Extract
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Does he want to
extract
concessions from the EU in all industrial sectors in which US firms are lagging?
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran – where oil is plentiful and cheap to
extract
– are likely to stay in business for some time.
The Tianjing – boasting its own propulsion system and a capacity to
extract
sediment at a rate of 4,530 cubic meters (5,924 cubic yards) per hour – did its job very quickly, creating 11 hectares of new land, including a harbor, in less than four months.
Owner occupancy rates are high in the US, and the financial system allows households to
extract
the equity in their homes relatively cheaply, either by second liens or by refinancing the entire mortgage.
This could only be rational if the seller can hope to establish a monopoly position and
extract
large profits in the future.
Privatization of urban real estate will save the businesses from the constant demand for payoffs by local officials, who as landlords can
extract
bribes by threatening to repossess the premises.
Instead, Turkey seeks to
extract
as much as possible from Western-led institutions like the EU and NATO, while fostering mutually beneficial relationships with countries, such as Russia, Iran, and China, that often seek to undermine those institutions.
Of course, the idea of reusing materials within continuous closed loops to
extract
their maximum value is not a new one.
Few people are needed to
extract
oil.
The point to which Keynes kept returning was that the attempt to
extract
debt payments over many years would have disastrous social consequences.
But it is exciting to see a company designed to
extract
some of the highest-value cognitive surplus around, and to make money both for the company and its – well, they are not exactly workers.
Currently, there is no restriction on any country building a uranium-enrichment plant or reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to
extract
plutonium.
Far more worrying, had Syrian engineers built a lab at the site, or in other rebel-held territory, to
extract
plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel, the insurgents might even have found themselves with the ingredients of an atomic bomb.
As happened recently with one antibiotic, CEOs will say that they are serving shareholders by letting prices rise to whatever the market will bear and abusing intellectual-property rights to
extract
monopoly rents.
It follows that the US needs a president who will put America first and knows how to
extract
the best deals for it at every opportunity, using the country’s full might to advance its interests.
Given this mission, it would seem that the IMF should help
extract
concessions from China and the rest of the world should declare a truce.
Once grown and harvested, the rice kernel is processed to
extract
and purify the proteins for use in oral rehydration solution for treating diarrhea, which is surpassed only by respiratory diseases as the leading infectious killer of children under the age of five in developing countries.
A confrontational stance on trade, together with greater reliance on government debt, may well
extract
a higher toll to balance flows of goods and services and of capital.
A closer look at those at the top reveals a disproportionate role for rent-seeking: some have obtained their wealth by exercising monopoly power; others are CEOs who have taken advantage of deficiencies in corporate governance to
extract
for themselves an excessive share of corporate earnings; and still others have used political connections to benefit from government munificence – either excessively high prices for what the government buys (drugs), or excessively low prices for what the government sells (mineral rights).
The third type of immigration superpowers are go-betweens, which use their geography to
extract
concessions from migration-phobic neighbors.
More recently, new technologies developed in the US greatly increase the ability to
extract
oil and natural gas from underground formations.
This, one hopes, will change the attitude of corporations that enrich themselves by paying dictators for the right to
extract
valuable resources that belong to the whole country.
But it merely fuels rent-seeking – the ability of particular groups in society to
extract
disproportionate rewards for their work.
The ability to capture, organize,
extract
insights from, and transact with data has now become a core competency for every industry and across every sector.
In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents’ radicalism in an effort to
extract
security concessions from the Western powers.
Putin’s geopolitical preoccupations could be accommodated by sensibly preserving state ownership of pipeline infrastructure in the hydrocarbons sector, while allowing private companies to extract, process, and sell Russia’s oil and gas.
But the theory of usury survived in the view that it was morally wrong to
extract
some additional amount that was made feasible by the borrower’s weak bargaining position or extreme need.
That led to protests in many poorer countries, and to a political determination to
extract
additional gains from other commodity exports.
We urgently need to understand what alternatives to fossil fuels there will be, how much energy can be conserved, how to
extract
CO2 from the atmosphere, and, if necessary, how to increase the earth’s albedo, its reflectance of incoming sunlight.
But attempting to
extract
unilateral concessions from partners is a recipe for disappointment.
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