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Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders.
Two recent studies concluded that buckyballs could impair brain functions in fish and were highly toxic to human-tissue cultures.
Enacted in July 2012, the law requires all non-commercial organizations (NCOs) engaged in (undefined) “political activities” to register with the Ministry of Justice as “carrying functions of a foreign agent.”
Ireland, for example, had to separate the two functions before it became successful.
Relentless low-level corruption is a major irritant for poor people in many of these countries; indeed, it limits their access to the social services and basic government functions that they often depend upon for their very survival.
There is also evidence that amygdala of reptiles and birds have similar functions.
A fundamental discovery has been that the brain has multiple memory systems, each devoted to different kinds of memory functions.
These elements perform crucial functions, such as transporting oxygen, nutrients, and immunoglobulins (which defend against infection), and regulating water content, temperature, and pH level.
In practice, however, the relationship between currency and finance is vague, with both assuming quasi-fiscal functions.
At the same time, finance takes on quasi-fiscal functions by excluding government fiscal deposits – government deposits in the national treasury, commercial banks’ fiscal savings, and central treasury cash managed through commercial-bank deposits – from the money supply.
In short, though China’s political system functions in a manner that is far more centralized than outlined in the country’s constitution, it provides an increasingly meaningful set of avenues through which citizens can exercise influence over political life.
Buildings are responsible for substantial CO 2 emissions, owing to the materials used in their construction, their cooling and heating requirements, and auxiliary functions such as water supply, wastewater, and solid-waste disposal.
World leaders can allow the IMF to sell some of its gold stock to endow the agency with enough cash to fund its monitoring and surveillance functions.
That is why, in 2003, Governor Harumi Takahashi introduced an experimental and entirely voluntary schedule-adjustment plan that functions much like DST.
Surgery conducted on most intersex infants is cosmetic: its aim is not to ensure proper bodily functions according to medical needs, but rather to bring the appearance of the body into line with established gender norms.
The oil pipeline in the north to Turkey has been repeatedly bombed, and functions sporadically if at all.
Parliament's increasing irrelevance in sorting out these problems--indeed, its role in exacerbating them--is fueling a growing preference among Indians for a presidential system of government that removes executive functions from the oversight of an institution that has been addled and rendered impotent by undisciplined factions.
In parts of southern Yemen, an Al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, functions as a de facto government.
China, for example, has banned shark-fin soup, a traditional delicacy, at official government dinners and functions – a move that contributed to a 30% drop in shark-fin sales from last December to April.
This would also affect the leg that survived, because the PTAs would increasingly take over the functions of rule-making as well.
The “Reagan Revolution” had four main components: tax cuts for the rich; spending cuts on education, infrastructure, energy, climate change, and job training; massive growth in the defense budget; and economic deregulation, including privatization of core government functions, like operating military bases and prisons.
It may be undesirable to have people who carry out public functions – judges, teachers, or policewomen, for example – cover up their faces.
Or does the state take charge when the market fails to perform socially necessary functions – such as fighting wars or maintaining full employment?
Even an economy as impoverished as Haiti’s is a complex system dependent on trade between rural and urban areas, transport, electricity, port services, and government functions.
Most of China’s dams serve multiple functions, including generating electric power and meeting manufacturing, mining, irrigation, and municipal-supply water needs.
In any case, there are far more egregious examples of bad manners at state functions.
The EU, especially the 19-member eurozone, thus functions as a vast home base for Germany, from which it can launch its assault on foreign markets.
Michel Camdessus' successor as IMF managing director should be charged not with renewing and reinvigorating the Fund, but with either drastically curtailing its functions or closing it down.
Can the IMF be abolished, or its functions turned over to a privatized World Bank?
So the question really is, not one of abolition, but of reform – of renegotiating the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944 (as amended) that gave birth to the IMF, and of setting specific and limited functions for it in the new articles.
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