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America’s founders sought to ensure that individuals serving in high positions of public trust would be well qualified, not just in the judgment of a single individual, but after thoughtful review by an independently elected Senate.
What if we look at the world as a whole, rather than individual countries?
The shoot-out’s individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.
What Adam Smith described as "the natural effort of every individual to better his own condition" motivates the people who drive the new economy just as it did the old.
It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people's minds – a concept, a person, a brand, or a particular thing or individual.
In modern economies, people distinguish between generic words, which refer to concepts or a set of individual things (a certain kind of fruit, for example), and trademarks, which refer to specific goods or services around which someone has built value.
The ultimate goal of pharmacogenomics is to provide the right drug, at the right dose, for the right individual, without any significant side-effects.
In this scenario, bilateral tensions will continue to mount, because individual disputes are settled in isolation from one another, based on a specific quid pro quo, and thus lack any strategic coherence.So, however their current trade spat plays out, the US and China seem to be drifting toward long-term conflict.
In this scenario, bilateral tensions will continue to mount, because individual disputes are settled in isolation from one another, based on a specific quid pro quo, and thus lack any strategic coherence.
At the same time, we expanded the scope of individual rights, which had long been subordinated to security concerns.
By opening itself to finely shaded demands of the individual, the democracy of late capitalism not only accepts outrage, it cohabits with the outrageous.
With Communism gone, however, the problem confronted by John Paul II and his Church today is this: in what language can evangelical values be articulated in a world where evil is not incarnated in a political system but is diffused in individual souls?
Trump, like his predecessors, tries to hide the fact that only the very wealthy would benefit from this change, because the tax does not apply to estates worth less than $5.45 million for an individual and $10.9 million for a married couple.
To be clear, every individual who has amassed a major fortune in Russia did so at least partly in cooperation with the state.
And the example of China shows that individual hedonism can be successfully combined with political authoritarianism.
Individual businessmen may succeed, but the economy will not.
On one hand, capitalism offers the best safeguard of individual freedom, choice, and entrepreneurial initiative.
At the very least, greater transparency in individual member states’ third-party purchases is needed.
Even so, the evidence from the OECD’s 34 member countries is that immigrants generally pay more in taxes and social security contributions than they receive in individual benefits.
The OZ program grants US governors the authority to designate up to 25% of low-income census tracts – those with an individual poverty rate of 20% or higher, and median family income below 80% of the state or territorial average – as OZs.
But restrictions of this kind - affecting both private and public sectors -- are often necessary because of imperfect information: we cannot really be sure what motivates an individual, even if the individual seems of the highest integrity.
In 1989, following pressure from Parliament, the government commissioned David Calcutt to chair a committee to “consider what measures (whether legislative or otherwise) are needed to give further protection to individual privacy from the activities of the press and improve recourse against the press for the individual citizen.”
By examining the voting patterns of people in individual regions of Slovakia in the 1918-1939 and 1990-1998 periods, the Slovak sociologist Vladimir Krivy revealed that municipalities and regions that inclined towards liberal parties in the inter-war period continued to be so disposed when freedom was restored after 1989-1998.
The EU has driven a revolution in how countries live together – advancing individual rights, international law, and the pooling of sovereignty.
In conformity with Germany’s demand, the additional capital would come first from the market and then from individual governments – and from the European Financial Stability Facility only as a last resort, thereby preserving the EFSF’s firepower.
Whereas the practicality of this remains to be seen, surely individual consumers should have a right to know which data of theirs is being collected and how it is being used.
OXFORD – A new way of thinking about individual choice has taken the political landscape by storm.
Unfortunately, however, hyper-rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.
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