In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

Many historians trace modern Ethiopian foreign policy to the reign of Emperor Tewodros II, whose primary concerns were the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders, obtaining technology from Europe ( or modernization ), and to a lesser degree Ethiopian rights to the monastery of Dar-es-Sultan in the city of Jerusalem.

While serving as First Sea Lord, his primary concerns dealt with devising plans on how the Royal Navy would keep shipping lanes open if Britain fell victim to a nuclear attack.

Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.

Wokou or Japanese pirates were one of the key primary concerns, although the maritime ban was not without some control.

One of the primary concerns with mariculture is the potential for disease and parasite transfer.

In the January 2010 version of the ranking, Nintendo scored 1. 9 points, at which, three days later, Nintendo issued a response that addressed primary concerns, highlighting a policy to indicate the materials used in each product, which makes end-of-life recycling of products easier.

One of the primary concerns is how to successfully remove heat from the reaction chamber without interfering with the targets and driver beams.

Entity integrity concerns the concept of a primary key.

But the primary benefits are from the Bond Scores: the Gold Cord concerns magic, and helps the magus avoid magical botches.

Despite these concerns, they believed that Nasser would use the Ba ' ath as the primary method of controlling Syria.

In certain applications, where small size or power efficiency are not primary concerns, the components used may be compatible with those used in general purpose x86 personal computers.

The commutative ring theory, commonly known as commutative algebra, primary concerns itself with problems and naturally-occurring ideas in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

As the primary representatives of their governments, plenipotentiaries Serge Witte of Russia and Jutaro Komura of Japan debated, risked their reputations as diplomats, and successfully negotiated a peace treaty that resolved the grave concerns of each nation.

Flexibility and weight are primary concerns for materials ; ideally, spars would be sufficiently flexible to allow control over the shape of the sail without being too flexible, as well as lightweight in order to maintain a low and stable center of balance.

One of their primary concerns is regarding the child ’ s seating and positioning in the school environment.

The primary health concerns associated with carbon monoxide exposure are its cardiovascular and neurobehavioral effects.

:" In its original form, Gee's work is intricate and tactile, and while the imagery is sometimes almost overwhelming, the primary concerns are those of a painter ; dealing with form and space.

In those days, the primary concerns were the physical planning of St. Louis Park, updating zoning and construction codes, expanding sewer and water systems, paving streets, acquiring park land and building schools.

The Vandals, and new Germanic tribal coalitions like the Alamanni and the Franks now became the Roman ’ s primary security concerns.

Paralleling some current immigration concerns, in the early 1900s Congress's primary interest in immigration was to protect American workers and wages: the reason it had become a federal concern in the first place.

Filial piety is considered so important that in some cases, it outweighs other cardinal virtues: In a more modern example, “ concerns with filial piety of the same general sort that motivate women to engage in factory work in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and elsewhere in Asia are commonly cited by Thai prostitutes as one of their primary rationales for working in the skin trade ”.

Orgia are popularly thought to have involved sex, but while sexuality and fertility were cultic concerns, the primary goal of the orgia was to achieve an ecstatic union with the divine.

The story concerns a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination.

The primary story that concerns Budai in Zen ( Chán ) is a short kōan.

A careful student has suggested that `` In any new revision ( of the Judicial Code ) the legislators would do well to remember that the allocation of power to the federal courts should be limited to those matters in which their expertise in federal law might be used, leaving to the state judiciaries the primary obligation of pronouncing state law ''.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

Autumn, particularly in most parts of the United States, also has a strong association with the start of a new school year, particularly for children in primary and secondary education.

It was later selected, with some controversy, to be the primary weapon for the Canadian Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor, along with the new Astra fire-control system.

Coke soon returned to England, but Asbury was the primary builder of the new church.

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

Prefabricated classrooms were also built and 928 new primary schools were constructed between 1945 and 1950.

As time advances, new technologies are developed ; these technologies are the primary way in which the game changes and grows.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

For Jews, the Torah-written and oral-is the primary guide to the relationship between God and man, a living document that has unfolded and will continue to unfold whole new insights over the generations and millennia.

At the time the NAVCOMMSTA was the primary tenant, but as the new major facilities were completed, most notably the expanded anchorage and mooring area and the extended airfield, other tenants were commissioned.

Research in which a parallel phylogeny of bacteria and insects was inferred supports the belief that the primary endosymbionts are transferred only vertically ( i. e. from the mother ), and not horizontally ( i. e. by escaping the host and entering a new host ).

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

The rapidly growing population of Poland within the new boundaries was ¾ agricultural and ¼ urban, with Polish being the primary language of ⅔ of the inhabitants.

He stated the new government's primary task would be to prepare elections.

It is designed not only to fully accommodate the requirements of the traditional Janet user base-all research institutes, universities and further education-but also to meet the needs of a new userbase in the UK's primary and secondary schools.

In the 1940s, new interpretations of John's reign began to emerge, based on research into the record evidence of his reign, such as pipe rolls, charters, court documents and similar primary records.

His new interests would lie in more fundamental issues of social sciences ; his works from this latter period are of primary interest to modern scholars.

A primary feature of MUSH codebases that tends to distinguish it from other multi-user environments is the ability, by default, of any player to extend the world by creating new rooms or objects and specifying their behavior in the MUSH's internal scripting language.

The term " computer game " also includes games which display only text ( and which can therefore theoretically be played on a teletypewriter ) or which use other methods, such as sound or vibration, as their primary feedback device, but there are very few new games in these categories.

Also a change was made that same year to the Patriots uniforms, changing their primary colors from their traditional red and white to blue and silver, and introducing a new logo.

The new team took as its primary colors the blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants ( which are conveniently two of the three colors on the New York City flag ), and took their name from the original 19th century New York Metropolitans club.

In his first speech as leader, McWilliams laid out the principles of the new party, stating " we crave no alliance, we spurn no support but we intend drastic action to secure closer attention to the needs of primary producers " McWilliams was deposed as party leader in favour of Dr Earle Page in April 1921 following instances where McWilliams voted against the party line.

The new government's primary economic task was to arrest the country's rampant and spiraling price instability.