The Welfare State u0027s Fragile Foundations

So ultimately, with Tatoeba we are only building the foundations to make the Web a better place for language learning.

A dollar crisis could weaken the foundations of American power.

In 1960, the long neglected pit for the palace s foundation was transformed into an open air swimming pool.

This particular tunnel is interesting because it shows the original foundations of Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, which was demolished in 1890 when Columbia moved in.

On March 7, 2012, the South Korean navy together with the construction company Samsung Corporation, started blasting out rock foundations in the coastline.

Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

The current version, IEEE 754 2008 published in August 2008, includes nearly all of the original IEEE 754 1985 standard and the IEEE Standard for Radix Independent Floating Point Arithmetic (IEEE 854 1987).

But, with the crisis eroding these foundations, trust is giving way to mistrust, solidarity is succumbing to ancient prejudices (and even new hatred between the poor south and the rich north), and compromise is being overwhelmed by diktat.

But, until Europe and the US find leaders with the authority and willingness to repeat a modern version of the deal making example set by Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison 200 years ago, their debt problems will continue to weaken their national foundations.

The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack up barges, heavy lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.

Of course, this conference will not bring an end to the Damascus Tehran axis. But if the US exercises a brand of statesmanship different from the one that has so far put it on the defensive on almost every front, it could start to eat away at the foundations of that axis.