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149706
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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY of human civilization, the system of international relations has been moving through radical changes toward complexity and perfection. Today, we have arrived at a unified and homogenous system of commonly accepted norms and rules of behavior approved and recognized by the absolute majority of states. This system emerged from fragments each belonging to its own specific historical stage of social development and related to political, philosophic, cultural, religious and other distinctive features of countries and regions.
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086957
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2009.
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After a hard-fought battle that saw China clinch the bid to host the XXIX Olympic Games, the country put comparable efforts into upgrading its intellectual property laws, not only to bring them into consonance with the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), but also to accord the Olympic-related intellectual property rights the appropriate protection. Despite these efforts, China is still plagued with a myriad of TRIPS compliance problems. The Olympic Games presented the opportunity that China needed to light the torch that would help it repair the damage caused to its image by issues such as reverse engineering of almost everything under the sun, as well as those relating to enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), etc., and cause it to be seen in a positive light by the rest of the world. The world watched China closely for the weeks of the Olympic Games and will be watching it, even after the Olympic torch has flickered out, to see whether the enforcement and protection of IPRs will outlast the Olympic ceremony.
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161077
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IN GLOBAL SPORTS, 2018 is a remarkable year with its two outstanding events, the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in South Korea in February, and the FIFA World Cup in Russia in June and July, the first FIFA world cup to be hosted by Russia. Since 1994, Winter Olympics and FIFA world tournaments have always been held in the same year, the end-year of a four-year cycle in top-class sporting contests. But the period from 2014 to 2018 was probably the first four-year cycle when, in defiance of all common sense, it was not athletes or fans who called the shots but behind-the-scenes lobbyists in international sports organizations and functionaries in them who were fulfilling odious political contracts. In looking at our numerous athletes who have fallen victim to the global anti-Russian campaign, one has to admit, sad as it is: 0 Sport, you have become war.
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022332
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April-June 2002.
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105407
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2011.
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Despite the relative novelty of the contemporary sport-for-development movement, instrumentalising sport for purposes of human and collective development is nothing new. The International Olympic Committee's (ioc) belated efforts to play a leadership role in this movement is ironic, given its 117-year commitment to placing sport at the service of world-cultural ideals of progress, equality, development, modernisation and international understanding. The ioc's behaviour is best understood with reference to the institutional environments it has inhabited. Rather than adapting primarily because of ineffectiveness, the ioc has changed the meanings of its social interventions (often unwittingly) in order to secure legitimacy among its institutional peers and other exogenous actors in world politics (eg states, activist organisations, etc). Reinventing itself in accordance with evolving world-cultural preferences allows it to survive and have a measure of power. Three historical periods are reviewed to illustrate how the social purposes of the Olympic movement have adapted to account for changes in the ioc's institutional environment. Its recent embrace of the sport-for-development movement is merely its latest reinvention.
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137862
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The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Hindustan Jet Trainer (HJT-36) ‘Sitara’ Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) was to have been a modern replacement trainer for the HJT-16 Kiran and Polish PZL/WSL TS-11 Iskara that had handled the intermediate training role since the Seventies. The programme to develop an indigenous IJT is now a decade behind schedule as Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) had originally been planned for 2006-07, later revised to 2009-10. According to a report released by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) earlier this year, “Intermediate training was/is being imparted on vintage trainer aircraft as their replacement is still uncertain”. With the HJT-36 development programme having taken an inordinate amount time and dogged by delays and technical difficulties, the Indian Air Force (IAF) released a Request for Information (RFI) last year for an imported IJT. Less than 1,000 developmental test flights have been conducted since the first two prototypes took to the air in 2003 and 2004, and as of July last year, HAL had managed to produce six Limited Series Production (LSP) IJT aircraft.
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