimately dodge the
bullet
of an outright default.
But, until now, the gun’s cylinder never stopped on the
bullet.
Unfortunately, no one, certainly not in Asia or the United States, seems willing to bite the
bullet
and help engineer the necessary coordinated retreat to sustained sub-trend growth, which is necessary so that new commodity supplies and alternatives can catch up.
During a recent panel discussion in Russia, for example, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that although China and India are at odds over borders, it was remarkable that “in the last 40 years, not a single
bullet
has been fired because of [it].”
But could such an approach really be the proverbial silver
bullet
for Greece’s crisis?
But if there is one thing that the search for solutions has made clear, it is that there is no silver
bullet.
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