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Instead, just 22 months later, the company announced that it would close all of its 133 Canadian stores and lay off 17,000 people.
It is important for the EU to be agile and maintain close coordination with the US.
His close connections with the oil industry make him loathe to force it to pay for its pollution.
Watching all this close up could encourage despair.
The entire House of Representatives faces reelection every two years – a term set by the US Constitution to force them to hew close to public opinion.
In the current rankings, both are locked in a clinch close to the bottom of the FT list of top firms.
Despite his impeccable track record as the governor of Canada’s central bank, Carney’s appointment was controversial: he has always been perceived as too close to the previous chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, and insufficiently sympathetic to Brexiteers.
Close analysis of the behavior of the Fed and Germany's Bundesbank between 1979-1995 reveals that central bank interventions tend to cluster over time.
Those countries that value the current system will increasingly feel the urge to close ranks to defend it.
Any open rupture will weaken the hands of the reformers who want to have close ties with the West and the US.
The law gives Russian authorities discretion to close, whenever they choose, every significant organization promoting human rights.
Given the increasingly close financial and economic linkages between euro-zone members, rising government debt in even one EMU country can have serious consequences for all members, because no member state will allow another to default.
What does seem clear is that a cohesive and strong Europe on good terms with its neighbors will not fit easily into a close transatlantic alliance with an America actively pursuing global hegemony.
The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.
In the last few months, as it just barely emerged from the deepest economic and financial crisis in close to a century, the eurozone experienced the worst jolts in its history, although in terms of public finance, the eurozone as a whole has fared better than the United States or Japan.
It looks like that the communists together with their possible fellow-travelers will control close to half of the Duma seats.
According to many close observers, America’s attractiveness is declining in the region where the allure, or “soft power,” of others has increased.
Efforts to close this gap have so far been insufficient in scale and scope, but a plan of action now exists, developed in recent months by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC).
Appearing on live German television, he declared that he would close the Balkan route for refugees fleeing Syria for Northern Europe.
And, yes, financial markets require close supervision and regulation.
On the contrary, when debts become unsustainable and governments have no option but to close hospitals and slash pensions, it is the poor and vulnerable who suffer most.
The reward is the close relationship with their children that women have traditionally enjoyed.
Even after Tamerlan had died, and Dzhokhar, already wounded, was the only known fugitive, the Boston authorities decided to close down the entire city.
And there is more painful news: It will take a very long time to close the education gap between the developed and developing worlds.
Surface water resources, such as desalinated seawater or recycled wastewater, will not close the global gap – predicted to reach 40% by 2030 – between water supply and demand.
To anyone paying close attention to the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, especially the weakening of many of its key nation-states and the rise of extremist violence, a severe crisis in the Kingdom is no dark-horse candidate.
But France is a close second.
Politically, the EU and the UK will benefit from maintaining close cooperation because neither side is spared from the problems afflicting the region today.
I consider Juncker a close friend, but I strongly disagree with him about this idea.
I take the point; in fact, my Cass lecture explored the close potential equivalence between apparently different policies.
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