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And it would be short-sighted to hinder the catching-up process in Eastern Europe, given the consensus that extending the EU eastwards is a desirable aim.
Across an arc extending from Afghanistan to East Africa, violence now also surges in Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, and beyond, to Sudan’s Darfur region.
Extending an olive branch to Russia will have little or no voter appeal in most EU countries, and Putin’s efforts to retain power de facto if not de jure after Medvedev wins his likely victory next March are certain to make matters worse.
In reality, the coup leaders’ main concern was to avoid admitting what they had been doing since 2010: extending a generalized bankruptcy into the future by forcing Greece to accept new, European taxpayer-funded loans, conditional on ever-greater austerity that could only shrink Greek national income further.
Researchers like Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, and Birute Galdikas have shown that great apes are thinking, self-aware beings, with rich emotional lives, and thereby prepared the ground for extending basic rights to them.
Europe's Culture of EuthanasiaModern technology has created the possibility of dramatically extending human life, but also a host of new practical and moral problems in the process.
Extending life is costly both because the technology itself can be expensive, but also because it often is extremely labor intensive in countries where labor is not cheap.
But the welfare states' experience with extending life creates its own ethical problems that may be even more serious than those in more market-oriented societies.
By foregoing prices in allocating healthcare, the Dutch have taken the economic incentives for extending life away from the country's physicians.
Unlike doctors in a profit-driven healthcare system, Dutch doctors cannot “make money” extending life; nor can they “make money” from informing the patient and his or her family of the various life-saving options made possible by advances in medical science.
Indeed, because extending the lives of ill old people can be very costly, the economic incentives run in the opposite direction in the welfare state.
Critics of market-driven health care say that such changes would lead societies back to the bad old days of unequal access to health care of all sorts, not just to these new life extending technologies.
Central banks have to start fostering consolidation, rather than indiscriminately extending credit.
By extending its largesse to rich corporate farms, the US may not have intended to harm the world’s poor, but that is the predictable result.
Extending the EU’s area of freedom and democracy, peace, stability, and prosperity, especially throughout south-eastern Europe, is in the interest of every European citizen.
But, while these considerations provide a basis for providing full protection to depositors and other depositor-like creditors when a financial institution is bailed out, they do not justify extending such protection to bondholders.
If these were commercial loans, creditors would consider restructuring them – extending the payment schedule and typically writing down principal.
In some cases, populism has helped in extending the franchise; enacting a progressive income tax and social insurance; building physical and human capital; opening economies; prioritizing full employment; and encouraging migration.
Extending east from the Indian Ocean and west via the Pacific, the US is creating a new strategic framework for the twenty-first century.
Building on such evidence, the University of Oxford is extending its research on the “shame-poverty nexus,” to study how the international development sector can “shame-proof” anti-poverty policies.
Indeed, the war in Iraq has transformed the centuries-old Shi’a-Sunni conflict by infusing it with modern geopolitical significance and extending it to the entire region.
But it has created difficulties for the US – and a continuing risk of inflammatory incidents – by insisting that, within the entire 200-mile EEZ extending beyond its territorial waters, no military ship or aircraft has a right to engage in surveillance and intelligence collection.
Extending the continent’s rise will require strengthening the continent’s economic fundamentals.
They would then be positioned to secure a “Novorossiya" statelet extending along the entire Black Sea coast, up to and including Odessa.
As James Fishkin of Stanford has written, “deliberative democracy” has a long history, extending back to the original democracy in Greece in the fifth century, BC.
But, with political and social fragmentation extending well beyond Europe, outsiders may be able to add some perspective on what is really at issue.
It is very unlikely that congressional Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement on extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class, while allowing them to expire for the rich.
Obama Versus ObamacareNEW YORK – The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 health-care reform, has succeeded in extending insurance coverage to millions of Americans who would not otherwise have it.
While prudential regulation and supervision can never be perfect, extending such oversight to hedge funds and other unregulated institutions can still moderate the downsides.
In exchange for extending the base agreement, Russia agreed to cut by 30% the price of gas that it sells to Ukraine, throwing out the January 2009 contract signed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which ended a 17-day gas crisis.
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