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One major task that NATO performed in the first decade after the Cold War was to attract the newly freed countries of Central Europe toward the West, with the prospect of membership conditioned on meeting democratic standards.
As for the eight countries recently freed from Soviet domination, their priority is democratic consolidation.
Already, most export taxes and currency controls have been scrapped, income taxes have been cut, and the exchange rate has been freed up, allowing for an immediate 30% depreciation of the peso.
Freed of feudal-style legal restrictions on transfer of ownership and of traditional rights held by commoners who used communal land to pasture their animals, landholdings could now be sold to raise capital, which helped to finance the industrial revolution.
Indicted French child abductors were freed by Chad at France’s request.
Although they represent markedly different cultures and competing models of development, they share a historical similarity that helps shape both countries’ diplomacy: each freed itself from colonial powers around the same time.
Individuals should be freed up to start new companies, and existing companies should be freed up to enter new industries.
For the US, energy self-sufficiency is the perfect excuse for a phased withdrawal from the Middle East; freed from energy dependency, America should be able to concentrate on the Pacific.
Instead, the profitable carving up of healthy companies has freed up capital to flow to intangible assets, houses and other forms of real estate, fueling a speculative crisis.
His “Democratic Security” policy now seems to have definitively turned the tables in the country’s fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which have seen their leaders killed and their hostages freed.
"Neither communism nor capitalism represents a dream of liberty for the peoples of Europe," he said only a few years before the peoples of East and Central Europe freed themselves from Communism to embrace democracy and capitalism.
People, instead, were to be freed from bondage to national collectivism, that fount of strife and enslaver of individuality.
Certainly, the countries freed from communism in 1989 felt that restoring national sovereignty and recovering liberty were bound together.
He is off to a good start, having freed the peso from its official peg, reduced taxes, and moved toward freer trade.
Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, the EPRDF harangued the public about how it freed the country decades ago from a brutal military dictatorship, even as millions of young people born and raised under the party’s rule face crippling unemployment.
Moreover, Russia has completed the three crucial steps of economic liberalization: it freed prices, privatized most of the economy, and finally conquered inflation.
Some say that the miracle stemmed from an agricultural revolution that freed a large chunk of the labor force to make things rather than grow food.
Experience in other parts of the world has shown that alternatives to prison for nonviolent, minor drug offenses can lead to better health and law-enforcement outcomes, as drug users are steered to the services they need and police, freed from chasing low-level offenders, can pursue major traffickers.
These are not problems that Italian politics – even freed of Berlusconi’s influence – can magically fix.
East and Central Europeans were freed to restart theirhistories, but so were Russians.
In this sense, Russia is both a master of Syria (along with Iran) and a hostage of the Assad regime – one who can be freed only by the US.
When they are campaigning, however, their rhetoric will be freed from the need to compromise.
In less than 45 days in 2001, we Afghans were freed from the menace of terrorism and the Taliban.
As was true in previous industrial revolutions, human beings may be freed from much “tedious” work.
In Kenya, improved wood-burning stoves have reduced fuel requirements by some 40%, which has not only lowered women’s burden of unpaid work and reduced deforestation, but has also freed up time that women can devote to education, training, and paid employment, which will reduce poverty.
Freed of pressure from international capital markets, the Chinese authorities would defer to state-owned enterprises and local officials who prefer continued easy provision of liquidity and would rather see the banks simply roll over their loans.
When pulverized by bombs and missiles, asbestos fibers are freed and can be inhaled with the rest of the dust.
In general, the only reason that any of these prisoners were freed was because of how seriously their health had deteriorated.
Moreover, under private ownership, decisions on investment, finance, and day-to-day management generally were freed from the bureaucratic and politicized constraints characteristic of state ownership which were particularly disastrous in industries where rapid technological innovation was necessary.
As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
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