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I can only wonder how many Western leaders in recent years have raised Liu’s case with their Chinese counterparts behind closed doors.
Prisons are closed to outside visitors.
Lawmakers must, for example, remove the obstacles that deter foreign and domestic investment; open closed professions; remove price caps; and reduce licensing requirements and other anachronistic barriers to firm entry and expansion.
Similarly, Argentina's export industries were unlikely to attract investors, regardless of the fiscal deficit, given the overvalued exchange rate, low export prices, and the many foreign markets that remain closed to Argentine goods.
In today’s perfect storm of declining oil prices and closed political systems, a new wave of protest could well emerge, particularly where governments have not recognized that the end of rentierism marks the end of the old social contract.
Last year, an estimated 3.6 million people infected with TB were unable to access treatment, a staggering gap in coverage that must be quickly closed.
It also would have been irresponsible for Varoufakis not to work behind closed doors on a Plan B. After all, Greece’s eurozone destiny largely was – and remains – in the hands of others (particularly Germany, the ECB, and the IMF).
To guard those projects, several thousand Chinese troops reportedly have been deployed in the rebellious, predominantly Shia region, which is closed to the outside world.
Closed systems are necessary to prevent Islamists from taking power.
The West is often afraid that democracy will give Islamists the opening they need to gain control – a fear that Arab regimes exploit to justify maintaining closed political systems.
Why impose restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed?
For the West, the biggest challenge will be to reconcile domestic pressure for closed borders with the geopolitical advantages of embracing migration.
Instead, the government closed down the banking system, so that depositors could no longer convert their pesos into dollars!
There are many causes for this, but the most widely recognized reason for why the crisis erupted and why it refuses to die down is this: Asian countries, while opening their economic systems, kept their political structures closed.
The gap between the EU’s rhetoric of solidarity and shared values and its real-world behavior must be closed.
Of the 35 chapters of EU law that must be negotiated, Montenegro has opened 30 and provisionally closed three.
Serbia, meanwhile, has opened twelve and provisionally closed two.
After all, Nordstrom wasn’t Trump’s first target (though it was the first whose shares actually closed higher that day).
By reforming its educational system and giving its citizens access to global sources of information, the country could emerge as a leader of change in post-Soviet Central Asia, setting an example of openness for other closed societies, including North Korea.
But they believe that good and secure jobs are gone, and that greedy multinational corporations are responsible, primarily the bosses who behind closed doors made reckless decisions about people's lives and became unbelievably rich from doing so.
Their ability to do so confirms that Iran is not a closed totalitarian state like North Korea.
The liberal journal Strategy and Management was closed down.
It is this page that has been probably fully closed with the assassination of Politkovskaya.
It would not allow broad-spectrum, full-scale bankruptcies, in which failing operations are closed under the court’s aegis, viable operations are sold, and debts are restructured up and down a company’s balance sheet.
The bank would be closed on Friday evening, unburdened of pre-positioned evaporating debts over the weekend, and reopened on Monday morning, without (in the best-case scenario) needing a government bailout.
On May 15, in a closed trial without legal representation for the accused, three leading reformers – Ali Al Dumaini, a well-known journalist and poet, and university professors Abdullah Al Hamid and Matruk al Falih – were condemned and sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to nine years.
If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well-being would rise.
Greece’s banks have closed, its debt has been acknowledged as unsustainable, and yet the future of both the banks and the debt remains uncertain.
The problem is not that negative things are said behind closed doors – as one leader famously responded to an apologizing Hillary Clinton, “You should hear what we say about you” – but that they become public knowledge.
And China has temporarily closed the 55 discount stores owned by the Lotte Group – South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate and the supplier of the land for the THAAD system – for supposed safety violations.
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