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Elections, too, are becoming more frequent.
Indeed, Ukraine remains on the verge of becoming a failed state.
Though the world is still becoming more interconnected, there is a sense that we understand foreign people less.
On the other hand, cities are increasingly behaving like companies, becoming intimately involved in their citizens’ quality of life, and, in an increasingly mobile world, competing for “customers.”
Yanukovych’s victory notwithstanding, Ukraine is a country that is becoming more European and gradually moving out of Russia’s orbit in its own chaotic way.
On the surface, the succession has proceeded as expected, with Crown Prince Abdullah becoming king now that Fahad has died.
Traumatized populations have fled to refugee camps in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, where malnutrition and disease are becoming increasingly prevalent – especially among children.
Resistance to such M&A’s is becoming more frequent when they involve domestic firms that are regarded by politicians as “national champions” or important for national security, economic development, or cultural identity.
This will aggravate Asia’s already serious water problem, which is becoming particularly serious in cities, owing to rapid urbanization.
In other industries, too, data-driven decision-making in product development, marketing, and customer interactions is fast becoming the standard, supplementing (and in some cases replacing) intuition and experience.
In the process Mexico has also shifted from being dependent on oil earnings to becoming a diversified exporter of manufactured goods.
They should almost thank the French for their inability to impose effective austerity measures and thereby still run a small current-account deficit, which has prevented the eurozone surplus from becoming even larger.
Financial and scientific help from rich countries is important not only for humanitarian reasons, but also to prevent failed states from becoming sources of disorder for the rest of the world.
Welcoming the rise of Chinese power in terms of that country’s becoming a “responsible stakeholder” is an invitation to begin such a dialogue.
At a private gathering of top business and political leaders in Paris a few weeks ago, he said, “You Europeans are becoming a Third World country, you spend time on the wrong subjects –the constitution, the welfare state, the pensions crisis – and you systematically give the wrong answers to the questions you raise.”
But education outcomes lag behind when it comes to secondary and tertiary education, which are becoming increasingly necessary to thrive in today’s world.
It is becoming unpopular to express support for intensifying eastward economic links, as this could strengthen potential competitors.
Gutierrez's past as a fomenter of coups has linked him in the minds of many to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, another former military officer who also authored a failed coup before becoming president.
When Thailand’s military returned to their barracks, many Thai citizens voted for Thaksin at one remove, with his sister – Yingluck Shinawatra, a long-time executive at Thaksin’s communications firm – becoming Prime Minister, supported by a powerful parliamentary majority.
Doubling average household income by 2020 – the target set at the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Congress in November – is likely to release 64 trillion renminbi ($10.3 trillion) in purchasing power, with China’s huge internal market gradually becoming a new long-term driver of domestic and international growth.
But, as its Himalayan border standoff with India’s military continues, the limits of this approach are becoming increasingly apparent.
Starting with President Miguel de la Madrid in the early 1980’s, however, the PRI responded to free market critics of Mexico’s weak economic performance by selling many government-owned enterprises, partially privatizing the Mexican social security system, and becoming a strong advocate of a free trade agreement with its large “enemy” to the north, the US.
Doesn't the government mind if so much of its urban populace is sinking into poverty and becoming disaffected?
But, given recent military progress by Syria’s increasingly coordinated and well-armed insurgency, which has the backing of Arab and Western countries, Russia might well conclude that becoming a key player in the Syrian endgame better serves its broader strategic interests.
Moreover, with education increasingly becoming a lifelong pursuit, businesses must rethink their role in providing for a competitive workforce.
When middle-class women anywhere in the world get over this taboo, we will do so by understanding that money is never just about money, and that becoming financially literate means pushing back against a social role that casts middle-class women as polite, economically vague, underpaid, shopping-dazed dependents.
Well-established scientific evidence shows that it is becoming emptier, warmer, and more acidic, putting marine life under serious pressure.
In becoming an unknown, Khrushchev had no choice.
Gradually energy production is becoming more difficult to control.
And Merkel herself will try to avoid a minority coalition with the FDP, in order to avoid becoming dependent on it.
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