Calls
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Start with the growing
calls
for greater social justice.
Yet the same
calls
to scale back America’s social commitments are heard.
As recently as the 1980’s, phone
calls
over copper wire could carry only one page of information per second; today, a thin strand of optical fiber can transmit 90,000 volumes in a second.
Consider Strike Debt, an offshoot of the Occupy movement, which
calls
itself “a nationwide movement of debt resisters fighting for economic justice and democratic freedom.”
One of Strike Debt’s initiatives, “Rolling Jubilee,” crowd-sources funds to buy up and extinguish debt, a process that it
calls
“collective refusal.”
In addition to pledging to liberalize exchange and interest rates, the final document also
calls
for allowing domestic private capital to form small and medium-size banks.
Likewise, though the document
calls
for strengthening local legislatures, it proposes no concrete plan to curb local governments’ role in economic activities, which is one of the sources of distortions in the Chinese economy.
Early
calls
in many countries to dismantle the state have given way to more sophisticated assessments.
For some reason – probably related to the nature of what NYU’s Jonathan Haidt
calls
our “righteous minds” – our moral sentiments are strongly related to feelings of empathy in the face of harm and unfairness.
But, while Suharto’s approach supported economic progress, critics charged that it betrayed the spirit of the 1945 constitution, which
calls
for Indonesia to play an active role in fostering world peace.
It is a brilliant assault on what the author, who is Lebanese, French, Arab and Christian,
calls
“the panthers” of identity politics.
One worry is about what the philosopher Margaret Olivia Little
calls "
cultural complicity."
Perhaps the hardest worry to pin down is what Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel
calls "
the drive to mastery."
The implications of all of this activity, which Clinton
calls
“twenty-first-century statecraft,” are profound.
The predominance of the right in the future European Parliament
calls
for some explanation.
It all seems as if, in the face of a crisis that
calls
into question decades of finance– driven capitalism and the dominance of free-market ideology, and despite widespread expectations of a revival of the welfare state, the social-democratic ideal has failed to convince a majority of Europeans that it can provide effective solutions.
They believe that responding to
calls
for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.
But protectionist pressures are building as weary politicians hear more and more
calls
for economic nationalism.
Likewise, proclaimed support for disparate, barely-known rebel groups; demands for dead-on-arrival sanctions resolutions; feckless
calls
for Assad’s departure (as if he plans to take the advice); and half-baked ideas about enforced “safe areas” (an utter failure in Bosnia) are unlikely to spare many lives, much less bring about the endgame that is so desperately needed.
In keeping with its commitment to the 2º C cap on the rise in global temperature, CELAC not only supports a legally binding agreement, but also
calls
for wealthy countries to meet their promises to provide developing countries with $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020.
CELAC seeks rules to ensure the transparency and verification of countries’ climate actions, and
calls
on developed countries to increase their technology transfer and capacity-building efforts to support its member countries.
The Iranian government’s intransigence, its blatant efforts to mislead nuclear inspectors, its odious
calls
for the destruction of Israel, its brutal repression of political opponents – all provide good reason for Obama to slam the door shut on dialogue.
The roadmap
calls
upon the Palestinians to take steps that would bring violence to an end.
Yet the wall and the second phase of the roadmap, which
calls
for a Palestinian state with provisional borders, cannot co-exist.
This is because the second phase, which still has to be achieved,
calls
for a Palestinian state with contiguous but provisional borders.
He becomes upset if he
calls
and I don't answer.
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin
calls.
Despite the attractiveness of traditional Russian culture and Putin’s
calls
to boost Russian soft power, his bullying behavior has sown mistrust.
There are
calls
for the Democrats to fight back.
China 2030
calls
for structural reforms that would redefine the role of government, overhaul state-owned enterprises and banks, develop the private sector, promote competition, and deepen liberalization of the land, labor, and financial markets.
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