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In January, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that the US was not pursuing options that involve “boots on the ground” to secure Assad’s arsenal during the conflict.
There was no “policy skeleton,” no cost-benefit analysis, and no evidence that alternative policy options were considered.
As the situation worsens, all will have to reconsider their options.
Abe had no good options.
Between 2007 and 2016, the 19 pharmaceutical companies in the S&P 500 as of January 2017 spent $297 billion repurchasing their own shares to boost their stock price, and thus the value of their executives’ stock options.
Similarly, the volatility premium, defined as the price of options that insure against falls in the equity index, has fallen considerably.
But what of the military-response options still strongly favored by many policymakers and pundits?
We will only solve global warming by ensuring that alternative technologies are better than our current options.
Although their options were limited, many of them had enough confidence that the reformist candidate would not only get elected, but also make life a little better.
The challenges facing US President Barack Obama as he tries to win support for risky and expensive policy options from quarrelsome Democrats and obstinate Republicans will create some tortured legislative compromises.
Today, Moon is entertaining a range of similar “soft” options – such as reducing military tensions, increasing people-to-people contacts, and offering more humanitarian aid – to help shift course gradually.
NATO allies have been looking at various missile-defense options for some time.
As a result, many programs now offer new options to reach these groups, such as confidential workplace testing and self-testing.
But China and Russia should welcome THAAD, because it alleviates the need for South Korea or Japan to pursue other defense options, which could include the development of nuclear weapons.
For example, if family members beat or abuse a woman, she has few options.
The effectiveness of available options is limited, and all of them are pregnant with unpredictable political and military consequences.
There are as many opinions about what should be the top priority for funders as there are options.
By highlighting the effectiveness of some options – or pointing to policy choices that require further research – the new research and Nobel laureate findings can assist donors and catalyze optimal choices about where funding should go.
In May 2003, the investment bank Goldman Sachs created options markets for home prices, for the UK as a whole and for Greater London, with both to be traded on the London Stock Exchange.
Like the British options and futures market for home prices, this novel insurance policy is also, for the time being, a limited development, made possible by new information technology in the form of electronic databases of home prices and characteristics.
Regulators permitting, insurance companies will then be able to write policies against loss of home value for individuals, and then will be able protect themselves against the risk to which these policies expose them by taking offsetting positions in the futures or options markets.
For India, the issues on the agenda for Obama’s visit are immense and complex, and the options for resolving them are extremely limited.
The constraints on US options, the veto of circumstances, offers little room for diplomatic improvisation.
But addressing such shortcomings by ostracizing legitimate religious-political options merely reinforces jihadist recruiters’ argument that violence is the only way to secure reform.
Greece, one hopes, will not be forced to leave the eurozone, though temporary options such as imposing capital controls may ultimately prove necessary to prevent a financial meltdown.
By acceding to Musharraf’s desire to keep Sharif on the political margins, the US has left itself with few options if the Bhutto-Musharraf alliance fails to produce a government acceptable to Pakistanis.
Other options that the economists favored spending some of their $50 billion include providing micro-nutrients to the world’s hungry, establishing free trade, and battling malaria with mosquito nets and medication.
Electoral democracy operates in most countries through the intermediary of organizations which put up candidates representing specific bundles of policy options, a "manifesto" or a "platform."
The US and its Asian allies have the same four options as the Atlantic Alliance had 60 years ago.
The legally and diplomatically controversial options of preventive strikes (against a gathering threat) and preemptive strikes (against an imminent threat) make them easier to propose than to implement.
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