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Can one count on this readiness when the threat is real, but more diffuse, abstract, potential, and often geographically remote?
General Electric, for example, is cutting down the functions provided by its medical equipment to only what is strictly useful in order to supply remote rural clinics across the developing world.
With the United States now in recession (and the possibility of a deep recession not that remote), it is striking how positive ECB officials sound about the European economy: Europe’s “economic fundamentals are sound,” the economy is “robust,” economic performance is “just below potential,” and so on.
Our complex value chains reach deep into some of the most remote corners of the world.
As John F. Kennedy put it a half-century ago: “By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.”
These challenges are particularly acute for people in Sub-Saharan Africa, in remote island states, and in several landlocked countries.
Indeed, because many of these developments are so remote, residents often face a long, uncomfortable, and costly daily commute to reach good jobs.
As a result, a Kenyan farmer in a remote district can now obtain information about crop prices or transfer funds, without having to travel long distances and wait in lines.
And it could enable real time, on-demand transport services for remote areas.
On the EU’s most immediate challenge, posed by Russia, Tusk will have to broker decisions with leaders from countries that feel immediately threatened (like his own) and those for which economic ties with Russia outweigh any threat to European security, which they feel to be remote.
The impulse simply to cut the Gordian knot of debt by defaulting on it is much stronger when creditors are remote and unknown.
NATO is, in a way, going global, as it forges partnerships with countries as distant as Japan and Australia to engage in security activities in places as remote as Central Asia, Africa, and the Arctic.
The Australian defense authorities now coordinating the search still say that to discover wreckage probably lying 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) deep, on so remote a seabed, will be like “finding a needle in a haystack.”
Instead of waiting for a grid to come to a town or village, renewable energies can be swiftly deployed in remote areas.
And what’s striking today is how remote the disaster of September 11, 2001, now is for most New Yorkers.
Likewise, the absence of detailed rainfall records, particularly in remote areas, impedes efforts to assess flood and drought risk.
Regular sweeps over cropped areas using remote sensing – something like a full-body health scan – can quickly gather information on rainfall, land temperature, and even groundwater levels that would otherwise take months to obtain.
Trump’s Dangerous Blank CheckNEW YORK – The US Department of Defense’s decision to drop an 11-ton Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb over a remote Islamic State (ISIS) redoubt in Afghanistan does not reflect a coherent counterterrorism policy.
Never mind that a global, decentralized network of extremists will hardly be deterred by high-intensity detonations over remote badlands.
They have lived fruitful lives together, cultivating crops and grazing cattle in a remote village in the hills of southwest Uganda.
Intriguingly, some of the most important insights into the causes of MND – and thus how it can be treated – have been gained through observations of natives of the remote Pacific island of Guam and Italian soccer players.
Even countries with relatively strong institutions find it difficult to project power in remote areas.
So billions of dollars were poured into new developments in remote locations where nobody wants to live.
Likewise, mobile banking provided through cell phones has enabled access to financial services in remote areas without bank branches.
In the current context, geopolitical tensions create the remote possibility of a disaster – the odds of which shift daily – that would make everyone much worse off.
Perhaps the risk of a remote catastrophe is what created the “global saving glut” that former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke warned about in 2005.
In West Africa, private companies such as Ignitia are expanding the accuracy and precision of SMS weather alerts to remote farmers.
Friendly (or at least constructive) relations between both powers would thus appear to be a remote possibility, at least for the foreseeable future.
Given his penchant for oversimplification, Trump not only fails to deal effectively with the problems at hand; his short-sighted policies will likely trigger unintended consequences, and possibly even the so-called butterfly effect, whereby remote minor events can trigger the failure of complex systems.
Several weeks ago, the government of Tajikistan blocked YouTube and reportedly shut down communications networks in a remote region where government forces were battling an opposition group.
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