Whether the government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

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(Today,) (as the economy emerges from the pandemic,) a reversal [of the primacy of capital (over labour)] beckons — and it will come sooner (than you think).

It might seem premature to predict a wonderful world of work only a year on from a labour-market catastrophe.

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(At the start of 2020) it began setting aside an hour each day [in order to shuffle some of its children out of their usual classes and into groups (decided by how well they could do maths)].

(When the pandemic struck,) it was running daily catch-up classes (in one-fifth of its primary schools,) (benefiting a quarter of a million children in grades three to five).

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Eliminating the vast majority of America’s greenhouse-gas emissions is a massive problem against which the country’s leaders have failed to make legislative progress for far too long.

However, at the heart (of the American Jobs Plan) is action (to combat climate change).

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83% of young Africans said that more should be done to protect the rights of ethnic minorities, while 64% agreed that “sexual harassment is a problem in my country”.

Studies suggest [that religion (in Africa) exerts more sway over (how people view same-sex relationships) than their level of education, (whether they live in cities or the countryside, or whether they are on the internet).]

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Sincere communication is a way both to understand others, and to make yourself understood, but unfortunately now people are so eager to give their own comments that they cannot even finish listening to others.

Still, (as Mr. Davis puts it,) “Whatever manufacturing companies survive this hell will be set to mint money.”

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(Without good systems), great technology will often provide only mediocre results, (as it has in many covid-19 test-and-trace programmes).

Still, short-term supply niggles are a better problem to have than falling demand.

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[To see how consumers have turned the shopping experience on its head,] look not to humans but to pets, [who hold the world to the highest standards of customer care.]

[If drug development is more targeted on instructing cells what to do, rather than finding novel molecules against specific proteins,] some of the know-how [on which old-style pharma is based] will be less relevant.

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[Coupled with ever-better ways of synthesising and editing genes,] this has enabled cleverness little short of the miraculous.

It is remarkable that [you can simply instruct the body’s cells (to make the viral protein) (you have designed to prime the immune system.)]

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(Whereas some bosses have embraced more flexible working arrangements,) others still want employees to be back at their desks, [fearing (that the productivity improvements of remote work are uncertain at best)].

the first virus (to have its genome read) was an obscure little creature (called ms2); the 3,569 rna letters (it contained) were published in 1976, (the hard-won product of some ten years’ work in a well-staffed Belgian laboratory).

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