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Much of the risk could be managed by erecting seawalls, building storm doors for the Subway, and simple fixes like porous pavements – all at a cost of around $100 million a year.Learn MoreSandy underscored a fundamental question for all parts of the world that are affected by hurricanes.
Sandy underscored a fundamental question for all parts of the world that are affected by hurricanes.
But while the consensus view that Trump has effectively ceded East Asia to China is not necessarily wrong, it overlooks a fundamental geopolitical fact: American preeminence has created a powerful incentive for free riding in East Asia.
The level, composition, and growth of spending and taxes are the fundamental fiscal indicators.
The most fundamental of these values is democracy, understood to entail not merely periodic elections, but also active and meaningful participation in decision making, which requires an engaged civil society, strong freedom of information norms, and a vibrant and diversified media that are not controlled by the state or a few oligarchs.
Majid Khan – and there are many more like him – is a classic product of the Bush administration’s disregard for the fundamental principles of the rule of law.
The fundamental problem is that medical staff and students are leaving the developing world en masse to train in countries like the US and UK, and then never returning to work in their own communities.
Using data collected online or through telecommunications networks – the wireless providers Orange and Ericsson, for example, have recently made some data available to researchers – it is now possible to address, in a scientific way, fundamental questions about human sociability.
In this sense, it is critical to recognize the fundamental difference between “urban villages” and their rural counterparts.
Such questions were never so urgent in the past, partly because fundamental democratic values were less abstract than they seem nowadays.
But in the world's most advanced countries, the promise of material prosperity that freedom made possible has long since replaced attention to and defense of fundamental democratic values as the cement of society.
By themselves, they merely revealed the urgency of a fundamental reappraisal that has long been necessary.
Beyond fundamental freedoms and economic prosperity, do we have a specific civilization to defend?
Ours is a civilization that accepts selfishness towards one's own family and group; that tolerates, with few exceptions, autonomy in moral matters; and that considers blasphemy, criticism of authority, and even civil disobedience fundamental freedoms.
The urgency of the needs, with a billion people lacking access to drinking water and two billion without proper sewer systems, together with the vast number of diseases that result, underscore the need to recognize such a fundamental human right.
Second, the principle of the indivisibility of European and US security, so fundamental during the Cold War, remains valid.
But our ordinary common sense does not apply in fundamental physics.
This nyet was of fundamental importance.
This presents a fundamental contradiction.
But if there are not to be more and even worse eruptions, Israeli policymakers need to ask themselves some fundamental questions.
Indeed, Chancellor Angela Merkel has bravely asserted “the fundamental right to asylum for the politically persecuted with no upper limit; and that goes for refugees who come to us from the hell of civil war.”
France is not Imperial Rome, where panem et circenses made a fundamental difference.
After a year of Hollande, France is witnessing a fundamental political revolution.
The US remains by far the world’s strongest country, particularly in military terms, but it is confronted with fundamental questions about the use and utility of force at a time when power is relative.
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the fundamental problem in the Middle East is not intervention by the West.
But it may also be useful to consider a more fundamental question: How much productivity growth do we really want, and at what cost?
Strong GDP growth and rising incomes can then support the fulfillment of fundamental human needs and desires.
Without a fundamental turnaround in American political consciousness, the unilateralist amnesia of US foreign policy will have far-reaching consequences and leave a huge vacuum in the global system.
If the international community is serious about alleviating poverty and achieving development goals, tackling the diseases so directly associated with economic misery should be a fundamental objective.
All had one thing in common: they all agreed with the IPCC’s fundamental conclusions concerning the major impact of man-made CO2 on climate change.
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