The Fragmentation of Bretton Woods

For example, proteins can be broken into amino acids.

This trend towards identity fragmentation is not only an African phenomoenon.

The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

Fractured administrative responsibility for privatization, especially in the Federation, compounded the problem.

The technologies of the Internet were thought to fragment societal forces rather than unite them in a common cause.

All these factors were contributing to the total disintegration of Palestine as a credible geographic and territorial entity, elements that usually make up a nation.

Perhaps even worse is when it finds its way into our oceans, like in the great plastic gyre, where these materials are being mechanically broken into smaller and smaller bits, but they're not really going away.

Our aim should be to invent financial mechanisms for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.

Critics of hypertext claim that it inhibits the old, linear, reader experience by creating several different tracks to read on, and that this in turn contributes to a postmodernist fragmentation of worlds.

Israel progressively and systematically seeks to crush and obliterate all the elements that would help in the creation of a future State of Palestine as a contiguous geographical entity and a viable State, which would be a factor in consolidating peace and stability in the region and the world.

Furthermore, she stated that the adoption each year by the Assembly of a single resolution, on international cooperation against the world drug problem, was fundamental to avoiding fragmentation and weakening of the treatment of a subject that was of the utmost importance to the international community.

This method of immunization begins to work very quickly, but it is short lasting, because the antibodies are naturally broken down, and if there are no B cells to produce more antibodies, they will disappear.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

In the 21st century, we are returning to the ways of the 19th century. Our aim should be to invent financial mechanisms for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

The remedy here is not to break up the banks, but to limit bank loans to this sector say, by forcing them to hold a certain proportion of mortgages on their books, and by increasing the capital that needs to be held against loans for commercial real estate.