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The chief reason for the euro's pains is the performance of the US economy.
Its chief exports?
The police chief refuses, and is so incorruptible that he sleeps beside the drugs to prevent the multi-million-dollar evidence from disappearing.
Later that week, the suspect is released into the care of the military, and the police chief is fired.
Instead of turning to the state’s two regional parties – one headed by a former prime minister of India, the other by a former chief minister – Karnataka’s voters sought refuge in the tested Congress, enabling it to secure a firm majority in the state assembly.
And this occurred thanks to skillful United Nations involvement, led by Alvaro de Soto; the talent of sophisticated FMLN leaders like Villalobos and chief negotiator Salvador Samayoa; strong pressure from the US and its point-man, Bernard Aronson; and Salvadoran President Alfredo Christiani’s undeniable courage and vision.
Together with the pro-democracy army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, this coalition can address Pakistan’s most pressing challenges, including terrorism.
And his German chief of staff, Martin Selmayr, ensures that his country’s concerns are heeded across the Commission.
Our chief objectives are preventing the crisis from escalating into a larger conflict, ensuring a sustainable political process, and preserving the inclusive and cooperative nature of the OSCE’s work.
Hwang Jang-yop, North Korea’s former chief ideologist and its most senior defector to the South, describes North Korea as a mixture of “socialism, modern feudalism, and militarism.”
At the moment, the focus seems to be on People’s Liberation Army officers and those tied to now-imprisoned former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the former Politburo security chief Zhou Yongkang, who is awaiting sentencing.
She recently met with former Japanese finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, and Kim Kwan-jin, the chief of South Korea’s National Security Office, recently met with Abe’s national security adviser, Shotaro Yachi.
The chief of India’s Anti-Terrorist Squad, Hemant Karkare (who lost his life in the battles that raged through the night) received a death threat from the nearby city of Pune, but his own unit did not bother to investigate it, since it was busy playing games on behalf of its political masters.
In 1995, for example, Singapore’s deputy chief executive for public utilities was found guilty of accepting bribes worth $9.8 million.
Last year, the median total pay for a chief executive officer in Singapore was $673,000, according to the Hay Group, a global consulting firm.
Economists around the world have taken note of the arrival of Raghuram Rajan as chief economist in the finance ministry.
Rajan is a superstar academic researcher, a brilliant writer on political economy, and a former chief economist for the IMF.
That behavior has also won him a stamp of approval from the BJP’s ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which apparently strongly backed him for the chief minister’s position.
A bigoted chief minister running India’s largest state might well help the ruling party’s short-term electoral prospects, but it could have serious consequences for the country over the longer term.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
The most important reason for ignoring these shouts is that, behind the scenes but not really hidden, the chief force organizing the demonstrations is America's organized labor, a movement with terrible problems with free trade (Nafta, trade with China, the WTO), anything, indeed, that looks like a global free market.
Policy makers in poor countries have long understood that their chief enemies are the "fair trade" advocates in the US, unions, and environmentalists.
Like his mentor, Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive after its return to China, Leung harbors a deep antipathy toward the British and the professional civil service, a legacy of colonialism.
Enshrined in the Chinese Communist Party’s constitution are the following words: “Mao Zedong, the Party’s chief representative, created Mao Zedong Thought, which has been proved correct by practice and based on which the Communist Party developed the basic system of socialism economically, politically, and culturally after the founding of the People’s Republic.”
The jewel in its crown is to be the appointment for a 30-month term of a full-time president of the European Council, which groups the heads of EU member governments, along with a foreign policy chief who will be backed by an embryonic EU diplomatic service.
And there are also those who fear that a political heavyweight in the job might eclipse the EU Commission’s President, former Portuguese prime minister José Manuel Barroso, who has just been confirmed for a second five-year term, and devalue the role of the foreign policy chief whose authority Lisbon is due to beef up.
The second is the politics of detail, where the new foreign policy chief’s role is to create a single EU stance on the wide range of issues about which European governments still have wildly different national positions.
Karzai's Crisis of LegitimacyReading the press of late, you might conclude that all Harmid Karzai, Afghanistan's chief, needs to pacify his country is an expanded international peacekeeping presence and faster delivery of aid.
This is for good reason: using wealth as the chief criterion for citizenship controverts the values of virtually any society.
When the Tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, comes to Belgrade this Tuesday her welcome will not be warm.
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