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Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the creative participation in cultural activities which had been characteristic of Muslims in their glorious days in the past.

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About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

But it seems that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) own Publicity Department (formerly known as the Propaganda Department), which controls the country's media, has learned nothing about the futility of lying about economic performance.

In these difficult economic times, he offers a way to take control over your media and your brand and ensure that the right things are being said about you — which will surely translate directly into sales and profits.

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

The letter is one CEO's attempt to demonstrate control in the face of economic concerns, which have grown even more concerning since Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating on Friday.

In some situations where the owner sells more than 50 %, they can negotiate super voting right controls, which allows them to maintain decision - making control even if they no longer maintain economic control.»

'' [T] he salient feature of a securities transaction is the public solicitation of venture capital to be used in a business enterprise... this subjection of the investor's money to the risks of an enterprise over which he exercise no managerial control is the basic economic reality of a security transaction.»

Mr. Melby was a senior staff member on the National Security Council from 1987 to 1993, during which he participated in bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiations, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round, bilateral economic issues, international energy policy and export controls.

Assuming that trade tensions would be kept under control, the greatest impact would likely come from the improvement in the business environment, which should spur investment and result in faster productivity growth and accelerating economic activity.

In any of these cases, a tendency for costs to rise limits the speed of short - term economic growth which is consistent with inflation control, and is therefore detrimental to unemployment performance.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

This was assumed by most people until quite recent times, but around 1980 a series of policies were put in place on a global basis, the purpose of which was to reduce the capacity of political bodies to control economic actors.

What many Christians in this country celebrate as «interdependence» is recognized there as the increasing one - sided dependence of whole nations on distant centers of economic power over which they have no control.

On the other hand, a society in which conscious control of economic processes is undertaken for the common good encourages the growth of moral personalities.

As R. H. Tawney, a British socialist of an earlier generation, wrote: «It is the condition of economic freedom that men should not be ruled by an authority which they can not control» (The Acquisitive Society).

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

We see socialism as a new social and economic order in which workers and consumers control production and community residents control their neighborhoods, homes and school and the production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not the private profit of a few..

Political leaders then tend to divert popular attention away from economic issues, which are beyond their control, to social cultural issues such as ethno - nationalism, language and religion.

There are three systems in which the economic game of desire is played: Individual free enterprise; associated free enterprise; controlled economy.

It is a test of whether we can control the very economic and technical forces, which are our greatest achievement, before they destroy us.

On the one side is elite capitalism, in which a few families or individuals own a large percentage of the wealth, there is a consequent absence of a large middle class, and control of the economic system is by the elite.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

The possessors of power (through the communications technology) to control men today are the political and economic institutions which rely on and in turn maintain the national state as the prime agent of mankind's organization.

More insidious in this attempt to control the economic success of women is the Legio Maria a Namuwango church which uses confession to control women.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Yet the main player in the market are the corporate entities of capital in and outside Asia, rather than the nation states which are even losing control over the economic life of their own people.

Ecological humanity must create an economy in which economic and population growth is halted, technology is controlled, and gross inequalities of income are done away with.

The more the mass media come to be controlled by large corporate conglomerates which have broad social interests and world - wide organisations, and which all serve the one economic system, the more this will become the case.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Today the process of control by power (economic, political and cultural) is done through hi - tech communication and information media, which is intensive and brutally effective.

Almost all the fervor for population control traces back to this premise, which reflects a theological confusion as much as an economic one, and it derives from the historical tendency of Western experts to see Asian peoples as mouths and not minds.

Traditional marriage is dead, killed off by the economic interests which control everything we do.

Steiner agreed but set four conditions, each of which went against common practice of the day: 1) that the school be open to all children; 2) that it be coeducational; 3) that it be a unified twelve - year school; 4) that the teachers, those individuals actually in contact with the children, have primary control of the school, with minimum interference from the state or from economic sources.

And researchers in Canada and Belarus also finished a comprehensive study, for the first time controlling for education and socio - economic factors by dividing mothers in Belarus into two groups: one in which mothers were encouraged to breastfeed by their care providers and one in which no additional encouragement was offered.

The problem is that controlling this belt of satellite buffer territories requires military power and / or economic power - the latter of which, Russia lacks, partly due to having expensive intra-country navigation.

No pluripartidism, some freedom of the press and culture, private property, but not private ownership of companies (so only state owned companies which would mean a centralized economic control), limited freedom to travel.

Social democrats in Europe are the heirs of a pluralist tradition encapsulated by Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Thomas Paine and Pierre - Joseph Proudhon which champions the diffusion of property rights and economic control, spreading power as widely as possible.

The 2003 White Paper, which led to the Civil Aviation Bill, outlined the measures required to tackle the noise problem, highlighting in particular: the need to promote low noise engine and airframe research and technology; complete integration of the International Civil Aviation Organisation guidelines on noise control; implement EU directive 2002 / 49 / EC regarding noise mapping; widen the use of economic instruments such as differential landing charges and amend and strengthen existing domestic legislation.

Capitalism - an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

There are tensions within government departments about whether May will push for a hard Brexit in which immigration controls will be heavily prioritised over economic links.

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, the Finance Committee voted to move on another reform bill that would add more oversight to the state's economic development project contracting process.

But it has been delayed due a legal dispute between Kingsbridge National Ice Center, the project's developer, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which de Blasio controls.

«This is an extraordinarily important moment in British history, in which we begin to roll back the ever - pervasive state created under the previous Government, and in which people are given freedom and control over their economic affairs.

These include: personal budgets for employment support services that would enable disabled people to have much more control over the type of support they receive, breaking down the barriers disabled people face when gaining employment, and staying in work which is vital to the country's sustainable economic growth.

Cuomo, meanwhile, touted on Wednesday the regional economic development plans, which he framed as an effort to give more control to local officials, even as the awards themselves are determined by the state.

Committee backers have received over $ 1 billion in economic development subsidies from an out - of - control and unaccountable system which the Cuomo administration has declined to reform.