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The aggressive United States-led counter-narcotics policy of crop eradication has failed to win the support of Afghans, because it has triggered a
chain
reaction of poverty and violence in which poor farmers, with their only livelihood destroyed, are unable to feed their families.
Eastern philosophy has no counterpart to Plato's "great
chain
of being," which places humans above all other animals.
The effects of that duty will radiate throughout the supply chain, hitting the 4,200 employees of Bombardier UK.
That promises to boost their own growth while creating space for the Chinese economy to move up the value chain, where productivity and wages – important determinants of consumption – are higher.
And, as advanced economies become more competitive, and as China moves up the value chain, more inputs are being sourced within countries.
The strengthening of the value
chain
not only raises farmers’ incomes, but also empowers crop diversification and farm upgrading more generally.
If Basel becomes a talking shop, without the ability to set firm standards, another key link in the
chain
will be broken, and it will be harder for the UK to argue that if London’s banks meet international standards, they should be granted equal treatment in the EU.
At the same time, the complex
chain
of command envisaged for an AU-UN force recalls some of the worst features of NATO-UN operations in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s.
Through experimentation, adaptation, and evolution – a process that has been described as “crossing the river by feeling the stones” – China has been able to evolve a higher-order, or fifth, supply
chain
in political decision-making.
Kerr described what he called “supply
chain
attacks” in which hackers not only steal proprietary information, but go further and insert erroneous data and programs in communications hardware and software – Trojan horses that can be used to bring down systems.
Many in the military or the intelligence services now fear criminal liability for actions they took at the behest of those at the top of the
chain
of command.
But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the
chain
of commission goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the
chain
of command.
Efforts to improve global education outcomes, by contrast, are handicapped by complexities along the entire value
chain
of investment and lack well-funded financing institutions capable of driving global education diplomacy.
It reduced the ability of businesses and banks to service their debt, and might trigger a
chain
of big bankruptcies that would destroy confidence in the financial system, providing further incentives to hoard.
With his “Made in China 2025” policy, Chinese President Xi Jinping is moving his country up the global value chain, in the hope of becoming a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies.
Indeed, it is raising the specter of a
chain
reaction by invoking the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, and threatening to punish any restructuring by cutting banks’ access to liquidity.
The aim here is to encourage the transfer of production capacity to other countries, in order to strengthen the “global industrial chain” in mutually beneficial ways.
A Grexit-induced
chain
reaction would be significantly less likely.
A human
chain
was formed, with participants wearing white tops.
Wilson, Hitler, and Obama are linked by a
chain
of highly permissive association altogether typical of conspiracy theorizing in general, and of its anti-Semitic variety in particular: Wilson was a “progressive”; some progressives dabbled in eugenics (never mind that some conservatives did as well); the eugenics movement influenced Hitler;Obama, too, is a progressive.
Denmark’s attenuated membership has been a ball and
chain
for Danes ever since.
Aside from abandoning the “one-child” policy, China could avoid this outcome by climbing the value
chain
in manufacturing and services, as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan have done.
Vietnam has based its growth on rapid industrialization, enabled by integration into a regional value
chain
centered in China.
Washington must find a Syrian military leader known for his pan-Arab bona fides to take charge of the FSA and mold it into a cohesive fighting force with a strong
chain
of command.
In the drug supply chain, women are most commonly found at the bottom, often acting as “mules.”
Five years from now, Europe will be reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1, which led to a loss of life almost without parallel and set in motion a
chain
of events that led to the creation of Europe as we now know it.
Currently, these seven industries account for 3% of Chinese GDP; the government is targeting a 15% share by 2020, a significant move up the value
chain.
We urge the Russian government to break this
chain
of human tragedy once and for all.
The prices of structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations have come down, because the institutional fraud of a multi-fold
chain
of securitizations has been detected.
The minerals and rare-earth elements that we exploit to build ingenious devices – extending our bodies and minds – are also a part of this rhythm, and are accessible only because of a great
chain
of circumstances, from planetary origins to plate tectonics and asteroid impacts.
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