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Beyond increasing the vulnerability of Brazil’s natural resources to commercial exploitation, the inevitable cuts to the environmental budget under Bolsonaro’s leadership will undermine the country’s ability to respond to disasters like forest fires.
Every year, millions of kangaroos are shot, in the largest commercial slaughter of terrestrial wildlife anywhere in the world.
Older joeys who are outside the pouch when their mothers are shot are likely to hop away into the darkness – commercial kangaroo shooters work at night – and starve to death.
Should we be giving precedence to sheep and cattle, and the money they earn for the community, over native animals who have little commercial value, but are not environmentally damaging in the way that cattle and sheep are in Australia’s arid interior?
The threats to media freedom in Europe are all too apparent: intimidation, attacks, and murder; legal harassment and wrongful imprisonment; and official controls, criminal libel laws, and intolerable political and commercial pressure on journalists.
And, if it is successful, the reactor will produce half a gigawatt of fusion power and open the way for commercial reactors.
Some 90% of the refinancing debt that the commercial banks of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) hold with their respective national central banks served to purchase a net inflow of goods and assets from other eurozone countries.
Without the additional money that GIPS central banks created in excess of their countries’ requirements for internal circulation, trade deficits could not have been sustained, and the GIPS’ commercial banks would have been unable to prop up asset prices (which all too often were those of government bonds).
During the record-breaking 2003 heat wave in France, operations at 17 commercial nuclear reactors had to be scaled back or stopped because of rapidly rising temperatures in rivers and lake.
Likewise, Switzerland long used mandatory military service and mountainous geography as hard-power resources for deterrence, while making itself attractive to others through banking, commercial, and cultural networks.
Commercial real-estate prices fell from May to June this year by an alarming 4%.
Without improvement here the benefits of increased commercial competition cannot be fully reaped.
Mobs wearing red shirts to symbolize their loyalty to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are now camped out in two major commercial areas, paralyzing a large part of the local economy.
Even in the prime commercial districts and chic neighborhoods of Bangkok, the nation’s richest city, a short walk reveals miles of cracked pavements, piles of uncollected garbage, and rats scurrying freely.
Worse yet, markets will be carved up for political, not commercial, reasons, locking in inefficiencies.
In their effort to overcome centuries of military and commercial backwardness, Muslims have sought to industrialize, rationalize administration, and adopt modern forms of political life.
Short-term commercial or other interests should not be permitted to undermine core matters of principle.
Fed Policy and Inflation RiskCAMBRIDGE – During the past four years, the United States Federal Reserve has added enormous liquidity to the US commercial banking system, and thus to the American economy.
Traditionally, the volume of bank deposits that constitute the broad money supply has increased in proportion to the amount of reserves that the commercial banks had available.
But this rise in reserves did not translate into rapid growth of deposits at commercial banks, because the Fed began in October 2008 to pay interest on those reserves.
Commercial banks could place their excess funds in riskless deposits at the Fed, rather than lending them to private borrowers.
The banks that hold these Treasury bills can sell them at any time, using the proceeds to fund commercial lending.
The risk is that the commercial banks could always decide to start using those excess reserves, forgoing the low rate of interest paid on deposits by the Fed (only 0.25%) and lending those funds to firms and households.
When the economy begins to recover and companies have the ability to raise prices, the commercial banks will want to increase their lending.
Indian companies listed abroad can buy property in foreign countries, and resident firms will be allowed to pre-pay external commercial debt up to US$100 million.
Body tissue also has commercial value beyond medicine.
The commercial calculus behind this business sometimes caused riots until anatomy laws allowed the bodies of executed murderers and the unclaimed dead to be used, thus reassuring middle and upper class individuals that their bodies would not be involved.
These old tensions have assumed new dimensions as the commercial potential of human tissue catches the entrepreneurial imagination.
Is body tissue to be defined as waste, like the material in a hospital bed-pan and thus freely available as raw material for commercial products?
John Moore's experience suggests that the commercial interests of doctors can encourage them to take more tissue than needed for their patients' benefit.
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