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The government should gradually increase the retirement age for new workers, crack down on evasion of social-security contributions, and
accept
the no-deficit principle for supplementary pension funds.
As the German Democratic Republic was about to disappear, some top French diplomats in Germany were still assuring their government in Paris that the Soviet Union would never
accept
German reunification, so there was nothing to worry about: life would go on nearly as usual.
Ideological party platforms have lost their force; voters do not
accept
the specific bundles offered by parties but want to pick and choose.
The consumer-voter, however, will not
accept
this and therefore turns away.
When Arab societies are asked to
accept
reduced subsidies, fewer government jobs, and less from the state in general, they will demand a larger share in the decision-making process.
There is also evidence that some or all of the sanctions will eventually disappear, as other governments come to
accept
the reality of a country’s nuclear status and choose to focus on other objectives.
It is hard to make sense of such assumptions, and harder still to
accept
that they could provide a good basis for computing Puerto Rico’s actual repayment capacity.
Rather than
accept
their minority status, various Iranian governments have attempted to establish their country’s hegemony in the Arab world.
In the end, Asia’s developing economies had no choice but to
accept
draconian measures as the price of bailouts in the late 1990’s.
It is an open question whether the most that Olmert would likely be able and willing to offer would meet the least that Abbas would be able to
accept.
Many Chinese observers
accept
that Trump will have to grapple with unprecedented divisions at home.
Other economists, mainly in Europe, argue that Germany must assume a political role befitting its economic preeminence and must
accept
sovereignty-sharing (and burden-sharing) arrangements to ensure the monetary union’s cohesion and sustainability.
Nobody underplays the LTTE’s contribution to the 2009 savagery; but, with the Tigers’ leaders all dead, international attention should now be focused overwhelmingly on holding the government accountable for its failure to
accept
its responsibility to protect its own people.
Of course, debt-holders would be obliged to
accept
a uniform discount (or “haircut”) on what they are owed.
Claims that leaving the EU would enable the UK to pursue its own commercial interests, like Norway or Switzerland, fail to acknowledge that these countries have to
accept
the rules of Europe’s single market in order to access it – rules that they have no part in making.
We
accept
that they will not always be right.
Wouldn’t it be better to
accept
more adjustment now in the form of slower post-crisis growth than to set ourselves up for an even bigger crash?
The wage premium for workers with a bachelor’s degree has decreased by roughly 20% in recent years, and new graduates often must
accept
jobs – such as street cleaning – for which they are vastly overqualified.
A more rational approach would
accept
twenty-first-century realities.
Third, we need to
accept
the fact that most of the refugees arriving in the EU will not return home.
The Arab public, however, will no longer
accept
the status quo.
For their part, radicalized groups must renounce violence and
accept
international principles and laws.
Thus, the eurozone faces three choices: even more austerity for the heavily-indebted countries, socialization of the debt across Europe, or a creative re-profiling of debt, with investors forced to
accept
losses sooner or later.
In order not to be blown away, they have to
accept
the interference of bodies like the IMF with the resulting weakening of their own hold on power.
The administration had pushed European countries to
accept
less representation on the IMF Board and increase China’s voting share from 3.65% to 6.07%, only to prove unable to win the support of the US Congress.
Moreover, many employers, seeking to share the pain of recession and slow down layoffs, are now asking workers to
accept
cuts in both hours and hourly wages.
That report instantly raised a question in my mind: if we
accept
the regime’s diagnosis, why did Kim need to work so hard, despite his frail health?
It is startling that the troika has refused to
accept
responsibility for any of this or admit how bad its forecasts and models have been.
It’s about using “deadlines” to force Greece to knuckle under, and to
accept
the unacceptable – not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.
In the longer term, Europe faces serious demographic problems, owing to low birth rates and unwillingness to
accept
mass immigration.
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