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These recommendations are based not on theoretical academic fancy, but on policies that are already proving their worth in at least one European country.
The likelihood that luck alone could have produced such large and consistent differences in economic performance is extremely low – a point that can be illustrated even without fancy econometrics.
Fabricated evidence, secret witnesses, and flights of investigative fancy are the foundation of the show trials that Turkish police and prosecutors have mounted since 2007.
But some other countries sloughing off the skin of communism are only too ready to adopt a new history--even one based on fancy and invention--to suit current needs.
Fighting AIDS in poor countries was not viewed as a revenue-generating investment needing fancy financial engineering.
The Wall People want to smash the existing system, in the hope that something better emerges – something that looks a bit more like the familiar world of times past (or at least of their fancy).
The expatriate workers staffing Luanda’s office towers and occupying its fancy residential neighborhoods complained that it was the most expensive city in the world.
Back in the early 1980’s, financial engineers invented “portfolio insurance,” a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.
Venture capitalists who fancy themselves global thinkers should likewise think long-term about the health of the world around them.
In short, with a solid understanding of the difference between complements and substitutes, one can do almost everything the fancy models do – without hiring a single expensive expert.
For example, rich people wear fancy clothes.
Would distributing fancy clothes to poor people make them rich?
There was tea, coffee, and biscuits, but nothing fancy.
India’s banks and financial institutions were not tempted to buy mortgage-backed securities and engage in the fancy derivatives trading that ruined several Western financial institutions.
Bannon’s ostensibly radical views were dressed up in a fancy set of principles embroidered with name-drops of far-out thinkers.
Trump may still fancy himself a world-class dealmaker, but the truth is that Kim – like Russian President Vladimir Putin – has got Trump’s number.
If the main advantages of affluence were the ability to afford yachts and fancy vacations, inequality would matter less than it does today.
They enjoy watching the wealthy, savoring the thought of their fine homes, luxurious vacations, fancy cars, and gourmet dining.
Some suggest that the fancy term "reforming the global financial architecture" was a dead giveaway.
Some economists call this “secular stagnation” – a fancy way of saying that the good times are gone for good.
Thanks to America’s gold-plated financial system, its consumers can buy fancy cars with almost no down payment.
Not far from the fancy hotel at which I was staying, and across from Google’s modish Irish offices, sits a squat old warehouse with a new sign: Startupbootcamp.
Despite his years in office, Medvedev is still known more for his fancy ties and expensive watches than for his executive actions.
Too many US presidents fancy themselves Churchill’s true heirs.
US Senator Jack Reed recently summed it up well:“My constituents don’t need fancy Wall Street calculators or formulas to understand that there is a value and a benefit to reforming Wall Street and keeping reckless greed in check.
What the digital revolution must bring is the right to personal data ownership, including the classic elements of property rights: usus (I use my data as I wish), abusus (I destroy my data as I wish, without any fancy “right to be forgotten”), and fructus (I sell my data for profit if I wish).
Of course, Chinese increasingly consume fancy new cars and designer clothes.
The continent will still have its Don Quixotes and their splendid dreams, as well as its Sancho Panzas, restraining others’ flights of fancy.
Some Landesbanken began to internationalize in the 1980s and invest in fancy financial products, and the others soon followed suit.
In digitally disrupted labor markets, where fancy STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) professions enjoy pride of place, only highly qualified professionals can thrive.
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