Word: globalization
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...that doesn't mean an immediate recovery for many nations. Even if European economies can nurture gradual expansion, he says, most will still see unemployment continue to rise through 2010 and into next year - if companies indeed become convinced it's safe to invest again. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Chan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), at a news conference on July 14. "Again we see access denied by an inability to pay." Describing H1N1 as "entirely new and highly contagious," Chan scolded rich countries at the time for hoarding the "lion's share" of the global H1N1-vaccine supply...
...advised us falsely. They raised a false alarm," says Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, who served in Germany's parliament until September, faulting the U.N.'s global health agency for relying on an inadequate definition of a pandemic. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine...
...President of American Academy of Pediatrics, she writes in the blog that the AAP is currently receiving daily donations from the global community to help pediatricians in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the aftermath of the earthquake. “The work…for the children of Haiti is the embodiment of the love, courage and commitment that the Olympic torch is meant to symbolize...
...Iran's response to these deadlines has been repeated delays and obfuscation. First, in the spring it delivered a lengthy manifesto about global peace irrelevant to the issues at hand. The summer months were taken up with Iran's election turmoil, but following talks with the U.S. and its international partners in the fall, Iran hinted that it might be willing to accept a deal under which it would export most of its enriched-uranium stockpile to be converted into reactor fuel - and then quickly backpedaled as the proposed deal came under a hail of criticism from across Iran...