According to the study, 90% of the licences granted to clear millions of hectares of forest in Papua New Guinea were issued through corrupt or fraudulent means, while in Bolivia the production of soy – 75% of which is exported – has been the chief driver of illegal deforestation in its Amazon region.
Ethnicity and local control, which, like liturgical disputes, are the chief driver of church splits, remain powerful forces, as seen by the successful effort of a Polish parish in St .Louis, St .Stanislaus Kostka Church, to split with the archdiocese in 2013 in a fight over control of the church's assets.
Booker and Cuomo actually seem to think Wall Street is the chief driver of social change in this country, looking to financial executives to grease the wheels for reform projects like redeveloping Newark (where Booker was mayor) and passing gay marriage in New York.
Cardiac infiltration is the chief driver of prognosis in systemic amyloidosis.
Cardiac infiltration is the chief driver of prognosis in systemic amyloidosis, and stratification of patients is essential for prognosis and optimal management, including selection of patients to receive aggressive higher-risk therapies and to minimize cardiac toxicities.
"A relentless addiction to indignation may be one of the chief drivers of obstinate dogmatism," he writes.
WASHINGTON -- A man widely understood to be one of the chief drivers of the rise of the Islamic State wants the world to work with him following the extremist group's attacks on Paris Friday.
The proliferation of subprime mortgages was one of the chief drivers of the foreclosure epidemic.
UGG boots have been the chief growth driver for the company, which also owns the Teva, Tsubo and Simple brands.
Moreover, considering that facility census is the chief economic driver, any sacrifice in quality that leads to missed treatments (eg, due to hospitalization), death, or transfer of care away from the provider organization are economically counter-productive.
