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The loss underscores a growing
divide
between expedition members, who pay top dollar to reach the summit, and their highly skilled Sherpa guides, who are paid a relative pittance and too often are taken for granted.
But, if the Arab Spring has taught us anything, it is that the Middle East’s real fault lines have little to do with Israel and much to do with the Arab world’s deepening secularist-Islamist
divide
and growing sectarian struggle between Shia and Sunni.
This was followed by the final push to
divide
our government and force the prime minister to capitulate – as he did, accepting the latest extend-and-pretend loan of €85 billion.
Life expectancy continues to decline; investment in infrastructure, research, and education are stunted; the economy is barely able to compete internationally; and the social
divide
between poor and rich is deepening.
This discrepancy reflects a deep
divide
– in the US and elsewhere – between people’s hopes for the UN and their expectations of its ability to deliver.
Last year’s Brexit referendum on European Union membership suggested a Leave-Remain divide, with the Brexiteers narrowly ahead.
And the newly rich kept an increasing part of what they got, as taxes were slashed to encourage them to get still richer, and efforts to
divide
up the pie more fairly were abandoned.
The Alliance for Democracy, the dominant Yoruba party, is not fielding a candidate because it does not want to
divide
the Yoruba vote and deny victory to Obasanjo, their kinsman.
Harnessing the Politics of DisruptionLONDON – The United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union and Donald Trump’s election as US president exposed a deep generational
divide.
Such a possibility seems even more far-fetched as long as the Iranian nuclear crisis remains unresolved and the Syrian crisis continues to widen the region’s Shia-Sunni
divide
(reflected in increased tension between Turkey and Iran).
The digital
divide
mirrors larger patterns of social discrimination, especially for women.
And policymakers must recognize the risk of perpetuating a digital
divide
that favors those who are already advantaged.
Demographic researchers
divide
countries into four categories, according to the share of the over-65 population: young (less than 7% aged 65 or over), aging (7-13%), aged (14-20%), and super-aged (more than 21%).
The other side is persistent poverty, lack of development, massive environmental degradation, a widespread rural-urban divide, demographic problems, and troubled banking systems.
How can we ensure that technology meets the needs of the poor and does not simply increase the
divide
between laptop-owning, Blackberry-using Westerners like me and the poor in India or China?
In reality, we are confronted with a widening
divide
over the role of religion, which runs between the West (with the US being a complicated exception) and much of the rest of the world (the most notable exception being China), but particularly the Islamic world.
The
divide
reflects how religion defines an individual’s identity within a society.
It would be dangerous to underestimate the depth of so wide an emotional divide, and to recognize its existence is the first step to overcoming it.
European politics has long been structured along a left-right
divide.
In more than a handful of countries, however, this
divide
no longer characterizes the political scene.
Yet every move toward greater financial solidarity among member states has met with resistance and fueled a growing
divide
between debtor and creditor countries.
A third possibility is that society’s most distinctive ethnic or racial cleavage aligns with the
divide
that separates the masses from the propertied elite.
This is all the more true today, when digital technology has deepened the generational
divide.
Ukrainians are people of the watershed: we live on either one side or the other of a great
divide.
The cleavage lies in a very different visions about the state and it goes beyond questions about how to
divide
America’s budget surplus between increased spending or cutting taxes.
A Fair Deal on Climate ChangeThe agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: how will we
divide
up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
In short, if Jokowi is to form a national consensus on the institutions that Indonesia needs, he will have to reach across this political
divide.
Domestically, governments have largely abandoned their efforts to
divide
sovereign holdings into multiple “pockets” that reflected the funds’ diverse investment objectives and wider political considerations.
One way to measure the average stock-holding period and its change over the past quarter-century is to add up all holding periods of all investors at the end of the year and
divide
the total by a weighted average of the stockholders.
Suppose you could
divide
reforming countries into two categories: those whose previous policies benefited the rich, keeping inequality artificially high; and those whose previous policies had the opposite effect, keeping inequality low.
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