Word: approach
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...China's approach to the region is captured in a recent plan to bulldoze much of Kashgar's historic Old City - an atmospheric, millennia-old warren of mosques and elaborate mud-brick houses - and replace it with a tourist-oriented theme park version, resettling its Uighur population (who were not consulted) in "modern" housing miles away from the city...
...plan to close off Europe to managers or funds outside the E.U. that aren't subjected to equivalent regulation - a provision that would kick in three years after the rest of the legislation, giving jurisdictions and managers time to adapt - promises the most significant change. The E.U.'s approach is understandable. If you want to protect European investors, it's no good regulating domestic fund managers if those selling to investors from outside the region aren't obliged to respect similar rules. But while U.S. efforts are underway to bolster the policing of hedge funds - and the meaning of equivalent...
When the famous Galapagos first emerged through volcanic activity, it had no living inhabitants. Eventually, more intrepid animals made the journey there by riding on one of several currents that approach the islands from the mainland, from the northeast and southeast. These travelers included the now-famous finches favored by Darwin, as well as tortoises and many other species now unique to the islands. Their protection and preservation is an enormous task and responsibility handled by both Ecuador and the Charles Darwin Foundation...
...year war that appears to be getting worse. Yet U.S. Congressmen have given him only a year to turn it around. In a wide-ranging interview with TIME magazine on the back porch of his office at ISAF headquarters in downtown Kabul, McChrystal discussed his new approach to the Afghan fight, why the military alone can't be a solution and what he's currently reading on his new Kindle...
...then they are going to have to naturally rethink how they operate. For some, that is no change from where they have been going with this. And I think that is evident in some of the success they have had. But others may have to maybe rethink a conventional approach that they might have had before. It's a tough war, a very tough...