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These and economic
These proposals would go far toward creating the economic atmosphere favoring growth of the individual, who, in turn, would help us to cope with runaway technology.
These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension.
These changes represent, in effect, a shift from ( 1 ) an administrative compilation of data obtained through procedures designed primarily to serve political and economic objectives to ( 2 ) a systematic sampling census of the whole African population.
These edicts often pertained to matters such as the regulation of the public markets, or what we might call " economic regulation ".
These critics point to statistical trends which are interpreted to be results of globalization, capitalism, and the economic growth they encourage.
These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely from a local perspective ; they instead combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that impact local lived realities.
These are intended to ensure basic political, social and economic standards that a nation state, or intergovernmental body is obliged to provide to its citizens but many do include its governments.
These distinctions created divisions among workers and color proved a singularly powerful and enduring symbol of social and economic mobility, or lack thereof.
These first elements of the Calculation Critique of Socialism are the most basic element: economic calculation requires the use of money across all goods.
These factors highlighted the Government of Ecuador's unsustainable economic policy mix of large fiscal deficits and expansionary money policy and resulted in an 7. 3 % contraction of GDP, annual year-on-year inflation of 52. 2 %, and a 65 % devaluation of the national currency in 1999.
These solutions brought security and economic prosperity to Israel for a time, but did not bring peace with the Israelite prophets, who were interested in a strict deuteronomic interpretation of Mosaic law.
These included resentment of royal absolutism ; resentment by peasants, laborers and the bourgeoisie toward the traditional seigneurial privileges possessed by the nobility ; resentment of the Church's influence over public policy and institutions ; aspirations for freedom of religion ; resentment of aristocratic bishops by the poorer rural clergy ; aspirations for social, political and economic equality, and ( especially as the Revolution progressed ) republicanism ; hatred of Queen Marie-Antoinette, who was falsely accused of being a spendthrift and an Austrian spy ; and anger toward the King for firing finance minister Jacques Necker, among others, who were popularly seen as representatives of the people.
These proposals ranged from various forms of worker cooperatives coordinated by free markets such as Mutualism ( economic theory ), to state-owned enterprises competing with each other in open and unregulated markets.
These models of socialism are not to be confused with other forms of market socialism ( e. g. the Lange model ) where publicly owned enterprises are coordinated by a degree of economic planning in setting prices for capital goods.
These movements or styles tend to classify the artists by their relationship to their social and economic contexts, since, in most countries, graffiti art remains illegal in many forms except when using non-permanent paint.
These were partly caused by the explosion in population, but also to concentrate economic power at strategic locations, while formerly cities only existed in the shape of either old Roman foundations or older bishoprics.
These are areas where the majority of economic activities are in the secondary sector and tertiary sectors.
These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
These approaches include the notion that individuals in a society accept rules from legitimate authority in exchange for security and economic advantage ( as in Rawls ) – a social contract.
These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).
These governmental classification systems have a first-level hierarchy that reflects whether the economic goods are tangible or intangible.
These representatives discussed economic policy and manipulated prices and wages so as to satisfy both the wishes of the government and the wishes of business.
These favorable developments, combined with the presence of a large and cheap labour force, laid the foundation for spectacular economic growth that lasted almost uninterrupted until the " Hot Autumn's " massive strikes and social unrest of 1969-70, which then combined with the later 1973 oil crisis and put an abrupt end to the prolonged boom.
These represent three ' leading sectors ', in which there were key innovations, which allowed the economic take off by which the Industrial Revolution is usually defined.
These differences may be attributed, in part at least, to the divergent paths of economic development followed by the two countries since independence and to the Kenya government's active promotion of family planning, which the Uganda government did not promote until 1995.

These and technological
These machines were similar in technological terms to the 2600, but sold for much higher prices with associated higher profit margins.
These members are the most active in the SIG and have considerable influence over both the strategic and technological directions of Bluetooth as a whole.
These large-scale technological program demonstrations were joined by integrated circuit research, which resulted in submicrometre electronic technology and electron devices that evolved into the Very Large Scale Integration ( VLSI ) Program and the Congressionally mandated charged particle beam program.
These security barriers were breached on occasion by the Sontarans, by manipulating the more technological Vardans, who suborned the Doctor into sabotaging both of these from within ( The Invasion of Time, 1978 ).
These technological advances and investment allow the primary sector to require less workforce and, this way, developed countries tend to have a smaller percentage of their workforce involved in primary activities, instead having a higher percentage involved in the secondary and tertiary sectors.
These technological advances led to the building of later structures like the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ) and the Eiffel Tower ( 1889 ).
These draw on the stereotypical images of mind control operating by ESP or technological means, like microwave radiation ; belief in their necessity is popularly associated with paranoia.
These effects are sometimes called " pecuniary externalities " and are distinguished from " real externalities " or " technological externalities ".
These techniques were made physically possible by recent technological advances in the manufacture of both glass and cast iron, and financially possible by the dropping of a tax on glass. Sir Joseph Paxton ( 1803-65 ), Facsimile of the First Sketch for the Great Exhibition Building, About 1850, Pen and ink on blotting paper V & A Museum no.
These scientists felt that science had become central to many key public policy questions, and that they had a unique responsibility to inform public policy makers of potential dangers from scientific and technological advances, and to show how good policy could increase the benefits of new scientific knowledge.
These policies led to uprisings that were feeble compared to the European military and technological might.
These products were technological breakthroughs.
These often address a particular concern of the writer by serving as a vehicle of warning against a type of activity, including technological research.
These dives involved several technological innovations: a watertight brass box which could be used to house a camera for underwater photography, and a telephone which was incorporated into the diving helmet, allowing the diver to dictate observations to someone on the surface instead of having to take notes underwater.
These examples show that in many cases technological convergence is unnecessary or unneeded.
These student organizations are practical projects aiming to design various technological devices, and include:
These additions have diluted the technological flavour of the institution, causing it to resemble more a traditional university with its mix of humanities, arts and sciences.
These are commonly made of ceramic or stone, although recent technological advances have resulted in rubber or glass tiles for floors as well.
These principles coupled with a technological revolution during Henry Ford's time allowed for his revolutionary form of labour to flourish.
These proposals resolve the incoherences found in the ordinary uses of these terms ... ' virtual reality ', though based on recent information technology, does not refer to mere technological equipment or purely mental entities, or to some fake environment as opposed to the real world, but that it is an ontological mode of existence which leads to an expansion of our ordinary world.
These chapters explore the role of education in the broader world, where ever-accelerating rates of technological change combined with the 1960s ' social upheaval make " education for complexity " a crucial requirement.
These technological innovations have had a trickle-down effect, with technology used at Le Mans finding its way into production cars several years later.
These so-called " Sleepless " were not only more productive, due to 33 % more hours in the day, but less prone to the vagaries of the unconscious mind due to their inability to sleep ; they were well-adjusted, cheerful, intelligent, driven, and quickly came to dominate the scientific, economic, intellectual, medical, legal and technological arenas of the world, often at unprecedentedly young ages.
These can be called the technological optimist and decoupling arguments respectively.

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