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Ordinary Ukrainians aspire to law and order; businessmen want their playing field to be leveled with the richest and most well connected.
Public resources, like land, minerals, and hydrocarbons, and the telecommunications spectrum, have shot up in value, and in the scramble to control them, businessmen seek shortcuts.
Indeed, Trump is a wealthy real-estate mogul who has lived his entire life among other rich businessmen.
Trump’s vice-presidential choice, Mike Pence, is an establishment GOP politician, and his campaign’s economic advisers were wealthy businessmen, financiers, real-estate developers, and supply-side economists.
Moreover, governors play a vital role in such key issues as determining whether a region attracts foreign investment or is shunned by international businessmen.
We will see more persecution of scientists, journalists, and businessmen, whose work with international charities, media, or corporations will now be construed as treachery.
In Nicaragua, Sandinista President Daniel Ortega’s alliances with questionable local businessmen and his deal with a mysterious Chinese entrepreneur to build a new canal through Central America are not going unchallenged.
Its economy, for example, cannot recover properly because consumers, lacking confidence in the ability of their political leaders to solve the economy’s manifold economic problems (budget deficits, pensions, etc.), are saving for a rainy day they feel is just around the corner—and businessmen are reluctant to invest, because they don’t trust government to make the necessary economic reforms.
Does anyone really believe consumers are holding back on spending —and businessmen postponing their investments—in anticipation of that next drop in interest rates?
We speak of aggressive businessmen, or aggressive surgery, in positive terms.
Hu Shuli belongs to the same generation: the journalist whom the Economist magazine calls "China's most dangerous woman," moved from her first job, with the Party press, to editing Caijng , a business magazine that runs stories on corruption, exposing businessmen and public officials.
Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the “animal spirits" of businessmen and shoppers.
Not only does Italy now have the first West European government led by a former communist party, but this development has been embraced by businessmen, investors, and financial speculators at home and abroad.
Advocacy can play a key role, by educating not only policymakers, but also citizens and businessmen, about the benefits of competition.
A kleptocracy of government officials, their families, and well-connected businessmen has colonized the Chinese state and is intent on blocking any reforms that might threaten their privileged status.
Some Arab properties in Jerusalem are purchased by Jewish businessmen or organizations.
In the past, politicians of the left often came from the trade unions, while conservatives were rich businessmen or landowners.
One such trend is the emergence of independent figures of public moral authority: successful businessmen, respected academics and journalists, famous writers, and influential bloggers.
Some politicians and businessmen in the West began to fear that the key to Asian success was the discipline and respect for authority of non-democratic, Confucian cultures.
Sanctions may, however, persuade some other powerful constituencies within Iran, namely the clerics, the businessmen of the bazaar, and political conservatives, to turn on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Revolutionary Guard base.
The spectacle of “American government officials, academicians, businessmen, and politicians” arrogantly “telling the Russians how to conduct their […] affairs” inevitably “led to deep and long-term resentment and bitterness.”
Now it has come to light that he and his henchmen illegally detained, tortured, and imprisoned many innocent businessmen during this campaign, simultaneously stealing their assets.
The history of the postcommunist transition has been a struggle between reformers who tried to build a market economy and ruthless businessmen, like Gazprom's managers, who thrive on only partly liberated markets, subsidized credits, import subsidies, export rents, and non-payment of taxes.
Soon afterwards, these crooked businessmen raise all prices, diminishing the assortment of products on offer, and the service.
Moreover, such businessmen do not pay employee wages if they can avoid it and often get away with it.
Yet, the preferred booty of big post-Soviet businessmen remains state benefits.
Big post-Soviet businessmen prefer complicated schemes so that few can understand what is really going on.
The only way of getting these awful business practices under control is to harness a state which corrupts today's businessmen and which, in turn, is corrupted by the most successful of them.
But education simply does not deliver economic growth the way our politicians – and businessmen – believe: more education in does not mean more growth out.
African businessmen and political leaders rarely participated in international economic conferences.
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