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Europe's tendency to equalize salary and treatment of professors and researchers also reduces the incentive to engage in good research and good teaching.
But there is a growing tendency to plan out four years of governing, with leaders then using legislative periods not to debate laws, but rather to enact previously agreed policies.
During the Cold War, most Europeans tolerated America's tendency to lead unilaterally, because of the Soviet threat and the preponderance of US power.
The problem is more than just the tendency of productivity to grow more slowly in services than manufacturing.
So, how can governments’ tendency to satisfy fiscal targets by wishful thinking be overcome?
The social sciences' egalitarianism runs counter to both the humanist fixation on elite "classic" texts and the natural scientific tendency to generalize across species.
And he faced a Congress and an economics profession with a tendency to confuse these real demons with imaginary ones.
A half-century later, the simultaneous revolts in the Arab world were the result of neither political tendency, instead reflecting broad popular rejection of dysfunctional and corrupt authoritarian governments.
But this tendency can be mitigated, if civil society recognizes the importance of preserving lower-income housing.
That tendency remains dominant.
What these perspectives on labor-replacing technologies share is a tendency to focus on advanced economies.
The basic idea of the structuralist approach is that while market forces are always fluctuating, the unemployment rate actually has a homing tendency.
As its power grows, China seems determined to choke off Asian competitors, a tendency reflected in its hardening stance toward India.
The role of the Holocaust as the constituent myth of the Zionist meta-narrative reinforced Israel’s tendency to face “the world,” an amorphous but imposing construct with which the Jews wage a dispute that cannot be resolved through the traditional tools of international relations.
Moreover, because this tendency reflects fundamental shifts in the way that people eat, it will be difficult to reverse.
There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki’s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.
The growing tendency of many professions to produce winner-take-all outcomes may play a role as well.
And, judging by his tendency to offer pie-in-the-sky ideas, rather than realistic policies, it seems likely that he will respond to that pressure with more manipulation.
It has been said that presidential democracy only strengthens Russian political culture’s tendency to favor rulers with a “strong hand,” whereas a parliamentary system would allow for a more “horizontal” distribution of power.
A greater tendency to consume would “serve to increase at the same time the inducement to invest.”
The second is the growing tendency among Palestinians, other Arabs, and many Europeans to prefer a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state to the original two-state solution.
To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long periods.
Europeans have a traditional tendency to denounce American military adventurism while relying on the US as their protector.
To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and prohibition in favor of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.
His secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, underscored this tendency during her first visit to China, where her unmistakeable message was that order and stability take priority over liberty and human rights.
Instead, they emphasize family management of the smaller firms and a tendency to select and reward people on the basis or loyalty rather than merit.
Indeed, Weidmann views the BoJ’s decision as an alarming sign of central banks’ growing tendency to bow to political pressure.
The strength of this political tendency became fully apparent in May 2014, when anti-European populists performed well in the European Parliament election.
As Waltz observed, nuclear arms have a tendency to spread.
The prevailing belief in a reliable tendency to return to some normal degree of inclusion has little ground to stand on.
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