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Before the proceedings began, the
conventional
wisdom was that Bo’s trial had been carefully scripted and rehearsed to portray a forlorn and penitent sinner confessing his crimes and apologizing to the Party.
Likewise, invasion and occupation of either North Korea or Pakistan would require massive armies risking a bitter
conventional
war and possible use of the weapons against the invaders.
The two of you also went against
conventional
Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud’s far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
The
conventional
wisdom is that the result of such renegotiations would involve a retreat from the achievements of the 1990’s.
For patients who have not responded to
conventional
treatment, restoring function should replace eradicating pain as the primary objective.
To this end, China has been developing anti-satellite weapons,
conventional
ballistic missiles, long-range precision cruise missiles, electronic and cyber-warfare capabilities, submarines, surface combat vessels, multi-role combat aircraft, and advanced integrated air, missile, and early-warning defense systems.
North Korea also has formidable
conventional
military capabilities, and estimates of human casualties could total as many as 25 million, depending on the types of weapons used, the geographical theater of the conflict, and the countries sucked into it.
But I suspect that the slightly pessimistic
conventional
wisdom on this question is wrong.
The
conventional
argument asserts that wary CEOs have come to see long-term risks as “just not worth it.”
In its World Energy Outlook for 2010, the International Energy Agency argued that
conventional
oil production worldwide probably peaked in 2006, and is now declining.
If Montebourg prevails, however, the political squeeze will be on Mélenchon, because Montebourg represents the more
conventional
left: he notably quit Valls’s government in 2014 because it was pursuing austerity and supply-side policies, rather than the Keynesian fiscal stimulus he advocated.
This pressure at various times took the form of US, British, and French nuclear programs;NATO’s willingness to counter Warsaw Pact deployments of both
conventional
military and tactical nuclear forces; the decision to defend South Korea against the North’s aggression; the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to bleed Soviet occupation forces; and the decision to build a costly missile-defense system aimed both at negating the Soviet Union’s principal military investment and bankrupting its government.
This view is already
conventional
wisdom, not only in America, but in Europe as well.
Perhaps, but so far
conventional
solutions have proved unworkable, even disastrous.
The
conventional
answer is a clear no.
But the
conventional
wisdom is likely to be proved wrong.
Conventional
wisdom among economists and investors has a long record of failing to spot major turning points; so the near-universal belief today that Greece faces permanent depression is no reason to despair.
For example, farmers around the world could reduce their water use dramatically by switching from
conventional
irrigation to drip irrigation, which uses a series of tubes to deliver water directly to each plant while preserving or raising crop yields.
In accordance with the Strategy, Brazil is enhancing its
conventional
deterrence capabilities, including by building a nuclear-propelled submarine as part of a naval program commensurate with its responsibilities in the South Atlantic.
The implication is that the decrease in societal wellbeing may be far larger than that indicated by
conventional
GDP measures – numbers that already are bleak enough, with most countries showing that real (inflation-adjusted) per capita income is lower today than before the crisis – a lost half-decade.
Still, today’s revolutionary leaders do not fit neatly into
conventional
categories of left or right, because they promiscuously adopt policies from both camps.
While we already have high-quality electric vehicles, they require improvements in range and cost to be able to outcompete
conventional
vehicles.
Contrary to
conventional
wisdom, Italy’s high public debt is not the result of runaway budget deficits – at least not of recent ones.
But in fact, sexy as the technology is, I was more impressed by the overall notion of practical courseware – and not just in plumbing – that could give millions of people marketable skills at a fraction of the cost of
conventional
vocational training, ultimately in many other fields, such as welding, carpentry, painting, and the like.
This already can be seen in PTAs whose rules on
conventional
issues like anti-dumping are often discriminatory in favor of members.
First, until just a few months ago, the
conventional
wisdom was that the US would avoid recession.
The
conventional
approach is to call for more consistency between talk, decisions, and actions.
Conventional
wisdom suggests that Scottish independence is possible, albeit not very likely, while any country’s departure from the single currency is fanciful.
Indeed, the
conventional
wisdom – supported by many painful experiences – was that when the industrial countries sneezed, the emerging world caught a cold.
For more
conventional
value chains, the surplus tends to go to the inputs that have greater market power.
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