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Candidates in sentence

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Democratic and Republican candidates alike were called upon to explain what they would be prepared to do if there were an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden or a need to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
We should not be surprised if someone eventually tries to tweak the content of pornography to exploit Americans’ cultural proclivities on behalf of other products, causes, or even political candidates.
Other candidates whose names were canvassed included Felipe Gonzales, former prime minister of Spain, and Wim Kok, prime minister of the Netherlands.
Apart from the unanimous nomination of Prodi, the main achievements of the Berlin summit were a dilution of the reform of farm policy, a dilution of budget reform, and maintenance of the absurd and hypocritical pretence that the first six candidates for membership can expect to be inside the EU by 2002.
Other candidates received death threats.
In Chihuahua, candidates for office claimed to have received threats, and some asked for police protection.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly said in public settings that he will not declare his preference among the candidates.
But I have one vote, and I would not determine a certain candidate because the people themselves should choose their candidates based on their own knowledge.”
As of this writing, only two presidential candidates have declared themselves: former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi.
Among the other candidates, who will pick up this slack?
A Referendum on ObamaSTANFORD – Successful political candidates try to implement the proposals on which they ran.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner to challenge Obama in November, and the party’s other leading candidates, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, want less spending, major reforms of government programs, lower taxes, trade expansion, and less and more-targeted regulation than does Obama.
High on Romney’s agenda is a reduction of the corporate-tax rate, from 35% to 25%, the OECD average level (the other Republican candidates would lower it still more), which would redress a major competitive disadvantage for American multinational companies’ global business.
With the US distracted by other strategic challenges – not to mention its domestic presidential campaign – Asia’s other powers – in particular, an economically surging India and a more politically assertive Japan – are the best candidates for the job.
The explanation is that only candidates winning more than 12.5% of registered voters in the first round can participate in the second.
The low turnout (less than 50%) for the first round means that two candidates at most can make it to the second round, where the candidate with the highest number of votes will win.
Clearly, the region's countries are weaker and further behind previous candidates for Western integration.
And, as it stands, no third parties or candidates provide reasonable alternatives.
And in the United States, Republican presidential candidates are promising more.
Most accession candidates now send more exports to the EU than Greece, Portugal, and Spain did when they entered the EU and EMU.
As with structural convergence, EU candidates already outperform Spain, Portugal, and Greece at a comparable time before their EMU debut.
The culprit in this pessimistic view is the so-called "Balassa-Samuelson" effect: rapid productivity growth in the accession candidates' tradable sectors - export manufacturing, for example - is pushing up real wages throughout their economies, including in non-tradable sectors like services.
Some argue that ERM II membership should be viewed as a longer-term proposition - possibly lasting until 2010 - for the benefit of candidates themselves.
This would help keep the candidates' economic output high and thus sustain real convergence with average EU income levels.
As European Central Bank data shows, average per capita GDP in the accession candidates is 44% of the eurozone level.
In almost all candidates, further disinflation and long-term economic growth require fiscal consolidation, more flexible labor markets, and completion of privatization.
Such candidates organize concerts and throw money, medicines, food, cloths, computers, and other goodies around.
This nonsense on stilts is articulated by some zany candidates who enjoy the support of the Tea Party, a reference not to the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, which would be fitting, but to the Bostonians who rebelled against colonial Britain’s imposition of taxes in the eighteenth century.
Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new-comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.
It is fairly clear that Vladimir Putin will be re-elected to the presidency in March; the votes will be counted properly, even though some may argue that the slate of candidates is unduly restricted.
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