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WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.

But we cannot be complacent that the forces of national egoism will remain in check.

When coral populations decline in the aftermath of cyclones, diseases, and other disturbances, it is the herbivores that keep seaweed in check, and allow coral populations to recover.

Second, we must restore coral reefs' capacity to cope with environmental change--their resilience--by protecting the fish stocks that keep seaweed in check, and thereby facilitate the recovery of coral populations from bleaching.

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Having gone to university in western countries, we were inspired by the American system of check and balances.

Take the case of the British soldier Lee Clegg who, while on duty in Northern Ireland, shot and killed a teenage joyrider whose car failed to stop at a security check.

Beyond elections, citizens can provide an effective check on government only if they are well informed.

Better a 50-basis-point increase now - thereby allowing the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check - than triple or quadruple that figure down the road.

The Emir of Qatar paid a visit to Gaza as a reward for Hamas's break with Iran and left a check.

A vibrant civil society will mobilize when the rule of law is violated, and it can also check the illiberal inclinations of democratic majorities.

But if it becomes a matter of individual worker choice - do I send a check or do I keep the money? - union revenues and membership and power will shrink very rapidly.

This raised questions about prudential supervision, chiefly whether sufficient resources exist to check whether the institutions are financially sound.

In the Middle East, it needs to persuade Iran to hold in check the military elements of the nuclear program that Russia has made possible.

How much more worrying, then, is such concentrated ownership in new democracies and developing countries, where the check of civil society is mostly absent?

Maybe they, too, should try holding a few conferences in Zimbabwe, and get a reality check of their own.

Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital - while being chased by corruption investigators! - to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.

Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.

China's currency peg has also come in handy for Europe in its fight to keep inflation in check, while its monetary policy remains constrained by the sub-prime crisis.

It would allow the central bank to raise interest rates aggressively to control runaway credit and investment growth, and keep inflation in check.

On the other hand, the Darfur crisis, in which China has lent its support to Khartoum, has provided a reality check for both sides, revealing the limits to collaboration.

LONDON - In 1993, the economists Alberto Alesina and Larry Summers published a seminal paper that argued that central bank independence keeps inflation in check, with no adverse consequences for economic performance.

Today's most urgent task therefore must be to prevent this from happening, and then to check further advances in the North's nuclear weapons and delivery capabilities.