In Europe, where the major problem is the worsening debt crisis that is threatening to topple governments into defaults, and banks into a financial crisis to rival that of 2008, euro-zone officials argue week after week about what they should do, but do little more than provide assurances that they will do something.
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It would also do more to encourage the use of vehicles with flexible-fuel engines to provide American consumers with something they do not have: a real choice.
However, with interest rates dropped to extreme lows in the Great Depression, those who still had money were eager to invest in something that would provide more income than they could receive on savings accounts.
They may not make progress, but they do provide process: so long as meetings happen, they create a sense that at least something is being done.
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They provide an essential support system to artists and collectors, something the auction houses are simply not set up to do.
When people are left alone, they will produce and do everything they value more highly than their alternatives, and when they err (either by producing and doing too much or too little of something), they will be corrected by the feedback voluntary, commercial institutions provide.
Online environments can also provide children with a virtual space to develop in confidence - something they might not be able to do in the home or the classroom, she says.
Indeed, untying insurance from employment would give entrepreneurs the ability to take risks without the threat of medical bankruptcy and small businesses could compete with larger firms better since they would not need to provide expensive medical benefits to employees, something larger firms can do much more easily than their smaller counterparts.
If only global financial authorities could provide something more concrete than verbal assurances, anything at all to indicate they are able to see, and are willing to address, potential problematic conditions before they develop into the next crisis.
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Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.
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Do they provide you with alternative ways of contacting them like a phone or fax in case something goes wrong?
Housing starts provide another example: before the crisis they had topped 2 million during some months, something that had only happened twice before (after the Korean War as veterans from two wars came back, and in the mid-80s when the Fed lowered rates, Blitzer explained).
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And in 2005, in fact, more Harvard Law School graduates than in any of the preceding years chose military service, something that the Solicitor General has lauded students for and the military in general for the safety and security that they provide her and all the American people.
They are therefore waiting for the chaps with dirty hands who actually run the accelerators to provide them with something surprising.
And here at Graham Road, they're using innovative approaches to provide effective teaching to all their students, and that's something that all of America's schools have to do.
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