India's tendency to throw up humanitarian heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa is a sign of weak institutions, he believes: where these are stronger, saints are less needed to protect the weak.
Startups will consolidate or die in the emerging Asian tech strongholds of China and India as the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.
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Called UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access), the technology is designed to provide better call quality indoors (where your cell shouldn't otherwise work, natch) by switching over from a weak cell signal to a stronger in-home WiFi signal.
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As liquidity gradually declines, we expect wider credit spreads, weak commodity prices and a moderately stronger dollar.
The Brazilian real (BRL) has gone from a weak BRL2.15 to a stronger BRL2.09 over the last few weeks.
That looks like a great way to encourage the mass migration of savings from weak banks in the Euro area to stronger banks somewhere else.
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It's better for the employees to leave the weak business and have it merged with a stronger company.
So good companies are getting stronger while the bad ones remain weak.
However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.
Stronger household spending is needed to offset weak overseas demand, especially in the euro area, where activity remains at a low ebb.
Indeed the outside world should welcome a stronger China, if only because a weak and insecure one would bring nothing but trouble.
He said they lobby for a stronger yen but say little about the weak Chinese yuan because it benefits their heavy investments in China.
For all that the US recovery is seen in the US as too weak, one of the reasons it has been stronger than Britain's is that Americans can in effect borrow from investors, rather than banks, in a way that does not happen here.
If they call for a withdrawal timetable, they risk looking weak on defence, where Republicans have been perceived as stronger for decades.
"Some of the offences that individually may have had weak evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction became stronger cases when looked at together, " said Mr Beltrami.
However, a closer look at segment performance revealed weak Windows revenue and profit, which were offset by stronger results in the Business Division (which sells Office) and Server and Tools (the enterprise part of the company).
The current attack on cartels comes at a time when the temptation to strike cosy deals with competitors is stronger than ever, as pricing power remains weak and excess capacity abounds in the wake of the global economic slowdown.
It will not surprise me if people in Greece, Spain and other weak economic Euro Zone countries will start moving Euros to stronger countries such as Germany and the UK. If you see governments start to impose limits on capital movement I would expect those countries interest rates to rise.
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One factor helping the growth figures was a downgrading of the role played by imports, which led to a stronger overall contribution from exports, but it suggested weak domestic demand.
The precious yellow metal was pressured by a stronger U.S. dollar index and by the present weak near-term technical posture for gold.
Third, researchers have focused on so-called gene-environment interactions, reasoning that some exposures that have relatively weak associations with breast cancer in the general population may have a much stronger effect in subgroups with a specific genetic make-up.
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Nokia this morning posted slightly better than expected results for the third quarter, but received mixed reviews from analysts for its performance, with stronger results from its Nokia Siemens Networks venture, but continued weak results from smartphones.
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Weak firms were always likely to go under. (And some stronger ones are still expanding in Britain witness Honda's announcement this week that it will be producing a new model at its Swindon plant.) More important, the car industry has a totemic status that is out of proportion to its real economic significance.
As of Monday morning, the track looked bad for New Orleans but the forecast called for Isaac to remain a relatively weak Category 1 storm, which is far less likely to swamp the city than a stronger, bigger storm.
The United Kingdom has avoided much of the hysteria over BPA in part due to stronger mechanisms for government-funded scientists to speak to the press about what they see as weak or erroneous research.
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