Africa s silent tsunami of malaria, however, is actually largely avoidable and controllable.

Runaway population growth becomes controllable when women have access to literacy and business opportunities as well as to contraception.

Work is also starting on the replacement of 22 fields of pressure mines by controllable mines in areas where there are high risk government buildings or military bases.

China s official position is that, to avoid the negative impact of a stronger RMB on China s exports and hence employment, appreciation must proceed in an autonomous, gradual, and controllable manner.

The discussion must instead focus on the signs that some nuclear Powers might use nuclear weapons with a limited and controllable scope on people made defenceless by poverty, hunger and disease.

Instead of an incentive to reduce labor cost, throughput accounting focuses attention on the relationships between throughput (revenue or income) on one hand and controllable operating expenses and changes in inventory on the other.

Few of the reforms planned in the early 1990s eventuated, for three reasons Firstly, there was an absence of firm civilian political guidance, with President Yeltsin primarily interested in ensuring that the Armed Forces were controllable and loyal, rather than reformed.

However, when controllable variables are accounted for, such as job position, total hours worked, number of children, and the frequency at which unpaid leave is taken, in addition to other factors, the U.S. Department of Labor found in 2008 that the gap can be brought down from 23 to between 4.8 and 7.1 .

The new Franco German push for an intelligence sharing agreement with the US is probably difficult to put into practice, especially considering that spy services operating around the world are not always fully controllable. As a first step, Obama must rediscover the great communications skills that propelled him to the White House in the first place.