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It also built what became the Internet – and then sensibly left most of the development and day-to-day operations to the private sector.
Over the last few years Motorola has been laying off workers in the US and moving operations to Brazil, China, and its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.
One audience member in Helsinki told me despondently that he had soured on globalization after some of his friends lost their jobs through no fault of their own, but merely because Ericsson decided to move some European plants’ operations to China.
When a corporation outsources operations to a developing country, some of its incumbent workers really do lose out (at least in the short run).
Israel recently became the first country to conclude an Individual Cooperation Program with NATO, through which it conducts an ongoing strategic dialogue with the Alliance covering a wide array of areas, including terrorism, intelligence sharing, nuclear proliferation, procurementand logistics, and rescue operations.
In its two years in power, the parliament, known as the General National Congress (GNC), has empowered non-state actors, with ministries bypassing the army to task militias with security operations.
As they contemplate the end of their military operations, NATO members must support a political process if they truly want to stabilize Afghanistan.
Nonetheless, when prices collapsed, the government moved fast, suspending trading of a substantial number of stocks and pursuing price-keeping operations that resembled those pursued by Japan in the 1990s.
Indeed, China’s leaders seem convinced that price-keeping operations amount to an effective mechanism for manipulating stock prices in whatever way they see fit.
Virtually none of these operations is in open rebellion against Rome; many just quietly go their own way.
Third, we must intensify cross-border operations.
More interestingly, the report then asks how the Fund should coordinate its operations with regional bodies like the European Commission and the ECB, the other members of the so-called Troika of Greece’s official creditors.
Second, governments and industry should make sure that security culture, like safety culture, becomes an integral part of every nuclear facility’s operations.
The US established military bases throughout the region, and repeated failed operations by the CIA have left massive supplies of armaments in the hands of violent foes of the US and Europe.
First, and most important, the US should end covert CIA operations aimed at toppling or destabilizing governments anywhere in the world.
The CIA was created in 1947 with two mandates, one valid (intelligence gathering) and the other disastrous (covert operations to overthrow regimes deemed “hostile” to US interests).
The US president can and should, by executive order, terminate CIA covert operations – and thereby end the legacy of blowback and mayhem that they have sustained, most notably in the Middle East.
When Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the Council, opposed the US-backed overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the US would have been wise to abstain from covert operations to topple him.
This month, a number of tech firms, including Microsoft and Facebook, declared that they will not assist any government in conducting offensive cyberwarfare operations, and that they will defend unconditionally any countries or individuals targeted by a cyber attack.
His recommendations include, first and foremost, making all of the IMF’s operations in SDRs, which would require ending the separation of the IMF’s SDR and general accounts.
The IMF would use those deposits to finance its lending operations, rather than having to rely on quota allocations or “arrangements to borrow” from members.
The PiS-dominated parliament has introduced severe procedural constraints on the court’s operations.
Libya was not a smoothly operating country before the civil war started six months ago; today, it is thoroughly broken and will require an enormous amount of rebuilding – post-conflict operations, or “stability ops,” to use the current jargon.
Governance, institution building, security, and agreeing on an international presence are daunting challenges, but probably the most worrisome aspect of post-Qaddafi Libya will be the view among Western experts that experience in Iraq and Afghanistan has given them the knowledge and the skill sets to manage all these operations.
The German operations naturally generate a surplus of funds (given that savings in Germany far exceed investment on average).
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
PIDA gives priority to energy (especially hydropower) projects to support mining operations and oil and gas pipelines, while sidelining renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
The US pays a minority share of UN and NATO peacekeeping operations, and the legitimacy of a multilateral umbrella reduces collateral political costs to America's so-called "soft" or attractive power - ie, its aid and cultural initiatives.
But the IMF has certainly noticed, suggesting that “a more market-determined exchange rate would facilitate SDR operations, in case the renminbi were included in the currency basket going forward.”
Are such businesses – flush with venture capital – running their operations at a loss in order to capture market share?
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