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But, for the most part, the candidates have steered clear of speaking Chinese or discussing troubled Pakistani provinces.
Whether the presidential candidates know it, or are in the least bit interested, the world listens to their words with greater care than they have sometimes shown in uttering them.
He had worked for previous mainstream Republican candidates such as Robert Dole, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan; more important, he appeared to be the only traditional Republican operative willing to work for the candidate.
Another wrong turn is the proposal recently embraced by two American presidential candidates to temporarily scrap taxes on gasoline.
Then again, maybe France will be the third electoral loss for extreme-right candidates, after those in Austria and the Netherlands, providing definitive proof that the populist tide can be resisted.
The election is not until November 2016, and very few candidates have formally thrown their hats into the ring, but the competition to promote and develop ideas – both behind closed doors and publicly – is in fully swing.
Potential Republican presidential candidates have hesitated to take up this issue in public – perhaps feeling that it will inhibit their ability to raise money from Wall Street.
Multi-million dollar bonuses on Wall Street and in the City of London have become routine, and financial firms have dominated donor lists for all the major political candidates in the 2008 US presidential election.
There may be some technical measures that can be taken, like banning parties and candidates who campaign against democracy, or whose democratic credentials are weak.
Yet one can easily see the problems: who judges the eligibility of candidates and how are such judgements enforced?
At the same time, 17% of all candidates were women, far more than in earlier elections.
Online talent platforms can boost labor-market efficiency by aggregating data on candidates and job openings in a broader geographic area, thereby illuminating for workers which positions are open today, as well as the actions they can take to gain more fulfilling work.
In fact, the most sought-after engineers and software developers may not need to apply for jobs at all; companies are now increasingly recruiting “passive” candidates, sometimes forcing employers to increase the salaries of workers they want to retain.
But the fact that he ran as a populist, talked about helping the poor, condemned the government’s performance, and acted almost like an opposition candidate are all irrelevant: he was the regime’s choice, and, in the end, he received official help even against rival hardline candidates.
The World Bank’s 11 executive directors from emerging and developing countries have put forward two excellent candidates, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria and Jose Antonio Ocampo of Colombia.
Affirmative action , as it was called, consisted of rules that set aside a certain percentage of representation among candidates for office, students and teachers, police and the military, and in other walks of life to members of hitherto disadvantaged groups.
Since independence, Slovakia is increasingly left off from the list of candidates to enter the European Union and NATO.
In 2017, the High Authority, for the first time, published all presidential candidates’ asset-disclosure forms on its website.
But, more important, it postponed the new government’s appointment by a day so that it could vet the incoming ministerial candidates.
Indeed, if all eight of the top East European candidates (excluding Bulgaria and Romania) join by the target date of 2004, the EU population's will soar by about 75 million people.
The presidential candidates of the traditional center-left Socialist Party and the center-right Republicans were indeed trounced by Macron, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the grassroots appeal of either party has suddenly evaporated.
They may be down following their presidential candidates’ defeat in the first round of the presidential election, but they most definitely are not out.
That, of course, is because all were candidates of the left or the right.
Past presidential candidates pledged to reform the chaebol – from cracking down on corruption to restructuring corporate governance – but delivered little, instead favoring short-term political gain from maintaining the status quo.
The three leading candidates – Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party, Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party, and the independent Ahn Cheol-soo – are united in vowing chaebol reform.
It is imperative that the selection process be altered to broaden the search for candidates who are sensitive to changing realities and possess key qualifications.
By broadening the geographical and socioeconomic talent base and identifying good candidates sooner, we could increase the likelihood that students will return to practice in their local communities.
NEW YORK – I have been honored by World Bank directors representing developing countries and Russia to be selected as one of two developing-country candidates to become the Bank’s next president.
Gubernatorial elections this November will force Kurdish political contenders to offer opposing programs, and some candidates will seek electoral advantage via populist calls for independence.
According to the US-based Center for Responsive Politics, spending on the election – for President and Congress, and including spending by outside groups as well as by the candidates and their political parties – is estimated to have exceeded $6 billion.
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