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In Sarajevo, thousands of apartments have been deemed illegal due to outdated urban plans and missing building permits, locking families’ most valuable assets outside the mainstream economy.
A combination of inept urban planning and ignorance of the true economic cost of such events can all too easily allow valuable community assets to be swept away.
The most visible is the structural approach, which invests money wisely in flood protection, drainage, preservation of wetlands and forests, and remedial action – based on sound risk assessment – to protect valuable infrastructure.
The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, has wasted valuable time on the irrelevant Doha round.
Computers mean that higher-skill workers – and the lower-skill workers who remain to oversee the large robotic factories and warehouses – can spend their time on more valuable activities, assisted by computers that demand little.
What really matters is whether the jobs outside of the robot-computer economy – jobs involving people’s mouths, smiles, and minds – remain valuable and in high demand.
The Board has also issued some valuable warnings in its so-called “vulnerabilities” assessments.
But one can still glean valuable strategic insights from Kim’s diplomatic gambit.
The northern powerhouse strategy provides valuable lessons for other countries.
Thus, to satisfy his desires, the man is purchasing something that is more valuable than what he is selling (such as his labor).
In exchange for exported dollars, which cost the US little to produce, the US receives valuable goods and services.
They underutilize and misuse valuable human resources; and they often give rise to political or social turmoil, often marked by ideological or ethnic polarization, which then leads either to wide policy swings or to policy paralysis.
After all, China spent valuable political capital to oppose NATO’s airstrikes at the beginning of the intervention, only to end up backing the forces that NATO helped bring to power.
Russia must be convinced that its resources will be far more valuable if they are opened to international investment, managed transparently, and operated according to the legal and commercial rules of the international trading system.
What it does have is the capacity to influence ordinary Chinese – making them a valuable addition to a pro-reform coalition.
Militant Palestinians and Lebanese know that a captured Israeli soldier or civilian is either a cause of conflict or a valuable bargaining chip for prisoner exchange.
The study provided valuable insights into homegrown terrorism, for it revealed a consistently close link between radicalization and “vicarious” experiences of marginalization and discrimination.
As in Afghanistan and Central Asia, America and Russia could be valuable partners in pursuit of common objectives.
Great Power status on the Security Council remains a valuable hedge, but in a world where there is only one superpower, the informal rules of the game have changed.
In practice, green accounting might easily have led our forefathers not to cut down forests, because this would entail losing a valuable resource.
Admittedly this is not true in all fields: the study of Ancient Greek fragments is valuable even it meets hardly any demand.
One source is central banks seeking to keep the value of their home currencies down so that their workers can gain valuable experience from exporting to the rich world.
Second, perhaps the inflow of capital into America was and remains justified: perhaps there is something uniquely valuable about investments in America today.
After all, the market is essentially just a form of self-organization whereby everyone tries to earn a living by doing things that others find valuable.
For them, and for the cause of lasting peace in the region, that could be an immensely valuable start to the new year.
Against this background, women’s involvement becomes even more valuable.
Valuable information is more likely to be shared by friends than among acquaintances.
Employees may think twice before leaving a company if they are set to lose valuable perks as a consequence.
And that can be a very valuable asset for an incumbent Fed chair – one that no other candidate could match.
Companies like Expedia, Yelp, and TripAdvisor argue that Google searches are depriving their Web sites of valuable traffic, putting their businesses at a disadvantage.
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