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In other words, it is a public relations conjuring trick,
designed
to make the EU seem more attractive, without actually conferring any real benefits.
While the ASB does not specifically target China as an adversary, it is
designed
to limit China’s incipient systems and capabilities.
They should share the bonanza of higher prices with Australia’s citizens, and an appropriately
designed
mining tax is one way of ensuring that outcome.
The challenge for Europeans and Americans today could hardly be greater: to cooperate in a very different context than the one for which the relationship and its institutions were
designed
– and to do so without any agreement on a new strategic framework.
Kids (like Oliver Twist) were punished in ways
designed
to break them; poor people convicted of relatively minor offenses were transported to Australia, or given publicly humiliating forms of punishment; police had unchecked and violent power over the poor.
But it is exciting to see a company
designed
to extract some of the highest-value cognitive surplus around, and to make money both for the company and its – well, they are not exactly workers.
All of Europe, including Britain, would suffer from the loss of the common market and the loss of common values that the EU was
designed
to protect.
After Brexit, all of us who believe in the values and principles that the EU was
designed
to uphold must band together to save it by thoroughly reconstructing it.
Indeed, it is a failure of governance that has characterized the Stability and Growth Pact,
designed
(largely by Germany) to ensure sound macroeconomic policy by limiting national debt and deficit ratios.
As a practical matter, the ECB’s price-stability objective, originally
designed
to protect the eurozone from Italian-style inflation, has ended up protecting it from German-inspired deflation.
This reform should be packaged with a careful evaluation of the regulatory climate for business,
designed
to eliminate or streamline the rules.
For the clumsiness of Chancellor Kohl in seeking to force the Bundesbank to revalue Germany's gold reserves (a fiscal fudge
designed
to allow Germany to meet the Maastrich criteria), and the fact that after the victories of Tony Blair in Britain and Jospin in France only Germany and Spain are now ruled by governments of the Right, should facilitate the search for a compromise.
This will require that successive US administrations emphasize free trade, increase America’s air and naval presence, and invest in diplomacy
designed
to promote China’s integration within the region on terms consistent with the interests of the US, its allies (Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia), and its many friends.
In particular, the US should abolish deductions, such as those
designed
to encourage corporate debt and oil drilling.
The recent “stress tests” of European banks were blatantly
designed
as a confidence-building measure rather than a genuine exploration of possible systemic weaknesses – failing, for instance, to include the possibility of default on Greek sovereign debt.
Moreover, most health IT systems in use in America today are
designed
primarily to facilitate efficient billing, rather than efficient care, putting the business interests of hospitals and clinics ahead of the needs of doctors and patients.
As a result, today’s health IT systems act more like a “frequent flyer card”
designed
to enforce customer loyalty to a particular hospital, rather than an “ATM card” that enables you and your doctor to access your health information whenever and wherever needed.
No nuclear reactors are
designed
to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0.
The seawall at Fukushima was
designed
for a tsunami no higher than 5.7 meters.
Furthermore, one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are aimed at ending poverty and promoting prosperity by 2030, is
designed
to deliver “inclusive and quality education for all and to promote lifelong learning” (SDG 4).
The gap between the cost of carbon-free and carbon-emitting technology fell, and the taxes
designed
to mitigate emissions became more effective.
Medical errors are so frequent that the World Health Organization has
designed
guidelines to ensure patient safety.
The regulatory hybrid securities are thus
designed
to deal with the very source of systemic instability that the current crisis highlighted.
It must be an alliance
designed
for the protection of the values of those served by its power: for human rights, the rule of law, democracy, freedom of expression and a market economy.
It is therefore an alliance
designed
to protect not only national sovereignty or geopolitical interests, but to protect certain kinds of human culture and civilization.
Of course, Prodi could preserve a bipolar political system – and thus increase the longevity of his government – by either restoring a majoritarian electoral system or pressing ahead with other constitutional amendments
designed
to preserve government and coalition stability.
They may accept that a default could be part of a policy package
designed
to improve the country’s economic fundamentals and thus its capacity to repay its debt in the long term.
Now it has responded, with a stimulus package that is too little, too late, and badly
designed.
Until recently, IMF rescue programs were
designed
to enable debtor countries to meet their obligations.
Since this is
designed
to defuse an exceptional crisis, it would not become a precedent that encourages frivolous attacks on Latin America's democratically elected governments.
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