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Using recently developed “zinc finger nuclease” technology, any given gene can be removed from an animal’s DNA.
Advise and RelentWASHINGTON, DC – Dropping bombs as a solution to the world’s trouble spots may be falling out of fashion (with the notable exception of Libya), but finger wagging is definitely back in.
Trapped in a web of codependency, the US-China relationship has become fraught with friction and finger pointing.
Viewing economic dissatisfaction as an opportunity to win support some shrewd politicians, particularly in the advanced economies, have been pointing the finger at the nebulous, threatening forces of “globalization.”
The FCIC Republicans point the finger firmly at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other government-sponsored enterprises that supported housing loans by providing guarantees of various kinds.
The big advantage of this approach is that it would force politicians to take full responsibility for their actions, rather than merely pointing the finger at Europe when something goes wrong – a habit that has fueled the rise of populism in many countries.
The far left indicts capitalism; the far right points the finger of blame at immigrants.
For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for.
Pointing the finger at the US for the state of affairs in Iraq may have some validity (although the alternative of leaving in place a Ba’athist state under Saddam Hussein was not particularly appealing, either).
Back in October 2013, the US Treasury pointed the finger at Germany’s structural surplus as the source of Europe’s woes.
In the boomtown of Shenzhen, with television cameras rolling, Deng jabbed his finger in the air, admonishing his Party: “If China does not practice socialism, does not carry on with ‘reform and opening’ and economic development, does not improve people’s standards of living, then no matter what direction we go, it will be a dead end.”
Embattled politicians can be counted on to point the finger.
Government action in many problem countries ultimately ends in finger pointing: “Europe,” the ECB, and Germany, with its (relatively) responsible policy, have all been scapegoats.
It fuels endless internal and external tensions, encourages finger pointing, and promotes a loud and disruptive blame game.
And they have refused to lift a finger to establish the “exchanges” that are supposed to give individuals and small businesses the same access to health insurance at competitive prices that employees of large businesses get via their companies’ benefits departments.
Are bumbling politicians guilty, or grasping oligarches, corrupt apparatchiks, the mafia, or the IMF?Accusations and finger pointing abounds, but the facts remain obscure.
In the past – going back to the Middle Ages, in fact – the finger has often been pointed at banks.
In the face of such calamitous conditions, Ukraine’s government is a bit like the proverbial Dutch boy who put his finger in a dike to stop the sea from leaking through.
Some point a finger at Ariel Sharon, citing his provocative visit to the Temple Mount area of Jerusalem.
If he is right, the increase will turn out to be little more than a finger in the dyke of Japan’s budget problems.
He also points the finger at China.
Like the little boy who was unafraid to declare the emperor naked, Schauble has pointed the finger of realism at the aspirational rhetoric in which all European leaders are still compelled to clothe their utterances.
While not terribly new, Greenlee put his finger on one of the ongoing challenges facing Morales – ensuring the loyalty of the Bolivian Armed Forces to his “revolution” – and his main tool for addressing it: Cuban and Venezuelan security backing to deter a military coup.
By contrast, Yunus’s Grameen Bank puts at best a microeconomic finger in the leaky dyke of Bangladesh’s largely unreformed macroeconomic policies.
But soon after taking the helm at the Economics Ministry in March 2001, Domingo Cavallo pointed an accusing finger at the central bank.
Neither the US nor any other “advanced” country should be pointing the finger at poor countries, for it is often the most powerful global companies that have created the problem.
It’s like the proverbial Dutch boy sticking his finger in a leaky dike.
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard put his finger on one of the more fundamental problems: “Life must be lived forwards – but can only be understood backwards”.
Not only did China resist measures that had been under negotiation for the preceding year, but Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s decision to send a low-level official to meet with and point a finger at Obama was downright insulting.
We’ve seen hints of a new paradigm in Apple’s iPhone, which allows gestural finger motions, but in the intelligence community, concept visualization can be so radical that most ordinary users might barely recognize what it was.
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