The fear is that the big five may crush all before them, pushing weaker languages into oblivion and leaving a cultural desert in their wake.
Organized religion (The Crusades), street gangs, fraternity hazing rituals, and aggressive jocks who push weaker kids into their school lockers may be responsible for a horrendous amount of violence and bullying.
"(W hat will be the likely effects on students when their performance on tests determines half of their teacher's evaluation?...every high-school teacher will be incentivized to push weaker students out of challenging classes like Advanced Algebra, Physics and Chemistry....Narrow teaching to the 3-8 Common Core tests and test prep will be further incentivized.
Several countries, including Austria, Britain and Poland, had sought to delay the decision until September, wary of the dangers of pushing weak countries to improve their finances during a recession.
Hynes's tenure was marked by a legacy of questionable prosecutorial actions, including pushing weak cases and a number of wrongful convictions, the victims mostly being black people.
Particularly after a banking bust, premature fiscal tightening can push weak economies back into decline, as Japan's ill-timed consumption-tax increase in 1997 showed.
So it is trying to push weak banks into the arms of stronger ones and fill any capital shortfalls with guarantees from an underfunded deposit insurance program rather than with real cash.
In theory, the interaction of human-rights reporting and aid conditionality is meant to push weak, authoritarian governments like Chad's to recognize new norms and aspirations, and through them, to achieve greater stability.
But Mr. Osborne's message remains contentious -- and it goes against the mainstream Keynesian view held by Britain's strongest ally, the United States, that cutting government spending at a time of relative economic weakness runs the risk of pushing weak economies like Britain into a double-dip recession.
The authorities should arguably have raised interest rates further than they did to calm inflation and restore investor confidence; instead, they hesitated for fear of pushing weak banks to the wall, thus exacerbating the recession of 1995.Recapitalising bust banks also puts an enormous strain on national budgets.
