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Fortunately, national leaders are starting to take concrete steps toward expanding access to health care.
As part of the campaign, I will be meeting with leaders throughout Africa to encourage them to take tangible steps toward strengthening primary care.
Even without adding energy exports to its diplomatic arsenal, Russia may take steps to mitigate that risk, by encouraging Iran to delay reaching a final nuclear agreement with the international community.
The four countries will hold their next meeting in Damascus this coming December to decide on further steps.
As new loans are considered, steps should be taken to ensure that the benefits are as inclusive as possible.
Here, the EU is not starting from scratch; important steps were taken during the crisis.
After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the EU – rooted in the post-war European Coal and Steel Community – began with similar small steps toward integration.
Such a system cannot be overhauled through small incremental steps.
Russia would interpret German steps toward a nuclear arsenal as a direct threat to its own national security and would likely adopt military countermeasures.
The adage in the bull market of the 1920’s was “one step down, two steps up, again and again.”
The updated adage for the recent bull market is “one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again,” so far at least.
In the US, three steps can be taken now to achieve this goal: a substantial increase in the minimum wage and a robust earned income tax credit (EITC), both indexed to regional costs of living and automatically adjusted for inflation; and easy enrollment of eligible workers for federal and state benefits.
Together, these three steps would ensure that full-time workers (in one or multiple jobs) do not live in poverty or constant economic insecurity.
For its part, the EU should do more to help Italy take the tough steps it needs.
He did eventually come to understand the nature and severity of the crisis, and then took decisive steps that contributed to halting the economic freefall.
Instead of one comprehensive fix, what is needed are steps that address the problem from multiple angles.
Governments can take these steps if they introduce and expand programs designed to assist those who would lose their jobs as a result of trade liberalization.
And yet the sector has taken virtually no steps to improve quality and sustainability, or to promote social justice.
China, India, and Indonesia are all well positioned to take important steps forward.
Unless the US steps up its investment in education, science, technology, and infrastructure, these adverse trends will continue.
The waste volumes are so large – estimated to be 30 million cubic meters (enough to fill the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome more than 20 times) – and the material so complex that the final steps of management need to be carefully optimized, even if the main contaminant is relatively short-lived radiocesium.
It neglected the fact that groupings like the EU began with small, practical steps forward.
So diplomatic efforts must instead aim to join Americans and like-minded Asians in common cause, to push for steps forward in the medium to longer term.
Without the UK, they argue, it will be easier to advance integration, as the remaining members are somewhat less heterogeneous, and therefore more likely to agree on steps that Britain might have opposed.
That is how the post-war Coal and Steel Community was transformed into the EU – one step at a time, understanding that each step was incomplete and would require further steps in due course.
Is it time to start thinking about what steps to take to prevent our own creations from becoming hostile to us?
NEW YORK – China’s willingness to join negotiations on potential sanctions against Iran and to send President Hu Jintao to a nuclear security summit in Washington this month are important preliminary steps towards taking more responsibility in managing international affairs.
These brave men and women, and those like Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Leszek Balcerowicz, who led Poland during its first steps in freedom, succeeded through their combination of courage, intellect, and integrity.
They claim that the security environment is not mature enough to take bold steps toward nuclear disarmament.
There are steps that can and should be taken to attack or neutralize certain types of viruses or bacteria; to reduce vulnerability to infection; and to reduce the consequences of infection if, despite all of our efforts, we become ill.
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