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A high cost of war is certainly not a case for inaction, especially in the face of a serious risk that Iraq could obtain, and eventually use, weapons of mass destruction.
Such a program could have allowed, encouraged, and made it affordable for uninsured Americans to obtain health insurance similar to what members of Congress have; or it simply could have expanded the existing Medicare system for those over 65 to cover all Americans.
It would enable even the eurozone’s zombie banks to obtain savings deposits at will and use them to finance trash ventures worldwide.
The Spanish government was about to nationalize Bankia, the country’s fourth-largest bank, but could not say where it would obtain the funds to recapitalize it.
How was he was able to obtain a residency permit?
The KRG hopes that a deal with Turkey would allow it to obtain more regular and predictable hydrocarbon revenues.
Such managers can be expected to use their influence to obtain and maintain rules that weaken the rights of dispersed shareholders and make it difficult for shareholders to replace them.
Thus, in the US, corporate influence makes it difficult to obtain long-needed reforms that would eliminate barriers to takeovers and remove legal impediments to the ability of shareholders to replace company directors.
But the insiders that direct corporate lobbying can be expected to seek to obtain and maintain rules that provide insufficient protection to minority shareholders from such opportunism.
It took decades, if not centuries, for them to obtain sizeable public budgets and begin engaging in income redistribution.
Others have to fight endlessly in order to obtain their construction permit from a myriad of government authorities, or clarify their property rights to the land they wish to build on.
If power is the ability to obtain the outcomes one wants, it is important to remember that sometimes our power is greater when we act with others rather than merely over others.
Achieving this goal could offer scientists unprecedented opportunities for innovation, and better enable them to craft bespoke microorganisms and plants that produce pharmaceuticals, clean up toxic wastes, and obtain (or “fix”) nitrogen from the air (obviating the need for chemical fertilizers).
So, judging by the limited contagion from the Turkish crisis, and from other recent episodes, it seems that old patterns may no longer obtain.
Moreover, such a bailout could undermine the ECB’s trustworthiness as guardian of the euro’s stability, particularly in light of the new political power that it would obtain.
In the case of Zimbabwe, it is extremely difficult to obtain such information.
And when, in November, the country faced the first review of its reform progress under its latest agreement with its creditors – an exercise required to obtain a new infusion of bailout funds – its budget deficit was put under the microscope once again.
If their claim is upheld, then the cynics are right: our revolution was merely about whether one class or another, one person or another, would obtain the power to work his or her will.
Synthetic Genomics has a $600 million agreement with ExxonMobil to obtain fuel from algae.
In 2007, in Beijing, I met an American-Korean pastor, who helped my family obtain asylum in the United Kingdom, where I have finally found freedom.
Moreover, as I have argued elsewhere, farmers should be required to obtain a prescription before administering medicine to livestock.
The troubled country could then rapidly obtain a large IMF loan, given that the eurozone countries’ quotas total about €60 billion – and that IMF loans can easily reach multiples of the quota.
Conversely, if an economy is tightly controlled by the state, has protectionist barriers against foreign imports and capital movements, or relies on rents from exhaustible resources to obtain foreign currency, transition to democracy can be plagued by populism and struggles for redistribution, hurting economic growth.
While repealing one law to satisfy his voters – and get elected – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promised new legislation that would restore undocumented workers’ ability to obtain a driver’s license.
Given the risks, the widespread proliferation of drones will demand strict regulation of ownership and usage to ensure that terrorist groups or other hostile actors do not obtain this technology – just as guns are regulated in most jurisdictions and stringent checks are placed on nuclear and chemical weapons.
If farmers can be helped to obtain simple technologies, income can rise, and they can accumulate bank balances and collateral.
With a bit of temporary help, perhaps lasting around five years, farmers can build up enough wealth to obtain inputs on a market basis, either through direct purchases from savings or through bank loans.
They could not obtain bank financing.
To obtain a patent, an applicant must demonstrate that an invention meets three criteria: newness, non-obviousness (that there is an inventive step), and utility (the invention does what it claims to do).
Once again, the idea was met with great skepticism, and it was extremely difficult to obtain peer-reviewed government grants.
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