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Even with more available toilets, it takes time for people to adopt new sanitation habits, which is why nongovernmental organizations such as WaterAid have called for more education – in schools and in the media – to explain the health, safety, and economic benefits of better hygiene.
Happily for world exporters, the same binge mentality that makes a whopping two-thirds of Americans either overweight or obese seems to extend to all their purchasing habits.
But if the two countries fail to overcome their bad old habits of mutual suspicion, their remaining – quite powerful – nuclear arsenals will continue to serve deterrence and self-deterrence.
Our expectations of other drivers, which serve to mitigate the theoretical risks of driving, can exist because people adhere to a framework of laws, habits, and conventions about how to operate automobiles.
Their mobile-first shopping habits, openness to travel and new experiences, and rising purchasing power suggest that the products and services they buy will influence consumer markets worldwide, fueling global economic growth.
A Trans-Atlantic TransitionAUSTIN – Despite many calls for a “new Atlanticism” or a “new transatlantic bargain,” the US-European relationship remains imprisoned by old habits.
The habits of compromise and moderation have grown out of a history of workplace struggles between labor and capital – struggles that played out largely on the manufacturing shop floor.
As the middle class in southern countries has grown, its members’ consumption and nutritional habits have changed, boosting global demand for processed foods – and setting off a scramble for market power among multinational agricultural, chemical, and food corporations.
Customers will have to change their payment orders and habits just because harmonization has become an end in itself for many in the EU.
But Trump’s challenge to the media status quo may not be an entirely bad thing: journalists now have an opportunity to root out the bad habits associated with cozying up to those in power.
This behavior could also be observed after the creation of the ECB, which has inherited the Bundesbank's habits about interventions.
This view, supported by a more skeptical reading of Argentina’s borrowing habits and history of stop-and-go dynamics, deserves special attention.
Old social structures were destroyed, socialist customs and habits vanished overnight, former norms and unwritten rules were abandoned.
To be free but alone is not easy, particularly when habits of dependence are ingrained.
Despite rhetorical bromides about requiring “ministers to unlearn ingrained habits and focus on substance, not rhetoric,” and about “business associations engaging with the granular detail of what companies want,” this proposed Plan B would strengthen the bilateral and regional trade initiatives that have diverted energy and attention from Doha and the WTO.
Recently, however, Japanese spending habits have changed significantly.
This cultural vacuum is most evident in the mismatch between the region’s reading habits and the response of its publishing industry.
When the bubbles burst, households understandably became fixated on balance-sheet repair – namely, paying down debt and rebuilding personal savings, rather than resuming excessive spending habits.
That will require resolving the disconnect between the structural shift to services and the behavioral norms that will ultimately shape the spending habits of its people.
But designing effective policies to diminish the obstacles confronting women and girls requires measuring the prevalence of the attitudes and habits that limit their potential.
Their overall effort may be useful, because it injects into Central European debates a diversity of ideas that is essential for people who once lived in the sterile atmosphere of a totalitarian regime, and where habits of conformity linger.
But the honeymoon certainly will not last for long if bad old habits reassert themselves.
But at least we have had clear warnings about the dangers of such habits, so people who want to use such knowledge can avoid being trapped.
This is also what they miss even as they relapse into the bad old habits at home.
As in so many other respects, universities not only in Europe, but also in Japan, South Korea, and developing parts of the world, including China and India, need to loosen rigid structures and habits to avoid decay and nurture a renaissance.
Francis can attract attention by opining about social justice outside the church, but it is difficult for any pope to influence the habits and theological views of Catholics themselves, who think and act as they please.
These skeptics overlook the profound changes that new technologies gradually make in our habits as we discover their possibilities.
Realizing that no single group is powerful enough to impose its habits on others, Nigeria's peoples are working out ingenious ways to accommodate one another's differences.
Yahoo!’s biggest opportunity lies within its half-billion registered users’ own possessions and habits, their photos and friendships and electronic data that is now becoming sufficiently extensive and complex to need management.
Governments should capitalize on this trend by implementing a major social-media campaign highlighting the smarter, healthier habits that all people should adopt – habits that would indirectly reduce demand for antimicrobials.
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