This lock-in effect gives Facebook some leverage to control ancillary economic activities both on and off Facebook, as well as make poor anti-user product choices and avoid punishment in the marketplace.
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Anti-smoking campaigners and many poor countries, on the other hand, want health to take precedence over trade.
Anti-retrovirals are supplied to poor children jointly with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation of Chris Hohn, a hedge-fund boss.
It has begun, for the first time, to calculate the real cost to poor countries of tariffs, anti-dumping duties and non-tariff barriers in rich markets.
When Dr Hugh Sinclair persuaded the British government in 1942 to supplement children's diets with orange juice and cod liver oil, he speculated that among other ills, poor diets could lead to anti-social behaviour.
At the same time landlords have reported problems with poor tenants not paying rent and anti-social behaviour.
Scientists savaged the study and even anti-GMO academicians distanced themselves from its blatantly poor level of scholarship.
To many Australians, Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish Catholics, was a heroic anti-establishment figure who fought corrupt British colonists in the 19th Century.
Mr Zoellick dominated Doha, winning the trust of poor countries with concessions on patents and anti-dumping rules while firming up a trade agenda that would serve America's interests.
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The ultimate effects of anti-trust are speculative, and speculation provides a poor guide for economic policy.
Even in Britain, where anti-discrimination laws are relatively stringent, Muslims tend to be poor.
Anti-corporate activists often portray multinationals such as ExxonMobil as bullying poor countries.
So, in other words, if we judge society by how well it serves the poor, then free enterprise is far and away the greatest anti-poverty program known to man.
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Golden Dawn, an anti-immigration party, has staged several "charity" food distributions for poor Greeks.
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But the Lib Dems hope that their anti-war stance will pay off in some seats very different from the poor city constituencies where new migrants settle.
Firms hold off raises when the economy is bad, so if the anti-immigration argument was true we would expect to see more green card applications during poor economic times.
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Dr Harper said it was hard for children to recover from a poor start in life, and this cycle continued into adulthood with greater risk of anti-social behaviour.
Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.
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Muhammad Yunus is a global leader in anti-poverty efforts, and pioneered the use of "micro-loans" to provide credit to poor individuals.
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