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The immediate trigger for the current conflict was the murder of three Jewish teenagers in Hebron, on the West Bank.
Instead, the US should undertake three things: aggressive testing of various architectures for a missile defense system, including sea-based systems that could intercept missiles in the immediate post-launch, boost phase before warheads and decoys can be released; careful study of the consequences of moving to various mixes of offensive and defensive systems; and intense consultations with Russia, China and America's allies in Europe and Asia about how to maintain strategic stability in the post-Cold War era.
The most immediate step should be an initiative by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to get the funds flowing with a minimum of bureaucratic delay.
Few Palestinians see anything wrong with the move, although many are not certain that it will produce much in the way of immediate and tangible results.
He did not mean special advisers, or producers of programmes for immediate use and writers of speeches for presidents and prime ministers.
Thus, the political effect of intellectuals is rarely immediate.
Even if China can engineer this, it implies an immediate outflow from the workforce, with the benefits lagging by 25 years.
Geneva on the RhinePARIS – Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of Germany’s reunification, French magazines were full of caricatures of Chancellor Helmut Kohl wearing the traditional pointed Prussian helmet.
Second, were China to close itself off, it would damage its neighbors’ economic prospects, thus destabilizing its own immediate region.
They could profit from smartphones with simple adaptations that can be used in a range of health-screening tests (for example, for cardiovascular disease, HIV and other pathogens, or malaria), with the results being sent straight to hospitals for an immediate response.
On the EU’s most immediate challenge, posed by Russia, Tusk will have to broker decisions with leaders from countries that feel immediately threatened (like his own) and those for which economic ties with Russia outweigh any threat to European security, which they feel to be remote.
Being able to converse directly with the Council’s members, mostly in English, might be the biggest immediate challenge, as he admitted immediately.
In particular, investments in regional development via the “one belt, one road” initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank may produce expanded trade and growth in Asia (and beyond), though the effects will not be immediate.
An immediate injection of emergency food and medical aid is urgently needed to break the vicious circle of suffering and violence.
Beyond the enormous human suffering and loss of life, the most immediate byproduct of the region’s turmoil is the potential for more severe and frequent terrorism – both in the Middle East and emanating from it.
Sustaining investment, on the other hand, has an immediate cost: it means deferring consumption.
Australia’s close cooperation throughout the search with China – whose citizens comprised nearly two-thirds of those aboard the ill-fated flight, and whose naval and air resources have been unceasingly devoted to the common effort – has borne immediate fruit: a highly successful visit earlier this month by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
What matters at any point in time is to alleviate a society’s immediate binding constraints – another reason why different policies are needed for different places.
Second, developing and emerging economies still offer immediate opportunities for large high-return investments, which should be financed by what appears as excess global savings.
This is the Europe of Copernicus and Erasmus, Henry the Navigator and Isaac Newton, and all the other pioneers who unshackled the human mind from the superstition and prejudice of the immediate past.
For the first time in history, however, neither the laureate nor any member of his immediate family will be present in Oslo to accept the award.
Indeed, polls indicate that Poroshenko’s appeal lay largely in his focus on immediate internal challenges.
In the immediate future, Ukraine and the European Union must focus on building a functioning relationship.
Big international banks pour in lots of short term capital into a region, and then suddenly pull the plug, demanding immediate repayments, and being unwilling to roll over the credits.
Trump’s immediate circle and senior appointees should be welcome for discussion and debate.
Potential international risks go beyond the immediate neighborhood.
Even if the result would have been longer-term stability, the immediate political consequences were too unpleasant.
Such statistics indicate that Hong Kong and mainland China have been linked to each other closely in economic areas, and that the handover of sovereignty may not have much immediate impact on both sides.
The immediate issue is management of the EU Council of Ministers.
Some Democratic activists seek an immediate withdrawal and are pressing for Congress to cut off funding for the war, but that is unlikely.
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