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The minerals and rare-earth elements that we exploit to build ingenious devices – extending our bodies and minds – are also a part of this rhythm, and are accessible only because of a great chain of circumstances, from planetary origins to plate tectonics and asteroid impacts.
According to South Korean news reports, in addition to its existing mid-range Nodong missiles, North Korea has improved its Scud missiles, extending their range to reach Japan’s main islands.
The question is: Why, over more than a decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall, have the political leaders of western Europe made so little serious effect to convince their peoples that extending the European Union to the newly liberated states of central, south-eastern and eastern Europe is in those peoples’ own vital, long-term interest?
Machines all over the world are reaching fusion temperatures and extending our technological capabilities.
This means extending the maturity dates of debts and reducing the interest rate on the new debt to levels much lower than currently unsustainable market rates.
The fault lines extending from Ukraine are undermining the fundamental values that have underpinned Europe's postwar peace and prosperity.
The world is no doubt making progress in extending access to schools, with more children are enrolled and attending than ever before.
Like many territories in the region, Gaza has had a long history of foreign occupation, extending to ancient times.
As a shaping power with an enormous stake in preserving and extending the openness of the international system, Germany has a special responsibility to help integrate new global powers into that system.
By extending the Kyoto Protocol – which limits some developed countries’ greenhouse-gas emissions – for another eight years, the Doha agreement preserves the vital framework of international law and retains hard-won accounting rules for emissions allowances and trading between countries.
As it happens, governments directly provide only a thin “base” layer of money; most money is created by banks extending credit.
Alternatively, the banks could perpetually roll over existing debt, forever extending new loans to repay old debts.
It is not only the crises extending from Ukraine to Syria that will prevent the MSC, the fiftieth, from becoming an exercise in self-celebration.
Through its $1 trillion “one belt, one road” initiative, China is supporting infrastructure projects in strategically located developing countries, often by extending huge loans to their governments.
Of course, extending loans for infrastructure projects is not inherently bad.
Indeed, it is rather likely that the Palestinians, who stubbornly refuse to negotiate with their Israeli counterparts, intend to drag Israel into the trap of a binational state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, hoping that it will one day all become Palestine.
And there is China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative to construct a Silk Road Economic Belt extending through Central Asia, and a Maritime Silk Road linking China with Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and ultimately Europe.
At the G-20 summit in Turkey, however, Putin struck a markedly different tone, extending an open hand: “We proposed cooperation on antiterrorism; unfortunately our partners in the United States in the initial stage responded with a refusal… [But now] it seems to me that everyone is coming around to the realization that we can wage an effective fight only together… If our partners think the time has come to change our relations, then we will welcome that.”
Extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, combating the stigma against hiring them, creating more on-the-job training opportunities and apprenticeships, and raising the minimum wage are all essential steps toward a more equitable distribution of the recovery’s benefits.
Rather than just extending insider-trading law to the US Congress (or to other legislatures), citizens should demand that all restrictions and reporting requirements imposed on the private sector apply automatically to elected representatives as well.
The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could join this effort by extending its activities to the region, which could be coupled with the creation of dedicated services to support the growth of job-creating enterprises.
Resolving the island’s longstanding division would nest Cyprus more comfortably in the EU, and the economic effects would be manifold, extending throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
But, as technological progress has increased options for saving, extending, and improving lives, health-care costs have skyrocketed, raising Medicare costs from 3.5% of federal expenditures in 1970 to 15.1% today.
Frankly, when I think of stagnating innovation as an economist, I worry about how overweening monopolies stifle ideas, and how recent changes extending the validity of patents have exacerbated this problem.
Tanks did not roll, the undoing of communism proceeded apace and in peace, extending ultimately into Russia.
By extending its EITC to include gig-economy work, and broadening the range of eligible income, California has increased the number of claims from around 400,000 in 2016 to 1.3 million in 2017.
But Russia is also now extending its grasp of energy markets beyond those of its immediate neighbors.
Unlike the Ukraine government’s assent to extending the Russian Black Sea fleet’s deployment in Crimea – a decision that led to physical violence in Ukraine’s parliament – this was not a prolongation of the status quo, but a public demand for its revision.
Lastly, extending unemployment insurance in the wake of a once-in-a-half-century crisis should be a no-brainer.
Extending the use of biofuels in these regions could boost productivity and create new employment opportunities, especially in rural areas.
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