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Unfortunately, it is not easy to weigh breast cancer’s dangers against the cumulative effects of radiation from dozens of mammograms over the years, the invasiveness of biopsies, and the debilitating impact of treating slow-growing tumors that would never have proven fatal.
That has proven hard to do even in Latin American countries like Chile, endowed with strong institutions and an established rule of law.
Recently, at the behest of the singers Shakira and Alejandro Sanz, and a social movement that they lead, all of Latin America’s leaders committed to step up the region’s programs for early childhood development, based on the successes that have been proven to date.
Cleverly, Norway pays out the funds to Brazil only upon proven success in avoiding deforestation (compared with an agreed baseline).
The plans are detailed, thoughtful, credible, and based on proven successes that the government has already achieved.
At the end of a successful apprenticeship, a start-up subsidy should be available for aspiring entrepreneurs with good ideas and proven potential as business owners.
The medicalization of sadness has proven to be of tremendous benefit to the mental health and medical professions.
The medicalization of depression has proven to be even more profitable for pharmaceutical companies, whose sales of anti-depressant medications have soared.
Drones – unmanned aircraft that are remotely steered – have proven to be effective in killing a significant number of terrorists, including many of the most important leaders.
But this figure is well below market expectations, as it is based on the Basel 2 rules, which have proven deficient in terms of risk weights and capital “quality” during the crisis.
These hopes have proven illusory.
Estimates vary widely, but there could be up to 20 billion barrels – a volume that would make Kenya one of Africa’s most resource-rich countries, second only to Nigeria, which has 37 billion barrels of proven reserves.
But the space shuttle has proven far more difficult and costly to operate than anticipated, flying only four times per year on average.
Indeed, an increasingly assertive China has proven a diplomatic boon for the US in strengthening and expanding its Asian security relationships.
There have been game-changing developments in other fields as well, many with proven potential to help address global challenges, such as ensuring food security and safeguarding the environment in the face of a rapidly growing global population, expected to reach 9.6 billion in 35 years.
Moreover, the global economic crisis has proven to be a far more serious threat than China’s leaders initially recognized.
As an FDA spokeswoman said, “These kits have not been proven safe, effective or accurate, and patients could be making medical decisions based on data from a test that hasn’t been validated by the FDA.”
Opinion polls placing Fillon as a distant third were proven wrong, partly because many voters seem to have made up their minds just days before the vote.
In fact, some small states have proven highly adept at smart-power strategies.
In a sad irony they seem to have been proven right only recently, when democracy’s greatest triumph, the defeat of totalitarian communism, also ushered in a world of deracinated commitments.
The political usefulness of GDP, and the narrative that more is better for everyone, will be hard to overcome – even if proven wrong.
And nearly all so-called experts have proven highly fallible – witness the United States Federal Reserve’s dismal forecasting record before the crisis.
Deregulation had proven to be a dismal failure.
Yet proven methods exist to slow the spread of HIV by IDUs.
Dampening the repo market could be economically useful, because this funding has proven to be unstable: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers used repo heavily in ways that made them unable to withstand investment reversals elsewhere in their business.
A generation later, he was proven right.
As investors, the Japanese are finally doing well -- going into Yen has proven right.
China’s Internet DictatorshipEleven years after its initial connection to the World Wide Web (WWW), China’s access to the Internet is still guarded by firewalls, embedded in its proxy servers, which have proven to be more practical and impenetrable than the Berlin Wall.
In a country where freedom of expression has been off limits for half a century, the Internet had at first proven to be a godsend: people poured their enthusiasm into it by building Web sites and personal homepages.
This is where Thatcher’s famous statement has proven to be so wrong: there is such a thing as society, and the quality of interactions within it matter profoundly for people’s satisfaction with their lives.
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