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In the United Kingdom, cyborg advocate Kevin Warwick and his wife had data arrays implanted in their arms to show that
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communication between the nervous systems of separate human beings is possible.
Since then, the IMF and the Bank have kept franc-zone budget deficits under tight surveillance, which has limited the
direct
impact of sovereign-debt worries on these countries.
In 1999, the government sought and received the Beijing government's
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intervention to overturn a decision by Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeals on an immigration issue because the verdict did not please the government.
And, in October, the World Bank pledged to increase its
direct
and leveraged climate financing to up to $29 billion annually.
And it perceived a
direct
threat after 1979, when Iran’s Islamic Revolution toppled the Shah and the new regime declared itself to be the leader of Shia worldwide.
Though conflict has not erupted into
direct
confrontation, there has been no shortage of proxy battles, beginning with the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Turkey’s existing Constitution was adopted in 1982 as a
direct
product of the Turkish military coup in 1980.
When it comes to technology, R&D, trade talks, and the like, the benefit for companies’ bottom line is
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and clear, and here Gates’ surprise is understandable, because corporate leaders typically lobby to participate and change the way governments think and act.
The directive on free movement implies a new era of
direct
migration into West European welfare states.
But China would be unlikely to agree to more
direct
intervention in North Korea without some quid pro quo.
As a first step in this struggle, the World Psychiatric Association and national professional bodies should demand
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access to the Ankang network and other places of psychiatric incarceration.
The Saudi-owned satellite news channel Al Arabiya has also reported the hacking of its Twitter feed by the “Electronic Syrian Army,” a shadowy group most likely comprised of free-lance operatives with the
direct
or indirect support of the Syrian government.
But, much to my frustration, I did not receive a
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verbal response to any of my questions.
Other commodity prices had risen rapidly in the early 1970’s, in
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response to monetary easing in the US and elsewhere.
The benefits of such growth for present regional EU members will more than outweigh the
direct
budget costs linked to enlargement.
Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves
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and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).
At a strategic level, Turkey is correct in thinking that the Arab revolutionary process has weakened its
direct
rivals.
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comparisons of different power sources are difficult, because the use of wind, solar, nuclear, and fossil-fuel plants varies according to the time of day.
The document, "Al-Qaeda In Southeast Asia: The Case Of The "Ngruki Network," is an exhaustive review of reliable public data, and identifies a handful of individuals with possible
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or indirect links with Al-Qaeda.
Today, it may be just what is needed: many Western countries – certainly the United States, Japan, and Germany, probably the United Kingdom, and soon much of the rest of the eurozone – should pursue
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government intervention in wage bargaining, especially for the lowest earners.
This puts India in
direct
competition with the West and other Asian countries to secure West African resources.
Evict the state from
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economic activity, curb its discretionary powers, and both economic efficiency and governance will improve.
Oxfam, drawing attention to large-scale land acquisitions that have entailed
direct
rights violations, has called on the Bank to freeze investments in land purchases until it can set standards ensuring that local communities are informed of them in advance, with the option of refusing them.
The world must therefore be alert, so that this hatred does not reawaken and
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itself against Jews or other peoples.
Patients will need to be trained in generating the appropriate neural signals to
direct
the prosthetic limb.
The Fund’s research has highlighted the
direct
link between narrowing the gap between rich and poor and higher economic growth.
Narrow policies like the government’s recent credit tightening will make it difficult to
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financial resources to the real economy – one of the primary objectives of “Likonomics.”
I believe there is a
direct
connection between this and the abuse of detainees by US soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison.
One way to ensure the necessary R&D is to rely on the market to finance and
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the work by using taxes, subsidies, rationing, and – most important – by convincing firms and consumers that fossil fuels will become progressively more costly.
So the other option is for governments, cooperatively with business, to finance and
direct
R&D.
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