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Private entities flourish, and a very active stock market allows widespread share ownership.
First, despite the heroic leadership of the Buddhist clergy and the pro-democracy community, almost 50 years of military misrule and terror tactics have worn down Burma’s people, who will likely find it hard to maintain their defiance without obvious splits among the ruling generals or widespread desertions among ordinary soldiers.
A stagnant economy and lack of opportunity are undoubtedly problems, but so are low voting rates, civic apathy, widespread disregard for ethical standards, and indifference to art, music, literature, and ideas.
This underscores the need for sound principles and trustworthy practices to become more widespread as technology changes the way we consume information.
The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale uses a seven-level ranking scheme to rate the significance of nuclear and radiological events: levels 1-3 are “incidents,” and 4-7 are “accidents,” with a “Level 7 Major Accident” consisting of “a major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures.”
Unlike the Great Recession of 2008-2009, today there is widespread hope that America has the capacity to stay the course and provide a backstop for the rest of the world in the midst of the euro crisis.
The Israeli right’s current political dominance is fed by a widespread yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of Arabs, and an uncompromising mistrust of a “world,” the so-called international community, with which Jews have a centuries-old dispute.
Consider some of the areas of widespread agreement that I listed above.
In the US and elsewhere, the Doha round has sparked widespread opposition from workers and trade unions, and has elicited only tepid support from the wider public.
One reason for the widespread respect felt for Nelson Mandela is that years of imprisonment did not embitter him.
Another widespread criticism is that Africa lacks the capacity to try international crimes.
Modern economies would not be possible without widespread literacy and numeracy: many emerging economies are held back by inadequate skills.
Here, the more widespread use of zero-carbon electricity, instead of fossil-fuel-based energy, could have a major impact.
Underlying this discrimination, especially in Europe, is cultural aversion to immigrants from regions with alien cultures, which may account for the absence of widespread protests against the EU's eastward enlargement.
Tailored solutions are required – what works in one city might not work in others – but, because problems arising from weak or absent coordination are widespread, emerging markets should consider governance models that vest accountability for urban health outcomes – together with the authority to shape them – in city governments.
In Sweden, the widespread use of snus – a smokeless tobacco product with a lower concentration of carcinogenic nitrosamines – has contributed to a dramatic decline in the incidence of lung cancer, to the world’s lowest levels.
In many emerging economies, including China, widespread fear of insufficient retirement income is fueling high household saving rates.
These eye-popping statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders.
Those who defend such widespread use of prescription drugs insist that a significant part of the population is under-treated and, by inference, under-medicated.
While Saudi leaders have managed to buy middle-class support by allocating a significant proportion of oil revenues to targeted welfare and credit-support programs, widespread poverty and massive income inequality persist.
Given the widespread belief in Chinese policy circles that the US secretly hopes to re-fight the Korean war and establish a single US-allied Korea on China’s border, the potency of this concern should not be underestimated.
The incipient recovery in the advanced economies appears to be sparking widespread instability, from Argentina to Turkey to India.
With Khodorkovsky's arrest, the authorities flaunted their extralegal and arbitrary powers in such a way that they have aroused widespread public worry.
Indeed, consumption of antioxidant supplements in developed countries has become widespread.
Europe’s Eurasian OpportunityBERLIN – The global energy system is changing fast, fueling widespread anxiety about so-called “energy insecurity,” particularly in Europe.
But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.
Alongside elite self-interest, the pain of ordinary workers and citizens is a genuine and widespread concern.
Spain, which allows for widespread temporary contracts, has had the biggest increase in unemployment, because Spanish workers can be fired as quickly as those in the US.
Indeed, there are widespread reports of Christians fleeing the country as a result of threats being made to their women for not adhering to strict Islamic dress codes.
But West Europeans remember their own traumas, including electricity grid failures and widespread blackouts.
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