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In 2000, Al Gore, was unable to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again.
We are told that the debates this month between President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, might decide the election.
More than 67 million Americans watched the first of this year’s three debates.
To them, one can only assume, the debates are nothing more than a personality contest.
Better educated and more in touch with global currents through the media or their own travel, women began participating in Moroccan political debates.
As a result, the veil became a mechanism for making their presence felt publicly and gaining credibility within religious debates.
There is a marked difference in tone here from debates in much of the Western world.
With the division of Germany considered a microcosm of the broader European split during the Cold War, German reunification seemed possible only in the context of an integrated Europe – a point that Chancellor Helmut Kohl emphasized in the debates of 1990, as reunification beckoned.
Debates about the potential advantages of using stimulus to boost short-term economic growth, or about the threat of government debt reaching such a level as to inhibit medium-term growth, have gone silent.
American RetreatsLos Angeles – As Barack Obama’s incoming administration debates the pace and consequences of withdrawal from Iraq, it would do well to examine the strategic impact of other American exits in the final decades of the twentieth century.
Policy debates in the US are chiefly preoccupied with ensuring that banks are never “too big to fail”; that private investors rather than taxpayers hold “contingent capital,” which in a crash can be converted into equity; and that “over-the-counter” markets’ functioning be improved through greater reliance on centralized trading, clearing, and settlements.
In some ways, the great ideological struggles of the twentieth century now seem about as close and relevant as the scholastic debates of the Middle Ages – especially, but not only, for younger generations.
Legislative debates within the National People’s Congress, whose nearly 3,000 members are elected from a wide range of local and national organizations, can be quite spirited.
It will be tested and calibrated to account for changing strategic realities, available defense resources, inter-service debates, and American forces’ operational experience.
Today, the confused political debates in the United Kingdom are tragic to behold.
Its internal debates highlighted two problems of the potential monetary union.
But the dollar is not the only issue atop currency market debates.
These debates shed light on how history and national identity inform each country’s politics.
But the execution was consistent with something that happened just two weeks earlier, at one of the debates between Republican candidates for their party’s nomination to challenge President Barack Obama next year.
Turkey’s New CourseCHICAGO – Turkey has recently been at the forefront of international economic and political debates.
Even literary debates may become the pretext for which violent appeals to a bigoted unity and, of course, for excluding those carrying the virus of critical thinking.
The idea of helicopter money dates back to the monetarism debates of the 1960s.
The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.
So Russia now has a choice: Ukrainian plan A or Ukrainian plan B.The Case for Re-Regulating Capital AccountsNEW YORK – Today’s debates over “currency wars” reveal two paradoxical features of the global economy.
What on earth could India’s fractious and rumbustious Lok Sabha, with its impassioned debates and disruptions, have in common with China’s decorous NPC, a rigorously controlled echo chamber for Communist Party decisions?
Europe’s Vital French ConnectionPARIS – In the debates raging over the future of the European Union and the eurozone, Germany always takes center stage.
Given this, debates and negotiations involving the UK and its European partners will continue to feature deep disagreements over the restrictions and conditions that accompany membership in the EU.
Parliamentary debates are real, and real contested voting takes place.
The transparency mechanism supports this shift, by allowing journalists, activists, scientists, concerned citizens, and climate-friendly businesses to engage in debates, publicize successes and failures, solicit help and advice, and offer support to lagging countries.
Not surprisingly, a catchphrase in economic-policy debates nowadays is “secular stagnation,” the idea that excess savings chronically dampen demand.
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