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People could make even simpler changes to their lifestyles by properly inflating their tires, driving more slowly on the highway – a car is most fuel efficient at about 55 miles (90 kilometers) per hour – and abandoning their SUVs.
Intelligence services in democratic contexts usually have oversight mechanisms that serve to limit abuses of power, and to guarantee effective action by punishing top officials that fail to do their jobs properly.
Only with disciplined budgeting can staff be properly equipped and paid, hospitals stocked, and triage centers opened.
But if that aid is to be allocated properly, recipient countries must already have the ability to manage large sums transparently.
Greenspan did: “I would say that number is zero, if inflation is properly measured,” he replied.
According to Hiatt, “We raised such issues” as whether the Bush administration had properly thought its proposed adventure in Iraq through, “but with insufficient force.”
Why didn’t the American press corps cover the Bush administration properly for its first five years?
Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy.
Moreover, Brazil would have to delink revenues and expenditures – a feature of the country’s budget that renders it difficult to manage properly in times of distress.
Third quarter GDP - properly corrected for these factors - may have been 2% rather than 3.5%.
The credit channel also is not working properly, as banks have hoarded most of the extra liquidity from QE, creating excess reserves rather than increasing lending.
Citizens increasingly claim that political elites do not properly represent them, and that directly elected institutions – national parliaments in particular – are forced to bow to unelected bodies like central banks.
We impress upon potential newcomers the need to plan properly, to train the required number of highly skilled nuclear engineers and scientists, to build the complex technical infrastructure, to establish independent and effective regulatory bodies, and to adhere to international safety standards and security guidelines.
One hopes that it, too, will be properly prepared.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open her country’s doors wide to refugees was an inspiring gesture, but it was not properly thought out, because it ignored the pull factor.
That way, shareholders and investors could properly judge whether the advice given and the investments made were in fact sound in the long run rather than just reflecting the enthusiasm of the moment.
High prices and future discoveries will generate money flows so vast that, if properly managed, they could transform desperately poor parts of Africa into regions of prosperity.
Properly applied, health IT can improve health care in all of these dimensions.
Indeed, today’s global economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis – one defined by social unrest, weakened governments, and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their future.
Governments should thus strengthen their ministries of infrastructure (including power, roads, water and sanitation, and information and communication technologies), as well as their national development banks, so that they can properly design long-term infrastructure projects and programs.
When its nature is properly analyzed and tested, it can be effectively managed and even minimized.
Two dimensions of the issue must be addressed if refugee patients are ever to be properly cared for, and refugee doctors properly deployed.
While it is too early to reach a conclusive verdict on the US loan-guarantee program, it is clear that the Solyndra case cannot be properly evaluated without taking into account the many successes that the program has spawned.
"How can democratic institutions work properly," he asked, "when politics is becoming increasingly criminalized?"
The eurozone, too, must resolve its internal contradictions, either by disbanding or by introducing “a minimum set of institutions and policies” that allow the monetary union to function properly.
Done properly, protecting rain forests is a cost-effective method both to abate climate change and to provide sustainable livelihoods for many millions of people now living in rural poverty.
The fact is that the labor market does not work properly for prospective workers at the end of their prime years.
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
Whether Europe would avoid a deep depression hinged on whether it dealt properly with these two aspects of the crisis.
Many Western strategists and scholars based their assessment on a false assumption: the Soviet Union could also become free, if only its name was properly edited and the right constitution drafted for it.
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