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John Brown
attempted
to engineer a similar strategy during much of his tenure at the helm of British Petroleum, as did Body Shop founder Anita Roddick before them.
Earlier this month, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Senator David Perdue of Georgia both
attempted
to defend Trump’s blatantly racist comments by claiming, first, that they did not recall hearing him say “shithole” and, later, that he must have said “shithouse” instead.
In Great Britain, too, leading Conservatives have recently proved willing to raise taxes and
attempted
to limit future spending.
Much depends on the success of China’s energy reforms, and in particular on its efforts to build the world’s largest renewable power system – an ambition far larger than anything imagined, much less attempted, in the West.
Although the government recently
attempted
to attract capital back to the official banking sector by eliminating the lending rate’s lower bound, more substantial reform is needed – and that will likely have to wait until the interest rate on deposits is fully liberalized and the financial sector is open to private banks.
This is what is being
attempted
at the moment.
Chinese media organizations are under constant scrutiny by the authorities, and editors have chafed at (and even
attempted
to defy) censorship.
For example, in 2004, China
attempted
to replace standard GDP accounting with the “Green GDP” index, which accounts for the environmental consequences of economic growth.
First-year women were ranked on their sex appeal, the complaint noted, and, most seriously, Yale failed to respond adequately to reports of sexual assault or
attempted
assault and stalking.
Yet no
attempted
solution will get very far without the US and its decisive leadership.
Since 2013, Pakistan has
attempted
to offset the sharp decline in its foreign-exchange reserves by raising billions of dollars in dollar-denominated debt with ten-year bonds.
At the end of the day it could lead to the sort of huge street protests that marked the Orange Revolution, and their
attempted
violent suppression.
From the “People Power” revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to Boris Yeltsin’s defiance of the
attempted
coup against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991, to the Rose, Orange, and Cedar Revolutions of recent years, dictators have been forced to admit defeat when enough people stand up to them.
While no one from either the Bush or Obama administrations
attempted
to defend American-style free-wheeling capitalism, European leaders argued for their “social market economy,” their gentler form of capitalism with its social protections, as the model for the future.
But even when China
attempted
to create a more reliably market-based system, investors’ responses were skewed, with unfounded expectations of a substantial and consistent devaluation fueling speculation in international markets.
On a recent trip through the Middle East, I
attempted
to gain a better understanding of the crisis.
Over the last year, Brazil has been struggling to unwind that
attempted
shortcut.
Modernism
attempted
to free humankind from the "dictatorship of religion" by introducing a second source of information -- reason.
If investors, en masse,
attempted
to convert their money into gold, however, the system would necessarily break down.
After the crisis, the world’s major central banks
attempted
to revive spending and employment by slashing interest rates.
A genuine futures market on single-family homes has not been
attempted
since 1991 when the London Futures and Options Exchange (now merged into Euronext.liffe)
The economist Mario Monti, who followed Berlusconi as Prime Minister,
attempted
a real depreciation, introducing greater flexibility into the labor market in order to force the unions into wage concessions.
Some suggest that, to strengthen its position further, Europe should team up with China, which, despite its reticence at the WTO conference, has lately
attempted
to position itself as a champion of multilateralism.
But the IMF has
attempted
to do so – and reckons that spending in most GCC countries is too high.
The Nigerian father who warned the US embassy in Lagos that he feared what his own son might do – before that same young man
attempted
to detonate a bomb aboard a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 – is an example of just this.
In fact, such a large increase has seldom – if ever – been attempted, owing to the risk that it would spur consumers to spend before it takes effect, thereby reducing future consumption.
Just a year ago, former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attempted, despite a deep recession, to raise the consumption tax without monetary easing – a strategy that could have brought only continued economic stagnation.
As the government
attempted
to direct these gains toward wealth redistribution, public expenditure rose and the social-benefits system – underpinned by so-called “acquired rights” – became increasingly rigid.
When the Turkish Parliament
attempted
to elect the president on April 27, Gul did not receive enough votes to win on the first ballot.
This was always the showstopper in Darfur: any
attempted
invasion of Sudan would have been disastrous for the two million displaced people, and would have re-ignited the country’s even deadlier north-south conflict.
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