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The Pakistani Taliban has employed a variant of this strategy in the past, ostentatiously negotiating truces with the military in order to allow their forces to rest and regroup before resuming their attacks shortly thereafter.
He even employed this phrase in his final State of the Union address in 2008, saying that “Our message to the people of Iran is clear: We have no quarrel with you….Our message to the leaders of Iran is also clear: Verifiably suspend your nuclear enrichment, so negotiations can begin.”
While these new jobs did not require significant upgrading of skills, they employed higher levels of embedded technology, imported from wealthier countries and adapted to local conditions.
Instead, Macron’s government has introduced changes that will affect only those employed by the SNCF after January 1, 2020.
Once known as the Textile Capital of the World, with 48,000 people employed in the industry in 1990, the city today has just 6,000 textile workers left.
Only 41% of the working-age population currently is employed, compared to a 60% average across the OECD.
Those who do work are employed largely by overstaffed public agencies.
Saudi nationals do, because they are employed by the state at above-market “reservation” wages.
In Asia, some 43 million people are employed in the garment, textile, and footwear industries, with women accounting for three-quarters of the workforce.
Europeans would suddenly find themselves standing alone against a Russia that has increasingly employed military means to challenge borders, such as in Ukraine, and to reassert its influence – or even hegemony – over Eastern Europe.
In the last five years, the international community has managed to reduce the number of employed children by just 16 million, the slowest pace of reduction in decades.
In modern times, the United States has employed economic sanctions in pursuit of diverse goals, from the Carter administration’s efforts in the 1970s to promote human rights, to attempts to impede nuclear proliferation in the 1980s.
During the Cold War, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilize unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.
Indeed, Russia has far more formidable hackers than North Korea (though much of the top talent currently is employed in mafia rings, rather than in strategic operations).
Technology has far surpassed the verification and reporting methods employed by humanitarian organizations.
Numerous jobs fall into that category: cyber criminals and the cyber experts employed by companies to repel their attacks; lawyers (both personal and corporate); much of financial trading and asset management; tax accountants and revenue officials; advertising and marketing to build brand X at the expense of brand Y; rival policy campaigners and think tanks; even teachers seeking to ensure that their students achieve the higher relative grades that underpin future success.
To put this in perspective, there are now nine million foreign workers employed in the Kingdom.
In India, for example, some 120 million women (around 95% of women in paid labor) work informally, as do around 12 million women in Mexico (around 60% of employed women).
He expanded the bureaucracy by offering every college graduate a government sinecure; today, 24% of the workforce is employed by the state.
The challenge is massive: a 10% unemployment rate that has lasted for 20 years, with more than 20% of people under 25 unemployed, and five million people - nearly a quarter of the working population - employed by the state.
The reasoning, which was fully endorsed at the Fed, was that such large firms – with assets in the trillions of dollars – employed smart people who could figure out how to manage highly leveraged balance sheets safely.
Among the employed, university-educated workers earn, on the whole, much higher incomes than their less-educated counterparts.
Cyber weapons might also be employed to obstruct and impede the progress of North Korea’s program.
Workers and companies from the most depressed countries could be employed to undertake the projects, regardless of their location.
The terms of their contracts would stipulate that the majority of people employed must be locals or returnees.
Moreover, the USSR possessed nearly half of the world’s nuclear weapons, had more men under arms than the US, and had the most people employed in research and development.
For Egypt’s current leadership, the brutal tactics employed by the likes of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad are more likely to work in the Egyptian context than in those countries.
For their part, some current CIA officials continue to insist on the value of America’s “enhanced interrogation” program (which Obama halted), despite the Senate report’s conclusion that the techniques it employed yielded no valuable intelligence.
The younger generation has learned the lesson: 32% of respondents employed in the financial industry for less than ten years said that, “they would likely engage in insider trading to make $10 million if there was no chance of being arrested.”
How many of us can be employed in personal services, and how can such jobs be highly paid (in absolute terms)?
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