Sentences with phrase «including lowering their standard of living»

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Certainly, such a bankruptcy would mean a drastic lowering of our standard of living, a further loss of control over international affairs, a sudden need to adjust to the rise of other powers, including China and India, and a further discrediting of the notion that the United States is somehow exceptional compared to other nations.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

For example, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA - LCFS) embeds life cycle assessment within the policy to measure emissions intensity of various transportation fuel pathways through their full life cycle (including extraction, recovery, and transport).

Even if, by some miracle, some such policy were to come to pass, the long - term necessity for us to accept a lower overall standard of living, especially when that will require far more economic equality (perhaps including the confiscation of giant fortunes) and far less economic «freedom» (virtual destruction of the «free trade» system, a great deal more regulation of both financial markets and manufacturing industries).

Since standard life insurance that includes a medical exam is considerably lower in cost, all efforts at getting that type of policy should be exhausted before going to the graded benefit.