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Many key figures are from a handful of villages in just one valley, the Panjshir.
Indeed, the generous plea deal makes it clear that Flynn is prepared to name figures higher than he was in the campaign and the White House.
But investors seeking the best growth opportunities will have to search beyond states’ headline figures and scrutinize India’s districts more closely, especially urban clusters and their hinterlands.
Because food, fuels, and raw materials comprise about a quarter of global trade, when their prices fluctuate – especially as strongly as they have in recent decades – aggregate trade figures are obviously affected.
These figures were calculated by economists Chris Green and Isabel Galiana of McGill University.
But the headline figures often mask longer-term problems – not least, an over-reliance on natural resources and chronic inequalities.
Then there are the new populists, several PD old-timers, and plenty of other establishment figures, including several former members of the constitutional court, who generally fear change.
But figures like these mask the fact that for many people in developing countries, the road to e-commerce is riddled with potholes.
In other words, economic growth will turn out to be structurally much lower than is the figures used now for estimating deficits and debt.
In the end, however, the actual growth figures are not the point.
Even Trump’s non-family appointments – often controversial or radical figures who would not have a place in any administration except his – reflect an emphasis on personal loyalty.
In fact, figures like Farage or the Dutch far-right populist Geert Wilders come nowhere close to attracting even a majority of the electorate.
More than three quarters of Venezuela’s 31 million people want to free themselves from the stranglehold of their rulers, a small group of no more than 150 mafia-like figures (mostly military) who have hijacked the country’s democracy, robbed it blind, and created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Such figures imagine the hidden hand of the “leftist billionaire” almost everywhere.
After only five years in office, the Party leadership has anointed Xi as one of modern China’s two greatest historic figures.
In the US, with its large, domestically driven economy, the equivalent figures are 1% and 3%.
Both John McCain and George W. Bush cleverly tapped into this fantasy – with its easy bonhomie and absence of wives and kids – to capture the hearts of the male journalists aboard their campaign buses, who could imagine themselves once again as tough, unfettered, and venturesome Kerouac figures.
Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.
Now, Selmayr – who, as Juncker’s chief of staff, has been compared to figures like Machiavelli and Rasputin – will have far greater influence, including over the selection of a new Commission president next year.
Beyond insecurity and fear, it is crucial to rely on facts and figures to show that, both at the local and the national levels, the situation is much better than the passionate and polarized debates fostered in the media and some political circles.
This has become all the more true with figures like Trump actively working against its efforts and espousing deregulation at a time when the level of global economic interconnectedness demands just the opposite.
The message of the Khashoggi murder is no less clear: Dissidents and opposition figures should know what awaits them if they continue to criticize the new regime.
Those figures were for an EU of 15 countries, so with today’s 27 members the possibilities are even greater.
The ICAO’s own figures show that far less than 10% of the world’s seven billion inhabitants use air transport at least once per year.
These figures highlight, first and foremost, the rise of China, whose shares of both GDP and military expenditure have increased considerably (from 1.7% to 15% and from 1.6% to 13.8%, respectively).
But very few analyses delve beneath the surface of immediate figures and assess the core of Spain’s strengths and weaknesses.
Key military figures’ tacit backing for the Turkish Parliament’s refusal to endorse the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq suggests that Turkish nationalism could unite the AKP’s rank-and-file MPs with their otherwise implacable foes in the secular camp.
A public, massive repudiation of al-Shabaab by eminent Islamic figures is important not only for Somalia, but for Islam itself.
The population’s outraged response to these events was visceral, and previously unknown figures such as the anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare rallied thousands of Indians in meetings across the country to protest against government corruption.
On one side are politicians like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, US President Barack Obama, former Israeli Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog, and religious figures like Pope Francis.
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