"If that means I'm gun-shy of mandates, where they'll undermine environmental performance, stifle innovation and heighten conflict, then I'll say so.
In short, contrary to the superficial appearance that a new administration took power in January 2001 and, when granted a political opportunity by the events of September 11 , 2001began implementing a series of disastrous new policies - of which the heightened conflict with Iran is just one - everything is simply continuing on as it has been for decades.
These findings suggest that temporally guided expectations of conflict do heighten conflict anticipation, but also lead to less efficiently applied reactive control.
Individuals with bipolar disorder have poorer marital outcomes [ 42, 43], fewer social interactions [ 44], poorer quality friendships [ 45] and heightened conflict with peers, family members and work colleagues [ 46], relative to healthy controls.
The combination of erratic weather patterns, the global economic crisis and heightened conflict and insecurity including the hijacking of ships off the Somali coast are all contributing to the emergency.
Even though the Fed's report emphasized its traditional concerns with the banks' safety and soundness, the full range of risks that such extensive merchant banking operations pose includes heightened conflicts of interest, unfair competition, misallocation of credit, more complex forms of market manipulation and fraud and excessive concentration of economic and political power.
Given that agriculture accounts for roughly 85% of US consumptive water use, growing water demands with relatively fixed water supplies have heightened conflicts over agricultural allocations in water-short years.
Ms. Jaime said she believed the federal and state governments were afraid of heightening the conflict with a direct confrontation.
His academic prowess got him to Sewanee, but he wasn't there long before he realized that being in an all-male college only heightened his conflict.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has the power to heighten the conflict there at any time, doing further damage to the economy.
