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Second, the state-run hydropower industry’s growing clout within China has led the government to campaign aggressively for overseas dam projects by offering low-interest loans to other governments.

It would also reduce America’s exposure to growing unrest in the Arab world.

China’s growing interest in the Middle East also decreases the likelihood of an American withdrawal.

Vaccines also have an important role to play in protecting livestock and fish from infections, optimizing the application of antibiotics in agriculture – where their overuse is an important cause of growing resistance.

On June 28, 2012, as European political leaders met in Brussels, amid growing uncertainty about the eurozone’s survival, to negotiate the design of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Germany was playing Italy in a semifinal match in Warsaw.

In 2000, the EU’s executive arm – responding in part to the growing popularity of anti-immigrant and neo-Nazi political parties – enacted the most far-reaching anti-discrimination legislation in the world.

The success of some in having their claims heard is testimony to the growing power of law as a force for positive change in Europe.

Many more economic agents face serious credit and solvency problems, including millions of households in the US, UK, and the Eurozone with excessive mortgages, hundreds of bankrupt sub-prime mortgage lenders, a growing number of distressed homebuilders, many highly leveraged and distressed financial institutions, and, increasingly, corporate-sector firms.

And Syria’s increasingly bloody civil war is no longer a domestic issue, given Iran’s direct support for the regime and the growing number of refugees fleeing to surrounding countries.

And, whereas few people now get ECT involuntarily, and in all cases consent is sought, a large and growing number get antipsychotic drugs under false pretences, including children, vulnerable adults, patients with Alzheimer’s, and a host of others whose lives are shortened by treatment, with no effort undertaken to seek their consent.

First in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, and then in Western Europe and North America, men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories’ growing demand for labor.

Free trade, technological progress, and other forces that promote economic “efficiency” are presented as beneficial to society, even if they harm individual workers or businesses, because growing national incomes allow winners to compensate losers, ensuring that nobody is left worse off.

Indeed, recent surveys show that the public is growing steadily less trusting of the scientific consensus on global warming.

CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades.

The options are far more painful if the pie has ceased growing quickly.

The opposition Democratic Party seems poised to take up growing wage inequality as a central issue in this year’s mid-term US congressional elections and in the 2008 presidential election.

To be sure, we economists have found that globalization appears to have played a far lesser role in growing wage inequality than have technological advances.

Rehearsals for RetirementMUNICH – Over the rest of the twenty-first century, the global human population is expected to keep growing; more important, it will keep growing older.

Failure would result in overburdened and unsustainable public finances, and would expose a significant and growing group of voters to acute poverty.

Links in these chains include not only intermediate products and assembly, but also a growing range of services – research and development, design, maintenance and support, customer service, business processes, and more – as transaction, coordination, and communication costs fall.

Over the next decade, for example, China will replace much of its labor-intensive assembly employment with higher-value-added employment in manufacturing and services, not only in the tradable sector, but also – even more noticeably – in the rapidly growing non-tradable part of its economy.

China’s Arab MarchBEIJING – The growing bloodshed in Iraq and Syria is being watched as keenly in China as anywhere else in the world.

Of course, economic ties between China and Arab countries have been growing stronger for more than a decade, with the trade volume increasing from $25.5 billion in 2004 to $238.9 billion in 2013.

To succeed, China will need to become more attentive to the region’s complex dynamics; find creative ways to participate in conflict-resolution efforts; and respond enthusiastically to Middle Eastern governments’ growing desire to connect to Asia.

Many argued at the time that support for republican Spain meant helping the far more dangerous anarchists and Communists at a time when the Soviet threat in Europe was growing.

In 1996, the Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration stated that the US-Japan security alliance was the foundation for stability that would allow growing prosperity in post-Cold War East Asia.

Although an important trade partner, China’s growing power makes Japan nervous.

More than two million out-of-school children are growing up in conflict zones, whether it be on the fringes of Burma, in South Sudan, or on the Afghan-Pakistan border.

In a country with one of the worst histories of economic crisis and volatility, fears of a new meltdown are growing, and investors have been dollarizing their portfolios in order to protect their capital.

Europe lags behind the US in R&D, and its stinginess over defense contributes mightily to a growing high tech "investment gap."

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