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President Barack Obama’s new budget
calls
for a stunning $1.75 trillion deficit in the United States, a multiple of the previous record.
Or was it just a ploy to deflect
calls
for a larger German contribution to the eurozone’s recovery?
Despite international
calls
to stop the attacks, the Al Qaeda-linked group managed to raze more than half of the fabled city’s ancient monuments, including several UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Calls
are rampant for surrendering fiscal sovereignty; for dramatic recapitalization of the financially vulnerable banking system; and/or for Greece and possibly other distressed eurozone members to quit the euro (or for establishing an interim two-tier monetary union).
If a 747 crashed into a nuclear facility, we would be unlikely to hear
calls
for all airplanes to be outlawed, but the clamor for every reactor on the planet to be shut down immediately would probably be deafening.
But her return to the presidency comes with a crucial caveat: record-high abstention
calls
into question the claim made by some within her coalition that voters want a profound shift away from the market-friendly policies that have made Chile Latin America’s most stable and successful democracy.
Michael Walzer, for example, speaks about what he
calls "
thin" and "thick" loyalty.
Disappointment about the raters’ performance, and skepticism about the effectiveness of regulation, has led to
calls
to eliminate any regulatory reliance on ratings.
They appeared prominently – eloquent and outspoken, marching daily, holding caricatures of dictators and chanting
calls
for democratic change.
At the same time, international
calls
for China to assume the responsibilities of a major power – not only in areas like trade and investment, but also on issues like environmental protection and global governance – are growing louder.
(The fascist organization that the Western media
calls
ISIS – a name that confers on it Islamic credentials – is more likely to be called Daesh in the Islamic world, a name coined by my brother Khaled, who was in jail with me in the 1980s.)
Indeed, the US has acted as a buffer to insulate Israel—whose prime minister has boasted about its nuclear weapons—from any international scrutiny, while ignoring
calls
by Iran and other countries to create a Middle East nuclear-free zone.
The government must also make every effort to establish the rule of law, including implementation of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which
calls
for independent judicial institutions, and of the 13th Amendment, which devolves power to the provinces.
My own multimedia “WMD—WeMustDisarm!” campaign, which will culminate on the International Day of Peace (21 September), will reinforce growing
calls
for disarmament by former statesmen and grassroots campaigns, such as “Global Zero.”
These
calls
will get a further boost in September when civil society groups gather in Mexico City for a UN-sponsored conference on disarmament and development.
The need to finance the external deficit and to avoid excessive depreciation (and even higher inflation)
calls
for raising policy rates or keeping them on hold at high levels.
With violent crimes on a shocking upsurge, with the hideous crimes of child rape and abuse on the increase, there are nowadays frequent
calls
– backed by wide public support – to restore capital punishment.
Those who believe that the Peshawar massacre might serve as a wakeup call to the Pakistani military should ask why the generals have ignored hundreds of earlier wakeup
calls.
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.
In practical terms, whereas the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders believe in neutrality and remain skeptical of the motives of outside states that might intervene, Kouchner’s view is that humanitarian action should be understood as part of what the Canadian writer-politician Michael Ignatieff
calls
a “revolution of concern.”
Foreign Minister Kouchner
calls
international conferences, speaks of establishing contact groups, and of the need for deliberate action.
This toxic combination of poor education and high youth unemployment leaves millions of young people lingering in a purgatory that American University professor Diane Singerman
calls
“waithood.”
Since then, Japanese policymakers have been working to launch what Abe
calls
the third “arrow” of his agenda: arduous reforms of key industries and the demolition of structural barriers to growth.
A breakthrough of sorts may have come this past weekend when, after vetoing three previous resolutions, Russia finally agreed with Western and Arab-backed
calls
for Syria’s government and opposition forces to provide immediate access to humanitarian aid.
The OECD’s founding convention
calls
on it to assist sound economic expansion and to contribute to growth in world trade on a multilateral, non-discriminatory basis.
The OECD itself has drawn attention to Switzerland's Code of Conduct for Tax Authorities, Taxpayers and Tax Advisers as an example of how to promote what it
calls
an “enhanced relationship between taxpayers and revenue bodies."
These unsettled areas have become infiltrated by a multinational anti-state terror network (Al Qaeda, Taliban, the Haqqani network, and roughly 14 definable anti-state elements operating in the FATA alone), which the US government
calls
“anti-coalition militias” and are far more sinister and interconnected than the West imagines.
More important, Article 3
calls
upon members to work together to build and maintain a capacity for defense, thereby boosting resilience.
But public opinion – volatile and angry –
calls
for both to resign: a public-opinion poll conducted after the Commission published its report indicated that only 14% of Israelis believe that Olmert should keep his job, while less than 11% support Peretz.
While it
calls
for action to “promote healthy behaviors” it does not include any measures to curb smoking, reduce excessive alcohol consumption, or improve diets; instead, the report focuses solely on water, sanitation, and hygiene (all good things, to be sure).
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