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...early goals, for example, was to coax Iraqi politicians into agreeing on a "hydrocarbon law": a framework both for sharing oil and gas revenues among Iraq's ethnic groups and for allowing easy foreign investment. But Arabs and Kurds are no closer than ever to an agreement on revenue-sharing, and pushing too hard could lead to armed conflict between them. Hill has had to back off. "I arrived here and realized that, actually, people aren't really working on the hydrocarbon law," he says. The risk is that without a new legal framework for the oil and gas industry...
...they're not a majority. We keep missing that." Rutgers University professor Hooshang Amirahmadi fears that policymakers will focus more on the election than on the larger struggle of a new class of secular nationalists to break the bonds of theocratic rule. "The movement is moving beyond the framework that the Islamic Republic has set for itself," Amirahmadi says. "It's no longer a struggle between factions in the system...
...There's also the matter of local/regional resilience. Says Witt: "While now we're largely a service-providing nation, we're still just a generation away from being a nation of producers. The question is: what economic framework will help us reclaim those skills and that potential." Say, for example, the exchange rates change or the price of oil rises (and it has started to creep up, if not at last summer's pace) so that foreign-made goods are no longer cheap to import. We could find ourselves doubly stuck because domestic manufacturing is no longer...
...each other and just how profound and deep that need runs. But it's often quite difficult to translate that need into action in one's life. The last few decades have seen a huge increase in the numbers of people who are living outside any kind of family framework. And it's not like people can replace that with warm, neighborly relationships, because there's been an erosion of that kind of community life...
...percent decline in the endowment for the four months ending Oct. 31, Faust was reportedly uneasy about the rigor of Harvard’s financial planning for its Allston expansion, according to one faculty member closely connected to University officials. While she was generally knowledgeable about the framework and programmatic elements of the Allston expansion from her time as dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Faust may not have been aware of the Allston plan’s reliance on debt nor the difficulty of raising funds for the project until she took office, according to the faculty member, who requested...