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Likewise, anthropological work across a great range of societies clearly describes emotions of sadness that develop in response to frustration in love, humiliation by rivals, or the inability to achieve valued cultural goals.
Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.
The DSM-III’s confusion of normal intense sadness and depressive mental disorder, which persists to the present, emerged inadvertently from psychiatry’s response to challenges to the profession during the 1970’s.
It may have had something to do with the near-total lack of response of long-term interest rates to monetary tightening.
He says that it merely reflects a feedback mechanism that is always present: any initial upward shock to asset prices strengthens the balance sheets of financial institutions, so in response they borrow more and bid up prices even more.
In response to this offer (and to bad publicity), Merck, Abbott Laboratories, and Bristol Myers Squibb, three large patent-holding companies, announced that their willingness to supply the African market at "zero profit" – ie, at around $500 per patient per year for the AIDS drugs they produce.
And, though the issue raises obvious questions of justice and efficiency – poor countries, having invested large sums in education, now produce graduates who take jobs and pay taxes abroad – Europe has provided little in the way of an effective response.
In the face of non-monetary policy responses that are somewhere between deficient and non-existent relative to the magnitude of the challenges we face, the natural response in a democracy is to replace the decision-makers and try something different.
The added inflexibility (or inelasticity) amplifies the price response to a real or perceived crop shortfall either in the US or elsewhere.
The bottom line is that the current version of US biofuels policy, with its fixed requirement for blending, leads to a greater price response in the event of a crop shortfall – in the short run.
With several years to adjust, we would expect a powerful supply-side response to higher commodity prices now prevailing all over the world.
Gun Control After NewtownNEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens.
Climate campaigners changed their approach after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate-change summit last December and the revelation of mistakes in the United Nations climate panel’s work – as well as in response to growing public skepticism and declining interest.
But the real change that is needed is the realization that drastic, early carbon cuts are a poor response to global warming – no matter how they are packaged.
The effort to revive international coordination began in response to the 2008 global financial crisis.
Indeed, far from laying the groundwork for a protracted recession, China’s response – increasing imports and accelerating domestic structural reforms – will support high-quality long-term growth.
When progress is not being made, non-tariff barriers grow like weeds in response to domestic interests.
Educating residents of low-lying coastal areas about the warning signs of a tsunami (tremors and a sudden recession in the ocean), establishing a warning system involving emergency broadcasts, telephoned warnings, and air-raid-type sirens, and improving emergency response systems would have saved many who were killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
The voices of countries such as China, India, and Brazil had to be heard if a coordinated response to the crisis was to be found.
In the face of today’s global challenges, the only possible response must be global.
The ruling group in the Kremlin was variegated and conflict-ridden, but its response to the crisis was effective and even creative.
Indifference, by contrast, is never creative, for it means that no response to injustice, and no help for the suffering, will ever come.
But RWT is costly, too, as we have seen, so the aggregate negative effect of the policy response to false positives (AWF) would have to be large to be convincing.
According to the US State Department, the number of Iranian Sufis has grown significantly since 1979, perhaps partly in response to state-imposed orthodoxy.
One response is to assert that market outcomes always make everyone better off in the long run.
A second response is to acknowledge the distributional implications, but to accept them as the price of efficiency and openness.
These crises have stretched the EU’s powers and institutions up to – and beyond – their limits, which is why Europe’s response has been so mortifyingly weak.
Second, policymakers and health-care providers must transform the standard response to TB to make it more equitable, rights-based, non-discriminatory, and people-centered, not just in health settings but also in workplaces, schools, and jails.
Rather, it is the logical response to a member-state government that has routinely violated citizens’ fundamental rights and EU values.
But the response in many quarters – not least in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries that immediately condemned and retreated from nuclear energy – once again typified an enduring lack of knowledge concerning two fundamental issues.
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