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Proprietary rights for commercial firms over the most basic element of an individual’s genetic identity should not be enforceable.
He later lent himself to a spot in a tv commercial, promoting vegetarianism, in which his line was that though he only ate fruit and vegetables what he really liked was "eating politicians for breakfast".
For example, stricter loan-to-value-ratio limits and higher capital requirements for banks could slow credit growth when housing or commercial real-estate markets are overheating.
It also has a long-term national interest in increased regional stability, not least because it would help to stem the tide of refugees – already numbering two million – flowing into the country, while opening up more commercial opportunities nearby.
Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries’ bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.
This rendered potentially insolvent commercial banks, whose balance sheets were loaded with such bonds, giving rise to Europe’s twin sovereign-debt and banking crisis.
The islands, claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, are valuable because of their oil reserves and commercial fishing industry.
Indeed, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that about 10% of organ transplants around the world stem from purely commercial transactions.
Would the US respond with sanctions if the cyber attack on Sony had come from a foreign competitor in a commercial dispute?
Over time, even legitimate actors will find alternative commercial and financial channels if they come to feel that dollar access is conditional on not running afoul of US interests.
The Chinese also see the commercial equivalent of containment in the US-proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes Japan but excludes China.
Several other large commercial buildings surrounding the Twin Towers were also destroyed.
But inflated architectural ambitions and commercial rapaciousness are a part of New York City, and it would have been naive to have imagined that the redevelopment wouldn’t reflect this.
Indeed, in the commercial banking sector, 41% of Hong Kong dollar claims on banks outside Hong Kong are to banks located on the Chinese mainland.
So today mainland companies handle about 25% of Hong Kong's foreign trade and own a large portfolio of Hong Kong's commercial buildings.
Bretton Woods retains a powerful fascination, with at least three recent books on the subject having achieved considerable commercial success.
According to the five European companies involved in the project (each with a 10% stake), their partnership with Russia’s Gazprom (which owns the remaining 50%) is simply a commercial business initiative.
Probably a significant majority of Africans have at least emergency access to a cell phone, either their own, a neighbor’s, or one at a commercial kiosk.
On the fully commercial side, the mobile revolution is creating a logistics revolution in farm-to-retail marketing.
And, by continuing to allow payments of tax arrears to be made in BE, while prescribing FE as a separate, harder currency uniquely able to extinguish commercial bank debt, Europe’s authorities acknowledged that Greece now has two euros.
It also requires the courage to step out of the world of pragmatic power and defend -- non-violently -- truth and justice wherever they are violated, whether or not profitable commercial contracts are placed at risk.
It could also undermine its own commercial interests in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, which sits astride China’s energy-import lifeline.
Moreover, Xi announced that China will issue $55 billion in loans to the Middle East, including a $15 billion special loan for industrialization, $10 billion in commercial loans to boost production capacity, and $10 billion in concessional loans.
Japan appears to be acting not only for commercial reasons, but also according to its strategic interests.
Gorbachev's Living GhostPRINCETON: So, Mikhail Gorbachev has filmed a television commercial for Pizza Hut.
Even more revealing than Gorbachev’s presence in this commercial, however, is the notion that the advertisements will not be shown in Russia.
So before chuckling at the spectre of Gorbachev embracing commercial culture in those Pizza Hut ads, and wishing that he quietly disappear, we would do well to remember that it was Gorbachev who introduced today's emerging liberal political culture to Russia.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.
Commercial television programs aimed at children are replete with advertising for processed foods of dubious value to human health.
It is hard for non-profits to compete with the production values embodied in Beyoncé’s Pepsi commercial or Taylor Swift’s Diet Coke commercial.
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