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It could help parents have children with a higher likelihood of being healthy, without bringing
direct
harm to anyone else.
Having gone to the brink, the leaders of both China and Japan appear to have taken a
direct
hand in softening their countries’ rhetoric.
Others will try to
direct
state funding toward their personal investment projects.
One result is that no
direct
channel for security cooperation among Asian countries was ever established, which has contributed to the low level of trust in East Asia, even among close US allies like Japan and South Korea.
Whether al-Qaeda had a
direct
role in the Madrid and London bombings, or the recent plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic, is less important than the way it has been transformed into a powerful “brand.”
Beware of FDI ProtectionismNEW YORK – During their most recent meetings, the G-8 took a strong stance against protectionist measures in the area of foreign
direct
investment (FDI), echoing calls for a moratorium in such measures issued earlier by the G-20.
Of course, not every measure that makes the climate less welcoming for foreign
direct
investors is protectionist.
The bottom line is that the investment climate for foreign
direct
investors is becoming less welcoming.
Emerging markets have already captured 40% of world GDP and 37% of global foreign
direct
investment.
Of course, this is not a
direct
financial loss to the global economy, but a way of expressing the impact.
That is why Eisenhower prudently resisted
direct
intervention on the French side in Vietnam in 1954.
As a result, politicians expect that their decisions on investor protection will have little
direct
effect on citizens’ voting decisions.
They have the power to
direct
their firms’ campaign contributions, to offer positions or business to politicians’ relatives or associates (or to politicians upon retirement), and to use their businesses to support issues and causes that politicians seek to advance.
Simply reducing the number of available channels for transferring money out of a country would
direct
more funds through those that remained.
In fact, despite the low probability of a
direct
military clash between the US and China, a new cold war would undoubtedly produce collateral damage so far-reaching and severe that the very future of humanity could be jeopardized.
The task of the left is to
direct
attention to the truly problematic aspects of global economic integration – financialization, the prioritization of capital over labor, of creditor over debtor, of patron over ouvrier – without lapsing into reactionary politics.
After all, had Germany’s hyperinflation of the 1920’s – a
direct
result of the war – been avoided, Hitler may well never have risen to power, and WWII might not have occurred.
This should spur international institutions and North Korea’s neighbors to provide the food aid, technical assistance, and
direct
investment that the country needs to escape its current predicament and make the transition to a market economy.
And the people, they say, should have a
direct
voice in the important decisions affecting their lives – apparently even decisions about war and peace.
In the tradition of Napoleon III, Hitler, and Stalin, he used
direct
democracy to pursue dictatorial ends.
One need only listen to the politicians calling for referendums to know where
direct
democracy can lead.
“We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking
direct
enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.”
Having used these rights to raise our own living standards, we should not now put developed countries’ workers in
direct
competition with workers who lack the basic freedoms needed to improve their own conditions.
As FDIC Vice Chairman Tom Hoenig put it, “Despite the thousands of pages of material these firms submitted, the plans provide no credible or clear path through bankruptcy that doesn’t require unrealistic assumptions and
direct
or indirect public support.”
As in the second half of the twentieth century, visionary leaders must
direct
the transformation – and civil-society movements must support them.
In the right circumstances, a virtuous cycle, whereby local producers have a
direct
interest in protecting wildlife (because they are benefiting from its legal trade) is the best – and sometimes the only – long-term solution to the problem of sustainability.
The same is true, to varying degrees, of Europe’s relationship with South Asia; but here the India-Pakistan conflict, a looming “post-American” Afghanistan in 2014, and uncertainty concerning Iran and the Persian Gulf have a
direct
security impact on the EU.
Developing-country financial regulators have already taken steps to
direct
investment toward their countries’ most pressing needs.
What Trump’s administration fails to recognize is that Jerusalem – the third-holiest site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina – isn’t just an Israeli-Palestinian issue; all of the world’s 350 million Arabs and 1.5 billion Muslims have a
direct
and vital stake in it.
Moreover, unlike
direct
compensation schemes, a tissue tax does not exert undue influence on individuals or groups to donate tissue.
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