Too often we think we can determine policy without any context, or judge the action or inaction of our government without the necessary history to give it meaning.

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Barring that, at a minimum, companies should always provide at least inquiry notice of all terms, and require counterparties to manifest assent, through action or inaction, in a manner that reasonable people would clearly understand to be assent.

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However, in the following leader you say that the decision to intervene in Kosovo should not be made solely on a judgment of whether or not the Serbs' actions are wrong but should take into account the explosive context of the Balkans and what signals action or inaction against the Serbs might send to others.

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They develop a keen sensitivity to marketplace changes, either imposed on them by competition or via government action (or inaction, as is often the case), and they respond with moves that will better position their company.

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The question I would ask, is how can any politician sell that kind of politics to a media addicted to rhetoric as action (or inaction), and action as democracy?

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From that moment on James, Wade, and Bosh were under a microscope, and every action (cough-gate) or inaction (fourth quarter collapse) was heavily evaluated and scrutinized.

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The best equilibrium of government action and inaction cannot be determined in a day or in a generation.

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