Sentences with phrase «good economic war»

• Vince Cable has had a good economic war, but is in danger of losing the peace.

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«I think at the end of the day that virtually all of the «trade war» effects will be negotiated away and the true economic impact on industries as well as specific companies will be very small, so I haven't factored the impact of any trade war considerations into my portfolio,» she said.

Many fights happen between migrants, who are coming into Europe searching for better economic opportunities — and will likely see their asylum claim rejected — and refugees, who are fleeing war and persecution and are almost guaranteed to have their asylum demand accepted.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

If you've tuned into financial news recently chances are good that you've heard something about currency wars or economic turmoil.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

«The American and Soviet peoples share a common humanity, a common aversion to war, a common horror of nuclear weapons, and a common hope for their economic and social well - being» (p. 17), the bishops affirm.

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Governmentby charles murraysimon and schuster, 341 pages, $ 19.95 In January of 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers helped launch the War on Poverty by including in its annual report a chapter on «The Problem of Poverty in America.»

His many books and articles include: Development Planning in Iran: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic (1987); The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War (1990); and Globalisation for the Common Good (2002).

In the USA the GNP which is used as a measure of economic well - being increased steadily since the Second World War On the other hand the ISEW increased very slowly until about 1975 when it began to decline and has done so ever since.

Presidential elections, after all, have worked fairly well in the U.S. Through war and economic crisis, they have been held at four - year intervals.

This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

In more recent times, people often leave bad situations — war; famine; political, economic, social or religious oppression — and go to a place where they hope their lives will be better.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

As elected president, he founded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), with the volcanic Nuhu Ribadu as first chairman, thus mainstreaming the War Against Corruption; as well as the ICPC, to lesser applause.

These alleged tactics, while morally depressing and possibly illegal, show an extraordinary meshing of violent and nonviolent methods and tools: military, cultural, political and economic, going well beyond the standard Western conception of «hybrid» war.

Meadway, and others like him, support independence on economic grounds as well - but Scots might find it curious that they were expected to go through the severe challenges of secession partly so that the ensuing chaos in Westminster would give English radicals an opening, while denying the US an extra hanger - on the next time the White House goes to war.

It should be noted that if you include deaths from sweatshops, activities outlined in «confessions of an economic hitman», and a handful of wars... capitalism likely has quite the death toll behind it as well, but where do you draw the line between imperial ambitions and capitalism... and if we're willing to draw that line for capitalism, where does that line lay for the communists death toll?

As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutional change, this era has been studded with democratic protests of every sort.

As well as being strong supporters of closer and deeper European union they support economic corporatism and oppose the war on terror.

The Tribunal also counselled Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to research the issues «to see how best we can reconcile our social and cultural values viz - a-viz the entire war against corruption and advise our policymakers accordingly.»

Interestingly, a fear of terror, war and occupation or a loss of economic and physical well - being made little difference.

Economic policy is, hopefully, based on good economic analysis; it is also based on primal fears and (re) fighting the lEconomic policy is, hopefully, based on good economic analysis; it is also based on primal fears and (re) fighting the leconomic analysis; it is also based on primal fears and (re) fighting the last war.

Assembled against the backdrop of economic crisis and war in the 1930s and 1940s, Guggenheim's unparalleled modern holdings formed the basis of his foundation, established in 1937 for the public good.

The cost of war measured in human pain and loss as well as economic devastation, and a waning British Empire combined with new questions of European security set the stage for a complex and significant shift in British artistic movements.

I think that precisely because you are coming of age at a time of such rapid and sometimes unsettling change, born into a world with fewer walls, educated in an era of constant information, tempered by war and economic turmoil — because that's the world in which you're coming of age, I think you believe as deeply as any of our previous generations that America can change and it can change for the better.

So, whether you believe in climate change or not, those are three good economic and health reasons for a war on coal.

The ongoing tug of war between the growing availability of renewable electricity generation — particularly wind and solar — and the economic interests of nuclear power and traditional utilities is an environmental fight as well.

This kind of world, argued George Monbiot, was one in which scientists were instrumental in an an «economic war against the poor» — good science wasn't necessarily «good».

But with the build - up to war economic output reflective aerosols would have been at a higher level — with greenhouse gases having gone stagnant for a good part of the previous decade and with methane having been hit even harder due to its short residence time.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

I think maybe the best - case scenario in terms of what this is going to look like is that progressives do a much better job of connecting the dots between climate change, economic inequality, a shredded safety net, a political program that has waged decades of war not only on the idea of bold climate action but on the idea of investing in a serious way in the public sphere, really connecting the dots.

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

But in the real world where we face multiple uncertain catastrophes: nuclear war, asteroid strikes, pandemics, earthquakes, peak oil, economic collapse, etc., as well as climate change, how do we respond?

On a personal level, it is to find better economic outcomes, to escape war, to reunite with family.