... cheap goods for their citizens " from a security perspective, it may be more prudent to produce weapons, and perhaps food, domestically. From a political perspective, foreign competition can bankrupt domestic businesses (which may benefit consumers with better value, more efficient goods, but disadvantages domestic companies whose employees face redundancy). Security and domestic opposition may give ... policy stance. Governments should cut red tape (which discourages innovation, distorts market incentives and creates opportunities for corruption) and should allow free trade (which would ...

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... demanding social and intellectual problems presented in a diversified cultural setting. The completive background supports further evolutions of intellectuals. This leads to a windfall of intellectuals due to the competition between the immigrants and the natives. This idea is somewhat an implication to the social Darwinism, in which the fittest (intellectuals) survives the selection by job market and ... educational opportunities. Overall, intense competition contributes to the expansion of collective intelligence. In the article Exploiting the Exiles Soviet Émigrés in U.S. Cold War ...

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... focus for opposition to the emperors as the senate committee, in which Augustus probably had a lot of influence, presided over what issues the senate could actually debate. Augustus also encouraged competition, retaining the glamour of the consulship and reducing the length of consulships from one year to 6 months after 5 BC. He also increased ... competition for Praetorships, increasing the functions of a Praetor; 2 were appointed to manage the state treasury, and three ex Praetors appointed to mange the military treasury, giving more opportunities for senators to ... ...

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... mix of products and services given their particular supply-and-demand conditions, as well as to ensure that these goods can be most effectively traded in the economy. Healthy market competition, both domestic and foreign, is important in driving market efficiency, and thus business productivity, by ensuring that the most efficient firms, producing goods demanded by the market, are those that ... -must be available for a country to enter and move up the value chain. Making these services available necessitates a dynamic and open business environment that benefits from healthy levels of do...

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... had earlier been sustainably managed by pre-colonial traditional agriculturalists, are today being rapidly degraded, and in some cases abandoned completely, in the short-term pursuit of export profits and competition. The productive capacity of these soils is dropping rapidly due to soil compaction, erosion, water logging, and fertility loss, together with growing resistance of pests to pesticides and the loss ... without credit or access to markets and in policy situations unfriendly to small farmers. When communal lands are privatized, as in Mexico and many places in Africa and Asia, ...

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... in urban areas or coastal tourist sites, the price of operating on such lands can be expensive. Some suggest the use of marginal lands, which can eliminate the threat and competition with normal lands for farming and producing food. Open ponds, which are the cheaper and easier-to-operate alternative to photobioreactors, require much solar illumination and little seasonal changes for ... ...

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... impact, mainly economically. For example, many satellite states such as Belgium and Holland were forced to abide by the Blockade, which had the purposes of protecting domestic markets from foreign competition as well as defeating Britain due to the fact Britain was seen as a 'country of shopkeepers', meaning that a reduction of trade for Britain would have worse effects on them ... ...

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... business during the postwar period. Peterson and David Berger suggest that the period 1948 through 1973 is characterized by cyclical phases of concentration in the music industry and outbursts of competition and diversity driven by consumer demand. In a later study, Peterson (1990) identifies six factors that constrain or assist the production of popular music: organizational structure, industry structure, occupational careers, markets ... ...

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... ensure adequacy and advantage, to ensure the best for the child. It is an effort of endless responsibility, fueled by the market, provoked by the state and driven by social competition in a context of social and technological risk (Vincent and Ball, 2007). In order to help eradicate differences, early educational intervention programs have been initiated by the government, to extend childcare ... ...

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... , it is becoming clear that currently the fastest growing area of both the for profit and nonprofit sectors is in the realm of client services. There is a growing amount of competition for funds in the nonprofit sector, and one of the most important factors looked at by funders is an organizations commitment to community. In the domestic violence nonprofit scenario this ... ...

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... , perhaps acquiring new advantage with which to exploit weaker entities with which its business community deals. Opening up world markets to market forces of supply and demand and with increased competition in the absence of barriers or subsidized prices will obviously cause Third World economies to be even more dependent upon market trends in the developed countries. Globalization represents what can ... ...

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... production costs in many of these countries apparel production is shifting from the developed to the developing countries. Consequently, the United States, which houses a vast garment industry, is facing fierce competition from the abundance of cheap goods these mostly third world countries export . In response to this, American manufacturers have moved much of their production abroad to countries such as Mexico ... ...

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... yet effective, this relatively old technology may be proving itself to be for diagnosing these diseases which have plagued society since the dawn of time, the CT scan is receiving competition in other areas such as that as "mild- traumatic brain injury. Recent research indicates only approximately 6.3 percent of patients with documented "mild- traumatic brain injury exhibited abnormal CT scans. Research ... ...

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