I'm not counting cases about affirmative action and other racially conscious government policies, part of a bigger project where conservatives long ago flipped the traditional equal protection paradigm to view whites as the victims of government-sponsored discrimination.
With a lumbering government-owned telecoms monopoly, staggeringly low internet penetration (less than 1% of Ethiopia's 85m citizens are connected), just 17% mobile penetration, and a very "security conscious" government approach to new technology and services, it's not the most encouraging environment for small technology start-ups to grow.
Sometimes misleading statistics from image-conscious governments have made matters worse.
Adding to the challenge for companies is the need to show newly cost-conscious governments that their drugs are cost effective.
The schools, which have minuscule endowments by American standards, are facing a cash squeeze as cost-conscious governments stem the flow of subsidies.
These electricity-sapping glass orbs have fallen out of favour with environmentally-conscious governments and consumers.
By contrast, the low news profile of efforts to improve health-related infrastructure in LMICs, build and sustain public health capacity, reform public health law and other long-term 'upstream', population-focused initiatives is likely to provide little incentive for election-conscious governments to increase their support in such areas.
A decision is expected in the spring and may turn on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sometimes favours race-conscious government measures.
His next goal may be to win the presidency himself in 2015, sealing his position as Poland's dominant post-communist politician.Yet the risk is that this would also mean four more years of cautious, PR-conscious government.
On the other hand, the denial may reflect the conclusion of the missing justices, and perhaps others, that this case was a poor vehicle for a renewed exploration of the permissible boundaries of race-conscious government policies.
Justice Kennedy has a long history of supporting race-conscious government policies in principle, but striking them down as insufficiently narrowly tailored.
