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Even if one admits that deception may sometimes be necessary, one can still ask about the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, whether the deception is likely to spread through precedent or example, the damage done to various victims, and the deceivers’ accountability (whether their behavior can be discovered and explained later).
Many of us felt that we were seeing the dawn of a new liberal age, in which freedom and justice would spread, like fresh flowers, across the globe.
In the 1960’s, America wanted Pakistan to be on its side as it sought to contain the spread of communism in Asia.
Second, China’s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three-percentage-point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.
In Turkey, growing frustration with this non-inclusive style of governance erupted in June, when the proposed development plan for Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park triggered non-violent anti-government protests, which quickly spread across the country.
But the current spread between the yield on German sovereign debt and that of the Italian and Spanish governments far exceeds what is required to ensure that investors differentiate appropriately.
The Italians and Spaniards are right: the principal reason for the size of the spread between the periphery and Germany is convertibility risk.
By 2005, it was operating across Australia and in Scotland and Hong Kong, and has since spread to more than 20 other countries.
Powell had no equivalent of Twitter to spread the word, and there was no Fox News or Breitbart to create an ideological echo chamber.
Fortunately, scientists are already taking note, and the result is the emergence and spread of a disruptive new approach to research and development.
These groups spread falsehoods about vaccine safety that can lead parents to leave their children unprotected.
In the Rif, a 39-year-old unemployed man named Nasser Zefzafi led protests that quickly spread to other parts of the country.
Today, that endowment is roughly equal to that of Harvard University and spread over 15 universities.
Mainstream economists and policymakers had no difficulty in demonstrating that the establishment and spread of regulated, open, world trading system created extraordinary new wealth.
In Africa, climate change may already be responsible for falling water levels in West African rivers; declining coral reefs in tropical waters; lower fruit production in the Sahel; fewer fish in the Great Lakes region; and the spread of malaria in the Kenyan uplands.
Virtually no expert foresaw the events of 1989; no expert whom I know imagined that China’s next wave of destabilizing protest might come from a mass movement of superstitious middle-aged, middle-class citizens dedicated to recycled notions of Buddhist and Taoist clean living, health through meditation, breathing exercises and mysticism spread via the Internet.
Indeed, Islam’s increasing military prowess helped it to spread rapidly around the world.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent tour of Middle East capitals helped spread the word to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states that any US failure and sudden withdrawal would be certain to destabilize them.
But the spread of the ideology of peace does not mean that threats to security have disappeared.
But if HICCup can set loose a bunch of schoolchildren to study sugar metabolism for themselves, they are likely to spread the message far and wide in their own communities, to friends and family alike.
Kennan maintained that the US should work to create a world that no one can dominate, and that the best way to spread democracy is to demonstrate its superiority.
These ambitious targets – ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV/AIDS – are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.
The spread of manufacturing, and hence greater prosperity, into the nooks and corners of Asia’s hinterlands through trade and investment flows, points to the need for Asian governments to begin to understand, and reckon with, increased economic integration.
Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.
The theoretical ideal occurs when financial contracts spread the risks all over the world, so that billions of willing investors each own a tiny share, and no one is over-exposed.
Moreover, much of that risk, even if insured, continues to be borne in Japan, rather than being spread effectively to foreign investors, so Japan is still alone in bearing the costs.
This design helped spread the earthquake risk from Japan to foreign investors, who could accept the risk and were enticed by higher expected yields.
New social and political movements and structures are emerging, power is shifting, and there is hope that democratic processes will strengthen and spread across the Arab world in 2012.
By stimulating daily public debate about local human-rights violations, they spread the message of discontent more efficiently than traditional parties ever have.
In 2011, the government, fearing contagion from Tunisia and Egypt, where long-established dictatorships had just been toppled, responded to the spread of protests by public-sector workers by raising their salaries by 100% – retroactively to 2008.
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