Preparing students for careers in electronics, medical support, coding and data, IT, manufacturing, infrastructure and trades, as examples, has often been left to others.
Poland and Nicaragua, for example, have often been reticent on certain women's rights, while Europe and Latin America in general take a much more liberal stand, even on contraception and abortion.
Writers from former Eastern-bloc countries — Milan Kundera, for example — have often asserted that laughter and mockery were ways of saying no to that world.
Fifa's body physics, for example, have often been about show – about making the tackle look crunching and the fall realistic – but have rarely impacted play in such an impressive way.
The organisation's attacks on curfews, for example, have often been resented by poor inner-city blacks, who are acutely threatened by the crime that curfews seek to inhibit: one poll in Washington, DC, for example, showed that curfews were supported by 70% of black teenagers.
Malaria, for example, has often caused more sickness and death among soldiers than bullets or bombs have.
The state-controlled television news, for example, has often sought to minimize coverage of Russia's economic problems.
State and local government spending on investments — new schools and highways, for example — has often been subject to abrupt cutbacks in response to a weak economy.
Motorola, for example, has often rejected countries where costs were lower, because infrastructure and education levels were insufficient to support specific product and process technologies.
Federal flood insurance, to take one example, has often resulted in people building or rebuilding on high-risk flood plains that are "some of the richest and most important ecological areas in the country," said David Conrad, a water resources specialist at the National Wildlife Federation.
