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The nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill had a more civilized view:“I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think…that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind….The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.”
A complete ban on all nuclear explosions would hamper the upgrading of existing nuclear arsenals and the development of new weapons, diminishing the capabilities of both current and potential nuclear-armed states.
Greece’s location, together with existing strengths such as tourism, shipping, renewable energy resources, and a pool of scientists at home and abroad, provides real potential for the country to grow.
A crucial feature of the debate is the official estimate of the number of individuals who would lose their health insurance under the various plans that have been proposed to repeal and replace the existing Affordable Care Act (better known as “Obamacare”).
But they encourage people to retrieve only information and commentaries that fit their existing views.
Machines were rapidly replacing human labor, holding out the prospect of vastly increased production at a fraction of the existing human effort.
Moreover, the existing banks have failed to serve these parties’ small-business and farming constituencies.
Fourth, GMS countries need to establish more robust surveillance systems and fully leverage existing channels for sharing information at the regional level.
The arguments for low interest rates seem to me to require a degree of government competence that is unlikely, given political parties' current positions and the existing structure of the institutions that make fiscal policy.
Even if public debt is not growing as fast as before, the huge volume of existing debt must be repaid.
These investments are especially important over the next few decades, a period when much of the climate change that we will experience is already baked into the climate system, owing to past emissions and existing infrastructure.
Restoring these voters’ confidence in existing institutions, and reintegrating them into the political mainstream, will not be easy.
Likewise, while it is now cheap to disseminate existing information, the collection and production of new information often requires major investment, and, in many competitive situations, new information matters most.
New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.
Arms-control agreements, history has demonstrated, are not the result of existing trust – they are a means to build trust where it has been lost.
Unfortunately, the existing arms-control and disarmament regimes are crumbling.
The good news is that local governments are already working with the central government to alleviate or even eliminate existing administrative constraints.
And it would cover two of China’s 11 existing free-trade zones.
Could it work in the existing European Economic Area (the so-called Norwegian solution)?
For one thing, official corruption has long undermined investment in the planning, design, and construction of water infrastructure, as well as the effective management of existing infrastructure.
Existing international law – in particular, the “polluter pays” principle, the “no-harm” rule, and the right to compensation – supports such a system.
Moreover, unlike Poland when communism collapsed, Burma already has powerful business tycoons flourishing under the existing system – and they mean to maintain and develop their privileges.
Existing global stockpiles have a destructive capacity equal to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs, and in handling them there is an omnipresent potential for human error, system error, or misjudgment under stress.
The third message is that if the existing nuclear powers sincerely want to prevent others from joining their club, they cannot keep justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a means of protection for themselves or their allies against other weapons of mass destruction, especially biological weapons, or conventional weapons.
When is a loan a new loan, and when is it just a continuation of an existing line of credit?
Start-ups take risks, yet existing regulations make it difficult to liquidate companies, deterring potential creditors and increasing the cost of debt.
Given that roughly half of current public spending on social programs fails to deliver better outcomes for the poor, simply directing more funds through existing channels is unlikely to have much of an impact.
Given the significant flaws in existing troubled-asset-relief channels, another option – securitization – is being discussed in China.
Tinkering with existing systems will not be enough to prepare us for the technology-driven transformation that we are facing.
But this would require a dramatic increase in education spending, including more funding for existing programs, like Education Cannot Wait, which supports the continuation of schooling for children in disaster areas, and the Global Partnership for Education, which provides grants to support education in countries with the most need.
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