We chose, by action and inaction, to abandon this and other similar aspects of our industrial infrastructure.
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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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The report repeatedly describes the committee's passivity and inaction in damning terms.
Morgan in Tokyo, says 180 to 200 yen to the dollar is not impossible given the weakness of the Japanese economy and inaction by officials.
What would a stay really accomplish except more delay and inaction?
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Once deforestation falls to zero, which seems a plausible goal for 2030, the pressure for other forms of reduction will become even greater, and inaction now will make those reductions harder to achieve.
They are being blamed for what critics call a paralysis gripping Mr Singh's government, bogged down by charges of graft and inaction and saddled with an economy which seems to have stalled.
Like the proverbial butterfly in China that flaps its wings and eventually causes a hurricane to form in the Atlantic, everything eventually impacts everything else, so there can never be a demarcation between commerce and inaction, interstate commerce or local.
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This company has maintained its users in spite of its board and its inaction.
Could there be any connection here between this fact and the inaction of the world community?
The result is an absurd combination of creative accounting, pointless penny-pinching and helpless inaction.
The civil rights movement changed public opinion and made inaction politically unacceptable.
"The lack of consensus on Syria and the resulting inaction has been disastrous and civilians on all sides have paid the price, " she said.
"Because of Peter Hain and the inaction of the Labour Party until the last general election it's clearly made it (an autumn referendum) nearly impossible, " Mr Cairns said.
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It is wringing its hands about what next steps to take, and whether our inaction will force Israel to act on its own and perhaps cause a wider conflict in the region.
We also looked at how investors often misfire when buying target-date mutual funds and how Congressional inaction over the fate of the estate tax is leading to chaos for financial planners and their clients.
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"This removes all the obstacles and excuses for inaction, " one senior administration official involved in the negotiations said.
Sometimes, in fact, patient inaction and waiting-out anxiety is the right protocol.
The two-term Congress government - which has been hit by corruption allegations and claims of inaction - is expected to face a tough general election, correspondents say.
It can be soundly argued that regulatory inaction and too-lax monetary policy earlier in the decade are what caused the current economic malaise in the first place.
Eritrea's frustrated not only with Ethiopia's failure to accept the decision, but also with the international community's apparent inaction and lack of pressure on Ethiopia to abide by the decision.
After months of inaction and even a warning from the Department of Homeland Security, Oracle has finally released a fix for yet another security vulnerability in its ubiquitous and notoriously buggy Java software.
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It's easy to exploit such fears in this economic climate, but these tired old canards -- trotted out in every minimum wage fight -- are just an excuse for political inaction and continued corporate greed.
With the state in such dire fiscal straits, California should end nearly 30 years of inaction and establish a robust tax whistleblower program to get the help it needs to realize the billions it is owed.
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In recent months, growing public anger over government inaction and its prosecution of a journalist who published those named has forced the authorities to re-examine the details of about 2, 000 Greek individuals and companies who had accounts in Switzerland and who may not have paid tax on all their income.
Do not bury your head in the sand and hope it will go away-such inaction never works and may increase your risk for a lawsuit.
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The Obama administration's shift last month on the politically volatile issue of immigration policy prompted immediate praise from Latino leaders who have criticized Congress and the White House for inaction, while Republicans reacted with outrage, saying the move amounts to amnesty and usurps congressional authority.
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It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.
It's presenting both the dangers of inaction, and a vision for health for this country.
Markets prefer congressional inaction, and the stock run-up that we have experienced since the inauguration is living proof.
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