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Obama wants to expand federal command-and-control regulation further (though the courts have stopped his
extension
of some regulatory powers).
One future for Iran would be mostly an
extension
of what already exists, i.e., an Iran run by conservative clerics and an aggressive Revolutionary Guard, with the latter increasingly enjoying the upper hand.
The most unattractive versions of 1930’s regionalism came from Germany and Japan, and represented nothing less than a practical
extension
of their power over vulnerable neighbors, which were forced into trade and financial dependence on the basis of Germany’s Grosswirtschaftsraum or its Japanese equivalent, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Encouraging banks to turn loans kept on their books into securities also helped reduce the overall level of caution in the
extension
of credit.
I wish France could adopt a more humble attitude, show more respect for its partners and the EU's institutions, and view Europe as more than an
extension
of its own philosophy.
What should have been a mere
extension
of the millennia-old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.
Could America find its way to a similar
extension?
Until 2015, the outlook is gloomy for Europe and, by extension, for the emerging and developing economies.
The central weakness of democratic systems also contributes to the problem: The quest for votes favors the
extension
of social benefits and discourages unpopular measures that would put the economy on a more sustainable footing.
By extension, any nominal debt contract denominated in Bitcoin would rise in real value over time, leading to the kind of debt deflation that economist Irving Fisher believed precipitated the Great Depression.
The UN Secretary General led a steering group last year that determined that African agriculture needs around $8 billion per year in donor financing – roughly four times the current total – with a heavy emphasis on improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigation systems, and
extension
training.
We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.
For these reasons, Belgium’s
extension
of its law on euthanasia to minors with a demonstrable capacity for rational decision-making does not deny anyone’s right to life.
He has worked with another great public-health leader, Paul Farmer, to pioneer the
extension
of treatment for AIDS, tuberculosis, and other diseases to the world’s poorest people.
The key question is whether it is an
extension
of the Greenland shelf or an
extension
of the East Siberia shelf.
Amid the ongoing debate about how the dominant tech firms should and should not be allowed to use personal data collected from users online, many of these firms have continued to decide these questions for themselves – and, by extension, for the rest of us, too.
The
extension
of human rights is a worthy goal, to be sure, but Vasella's saccharine altruism brings to mind economist Milton Friedman's reproachful observation that "businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social' ends; that business has a 'social conscience' and takes seriously its responsibilities forproviding employment, eliminating discrimination . . .
The third false lesson is that if we could only maintain confidence in the financial system (and by
extension
the wider economic system), the system itself could be trusted to survive and prosper.
Moreover, the
extension
of ECB monetary support to Greece will transform financial conditions: interest rates will plummet, banks will recapitalize, and private credit will gradually become available for the first time since 2010.
Nato AdriftWASHINGTON: Suddenly, after endlessly debating the Eastward
extension
of Nato and the European Union, political leaders in Bonn, Paris and London seem to be waking up to a basic fact: that none of these plans can work unless the United States remain firmly engaged in Europe - and that this engagement can no longer be taken for granted.
While much of the current Western discussion centers on the
extension
of Nato to the East, the much more urgent matter is to assure that America remains actively involved in Furope.
Western proponents of NATO expansion contend that, in addition to bolstering Central European democracy and containing Russia,
extension
of the Atlantic Alliance to Central Europe is desirable because, there is a "security vacuum" between Russia and Germany.
Even in Germany, where pan-European idealism is universal, the EU is popular because it seems a natural
extension
of the new Germany's benevolent ideals: an orderly, regulated, federal system of social partnership modeled on the postwar German state.
Russian foreign policy is, as it was under the Soviets, an
extension
of official domestic priorities.
Republican candidates in the US are already using the recent murder spree in Paris to blame President Barack Obama, and by
extension
any future Democratic candidate, for being weak.
As Friedrich Hayek put it in 1925, rapid capitalist growth depended on “the ‘forced savings’ effected by the
extension
of additional bank credit.”
In 1986, Thatcher signed the Single European Act (which set the objective of establishing a single market), apparently believing that it was only an
extension
of free trade in goods to services, capital, and labor.
With fertilizer, improved seeds, small-scale irrigation, rapid training and
extension
services, and low-cost storage silos, Haiti’s food production could double or triple in the next few years, sustaining the country and building a new rural economy.
Beyond the
extension
of these twentieth-century technologies, we can also anticipate a new set of transformational industries – as yet nameless – as we advance into the new millennium.
The WTO’s intellectual-property agreement, called TRIPS, originally foresaw the
extension
of “flexibilities” to the 48 least-developed countries, where average annual per capita income is below $800.
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