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A final settlement of the lengthy dispute with Egypt over the waters of the Blue Nile – which rises in Ethiopia – appears to be in sight, and could have a
powerful
impact on economic growth.
But designing the right reforms is only part of the challenge:
powerful
vested interests will make reform politically difficult.
Recent studies show that financial incentives to promote earlier retirement are sometimes powerful, so much so that continuing to work becomes a prohibitively expensive.
The most
powerful
member of a network is the node that has the most connections to others, which means that a node can increase its power not only by adding connections directly, but also by increasing the connectedness of nearby nodes.
If NATO connects with the African Union, for example, and increases the AU’s connectedness, then both NATO and the AU become more central to the network and hence more
powerful
in terms of their ability to exercise influence and marshal resources.
Can one picture a childish man, compulsive and narcissistic, surrendering without a fight the larger-than-life toy that is the top job in the most
powerful
country on the planet?
The information-and-communications-technology (ICT) revolution is surely the most
powerful
single force for economic development in the world today.
In short, the links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation are too
powerful
and obvious to be ignored.
But while the consensus view that Trump has effectively ceded East Asia to China is not necessarily wrong, it overlooks a fundamental geopolitical fact: American preeminence has created a
powerful
incentive for free riding in East Asia.
Back then, the Friedmans made three
powerful
factual claims about how the world works – claims that seemed true or maybe true or at least arguably true at the time, but that now seem to be pretty clearly false.
Indeed, the logic of hegemony clashes with the current phenomena of fragmentation and autonomization – think of Pakistan, for example, or Italy – which create imbalances and asymmetries that are not always favorable to the
powerful.
For centuries, China was by far the region’s largest and most
powerful
country, holding sway over the surrounding seas and treating most of its neighbors as inferior, vassal states.
These concerns require that fiscal exit strategies be planned, announced, and implemented soon, before the stimulus programs become permanently entrenched, develop
powerful
dependent constituencies, and greatly increase the risk of rising interest rates, inflation, and taxation.
By committing to full transparency and pushing private partners to do the same, FSM will send a
powerful
signal that sustainable fishing practices are urgently needed to protect these crucial species.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas), which emerged during the first Intifada in 1987, grew more
powerful
in the 1990’s, after the return of the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and the creation, as a result of the Oslo Accords, of the Palestinian Authority.
So open trade requires no cosmopolitanism; it just needs the necessary domestic adjustments to ensure that all (or at least politically powerful) groups can partake in the overall benefits.
Politics seems a more promising avenue: US trade policies in steel and aircraft are probably better explained by policymakers’ desire to help those specific industries – both of which have a
powerful
lobbying presence in Washington, DC – than by their overall economic consequences.
These policies are popular with voters, and they are protected by
powerful
actors (for example, the strong export-oriented business sector) and by trade agreements with almost all the world’s major economies and regional blocs.
Unfortunately, we have no computers
powerful
enough to run any other useful quantum algorithm; building
powerful
quantum computers is a major scientific and technological challenge for the coming decades.
Indeed, even if Romney served two terms as president, the Fed would lean to the left, because Obama has either appointed or re-appointed five of its Board of Governors’ seven members: Bernanke, who was re-appointed in 2009;Vice Chair Janet Yellen, the second most
powerful
board member, whose term ends in 2024;Daniel Tartullo, who will step down in 2022;Sarah Bloom Raskin, who will serve until January 2016; and Elizabeth Duke, whose term ended in January of this year, and whom Obama will likely nominate for a new 14-year term.
But the real danger is that
powerful
lobbies, working through members of Congress, are pushing back hard against the FSOC and its mandate.
She reminds physicians that, for the person suffering intense pain, what dominates awareness above all else is a
powerful
negative emotion.
In the short term, there are good reasons to believe that the most
powerful
among Iraq’s three main groups will do so.
With the need to maintain trust in the competitive, politically charged, and often unpredictable energy sector both greater than ever and more difficult than ever to meet, an international forum dedicated to addressing concerns and easing tensions could be a
powerful
tool.
Barring the unlikely possibility that he will mount a presidential run sometime in the future, he is effectively abdicating one of the most
powerful
positions in the US government, and abandoning his country to the leadership of an unhinged and unqualified kleptocrat.
Just before he gets there, he has an encounter that sheds
powerful
light on what may be US President Donald Trump’s most important shortcoming.
It is not a trait one expects to find in educated, mature adults – and certainly not in the person who holds the highest office in the most
powerful
country in the world.
Unlike Musharraf, Zardari cannot count on the support of the army, which remains Pakistan’s most
powerful
state institution.
Oversight and the power of the purse will be their most
powerful
tools.
But there is little doubt that security has a
powerful
claim on people’s wellbeing and thus on resource allocation.
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