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In developed economies, corporate profitability has been steadily rising, partly owing to “shareholder-primacy” strategies that focus on short-term decision-making, cost-cutting measures, and other forms of financial engineering encouraged by institutional investors.
The US Military’s Rape CultureNEW YORK – Around the world, people’s understanding of why rape happens usually takes one of two forms.
We might try to tap bio-fuels, but only in forms that do not compete with food supplies or with precious environmental assets.
It is true, however, that human rights are still violated, ignored or suppressed in many countries in the world; sometimes in mild forms, other times brutally.
The primeval foundations of all religious systems contain, in different forms, the same basic principles, the same moral imperatives.
The electorate also said no to the more virulent forms of nationalism, leaving the right-wing extremist parties marginalized.
Europe in the Back SeatMADRID – Reform of global economic governance is still firmly on the radar screens of policymakers, but there is little evidence that the European Union has developed a forward-looking or coherent approach to the new forms that the G-20 is committed to establishing.
All totalitarian systems have one thing in common: by crushing all forms of political expression except adulation of the regime, they make everything political.
These events will take many forms: street traffic will be slowed down, campaigns will be launched in many schools, and roundtable discussions will be held to explore how we can ensure that smart policies continue to spread.
That way, people who fill out tax forms would have to learn the units of account.
The Electronic Money RevolutionMost journalistic accounts of the new forms of electronic money misleadingly spin the story as the emergence of yet another convenience for the technologically pampered.
These new forms of money sound like power windows on cars, or remote control for TV sets.
But media coverage has failed to look far enough into the future, and to comprehend the full extent of the changes that will be wrought by new forms of electronic money, as people and businesses invent new ways of doing business.
As new forms of money reduce these costs, the richness and complexity of our economy will be increased.
With the latest forms of electronic money we can sell millions of little things, to millions of different people all over the world.
Other forms will follow.
It will be exciting to see what new forms of intellectual content are invented in coming years and decades.
That is why we have design teams, advisory boards, inter-agency taskforces, and other forms of group interaction.
The only viable strategy for confronting the threat of Islamic terrorism was, and continues to be, a search for agreement among Muslims, and among the leaders of Muslim nations, on the forms of mutual cooperation, including police cooperation, that are needed to isolate, weaken, or destroy the militants in their midst.
The way forward lies in democratic forms of federalism, which can preserve sufficient central authority for the purposes of statehood, while respecting local and regional cultures.
Such developments suggest an advanced and deeply disturbing trend, whereby certain segments of the European intelligentsia are willing to violate their own beliefs in order to target one state for unique stigmatization; and whereby insidious and sometimes illegal forms of discrimination against that state’s citizens are increasingly seen as acceptable.
The possibility that the Palestinians are capable of deliberate decisions, that they have adopted policies which may have contributed to the current situation, or that they have exercised their own forms of power and violence, is, in this framework, never admitted.
Unless British academics are ill informed, they know that Israel, far from being an “apartheid state,” has a large proportion of Arab citizens; that Israeli universities are well integrated, in some cases with considerable numbers of Arab students, as well as a number – admittedly small and insufficiently representative – of Arab faculty; that many universities sponsor collaborative projects with Palestinian and Arab colleagues; that they are often sites of dissidence against government policies; and that such dissidence, even in radical forms, is tolerated.
And they have failed to keep up with technology, taking advantage of the potential benefits of big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and new forms of mobility, while managing effectively the related risks.
The promise of rising material prosperity forms the foundation of the CCP’s claim to legitimacy.
But, like Russia, China has been far more active using other forms of influence over the last decade.
These regimes have shrewdly adopted some of the forms, but not the substance, of soft power.
While “information warfare” forms a part of the authoritarians’ repertoire, it is by itself an inadequate description of sharp power.
He would likely accomplish far more if, instead, he offered an explicit promise that the US would come to the GCC countries’ defense against external aggression in all its forms.
Also, while more advanced life forms, like humans, cannot mate with members of other species, microbial evolution is less constrained by this “species barrier.”
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