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Only the union he was forced to join, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, has been doing any formal saving and earmarking of his retirement assets.
That, at least, is the formal plan.
A formal legal procedure would have helped.
To be effective, a formal legal regime protecting investors' rights requires a non-corrupt, independent judiciary with enforcement power.
So the efficacy of enhancing property rights by rewriting domestic legislation - changing the formal aspects of the institutional environment - is naturally uncertain.
China could provide a semblance of effective protection of private property despite the absence of formal rights.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), established after the G-20 summit in London in April 2009, has no legal mandate or enforcement powers, nor formal processes for including all countries.
Furthermore, although the FSB’s standards are ostensibly “universal,” it does not represent all countries or have formal mechanisms to inform and consult them.
This suggests that the group’s recommendations in this area will include complementary improvements to existing formal and non-formal systems, as well as mechanisms for reviving lifelong learning in higher education.
Regional and domestic developments could push the Kurdish authorities in Erbil, their capital, toward declaring formal independence.
We are told that in a “knowledge economy,” a country needs ever more graduates and formal qualifications to stay competitive.
It is also why it is mistaken to speak of a formal G-2 with China, rather than multilateral cooperation.
During the past eight years, the economy put up exceptional indicators: GDP grew almost 70% (nearly as dynamic as China) and formal employment increased more than 30%.
Russia, with its formal nuclear superiority, has no serious fears regarding China’s military buildup.
Moreover, social contracts based on formal long-term employer-employee relationships will need to be overhauled, with benefits such as retirement and health care made more portable and adapted to evolving work arrangements, including the expanding “gig” economy.
Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.
The president made a short formal speech, to which the prince and British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered impromptu responses.
Great care is taken by officials to inform the Committee not just of the results of formal analysis by the sponsoring bodies, but also of complex real-world conditions and perspectives.
This could be accomplished with EU-level candidate lists for the European Parliament, as Macron recently proposed; or with formal mechanisms to engage Europe’s regions and cities, so that the European Council is not reserved exclusively for member states.
And, as my organization’s recent experience in Ukraine demonstrates, formal training in media literacy may be the best means of winning the war on state-sponsored, politically motivated propaganda.
In addition to White House meetings, a formal State Dinner, a massive lunch in the State Department’s Ben Franklin Ballroom, and calls on congressional leaders, President Lee Myung-bak also addressed a joint session of Congress.
These jobs are more difficult to automate than manufacturing or information services; but, according to the BLS, they require only limited formal skills or on-the-job training.
The Europeans have thus already started verbal currency intervention and may soon be forced to make it formal.
The US needs to keep providing swap lines to EMDCs in need of dollar liquidity, engage in meaningful formal and informal monetary consultative processes, and support countries’ own regional arrangements, such as the Chiang Mai Initiative.
Saudi Arabia is deeply hostile to Geneva II, because formal diplomatic talks with the Assad regime imply de facto recognition that it retains legitimacy.
Allowing displaced people to participate in formal labor markets would enable them to earn an income, pay taxes, and eventually become less dependent on handouts as they develop skills that eventually can be used to rebuild their war-ravaged countries.
Employment might seem obvious, but most MENA host countries currently bar refugees from holding jobs in the formal sector (Jordan is one exception, having issued some 87,000 work permits to Syrian refugees since 2016).
Most academic scientists doubtless hope that formal countermeasures like these will hold back the forces of Mammon.
Automobile sales rose 50%; employment levels improved slightly, especially in the formal sector.
Formal legal bankruptcy regimes for individuals and firms have evolved over time to accomplish this.
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