Balance of power

A Georgian collapse creates the necessary conditions for a dramatic shift in the regional balance of power that under a worst case scenario would probably be characterized by 1) a PKK destabilization of southeastern Turkey (see Mehmet Ali Birand, Posta Newspaper, Sept. 17 wherein Russian authorities warned Turkey not to assist Chechen rebels or risk the resumption of PKK attacks), which would then, 2) facilitate the development of an air and land corridor connecting the Russian forward deployment in the South Caucasus with northern Iraq, thereby 3) extending Russian influence further into the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. Such a future could disrupt or entirely cut off the East-West energy transit corridor concepts that have been promoted by the United States and which stretch from the central Asian states through the Caucasus via Turkey into Europe. 

The Directive is founded firmly in the concept of BAT (Best Available Techniques) -which is painstakingly defined in the text. Although the Directive does not set emission limit values per se, it does have procedures which set out the quantitative levels of emissions that can be expected to result from the application of BAT. The subtlety of this approach allowed all Member States to agree the Directive - but has led to considerable debate thereafter in terms of the balance of powers between the local competent authorities (who can, and usually do, set emission limits on a plant-by-plant basis) and the European Commission which is the guardian of BAT as set out under the Directive. 

As a company matures, efficient execution requires finding an appropriate balance of power between headquarters and the field - or, in our case, between entrepreneurship and anarchy. 

Markets for pharmaceutical products worldwide are less than well balanced. Markets dominated by the monopsonistic (single-buyer) power of government can exercise undue power over the supply side of the market and depress prices to dynamically inefficient levels. At the other extreme, markets with an ill-informed and typically feeble demand side, weakened further by moral hazard inherent in health third-party payment, are unduly dominated by the supply side. What is needed instead are markets with more evenly balanced of power, in which both sides of the market are accurately informed about the prices, clinical effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of the rival products being offered for sale. Creating such markets is one of the major challenges confronting health care policy makers around the globe. 

Each society, past and present, has a particular balance of power among its influential classes such as religious leaders, intellectuals, and the wealthy, as... 

Donald M. Schurman, The Education of a Navy The Development of British Naval Strategic Thought, 1867-1914 (London Cassell, 1965), pp. 147-84 Barry D. Hunt, The strategic thought of Sir Julian Corbett , in John B. Hattendorf and Robert S. Jordan (eds.), Maritime Strategy and the Balance of Power Britain and America in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1989), pp. 110-35. 

Williamson Murray, The Change in the European Balance of Power The Path to Ruin (Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. 39 5, 250-2 R. J. Overy, From Uralbomber ... 

Hattendorf, John, and Robert S. Jordan (eds.). Maritime Strategy and the Balance of Power Britain and America in the Twentieth Century, Basingstoke Macmillan, 1989. 

Were it not for the never-ending, gentle tussle between gravity and diffusion, our planet would not have an atmosphere, nor would we be here to reflect on it The barometric equation, which describes this balance of power between the above two well-known phenomena, is derived in most introductory physical chemistry books and is mentioned in the closing paragraph of this chapter. There are many more life-sustaining processes that are... 

The industry and its trade associations have been late to realize that they must address social needs in order to prevent the balance of power shifting to governmental control. As a result, the industry is expanding its scope of CSR beyond the traditional environment and employee health and safety areas. The majority of firms have a long history of product donations through patient assistance programs. Notably, PhRMA reports that the value of free medications was US 10.5 billion in the U.S. in 2003. 

In the light of the scale of profits made by the electricity-generating sector in countries with competitive markets (empirical evidence set out in Sijm et al., this issue), this proposition is now more widely accepted. The electricity sector is barely exposed to foreign competition and, unlike other sectors, it does not face electricity price increases in inputs. In countries with competitive markets, greater cutbacks for the power sector have no direct implications for other sectors, since the price is predominantly set by the opportunity cost of carbon, not by the profit/loss balance of power generators. 

Substantial innovation. These are new generations of products, services, or processes that significantly change the balance of power between competitors in a given industry. Examples are the introduction of Plexiglas in the fifties/sixties and DNA purification in the eighties. 

Occasionally, the balance of power might swing in the other direction. See,... 

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