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The regulation created a continent-wide market for hardware and services, one large enough that the standard – called GSM, after the Groupe Spécial Mobile committee that had codified it – was adopted globally.

The reform treaty that is to be adopted in 2009 is aimed at overcoming the EU’s supposed “democratic deficit.”

As a result, southern Europe adopted an economic configuration in which its wage, price, and productivity levels made sense only so long as it spent €13 for every €12 that it earned, with northern Europe financing the missing euro.

Northern Europe, meanwhile, adopted wage and productivity levels that made sense only as long as it spent less than one euro for every euro that it earned.

There are proposals on the table for such a scheme, though any that is adopted would have to incorporate some limited joint guarantee by member states.

If the relatively conservative compromises outlined above are to be adopted, EU citizens must be involved in the decision-making process.

Now the French parliament wants to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa – the full, face-covering garment worn in orthodox Arab countries, and now adopted by some orthodox non-Arabs – in public places.

One view holds that the problem lies in the strategy of economic reform that Russia adopted after 1991.

Some people argue that Russia reformed "too fast," that it should have adopted a gradualist reform strategy, something like that pursued by China.

The Renminbi Goes ForthBEIJING – In June, the Peoples’ Bank of China (PBC), China’s central bank, announced an end to the renminbi’s 23-month-old peg to the dollar and a return to the pre-crisis exchange-rate regime adopted in July 2005.

The austerity measures that many countries have adopted to reduce public deficits and debt are hampering fiscal policy, while near-zero policy rates in the largest developed economies have constrained their scope for monetary-policy maneuvering.

Instead of developing a strategy for Russia’s long-term recovery, Putin has adopted a reactive and opportunistic approach – one that can sometimes succeed, but only in the short term – to cope with domestic insecurity, perceived external threats, and the weakness of neighbors.

This could amount to a powerful refutation of the tactic, adopted by countries like Italy, of aggressively confronting the EU authorities.

Of course, Germany under Angela Merkel has adopted a somewhat different stance, owing to the Christian Democratic Party’s special relationship with Israel.

With this historic move, Serbia adopted a practice that took hold in the rich, Western countries after World War II but was never applied in the Communist bloc.

If adopted, these measures will further compound America's fiscal mess.

Europe by DegreesROME -- A year ago, few people would have bet that the European Union, still reeling from the trauma of the Constitutional Treaty’s rejection in 2005, would be poised to ratify the new Reform Treaty, adopted in Lisbon last December.

But let them do it separately, and in the meantime let the Union be energized by the improvements that it has already adopted.

Interestingly, one of the world’s best-performing economies, Sweden, has already adopted a carbon tax at a rate substantially higher than that discussed in our report.

In China, Xi, a professed admirer of Putin’s methods, has adopted the Russian’s playbook as he has consolidated power.

In the meantime, though, we have clarity on at least three matters:First, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, or R2P, which the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted in 2005, in response to the world’s inaction as nearly one million men, women, and children were slaughtered in Rwanda, is essentially dead.

Argentina adopted the hardest peg, introducing a quasi-currency board and fixing the exchange rate by law.

During the same period, other Latin American countries, particularly Colombia and Chile, adopted an alternative strategy.

The measures called for by the bailout program were adopted within a very short period of time; indeed, many of them were part of previous agreements, but had never been implemented.

Regarding taxes, the government has adopted measures to reduce evasion and increase collection rates.

Other countries that performed well include Peru and Mexico, both of which adopted freedom of information laws in 2002, shortly after Romania.

When the United States adopted its Freedom of Information Act in 1966, it joined the exclusive company of Sweden and Finland.

Sue Hoag was 12 when she read a book about a family that adopted several needy children, and from then on she wanted to do that, too.

They did so, but they could not shut out the knowledge that other children were in desperate need of a good home – children who were unlikely to be adopted because of a disability or their race, age, or a history of violence.

Hoag and Badeau were not at all wealthy, but they ended up with a family of 20 adopted children, as well as their two biological children.

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