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To be sure, there are not as many farmers today as in past decades or centuries;Lancashire’s cotton mills, Pittsburgh’s steel plants, and Duisburg’s coal mines have closed; and there are far fewer workers in Northern Sweden’s vast forests.
As some banks have been closed, the other banks in Asia have stopped lending out of fear that they too will be closed.
As a result of these factors, depositors (both foreign and domestic) have decided that it is time for them too to flee the country for fear that their own bank balances will be frozen or closed.
Instead of chanting Ho’s name, young Poles put flowers under the monument of Adam Mickiewicz, a nineteenth-century poet whose drama Forefathers Eve , written in praise of the struggle for freedom, had recently been declared subversive and anti-Soviet, and its performance at the National Theater in Warsaw closed down.
Even if countries closed their domestic income and wealth gaps and ensured social mobility for all their citizens, the forces fueling public dissatisfaction around the world today would remain.
In fact, Argentina is amazingly closed for an economy its size.
But if it is implemented, in 3-5 years Argentina will look exactly like the country we have always known: a largely closed economy that remains dangerously vulnerable to external shocks.
If you are a closed and inward-looking country, you are bound to need lots of psychologists.
True, Turkey has closed its ports to ships from (Greek) Cyprus, and this is a violation of agreements.
The crucial surprise in the draft constitution concerns social policy, previously a closed preserve of individual nations.
I felt that a historical circle was being closed: the ideas of the Polish March and the Prague Spring, the ideas of our mountain meetings, were becoming political facts.
The Environment of the EconomyNo economy is a closed, autonomous universe, governed by rules independent from law, morals, and politics.
This supply chain is characterized by the dominance of the state-owned banks, high domestic savings, relatively under-developed financial markets, and a closed capital account.
This Web site, now closed by the government, has also reported on the fate of Chen Guangcheng.
As Netanyahu put it last month in a closed meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israel must continue “controlling all the territory,” adding that the country “will forever live by the sword.”
These include accounts in the international media that Moscow police have asked schools to draw up lists of pupils with Georgian surnames as part of their search for illegal immigrants, and verifiable cases where Georgian businesses in Russia have been closed.
To insure that this realization takes place, the separatist option must be closed.
Liberty and MusicNEW YORK – North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is one of the world’s most oppressive, closed, and vicious dictatorships.
But, like closed economies that miss out on the benefits of trade altogether, open economies with significant institutional or political obstacles to structural change will underperform.
In 2008, the Great Depression narrative was being recycled everywhere, with all its colorful stories of financial panic and angry crowds forming around closed banks.
That tide of reality – what Alexander Solzhenitsyn once called “the pitiless crowbar of events”— burst the closed bubble of Romney’s campaign, its walls breached as decisively as those of lower Manhattan and Far Rockaway.
Profitable companies are closed if their returns fall below international standards.
A Theory of Boardroom JusticeLONDON – There is a real danger that corporate leaders, making decisions that seem correct behind closed doors, end up being tone-deaf in a soundproof room.
But by that time, the political window of opportunity for bold actions had essentially closed.
So long as the Union's borders remain closed, there is also a risk that foreign investment will fly over Western Europe and land in Central and Eastern Europe, where people are willing to work longer hours, market regulations are less intrusive, and human capital is relatively high, because Communist schools were good at technical training.
Reforms such as privatizing state-owned enterprises, opening up closed professions, abolishing restrictive business practices, and reducing the size of the public sector have been undertaken very slowly and inefficiently, and they will not significantly alter growth prospects.
Chinese communities worldwide have managed to become influential in their new homelands without being threatening; to be closed and non-transparent without provoking anger; to be a bridge to China without appearing to be a fifth column.
Conflict is most acute in closed societies characterized by a politically repressive climate and culturally induced obstacles to growth.
Those outside the industry, including readers, are unaware of this closed market structure.
At least 85 sharia courts are now operating in Britain’s parallel Muslim society, while the number of mosques (1,689) now almost equals the number of Anglican churches that have recently closed (1,700).
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