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Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.
Simply put, China is winning the battle for the South China Sea without firing a shot – or paying any international costs.
Will it wait for inflation to really show before firing another volley?
Some very clever policemen found him on the second floor of a dance studio, and arrested him without firing a shot, because he did not have a single armed guard left to protect him.
We now know that in Europe and the US, they are to be placed before a one-man firing squad.
Last year, Putin reorganized the RIA Novosti news agency, firing 40% of its staff, including its relatively independent management.
Of Saints and ServantsMOSCOW: In July 1918, the last Tsar, Nikolai II, his family, three servants and a doctor were executed by a Cheka firing squad in a cellar in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg.
Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterwards.
Now, by seizing control over water – a resource vital to millions of lives and livelihoods – China can hold another country hostage without firing a single shot.
We know that a Serb truck driver rescued a boy who survived a firing squad and, crying for his father, crawled from a twisted scrum of bodies.
Indeed, even China’s firing of missiles into the Taiwan Strait in 1996 did not change US policy.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California is getting impressive results by firing high-powered lasers at capsules of fuel, crushing the particles together to trigger fusion reactions.
China no doubt views the emergence of renminbi-denominated oil contracts as a means for Chinese companies to buy oil and gas in their own currency, thereby avoiding exposure to foreign currency fluctuations and firing a shot across the bow of US dollar supremacy.
These economists argue that labor markets with few restrictions on hiring and firing, low taxes on entrepreneurship, and generous incentives for innovation are compatible with a relatively equal income distribution, high social spending by government, and equalizing social policies such as universal free education.
More recently Taiwan is threatened with military maneuvers across the straights, even the firing of test missiles in its direction, whenever independence is suggestedParadoxically, nationalist chest pounding is motivated not by the strength and confidence that Chinese leaders wish to project, but by deep-seated fear of weakness.
The truth is, that China's real interests are undermined by the firing of missiles off the coast of Taiwan, threatening Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council with dissolution in 1997, thwarting the Dalai Lama by countermanding his selection of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation, selling ballistic missiles to Pakistan and nuclear technology to Iran, saber rattling over the Spratly Islands, or accusing the U.S. of "interfering in China's internal affairs" when it calls attention to trade and human rights abuses.
There is broad consensus that Chile must change hiring and firing rules, allow unions to negotiate shifts and working hours, improve on- and off-the-job training, and make more information available to job-seekers.
Then there was Trump’s firing of Comey in May, followed by misleading statements from White House aides regarding why he had done so.
The next day, at a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump told senior Russian officials that firing Comey had relieved “great pressure” on him.
Trump’s firing of Comey saddled him with Mueller, a former FBI director in Democratic and Republican administrations, praised by politicians in both parties for his integrity.
High tax rates on labor – together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing – make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.
After all, his firing was rooted partly in his extremism, while Le Pen is currently attempting to widen her party’s support by softening its image.
Pakistani reactions were a curious mixture, ranging from dismissive declarations (backed by orchestrated bus tours of journalists to selected parts of the LoC) that no surgical strikes had even occurred, to angry statements declaring that irresponsible Indian firing across the LoC had killed two Pakistani soldiers.
(Remember, firing workers comes at an exorbitant cost and with extensive room for legal challenges.)
Legal requirements that significantly increase the costs of hiring and firing labor discourage employment creation in new industries.
In Latin America, Brazil and Argentina stand in the firing line.
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs – or, more menacingly, firing missiles.
The pre-credit sequence shows a group of Spanish guerrillas during the insurgency against Napoleon being led to a wall where they are to be executed by firing squad.
At the head of the firing party, a French soldier carries the Tricolor forward.
A Long Way from Comey to WatergatePRINCETON – President Donald J. Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is unprecedented, as is much of what Trump has undertaken as president.
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