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Last month, Nihalni’s reign of cultural terror came to a head, with the review board demanding 72 cuts from the big-budget Bollywood film Udta Punjab (“Flying Punjab”), a gritty tale centered on the drug culture that is prevalent in the eponymous northwestern Indian state.
Indeed, word-of-mouth transmission of excitement about real estate prices is nearly as prevalent now as in 1988.
No other disease is so prevalent, so rooted in the landscape, and so asymmetrical in its effects on visitors and residents.
The Middle East’s Feminist RevolutionOXFORD – Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabitants of imagined harems, closeted behind rigid gender roles.
That is why inflation is so much more prevalent in history than deflation.
When human-made antibiotics were introduced on a massive scale, the bacteria with resistance became the most prevalent.
Such activities now account for 51% of US wages, and are most prevalent in sectors that employ large numbers of workers, including hotel and food services, manufacturing, and retail trade.
And, even if regarded as true, such claims would not definitively prove that forcing foreign enterprises to transfer their technology is prevalent in China.
Perhaps economists tend to agree that certain assumptions are more prevalent in the real world.
Both approaches need strong senior management support, because they can succeed only in a culture very different from the more controlling, hierarchical R&D environment that remains prevalent today.
The world is not preoccupied today by the “limits to growth,” but awareness of the consequences of growth on the earth’s climate and ecosystem is becoming prevalent.
ZURICH – According to the World Health Organization, depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide, making it one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions.
Norway has set an excellent example – one that all of Europe should follow as the best way to transcend the culture of gender bias and stereotyping that is still prevalent in many companies and institutions.
Somehow, people prefer “softer” values than were prevalent in the last two decades.
Given that these conditions increase people’s propensity to commit atrocities, or to torture, is it any surprise that rape is so prevalent in the US military?
For example, the genes associated with digestion of lactose are more prevalent in populations that have traditionally bred cattle and consumed milk.
Prevalent human traits are often strongly associated with LRS.
Moreover, there remains a serious risk of terrorist attacks at home, especially as attacks by “lone wolves” – like the killing of 38 tourists in Tunisia in June, or the attempted attack in August on a Paris-bound Thalys train – become more prevalent.
And it will be decided by the success of our efforts to stop terrorist recruitment; address the intolerance, economic hopelessness, and exclusion that help create vacuums which extremism fills; and create credible, visible, and empowering alternatives to violent extremism in countries where it is prevalent.
But the gap in self-defined religiosity between Saudis, on the one hand, and Iranians, Jordanians, and Egyptians, on the other, is so great that it challenges the prevalent perception of Saudi Arabia as a highly conservative and religious society.
In these countries and elsewhere, such deaths are most prevalent within the poorest and most marginalized communities.
Notably, fears that robots will take jobs are much less prevalent in Japan and China than in higher-fertility Western countries.
In countries at every income level, disease caused by pollution is most prevalent among minorities, members of marginalized groups, and those who are otherwise vulnerable.
All of these challenges have led former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Harvard colleague Lant Pritchett to argue that China’s growth could slow to 2-4% over the next two decades, as the country succumbs to the historically prevalent growth pattern implied by “regression to the mean.”
But it is more prevalent in developing countries than in the developed world.
And that, too, is a feature of a market dominated by small traders: the “herding” behavior that fuels major booms and busts becomes more prevalent, because individuals assume that others have better information.
The creation of money is often thought to be the domain of the state: this was the prevalent doctrine of the nineteenth century, reaching its apogee in the German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp’s The State Theory of Money .
It seems only reasonable that the NDB should announce steps to support pharmaceutical research into new TB treatments and vaccines, particularly for drug-resistant strains, given that TB is especially prevalent in the BRICS.
With healthcare problems so prevalent, why, then, is healthcare reform so difficult?
Economic theory holds that there are incentives for some market participants to delay a resolution, and these are particularly costly in situations such as those in East Asia and Argentina, where corporate distress is prevalent and where the economy faces a major economic downturn.
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