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A growing number of businesses recognize that today’s formula for success includes a focus on pressing societal needs.
Finally, there is a challenge that seems to be pressing, but is not.
Moreover, whereas Germany in 1914 was pressing hard on Britain’s heels (and had surpassed it in terms of industrial strength), the US remains decades ahead of China in overall military, economic, and soft-power resources.
But China has been far from blameless: witness its heavy-handed approach to its Asian neighbors in pressing its territorial claims in the East and South China Seas.
Unfortunately, addressing the world’s most pressing problems is not as simple as setting up a Web site where foreigners can contribute to social improvements in some other country.
That is the most pressing immediate question, but America’s leaders should also be thinking ahead.
The European Parliament is pressing for Turkish recognition of the Armenian genocide.
Yet, as Africa burns, as the AIDS pandemic spreads, and as it becomes clearer that the material means at the disposal of those who ache for a better world do not match their moral aspirations, such choices will become more and more pressing.
Under Bouteflika’s leadership, Algeria’s government has failed to address the country’s most pressing economic and social challenges.
But the most pressing goal must be for Britain to decide what kinds of farms and food it wants to develop, and then to protect their interests in its deals with the world’s major exporters, with which it is attempting to conclude free-trade agreements.
Judicial reform is another pressing issue.
Argentina's crisis should remind us of the pressing need to reform the global financial system - and thorough reform of the IMF is where we must begin.
The question is no less pressing for US intelligence partners abroad.
China and Russia are also sharply boosting military spending, despite their pressing domestic priorities.
Should the United States, the IMF, and other players stop pressing China to move to a more flexible currency regime?
At the same time, the exchange rate is by no means the most pressing macroeconomic problem facing China today.
Yet, when Einstein and his wife appeared as the personal guests of Charlie Chaplin at the 1931 premiere of Chaplin’s film City Lights in Los Angeles, they had to battle their way through frantically pressing and cheering crowds (on whom the police had earlier threatened to use tear gas).
Add to this the fact that a constitutional settlement makes material support and compensation from the Russian government more realistic, and it becomes apparent why Chechens now see a glimmer of hope, albeit still somewhat faint, that peace will leave them better off than pressing on with armed struggle.
And it is still a pressing question today, now that the Fed is winding down its asset purchases, causing capital flows to reverse and leaving many EMDCs high and dry.
This is precisely where societal demands for trustworthy scientific knowledge and non-partisan expertise are most pressing.
With Croatia’s accession at the beginning of July, the EU now consists of 28 member states, each of which has its own particular set of special interests pressing for trade promotion or protection, based on comparative advantage, history, and raw domestic political power.
The problem, of course, is that affecting the trajectories of other societies is typically a difficult, long-term proposition; in the meantime, there are pressing global challenges that need to be addressed, sometimes with the assistance of unsavory regimes.
Pressing risk-related questions require deliberate action on an international scale.
Well aware of western doubts about the party, Erdogan travelled immediately after the elections to western capitals, pressing his argument that the change in government had not changed Turkey's fundamental orientation.
By pressing for membership in the EU, he is reinforcing Turkey's long-held western orientation.
Arabs throughout the region, though preoccupied with domestic affairs, are nonetheless pressing a new generation of leaders to support the Palestinian cause more actively.
And it is scandalous that vast sums are being devoted to maintaining and modernizing these weapons at a time when budget constraints undermine efforts to address pressing human needs around the world.
Add the pollutant emissions from such stoves, together with the deforestation that results from using firewood, and you have several pressing global challenges that can be tackled at once by closing the energy gap.
It is hard for many Russians to see why their leaders have channeled so many resources to Syria when there are such pressing challenges at home.
Their agenda is more pressing, and their problems, frankly, far more serious than ours, which makes it much more urgent for them to develop theories appropriate to the challenges they face.
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