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The latest – but surely not the last – victim is Sergei Ivanov, a former KGB operative (like Putin himself) and defense minister who has just been forced out as Kremlin chief of staff.
As N. Gregory Mankiw said of a stimulus package back in 2003, when he was President George W. Bush's chief economic advisor, this is not rocket science.
The newly elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, campaigned on a platform that promises to deliver to India as a whole the rapid growth in employment and income that the state of Gujarat achieved when he was its chief minister.
De-Nationalizing the ECB’s Executive BoardThe European Central Bank’s chief economist, Otmar Issing, may not be scheduled to retire until May 2006.
One proposal currently making the rounds in Frankfurt is to split Issing’s current portfolio in two, transferring part of the chief economist’s responsibilities to another Board member.
The Maghreb countries have attracted little more than a trickle of foreign investment, and the chief source has been Europe.
Rules were for others, and at the very end of his term in office his one public disagreement with Bush concerned the President’s refusal to pardon Cheney’s former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who had been convicted of perjury.
He was Gujarat’s chief minister in 2002 when riots killed more than a thousand Muslims.
The appointment of the pliable general Raheel Sharif as army chief has helped defuse the situation; but, with Pakistan and India backing opposing sides in Afghanistan, the military and the ISI could reassert themselves should tensions there rise.
Leaders like Barghouti, former preventative security chief Jibril Rajoub, and Gaza’s Dahlan are now in the driver’s seat of the Fatah movement.
He took no direct and immediate action, as the state’s chief executive, to protect Muslims.
Shortly before his unmarked aircraft landed, Pakistan announced the capture in Quetta of Mullah Obaidullah, deputy to the elusive Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.
Still, though Ukraine’s chief rabbis and Jewish leaders have emphatically rejected Putin’s claims of anti-Semitic excesses, there is enough hatred and blood in Ukraine’s recent history to make one worry.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is today’s chief rogue.
The Duke University CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey found that nearly 60% of chief financial officers in the United States believe that a lack of public trust has harmed the business environment.
Today, the chief impediments are supply-side constraints, which require well-designed strategies and capacity-building efforts so that AGOA’s members can take full advantage of the program’s benefits.
Countries like Germany are adamantly opposed to a fiscal union, with a central EU budget for responding to asymmetric shocks, because they would be the chief contributors.
The problem was that this rosy picture did not resonate with voters outside London and the Southeast of England, for reasons set out with great clarity in a recent speech by Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist.
There have also been political heavyweights, such as Michael Mansfield, a long-time Democratic majority leader of the US Senate, former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Foley, and Senator Howard Baker, who also served as President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff.
An outstanding Romanian journalist, Cristian Tudor Popescu, a deputy editor-in chief of Adevarul the newspaper with the widest national circulation, went so far as to write that "Human Rights" are nowadays merely a tool that the West uses in its bid to control the world.
They often become the chief proponents of a broader, civic concept of national belonging, in theory embracing all peoples.
I spent several hours last year with the chief executive and chair of a bank who thought it unfair that investors were planning to vote against him holding both posts.
The ISRO’s chief scientist, K. Radhakrishnan, is not interested in comparisons with other countries: “We are in competition with ourselves,” he declared, “in the areas we have charted for ourselves.”
As early as August 2005, Raghuram Rajan, the IMF’s Economic Counselor (chief economist) at the time, was warning of weaknesses in the US financial markets.
One victim testified that she was told her rapist was the police chief, and that she would be framed if she told anyone about his assaults.
There is much speculation about the reasoning behind the government’s decisions in May to dismiss the pro-Hezbollah chief of airport security and investigate Hezbollah’s private telecommunications network, which sparked the confrontations.
But their ranks include intelligent top-rank officials – led by the Pope’s chief adviser, Cardinal Pietro Parolin – who are experienced at working quietly for peace and social justice in some of the most perilous parts of the world.
I was chief economist of the World Bank in the late 1990s, when we began to receive similarly depressing news from Russia.
Earlier this month, the chief executive of Airbus called for drastic action to reduce the value of the euro against the dollar by about 10%, from a “crazy” $1.35 to between $1.20 and $1.25.
Taxing the Intangible EconomyLONDON – Some very clever people, including the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, are expressing concerns over the slowdown in productivity growth.
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