It includes an order to weak banks to raise more capital to protect against bad loans, and an effort — still very vague — to increase the firepower of the $625 billion bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to better protect large and vulnerable economies like Spain and Italy.
That the concept of general will was vague only increased its adaptability and prestige: it would both make constitutionalism more liberal and dynamic and give demagogues and dictators the excuse for "forcing people to be free" (that is, forcing people to follow the general will, as interpreted by the ruling forces).
Since the observed values of security returns in real-world problems are sometimes imprecise or vague, an increasing effort in research is devoted to study the properties of risk measures in fuzzy portfolio optimization problems.
Secondly, the definition of a population in terms of origin and admixture is at times vague and increased mobility worldwide leads to elevated levels of admixture.
This government has let inflation erode the minimum wage, even as it makes vague promises to increase it after the next election.
All the summit produced in the end was a vague exhortation to increase investment, remove internal barriers to the free flow of trade and services and provide more vocational training for young people.
In response, Microsoft has contemplated buying all or part of Yahoo!, and has recently announced a vague but large increase in research spending which amounts to an arms race.
Over-ambitious resolutions communicated in vague statements like 'Increase revenue by 50%' or 'Get more Customers' do not have much chance of being implemented.
I could speak with vague, then sudden increasing, clarity again.
The New Scientist interview is revealing in that, when directly asked to produce some, Greenfield points vaguely to "an increase in people with autistic spectrum disorders... issues with happy-slapping, the rise in the appeal of Twitter".
