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In the meantime, I was approached by a company called Talent Sciences, which I am sure has a good idea.
As communism approached its collapse, people profited ever more from distorted state regulations, such as multiple exchange rates and multiple prices, as the old controls fell apart.
And with prospects for substantial inflows of foreign capital dimming, there is little likelihood of an investment rebound.Even before Trump’s election, foreign investors approached Iran cautiously, signing projects but holding back on actually committing funds.
Even before Trump’s election, foreign investors approached Iran cautiously, signing projects but holding back on actually committing funds.
As the end of his rule approached, Boris Yeltsin went through at least a half-dozen prime ministers, looking for the one who would ensure the security not only of Russia’s new democracy and market economy, but also of his “family” and the wealth that it had accumulated during his rule.
Faced with the North’s dangerous nuclear game, we should ask what would have happened if, over the last 20 some years, the North Korea problem had been approached with the sagacity of Metternich and Kennedy.
Some parliamentary leaders of Western democracies have approached to this limit, such as Helmut Kohl and his 16 years in office in Germany.
But, in pursuing such a path, governments must remember that mining is a potentially dangerous industry that must be approached with care.
But even if the US approached this efficiency – a difficult feat in such a large and diverse country – social solidarity still would demand high effective taxes, as it does in Denmark and Sweden.
Throughout its history, China has sought to treat its neighbors as vassals – a mindset currently reflected in the way that it has approached negotiations with Vietnam and the Philippines over the South China Sea.
But the application of CRISPR-Cas must be approached with care.
Indeed, when North Korea approached Swedish academics to request training in business management, they insisted that the training take place in conditions as near to those prevailing in North Korea as possible.
Instead of asking if blood kinship explains everything or nothing about altruism, Hamilton approached the question differently.
The basic problem is that the Islamic State’s territorial gains are being approached from three completely different perspectives, demanding three different types of operational responses.
A group of farsighted statesmen, inspired by the vision of a United States of Europe, recognized that this ideal could be approached only gradually, by setting limited objectives, mobilizing the political will needed to achieve them, and concluding treaties that required states to surrender only as much sovereignty as they could bear politically.
At the same time, the Europeans, having convinced Russia and China to back their strategy, approached the US with another stark choice: either join an international coalition to apply diplomatic pressure on Iran, or pursue dubiously effective military measures on your own.
The Fed had been saying for several months that it would raise the federal funds rate when the labor market approached full employment and when FOMC members could anticipate that annual inflation would reach 2%.
No estimate of the pure rate of time preference, even by those who believe in relatively strong discounting of the future, has ever approached 8.5%.
Philosophers of science have traditionally approached questions concerning what counts as knowledge, explanation, and theory as if they could be answered universally.
When the manager approached the DC police, he was told the rumors were constitutionally protected speech.
But as the conference approached, a growing number of countries, led by the US, complained that the Compact enabled the imposition of binding obligations in the future, thus infringing on their sovereignty.
In Bush’s second term, some of the most extreme unilateralists have departed from the government, and the president has approached difficult problems like North Korea or Iran with a more multilateral approach than during his first term.
I am aware that Judge Goldstone, a dedicated and unimpeachable human rights lawyer and advocate, shared similar concerns when he was initially approached.
Minsky (1919-1996) is best approached not through his collected essays, entitled Can “It” Happen Again?, but rather through the use Kindleberger (1910-2003) made of his work in his 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises.
Indeed, the way the world has sought to resolve the financial crisis offers interesting insights about how the foreign-affairs crisis should be approached.
As my book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? went to press nearly two decades ago, I approached a well-known economist to ask him if he would provide an endorsement for the back cover.
Just a few months ago, for example, a Chinese company approached my firm asking for advice about how to enter Zimbabwe’s health-care market.
The Irish banking system approached total collapse in September 2008, and was only saved by a €400 billion government guarantee of all bank deposits.
In 1980-2005, the US economy grew by a factor of 4.45 – a level that no major European economy even approached.
Eighty years on, the developed world has approached Keynes’s goal.
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