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Defining new data-driven strategies, managing massive new stores of information, reaching out to new partners, managing across functions, and energizing the organization around a new mission will likely require new management capacity.
As the 2016 presidential election made painfully clear, America’s “free press”
functions
less as a check on political power than as a conveyer belt for unprincipled deception and distraction.
Without opposition support, Lebanon’s government can do little more than manage the most basic day-to-day state functions, but the country is unlikely to relapse into civil war.
Soon, many more ancillary
functions
such as admissions, scheduling, and discharges will be automated.
But, as Michael K. Young, President of Texas A&M University, has explained, because the US Constitution was fashioned when various states, which already had their own laws, agreed to create a political union, it
functions
like a set of ground rules for negotiations among states, as well as among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
States could, in theory, reinvent themselves as the political equivalent of Nike-minimizing in-house activities by contracting out ever more of their
functions
to providers in the global market.
And the question will certainly loom that if
functions
can be restored for those in need, is it right to use these technologies to enhance the abilities of healthy individuals?
China, with 1.3 billion people, is just one country; and the European Union, with some 500 million people,
functions
as a single economic market, with most of its members sharing a single currency.
The UN’s core
functions
– leaving aside peacekeeping missions but including its operations at its New York headquarters; at offices in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi; and at the five regional commissions around the world – now employ 44,000 people at a cost of around $2.5 billion a year.
The European Systemic Risk Council (ESCR) has only monitoring
functions.
A growing body of evidence suggests that similar
functions
govern even more aspects of urban life than the research by West’s team indicated.
Venezuela
functions
with four exchange rates, with the difference between the strongest and the weakest being a factor of 13.
This failure to strengthen key
functions
at the IPCC left the organization unable to prevent and respond effectively to the minor mistakes that appeared in its last assessment report, published in 2007.
Today, as a universal institution, the UN plays a crucial role in legitimization, crisis diplomacy, peacekeeping, and humanitarian missions, but its very size has proven to be a disadvantage for many other
functions.
Interestingly, whereas Britain, France, and the US have not altered their models, many other successful democracies have introduced major changes in order to prevent dangerous problems with how the “pure” variant
functions
in the local context.
In these circumstances, the model
functions
as classic presidentialism (even if it does not produce legislative majorities).
Unlike economists, biologists, for example, know that every cell
functions
according to instructions for protein synthesis encoded in its DNA.
So long as it performed these functions, Austria was viewed as a “European necessity” – a balancer of nationalities and of nations for which there was no conceivable substitute.
Such universal or global compassion – caring about people who are very different from us – probably requires the involvement of higher cognitive functions, and thus may be unique to humans.
Of course, such intense competition will erode firms’ profit margins – a trend that they can offset by integrating Internet technologies into back-office
functions
and logistics.
These are all
functions
of the brain – the key organ in our response to stress.
Compared to these imperatives, there is little to be gained from informing the public about how the economy really
functions
and about the dilemmas of economic policy.
Governments brought commercial banks under prudential regulation in exchange for public provision of deposit insurance and lender-of-last-resort
functions.
Indeed, one indication of the openness of a political system is whether or not a leader appears at public
functions
with his or her spouse.
The more than halving of oil prices in the last 18 months has been accompanied by a major change in how the oil market
functions.
Indeed, not even people who are found guilty of fraud by OLAF and, in turn, dismissed from their
functions
can have access to – much less refute – the evidence against them.
From this technocratic perspective, Brussels today maintains
functions
that even within nation states are often delegated to institutions that are not democratically elected.
If the thought of Dracula and vampires makes us shiver, then the vampire myth still fulfills its
functions
for us: as a projection of our fears and uncertainties, sexual desires, group and personal animosities, and longing for the dissolution of the structure of society.
It also involves developing certain state functions, and improving how the state interacts with the private sector.
Their technical
functions
include blocking overseas Web sites, filtering content and key words on Web pages, monitoring email and Internet cafes, hijacking PC’s, sending out viruses, and inter-connecting with the monitoring systems of the Public Security Bureaus.
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