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Only individuals and families counted.
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further.
As a result, something new will color the habits of those who govern Ukraine from now on: respect for individuals, which is the ultimate check on the abuse of power.
The important point is that within the next 10-15 years we will have identified hundreds of genes that predispose individuals to virtually all of the common, late-onset diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular, neurological, and metabolic diseases.
As a public-policy credo, corporatism has come to mean that the government must support all members of society, whether individuals or organizations, giving support to failing businesses and protecting existing jobs alike.
As Le Bon emphasized, people cannot easily do great things as individuals.
For example, in India, Delhi’s suffocating air pollution has led the government to experiment with “even-odd” policies: individuals can drive only on certain days, based on the numbers on their license plates.
During its 20-month construction period, the project promised business opportunities for subcontractors, compensation to communities and individuals for properties destroyed, 435 kilometers of road, and more than 7,000 jobs.
This constitutes a powerful disincentive for Chad and Cameroon to act against company malfeasance or to defend individuals adversely affected by the project.
The individuals involved in this campaign are not only scientifically uninformed, but show absolutely no interest in becoming better informed.
For some traits, we do not have to speculate – we can measure and compare on the basis of studies covering thousands of individuals over several generations.
In one, they sequence the DNA of particular genes in many individuals with or without some determined health condition and look for differences between the two groups.
When we estimated how much of the variation among individuals could be attributed to biology, the answer was less than 5%.
But it would be a mistake to limit our concern solely to Islamic terrorists, for that would ignore the way that technology is putting into the hands of deviant groups and individuals' destructive capabilities that were once limited primarily to governments and armies.
Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable.
It is now easy to envisage extremist groups and individuals killing millions without government helpPolitics has plagued efforts to agree on a common definition of terrorism at the United Nations.
Because individuals from the departing country could continue to hold euros, leaving the EMU would not cause a loss of existing wealth.
As premiums rise, even more relatively healthy individuals will be encouraged to forego insurance until illness strikes, causing average costs and premiums to rise further.
Individuals who do not receive insurance from their employers are required to purchase insurance on their own, with low-income buyers receiving a government subsidy.
But the biggest danger to Obamacare’s survival is that many individuals who do not receive insurance from their employer will choose not to insure themselves and will instead pay the fine of just 1% of income (rising permanently after 2015 to 2.5%).
The preferred alternative for these individuals is to wait to buy insurance until they are ill and are facing large medical bills.
But private insurance companies could solve that problem by creating a new type of “emergency insurance” that would make enrolling now unnecessary and allow individuals to take advantage of the wait-to-insure option.
It would not satisfy the broad coverage requirements that Obamacare mandates, forcing individuals to pay the relatively small penalty for being uninsured and to incur the subsequent cost of buying a full policy if one is needed later.
But the combination of emergency insurance and the wait-to-insure strategy would still be financially preferable for many individuals, and the number would grow as premiums are driven higher.
The “wait-to-insure” option could cause the number of insured individuals to decline rapidly as premiums rise for those who remain insured.
That restructuring of insurance would simultaneously protect individuals, increase labor mobility, and help to control health-care costs.
Former US President Bill Clinton called this response a “democratization of development assistance,” in which individuals lend their help not only through their governments but also through their own efforts.
It is heartening to see wealthy individuals defying these attacks, not only by openly acknowledging the economic and social damage caused by extreme inequality, but also by criticizing a system that, despite enabling them to prosper, has left too many without opportunities.
Whole neighborhoods and individuals were brutally punished for complaining to or cooperating with the monitors.
Groups like the Syrian National Council are loose associations of individuals and groups, many of them outside Syria.
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