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From President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang on down, China’s new leadership team is quite sophisticated in terms of analytics, risk assessment, scenario modeling, and devising innovative solutions to tough problems.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in a meeting with US National Security Adviser Susan Rice and others, explained that Israel could not antagonize Russia for fear that it would provide Syria with sophisticated weapons systems (primarily S-300 anti-aircraft missiles) – a move that would upend the status quo in Israel’s strategic environment.
With his lack of a military background, he seems not to have understood that external forces need to work closely with the local army, and that a sophisticated support network must be in place to avoid logistical disruptions resulting from enemy action or corruption.
Recognizing the potentially large economic benefits of regulation might encourage a more sophisticated debate that moves beyond political pantomime and focuses attention on the crucial issue of regulatory design.
Our unique psychological capacities allow us to learn from one another over generations, facilitating a cumulative cultural evolutionary process that produces increasingly complex and sophisticated technologies, languages, bodies of knowledge, conceptual toolkits, and adaptive heuristics.
The program of spreading the liberal order requires a much more sophisticated approach.
A fully developed contingency plan – a sophisticated blend of amphibious, airborne, and ground penetrations to reach swiftly and deeply behind the front, before rolling back and destroying Hezbollah positions one by one from the rear, all the way to the Israeli border – was never implemented.
As large-scale regional free-trade arrangements take shape, the EU continues to signal unequivocal commitment to free trade through sophisticated bilateral agreements.
Although the use of big-ticket equipment, expensive chemotherapy drugs, and sophisticated and complex procedures such as bone marrow transplantation would not be wise, this is not to say that we should give up entirely on cancer treatment in developing countries.
But this was a sophisticated audience of economists and students, gathered for the 20th anniversary of Moscow’s New Economic School.
Unfortunately, the test is expensive and sophisticated, putting it out of reach for many poor countries.
The manufacture of fuels and pharmaceuticals already relies on purpose-developed microbes that create sophisticated biological products.
To maintain its export-oriented production base, output must move up the value-added chain, toward more sophisticated products.
In short, producers of more sophisticated goods and services in developed and emerging-market countries need to be prepared for growing competition from China.
Economists’ more sophisticated forecasting models also show that the fiscal stimulus had an important positive effect, for much the same reasons as the common-sense approach.
Indeed, particularly where Tibet is concerned, the increasingly sophisticated and pragmatic Chinese leadership seems more like a throwback to the Mao era, with its haranguing propaganda and coercive policies.
But it would require a more sophisticated analytical framework than the current one, which merely distinguishes between countries on the basis of whether they meet the EU’s 60%-of-GDP ceiling on public debt.
Indeed, China has developed the world’s most sophisticated system of Internet blocking and censorship, thereby hiding information unfavorable to China’s rulers from all but the most technologically savvy.
Sophisticated computer programs are becoming quite good at grading middle-school essays, if not quite up to the standards of top teachers.
Brave New World DawningSince 1978, reproductive biologists have helped couples overcome infertility by using increasingly sophisticated techniques for generating and manipulating human embryos in the laboratory.
Sweden and Chile are almost poles apart geographically, but both have used sophisticated fiscal rules successfully.
It seemed to me that, yes, our modern sophisticated financial systems had created enormous macroeconomic risks.
At the same time, it has not preserved its ability to entice customers with promises of safe, sophisticated money management.
Second, the correlations between economic growth and financial deepening on which I relied do indeed vanish when countries’ financial systems move beyond banks, electronic funds transfer, and bond markets to more sophisticated instruments.
The American model failed because banks proved to be highly vulnerable to panic once it became clear that sophisticated new financial instruments had formed a haystack spiked with sharp, dangerous, and indigestible losses.
By enabling more sophisticated simulations that discover glitches at an early stage, big data has helped Toyota, Fiat, and Nissan cut the time needed to develop new models by 30-50%.
Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology-intensive industries.
But these instruments are rather sophisticated--too sophisticated, in fact, for most homeowners to embrace.
Even systems of taxation and social welfare are more sophisticated in using new tools of insurance, finance, and information technology.
It is global, technologically sophisticated, but, above all, it is not about an achievable political objective.
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