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Satire that is funny without being vicious, "Coneheads" has a smart observation about everything American from golf to immigration policy.
The single most important fact about thought follows from an obvious observation: these four styles are connected.
Other countries can learn from China’s experience through observation and collaboration.
Its space launch vehicles (SLVs) can be used for satellites with a range of applications – including communications, weather, observation, and navigation – which may significantly enhance the effectiveness of China’s military space operations and systems.
It was fitting that Lagarde made that observation in Addis Ababa, because it is in Africa where the rays of prosperity are shining brightest.
Japan will also reportedly sell Vietnam two advanced radar-based earth observation satellites.
In his seminal 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review, W. Brian Arthur identified the important distinctions between a health-care system defined by planning, hierarchy, and control and one characterized by observation, positioning, and flattened organizations.
This points to a critical observation about the current cold war: the West is not “dragging” anyone into it.
A remarkable observation supports this analogy: viruses behave like individual pieces of programs, using the cell as the machine needed to make them multiply and subsequently propagate (often by destroying the machine).
Donald Payne, a leading member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Ana Gomes, a member of the European Parliament from Portugal and head of the EU’s observation team in the 2005 elections, have sought to tie non-humanitarian aid more closely to Ethiopia’s conduct on press freedom and other human rights.
It should start from the empirical observation that no economy has grown on a sustained basis without relying on markets and free exchange.
This observation is not intended to imply that the general direction of monetary-policy accommodation is inappropriate.
The observation that recoveries following a financial crisis are different suggests that standard macroeconomic policies might not work as one would usually expect.
The extension of human rights is a worthy goal, to be sure, but Vasella's saccharine altruism brings to mind economist Milton Friedman's reproachful observation that "businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social' ends; that business has a 'social conscience' and takes seriously its responsibilities forproviding employment, eliminating discrimination . . .
In addition, a recent study comparing outcomes for patients whose prostate gland was surgically removed to those for patients who underwent only observation found no differences in survival rates between the two groups.
In his place, Yeltsin sent the new acting prime minister, Vladimir Putin, whose behavior confirmed the wisdom of the observation that you can take the man out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the man.
Phelps’ key observation in macroeconomics was that the relationship between inflation and unemployment is affected by expectations, and since expectations themselves are endogenous – they change over time – so, too, will the relationship between unemployment and inflation.
I find myself thinking back to the winter of 2008, when I stole – and used as much as possible – an observation by the economist Larry Summers.
The EU vs. DemocracyROME – One of the ways in which the European Union effectively asserts the fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law is through its External Cooperation Programs, whereby, on the invitation of local authorities, it provides support in the form of electoral assistance projects and election observation missions.
So, during the course of 2009, the EU sent election observation missions to various countries, including Mozambique, Afghanistan, Guinea Bissau, Lebanon, Malawi, and Bolivia.
This March, however, the Bank of England acknowledged the observation that he and others had made – that, by extending credit, banks actually create 97% of the money supply.
The best partial explanation that I have seen starts with the philosopher Ernest Gellner’s cruel observation about left-wing academics.
Ultimately, easy money probably does more to reduce income inequality than to exacerbate it – an observation supported by econometric estimates.
This observation hints at the potentially destructive effect that automation, combined with artificial intelligence, will have on labor.
Colombia’s government has gone as far as it can, in the face of much criticism from its own supporters, in not insisting on immediate disarmament or surrender, but instead offering a cease-fire and the rebels the possibility of reintegration into civil society under international observation.
The origin of the black swan metaphor was the belief that all swans are white, a conclusion that a nineteenth-century Englishman might have reached based on a lifetime of personal observation and David Hume’s principle of induction.
My dad never let me forget that heady observation, and as a result of his constant encouragement, I took every opportunity I had to pursue our friend’s prophecy.
In this context, Renzi’s observation that voters have given him an “extraordinary responsibility” is wholly accurate.
The spectacle of American politics today would seem to cast doubt on de Tocqueville’s observation.
It is a shocking observation: as recently as in 2009, European politicians and commentators lambasted the US for being at the root of the financial turmoil and hailed the euro for protecting the continent from it.
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