This trend has heightened policy interest in finding alternatives to disability benefit receipt-including employment-to promote economic well-being of people with disabilities and to alleviate fiscal pressures on the SSA trust fund and federal budget.
Over the past year, a range of developments, including the use of whole-genome technology in the prenatal context [ 33], have pushed the issue beyond mere speculation and heightened policy debates on the social implications of the technology.
Under the settlement, in which it neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing, Putnam agreed to reforms in three areas: restrictions on employee trading, heightened compliance policies and increased independence for the fund's board.
The data could also heighten the policy dilemma for the Bank of England, coming only a day after figures showed consumer price inflation had risen to 3.3%, well above the Bank's 2% target.
The summit had seemed a political and diplomatic victory for South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who took office in February and has maintained through the heightened tensions a policy that combines vows of strong counter-action to any North Korea provocation with efforts to build trust and re-establish dialogue.
The summit marks a political and diplomatic victory for South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who took office in February and has maintained through the heightened tensions a policy that combines vows of strong counter-action to any North Korea provocation with efforts to build trust and re-establish dialogue.
Despite heightened interests from policy makers in the notion of brain circulation, the discussion around the issue has remained largely theoretical.
His anti-Chinese policies heightened discontent among the Chinese, especially the educated, and resulted in widespread rebellion.
As for class struggle in China itself, Mao's fear that revisionism might appear there was heightened by the policies pursued in the early 1960s to deal with the economic consequences of the Great Leap Forward.
Mr Carter's appointments, such as those of Nick Stace, former director of campaigns and communications at Which?, and Jennifer Moses, former director of the lingerie firm Agent Provocateur, brought in unpaid to "spice up" policies, heightened tensions.
The one-child policy has heightened competition.
