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But imposing limits on free speech, protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, raises difficult practical problems.
As the Fed slowly raises interest rates, those middle-class families holding their hard-earned savings at the bank will finally start realizing some return on their deposits.
This means growth that raises average living standards; benefits society across the income distribution, rather than just the rich; and protects, rather than wrecks, the natural environment.
All of this raises a simple question: Do extensive- or intensive-growth models really exist?
The political report’s focus on China’s principal contradiction also raises important questions about what still may be missing from the Party’s long-term strategy.
Assuming the US raises no objections, the board’s decision to proceed with Cuba’s application will be followed by the establishment of an ad hoc committee of executive directors, including the one chosen by Cuba to represent its interests.
As so often happens in biotechnology, what looks at first like an abstruse technical issue raises many questions that cut to the core of our humanity.
The global economic crisis laid bare the challenge of debt reduction – and the risks that excessive indebtedness raises.
This failure to follow through reopens old wounds and raises troubling questions about the legitimacy of an institution that, reflecting the long shadow of history, is dominated by a handful of advanced countries.
This raises the practical question of what Iran’s current bomb-making capability is.
While the revelation may appear merely to be a historical footnote, more profoundly it raises new uncertainty about whether Israel now thinks that it can rely on the United States to apply military force to stop Iran’s nuclear program should diplomacy fail.
This raises the question of whether Israel’s repeated refrain that “all options are on the table” implies that even a nuclear strike is possible.
This pattern, likely to continue into the next decade, raises important questions.
Building for Israelis in East Jerusalem is illegal under international law, raises tensions, and, by making it ever harder to define the lines separating the city into the capitals of two states, complicates efforts to reach a peace agreement.
The strengthening of the value chain not only raises farmers’ incomes, but also empowers crop diversification and farm upgrading more generally.
This new approach raises an important question: Can China’s impact on the region be more constructive than that of the United States?
When a fiscally responsible government launches a war, it typically cuts back on other domestic expenditures and raises taxes.
Of course, Morales’ election also raises many important short-term doubts and questions.
A model of growth that the economist Tyler Cowen has called “cell phones instead of automobile factories” raises the obvious question: How do people in the developing world afford to purchase cell phones in the first place?
So am I, and the question Gates raises goes to the heart of the relationship between business and government in solving our societies’ toughest problems, from ensuring the planet’s continued habitability to fostering stable and inclusive economic growth.
The crisis now unfolding raises broad issues concerning democracy and science, the relationship between risk and benefit, and the conflict between imperatives of trade and health.
As pro-democracy protests shake Arab authoritarian regimes, the prospect of sustained conflict threatens a global economy still dependent on oil, while the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and nuclear accident raises doubts about the security of nuclear energy.
One hopes that its leaders respond, though their fondness for autocratic measures and indulgence of illiberal and intolerant statements by their supporters – behavior that has spurred serious concern across the political spectrum – raises serious doubts that they will.
This transference of responsibility also raises serious practical challenges.
The result should help India to continue – not without occasional turbulence – its journey toward becoming a high-growth economy that raises the standard and quality of life for the poor.
This raises a fundamental question: Do we want a reactive central bank that focuses on cleaning up the mess after a crisis erupts, or a pro-active central bank that leans against excesses before they spark crises?
That raises two additional questions: Might a pro-active Fed have prevented the crisis from occurring in the first place?
Doing so raises the distinct possibility that the Fed will lack the ammunition it will need to counter the inevitable next recession.
This raises a fundamental question: Is Afghanistan’s territorial unity really essential for regional or international security?
From the perspective of the European Union, the latest US security bailout raises the possibility that after more than two decades of growing prominence, Europe will lose its agenda-setting power.
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