Centralization

...the Taliban, Pashtun tribes that form the bulk of the insurgency are notorious for their resistance to both foreign armies and political centralization in Kabul. U.S. efforts to wean Pashtun tribes from the insurgency will have to focus on...

In this article: Taliban, Afghanistan, Iraq, United States, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, NATO, Hamid Karzai, Islam, and Mujahedeen

...one. All had been pivotal in the debt-fueled expansion of past years, requiring Dubai's rescue with a $US10-billion loan from the U.A.E. central bank. The global financial crisis that swept into Dubai last year not only put an end to a...

In this article: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Deutsche Bank AG, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

...prose to see not just condescension but an active anti-individualism; not just political horse-picking but straight-up preference for centralization, organized behind a benighted if holographic authority figure who can lead the common man...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Ideology, John McCain, Andrew Jackson, The Weekly Standard, William Jennings Bryan, and David Brooks

...worldwide. This silliness is emblematic of the end of the Gutenberg age, the industrial age, the age of control, the age of centralization, Murdoch's age. The problem here is that Google-virgin Murdoch simply does not understand...

In this article: News Corp., Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Google News, MySpace, and Microsoft

...to date. Here in NZ he rapidly started to implement a big change at NZBUS with a visionary and regionally unique ICT stabilization and centralization plan (Desktop, WAN/LAN, Server and Applications), working hard to create one version of the...

In this article: Oracle Corp., Wellington, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Infratil

...tax burden on capital investment in any one province." What I really don't understand is how no one sees that this is much more of a centralization issue than it is a tax issue. The federal Conservatives have been raking in much more,...

In this article: Tax, Ontario, Goods and services, Canwest News Service, and Toronto

''The university has recently brought its four childcare centres, which previously operated independently, under the one umbrella. Centralisation of the centres has provided the opportunity for a more rational approach to staffing. We...

In this article: University of NSW, Centralisation, Faculty of Science, and National Tertiary Education Union

The task force makes five core recommendations (excerpted by LJ): Administrative services that will be markedly strengthened by centralization include many information technology functions; most preservation functions; and certain...

In this article: Harvard and MIT

...as direct bank supervisors. Proposals from the Obama administration and a bill under development in the House both seek more modest centralization of bank supervision. SYSTEMIC RISK AGENCY Dodd also proposed a council of regulators,...

In this article: US, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Federal Reserve, and Corporate governance

...deployed a solution that would transform SU's desktop computing model by enabling secure central desktop computing for their users. In addition to centralization, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was implemented which moves all of...

In this article: INX Inc., Seattle University, Revenue, Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and Seattle, Washington