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His theory – which held that evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused not by natural selection, but by random genetic drift – provided a good explanation for the genetic variation that researchers had discovered.
No single mechanism, it seems, can be studied in isolation; at a very basic level, factors like selection, drift, and epigenetics work together and become inseparable.
Central bankers have of course been known to help incumbents before elections, by allowing inflation to drift up and keep employment booming.
The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency was meant to be stopped – and even reversed.
The main reason for the new dose of transatlantic drift is that the crisis is being experienced differently.
Another idea is to tax robots and related technologies to compensate for the drift of economic rewards away from labor.
Equally worrisome is the recent drift of former imperial powers Russia and Turkey.
The resulting sense of political drift and dysfunction has been exacerbated by the poor rollout of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – a massive, avoidable distraction that has been allowed to cast doubt on this landmark initiative.
Yet, as many observers have noted, US-India relations have recently become listless and marked by drift.
Without serious investment in irrigation, including construction of reservoirs to make use of the snowfall in the Hindu Kush, and in new cash crops such as saffron and rose oil, Afghanistan’s drift toward narco-statehood will continue, with all the instability that this implies.
This is not an argument for drift.
If given the financial support that the Wahhabis received, these forces could reverse the current drift to fanaticism.
The trouble is that no one does this deliberately; such changes are the outcome of natural drift in technology.
With this in mind, we used a new planning tool that allows building rights to drift.
Moreover, the Lisbon Agenda should be reinvigorated, with a focus on market reforms, and the EU should urgently reconsider measures – particularly regarding climate policy and the drift toward an EU-wide social policy – that risk imposing additional burdens on their economies and/or hamper the flexibility of markets.
This drift towards populism exists everywhere in Europe nowadays, but it is particularly damaging when it affects Europe’s leading country.
MILAN – Italy’s inconclusive general election, with its clear populist drift, will likely lead to a prolonged period of political stalemate, freezing the adoption of much-needed structural reforms.
The result is drift.
Many younger Japanese have told me that they are “fed up” with stagnation and drift.
The latter option is the only scenario that could stop the Islamist drift in the Middle East.
Domestic shortcomings and political polarization have fed a temptation to drift away from a foreign policy driven by universal values.
The origin of China’s desultory policy lies in its leadership’s failure to shape or sharpen the drift of domestic politics: many Chinese still see plucky little North Korea as a friend and ally.
Some non-democratic systems seem to evoke deeper support, because they are based on religious or national communal solidarity, and because closed societies minimize doubt, drift, and criticism.
When inflation was allowed to drift from 2% to 4% in the 1970s, inflation expectations became unanchored altogether, and price growth far exceeded 4%.
In another age, Winston Churchill warned a world facing the gravest of challenges not to be resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, and all powerful for impotence.
If they work together, drift need not happen.
The lesson of the last election, in which voters continued to drift away from the major parties to the single-issue fringe, seemed to be that the electorate was fed up with sloganeering and personality politics, and were genuinely crying out for more bipartisanship on major policy issues.
Rather than bringing greater stability, Yanukovych has pursued a series of policies that have exacerbated domestic tensions and set the stage for Ukraine’s drift back into Russia’s economic and political orbit.
Reinforcing this shift is Turkey’s drift toward authoritarianism, which is undermining the viability of its candidacy for EU membership.
Unless policymakers act, the US will continue to drift toward a two-tier labor market.
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