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If you think that GMOs might “accumulate formaldehyde” – a chemical that is probably carcinogenic at high levels but is present in most living cells and found widely in our environment – the obvious response would be to measure its levels in the organisms.
Indeed, though no human-rights treaty has been more widely ratified than the CRC, which requires governments to report on their compliance once every five years, its work lacks adequate resources and enforcement.
To be sure, economic performance will vary widely among EU countries.
According to the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer, the public’s confidence in the status quo has collapsed worldwide, owing to widely held concerns about globalization, innovation, immigration, the erosion of social values, and corruption.
Confronted by a common deadly threat, civilians rally around the only leaders who can do anything to protect them, even if those leaders are widely disliked.
Estimates of how much electricity Bitcoin mining requires vary widely – some put it as high as 30 terawatt hours per year (equivalent to Morocco’s entire electricity demand), while others suggest it’s a sixth of that.
Moreover, China’s intellectual circles are being pluralized, owing to the emergence of ideologies such as the New Left, democratic socialism, nationalism, neo-Confucianism, and new liberalism, while political discourse is permeating society more widely through foreign reporting and social media like Weibo, a Chinese microblogging Web site that resembles Twitter.
Moreover, this kind of technology will be useful only if it is widely used, notably in China and India.
And we will have to engage major companies in a new way, giving them ample incentives and market rewards for success, without allowing them to hold a monopoly on successful technologies that should be widely adopted.
Progress is needed on emission-reduction targets and on sharing knowledge and technology more widely.
While experimental monetary policy is now widely accepted as standard operating procedure in today’s post-crisis era, its efficacy is dubious.
But there was no evidence that the more widely dispersed ash blowing over Europe from Iceland would cause similar problems.
The LHC is a magnificent engineering project, whose many “gee-whiz’’ features have been widely reported.
Today, something similar could very well happen to the young Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (widely known as MBS), as he takes steps to modernize his country.
Such global economic and technological forces are widely viewed as beyond the control of countries’ governance structures, raising doubts about the efficacy of policy responses.
But while extreme inequality and poverty are unacceptable in most societies, some disparities of income and wealth are widely viewed as a tolerable, even inevitable, corollary of a market economy, though the specific level of inequality that is considered appropriate varies across countries.
The president travels widely, speaks frequently, and mobilizes political support with his anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric.
It is widely believed that the president would like to reduce the clergy’s influence and increase the power of the Revolutionary Guards, his main source of institutional support.
But another, less widely discussed social determinant – maternal nutrition – could be.
They were surprised by evidence that babies grow in the same way worldwide, as long as they receive the same care and are not constrained by environmental factors – evidence that challenged the widely held notion that ethnicity and gender are major determinants of a child’s development.
The standard explanation is weak Chinese demand, with the oil-price collapse widely regarded as a portent of recession, either in China or for the entire global economy.
Recently, the US National Intelligence Council published four widely different scenarios for the world in 2020: Davos World, in which economic globalization continues, but with a more Asian face;Pax Americana, where the US continues to dominate the global order;New Caliphate, where Islamic religious identity challenges the dominance of western norms; and Cycle of Fear, in which non-state forces create shocks to security that produce Orwellian societies.
Climate economists widely acknowledge that there are only four policy levers that can be used in an attempt to lower carbon emissions and rein in climate change: reducing the world’s population, shrinking the global economy, increasing the efficiency of energy consumption, and decreasing carbon intensity (meaning that we create less carbon for each unit of energy that we produce).
The expectation is that if financial opening works in Shenzhen, it will be implemented more widely.
After all, it was once widely asserted that an African-American without a political machine could not become president.
But asking hard questions of our nation’s leaders is exactly what democracy demands when the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina is widely viewed as “a national disgrace.”
Livni, at last widely accepted as a leader worth her salt, spoke loudly of peace with the Palestinians in the last day of her campaign.
But once the idea was proven successful, it was widely imitated by other organizations, depriving the AMEX of a big share of the returns on its innovation.
Perhaps he will replace the widely criticized foreign minister, Witold Waszczykowski.
Though crime rates differ widely between (and within) nations, the reported homicide rates for Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Brazil are among the world’s highest.
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