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Only 5% of people over the age of 15 in China had mortgage debt, and 8.2% had credit cards; the figures for the US were 33.4% and 61%, respectively.
Following recent revisions to its GDP figures, India's economy has recently grown – in real terms – slightly faster than China's.
Hammurabi, Raamses II, Solon, Confucius, and Pericles were among the first great figures to embark on this effort.
But this explanation fails to account for those political figures – such as Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, and former Prime Minister Alain Juppé – who are popular precisely because of their experience.
The roadmap even dangles the carrot of cabinet posts and provincial governorships to prominent Taliban figures.
Figures like Senators Pete Domenici and Alan Simpson, who talked a good game about the long-run deficit, never met a budget-busting Republican program that they would oppose or a deficit-reducing Democratic initiative that they could support.
This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the opposition at international gatherings.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), for example, includes many such figures, and has managed to gain material support from several countries.
Influential opposition figures – such as former parliamentarian and political prisoner Riad Seif and the SNC’s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun – have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization.
I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first-class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold-buttoned blazers.
Not the fossilized Marxism of the German Democratic Republic, of course, but the new “critical” Marxism espoused by figures such as Herbert Marcuse.
When dealing with major companies and the sometimes-formidable figures who run them, vigilant and rigorous oversight is vital.
News outlets that did not provide ample coverage of government statements were fined, as were outlets that did not recirculate foreign press reports that were favorable to the government or critical of opposition figures.
This generation of American diplomats is fast overcoming a reputation for being remote, emotionally distant figures.
Celebrities, his work was saying, have replaced religious figures.
Some US Census figures seem to support that conclusion.
And these are only the official figures, which do not account for illegal, unregulated, and unreported catches.
Despite its strong scientific tradition, figures for Central Europe are even worse, and the cost of EU integration is likely to further shift priorities away from science and education.
In early 2006, when the Ifo indicator foresaw an economic upturn while the German Federal Statistical Office reported meager quarterly GDP growth figures, some commentators scoffed.
Interpreting Facts the Bush WayLast month's American election saw the two sides throw facts, figures, interpretations, and counter-interpretations at the hapless electorate.
These are impressive figures, and the expense is trivial compared to the anti-retroviral drugs needed to treat AIDS, which cost more than $200 annually and must be taken every day, not every year.
After the economic crisis of 2001, the authorities fixed the price of energy in nominal pesos and kept it there for years, even though inflation was running at 20% or more (according to independent estimates, that is; official figures are cooked to show lower inflation).
For example, the number of governance-related articles in US newspapers tripled from 2000 to 2002, and the number of governance-related resolutions brought to a vote by institutional investors (many focusing on anti-takeover provisions) more than doubled, with both figures remaining at elevated levels ever since.
Italians, who have long been frustrated by poor governance and a clientelist system, are prone to hail charismatic figures as national saviors.
Like the wild and woolly views swirling around the Internet, such figures are no longer kept at bay by traditional party elites.
According to the figures for 2011, released last year, India is now the world’s third largest economy in terms of PPP-adjusted GDP, ahead of Germany and Japan.
Many of the conditions needed for a democratic transformation – a vibrant and organized civil society, a relatively free press, and well-respected opposition figures, as well as a variety of battered but breathing political parties of different persuasions – are already present.
Iran exported more than $30 million in natural gas, motor way vehicles, textiles and foodstuffs to its Central Asian neighbors in 1993, more than three times the 1992 figures.
Brushing that aside and starting from scratch in negotiations with North Korea – an approach that has been advocated by figures within the Chinese government, as well as some observers in the US – would undermine the credibility of diplomatic contacts.
The police, whose phone taps led to a wave of arrests, have filed charges alleging involvement by well-known organized crime figures.
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