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It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.
But innovation as a fundamental value explains the scientific breakthroughs of the West versus the East.
Lives versus ProfitsNEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning intellectual-property rights.
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu focused not only on a politics of confrontation with the Palestinian leadership under Yassir Arafat, but also cultivated a politics of internal confrontation - between religious and secular Jews, between "old timers" and newcomers from the former Soviet Union, between European and Middle Eastern Jews (Ashkenazi versus Sephardi).
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"NATO’s Libyan LessonsWASHINGTON, DC – NATO’s intervention in Libya one year ago helped to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and created the conditions for Libya’s citizens to end Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s dictatorship.
Think about the different effects of interest rates on debtors versus creditors.
Despite the emphasis on target-based drug discovery, phenotypic screening produced the lion’s share of the first-in-class small-molecule medicines approved between 1999 and 2008 – 28 phenotypic medicines versus 17 target-based drugs.
Cities versus suburbs and rural areas is a better description than coasts versus heartland.
Perhaps there is only fast versus slow, or extraordinary versus ordinary.
In the “Brexit” vote, the fault lines were clear: rich versus poor, gainers versus losers from trade/globalization, skilled versus unskilled, educated versus less educated, young versus old, urban versus rural, and diverse versus more homogenous communities.
Similarly, the net export deficit – the broadest measure of a country’s trade imbalance – has been 4% of GDP since 2000, versus an average of 1.1% over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
The “semi-conductor chips versus potato chips” debate also underlined a different point.
Not surprisingly, South America is growing much faster than its neighbors to the North – 4.4 versus 2.7% in 2010-11, according to a recent Inter-American Development Bank report.
The gap is already wide – the International Monetary Fund forecasts a $484 billion deficit this year for the US, versus a $262 billion surplus for the eurozone – and is almost certain to widen much further, owing to the euro's 20% depreciation since the IMF released its estimate last autumn.
This division remains particularly acute in economic and social policy, though it also extends to other areas, like education policy (for example, extended education versus early specialization).
The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital inflows and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.
versus 2.3%) Such sustained differences in growth rates work as powerful engines to diminish, over time, the existing gaps in income across countries.
And yet, the battle between the “party of reason” and the “party of emotion” – progressives versus populists – is far from over.
Since 1991, growth has averaged just 0.9% versus 4.5% over the previous two decades.
Data on the scope of the stimulus package – for example, investment per province or the number of new projects versus those that more cash would restart or reinvigorate (and these projects versus those that would be shut down) – are difficult to determine.
An unprecedentedly weak economic recovery – roughly 2% annual growth over the past nine-plus years, versus a 4% norm in earlier cycles – says otherwise.
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"Plugging the Leaks in Africa’s EconomiesDAKAR – Africa is usually perceived as a net beneficiary of the global financial system, with aid and investment flowing to the continent from richer parts of the world.
New York versus Houston makes that point just as well as France versus Greece.
Football chauvinism always contained an edge of violence, for it often included an ethnic, religious, or class component: Protestants versus Catholics (in Scotland);“Jewish” clubs (in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Budapest), taunted by fans who opposed the “Yids”; posh clubs (like Galatasaray in Istanbul) and resolutely proletarian sides (West Ham in London); clubs that took pride in a strong regional identity (Barcelona); and clubs that were close to the centers of power (Real Madrid).
To a neutral observer in the 1940’s, the war was mainly a war of Nazism versus Communism.
This is a key reason why political differences quickly turn into clashes of views on the country’s identity – religious versus secular, Islam versus Egyptianness, and military rule versus its emerging successor.
Economists versus the EconomyLONDON – Let’s be honest: no one knows what is happening in the world economy today.
This is not really an election about such hotly-debated issues as outsourcing, tax increases versus entitlement reforms, government control of production versus unfettered private sector activity, or job creators versus free riders.
Not surprisingly, the last time American culture had such a reversal of iconography was during the Great Depression, when films like “The Grapes of Wrath” cast down-to-earth simplicity – versus the corruption of wealthy elites – as a shining virtue.
Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry: these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.
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