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Eager to produce a car that would embody all manner of advanced technology and safety measures from a rear engine to seat belts, Tucker's mind and spirit far outpaced the abilities of his engineers and backers to keep up with him.
well, i was tempted by this film as the cover promoted, in equal measures, chainsaws and schoolgirls.
The mixed-up measures they take to express themselves and give expression to their feelings of desire and adolescent lust, suppressed by community morality and repressed by personal fear and self-hatred, unfolds over the London suburb of Basinbroke where a stick figure of a 16-year-old--Steven Carter--sits in or outside a public bathroom, trying to make contact with someone.
This is an example of sheer incompatibility between two races, which an angry Captain Kirk instinctively realizes in the 3rd act - he knows it's either his crew or the creature - there can be no half measures.
The story is essentially told from the corporations point of view through Angie and shows logic in their cost cutting measures, while at the same time presenting them as inexcusable.
If you take this film in the spirit it was made then you should be laughing & groaning in equal measures!
Porky takes some drastic measures, and ends up dreaming about his life with the girl he wants to marry, but doesn't want to marry him.
This is no less of a mistake in the case of Russia, with a leader like Putin who measures himself and his fellow leaders in terms of crude machismo.
Faulted by some for its inability to prevent “illiberal” anti-terrorism measures, the Human Rights Act is criticized by just as many others for hampering counter-terrorism policy.
And his frustration at his inability to move the US Congress to pass meaningful gun control measures – owing to implacable opposition from the powerful National Rifle Association and its mostly Republican allies – has been as palpable as it is understandable.
In response, Premier Wen Jiabao announced a series of measures during the NPC, ranging from phasing out agricultural taxes over the next five years to measures aimed at increasing farmers' income.
So far, Greece has shown itself to be unwilling to implement a painful internal-wage adjustment and reform measures forced by outsiders.
They should have a clear idea of what they can expect from the ECB and what outcome (rather than precise measures) the ECB expects from them.
But the measures recommended here would serve to build a more decentralized, incentive-based policy regime.
In the “Copenhagen Accord,” the UN finally recognized the target, though without any binding measures for achieving it.
Within such a framework, ambitious climate-policy actors such as the EU, Switzerland, or Japan would face the task of committing to exacting de-carbonization measures.
For starters, the coherence of Europe’s policies toward Russia improved: the EU threatened to use the World Trade Organization’s dispute-settlement mechanism when the Kremlin announced new protectionist measures in late 2012.
Foreign NGOs such as MSF insist on using medications that are up to World Health Organization standards, but the Chinese government insists that such restrictive measures are excessive.
Still, if competitiveness underpins the sustainability of trade deficits, there is in principle no good economic reason to impose short-run measures – price and cost adjustments – for the purpose of achieving a long-term objective, unless the purpose of price and cost adjustment is indeed to dampen demand.
It is possible, of course, that the United States will solve its political problems and finally adopt the stimulus measures that it needs to bring down unemployment to 6% or 7% (the pre-crisis level of 4% or 5% is too much to hope for).
Finally, new continent-wide measures are needed to ensure that Africans’ online rights are recognized and respected by their governments.
All such measures are designed to strip citizens of their rights.
Schattschneider’s analysis of the process was influential in transferring responsibility for trade measures from the US Congress to the President.
Hence the extreme unpopularity of all measures designed to reduce the public deficit and debt, with strikes breaking out all over the map.
However, there are a number of preventive measures that can contribute to reducing the risk of infection.
These include using insecticide-treated bed nets, spraying indoor walls with insecticides, and focusing prophylactic measures on the most vulnerable groups.
They also must establish a credible plan for medium-term fiscal consolidation – one that entails both higher tax revenues and expenditure reforms, but only once the economy is strong enough to handle such measures.
Central banks frequently stress the limits of their powers, and bemoan lack of government progress toward “structural reform” – a catch-all phrase covering trade liberalization, labor- and product-market reforms, and measures to address medium-term fiscal challenges, such as pension age increases.
How one combines quantity and quality in some index of “life satisfaction” is a matter of morals rather than economics, so it is not surprising that most economists stick to their quantitative measures of “welfare.”
Moreover, the skeptics point out, standard measures of productivity are based on GDP, which, by definition, includes only output produced.
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