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And as the
methods
of manipulation multiply, the problem is only likely to worsen.
The obsession with doomsday scenarios diverts attention from far more consequential scientific issues, such as securing nuclear power plants and developing safer
methods
for conducting biological research.
He did a good job, using some truly innovative
methods.
Why resort to such elaborate and costly measures against political/religious opponents when simpler
methods
of neutralizing them - such as execution or imprisonment - are available to dictators?
Unless the NBS explains to the public the specifics of its accounting and adjustment methods, we may never know for sure the reasons for these discrepancies.
Such a strategy will require new methods, partnerships, and financing mechanisms.
With simple and inexpensive methods, we have eradicated deadly diseases such as polio and smallpox.
During that period, the US also deployed a strike group, including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, to the region, saying that it would counter “reckless acts of aggression” with “whatever
methods
the US wants to take.”
It would also have to reconstitute the International Monetary Fund to reflect better the prevailing pecking order among states and to revise its
methods
of operation.
The
methods
are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.
But easier access to private finance will force a re-evaluation of the IBRD’s
methods
and the magnitude of its lending.
The Teachers College at Columbia University will watch the school-to-school process carefully, with formal monitoring methods, to assess the value of school experiences in terms of expanded cognitive and ethical learning.
What used to protect us (distance, government intervention, foresight, classic defense methods) has been weakened, and now offers little or no protection.
While the old power game sought the protection of one’s own interests with no concern for those of others, overexposure forces reciprocity of risks, the development of cooperative methods, and the sharing of information and strategies.
According to Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents some of the detainees, the Obama administration cannot risk calling the torture practices crimes, so it calls them “classified sources and methods” that cannot be revealed in court.
Because Dixon has a security clearance, he cannot discuss those classified “sources and methods.”
And proper fishing
methods
that catch only target species should be used, with others caught accidentally as so-called by-catch returned to the sea alive.
Other
methods
of geoengineering – that is, consciously manipulating the climate – include painting the roofs of houses white in order to increase the reflection of sunlight, covering deserts with reflective plastic, and fertilizing the seas with iron in order to increase the absorption of CO2.
With a notable absence of fanfare, in May 2009 the WHO, together with the UN Environment Program, reverted to endorsing less effective
methods
for preventing malaria, announcing that their goal is “to achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT worldwide by 2014 and its total phase-out by the early 2020s, if not sooner.”
While Sarkozy claims that Europe is his priority, his
methods
seem to contradict his intentions.
History suggests that it would be one of entrepreneurial people (alert to unnoticed opportunities, and exercising their initiative to try out new things) and innovative people (imagining new things, developing new concepts into commercial products and methods, and marketing them to potential).
Whichever predictive
methods
doctors use over the next few years will probably enable them to inform those patients with mild cognitive impairment about their chances of developing Alzheimer’s in the short term.
As a result, many of them rely on exports of primary commodities with little change in the composition of exports or their
methods
of production year after year, or even decade after decade.
And, because estimates differ, depending on the data and
methods
used, the concept is clear whereas its value is imprecise.
Ferguson’s argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his
methods
by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
Specific guidelines and rating
methods
need to be developed.
As traditional industries increase their usage of the Internet, they streamline their operations, find new
methods
of collaboration, and expand their reach via e-commerce – all of which accelerate productivity growth.
The Internet enables startups to scale up rapidly and at a low cost, unburdened by legacy systems and traditional
methods
of doing business, while blurring the lines between sectors.
In the Ixtoc case, using such methods, Pemex (wanting to keep the loss figure low) estimated the spill to amount to a little under a half-million tons.
The most stable form of financing, foreign direct investment, has the additional benefit of bringing in new technologies and
methods.
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