Hard pact to follow: the Good Friday Agreement at 25
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-century on it has led to depressingly dysfunctional politics. The next generation of vaccines is already on the way—and the first thing to do is get them out of the freezer. And why the long-frothy market for works by Pablo Picasso may at last be cooling.
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| 0:00.0 | Conventional wisdom says that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. |
| 0:05.0 | But what if something happens that no one planned for? |
| 0:08.0 | The rules of business and society have changed. |
| 0:11.0 | Today it is no longer just survival of the fittest, |
| 0:15.0 | it's survival of the fastest. |
| 0:17.0 | New laws and regulations can bring opportunities. |
| 0:20.0 | Businesses need a law firm that will help seize them |
| 0:24.0 | because success isn't about keeping up with change. |
| 0:27.0 | It is about being out in front and setting the pace. |
| 0:31.0 | Agility is the law of tomorrow. |
| 0:33.0 | Discover what you can do with it today at Mishkond.com. |
| 0:37.0 | Mishkond Arayam, its business, but it's personal. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm your host, Auré Ogambi. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:53.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:00.0 | As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, |
| 1:03.0 | one of the biggest challenges for pharmaceuticals and governments |
| 1:07.0 | was figuring out how to safely get vaccines to all corners of the world. |
| 1:11.0 | Finally, some new inventions are about to make that process a little bit easier. |
| 1:17.0 | And there are really quite a lot of works by Pablo Picasso out there. |
| 1:22.0 | And the market for them has been frothy for decades. |
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