Opium is choking Afghan society.

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Because when you need it again, the meeting is literally hanging in your closet.

It was Putin s yoke, not history s, which lay heavily on Russia.

But the bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers.

We were heading for disaster, while stifling creativity and development.

Only death roams freely, in tranquility, not afraid of the executioner or the victim, caring neither about the hanging, nor the cable, nor the tire, unconcerned about the interrogators or the traitors , not even about Mohammed, who chokes the remaining life out of us. We return to our cell.

Indeed, there is a growing consensus among economists that the current IP regime actually stifles innovation.

So something which is trash, which is choking all the seabirds, you could just recycle this into a very, very joyous all the platonic solids can be made with things like this.

It simply doesn t work, and, worse still, it crowds out or stifles potentially valuable competing technologies.

In the old days, when communist central planning suffocated China s economy, fixed asset investment was the regime s measure of economic progress.

As a result, the Afghan state is at risk of takeover by a malign coalition of extremists, criminals, and opportunists. Opium is choking Afghan society.

But the bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers.

Can you bang your head against the wall until you die, theoretically, I asked the doctor? They check on prisoners every three minutes, he said.

This would undermine other economic sectors competitiveness and stifle export oriented manufacturing growth, thereby stalling these economies structural transformation.

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New York Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to throttle what little legitimacy was left of Iran s managed democracy, it was a peculiar system, indeed.

The wall is designed to surround a truncated Palestine completely, and a network of exclusive highways will cut across what is left of Palestine to connect Israel with the Jordan River Valley.

The problems are clear. But addressing them requires a prudent strategy that accounts for the structural fragility of the scientific enterprise, in which scientists must complete extensive training, regulation can easily stifle creativity, and funding limitations can substantially delay progress.

It appears that the Serbian aggressors are positioning themselves to use UNPROFOR forces as a shield after recent commitments made by NATO and United Nations Member States to end the strangulation of Sarajevo.

Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community or, worse, it may stifle efforts to promote financial inclusion.

Some radicals in Russia have rejected this historical determinism, arguing that we should not legitimize authoritarianism by reference to history. Protests were growing.

Recent studies by the IMF and others suggest that raising taxes, cutting subsidies, and reducing government spending even inefficient spending would stifle growth in the short term, exacerbating the underlying debt problem.

But with the current regimen of credit austerity, imposed to contain economic overheating and inflationary pressure, making conditions for SMEs worse, the financial sector the least reformed sector in China now is suffocating the beating heart of the country s economic dynamism.

In Japan, the policy uncertainty concerns whether the third arrow of Abenomics structural reforms and trade liberalization to boost potential growth will be implemented, and whether the expected rise in the consumption tax in 2014 will choke economic recovery.

Governments should not be in the game of using subsidies, taxes, regulation, mandates, loans, and investments to pick particular winners. It simply doesn t work, and, worse still, it crowds out or stifles potentially valuable competing technologies.