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As people begin to expire, he gains more and more power, but there is another woman who is, for all practical purposes, his equal.
The movie gains intensity because of the challenge Keiko presents to Yamashita's crumbled self, and some of his scenes of self-questioning are rewarding, but in the end I think movie is too sloppy and inconsequent.
The movie also gains a lot from not trying to be shocking.
Our people around the world are entering a new age of equality but there is still a struggle in securing more equality and retaining the gains that we have already made.
His a sympathetic villain who uses questionable means for his gains.
I was that embarrassed that I'd actually paid money to watch it that I found myself ducking out of the cinema like some unscrupulous pick pocket making off with his ill gotten gains.
A nerd who gains supernatural powers.
Hobbes also gains an unlikely companion in Michael Pinnocchio who robs him of his wedding ring minutes after entering Harsh Realm and continuously threatens to eat Hobbes' dog, Dexter.
Not one character gains any likability or depth.
_Tanner_ gains greater richness of character and narrative as it unfolds.
One gains no sympathy whosoever for the cardboard cutout characters, and couldn't care less as they are killed off one by one.
In 2014, his approval rating dipped to a low of 40%, owing to public discontent with the economy and the Islamic State’s gains in Iraq and Syria.
Increasingly, political leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who spoke eloquently for the Round at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, are emphasizing that the Doha Round’s failure would cost the world significant gains in prosperity, halt progress for the poor in developing countries, and reduce workers’ real incomes in developed countries.
Any future gains in global influence, however, will require Europeans to overcome their internal divisions and improve their foreign-policy coordination.
Beyond their environmental consequences, such efforts would generate major economic gains, boosting the middle class in developed countries and pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty in the developing world, including by fueling job creation.
Rising gasoline costs have already reversed almost half the gains from this year’s tax cuts for middle-class Americans.
In these circumstances, the additional costs of debt service easily outweigh any gains that might come from some measure of fiscal relaxation.
For most Americans, there is no recovery, with 95% of the gains going to the top 1%.
Moreover, nothing was done in anticipation of the end of terms-of-trade gains in resource-rich countries like Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa, which have been facing rising wage costs and supply-capacity limits.
In other words, a minority – a very small minority in countries like the United States and Britain – has captured most of the gains of growth.
In the real world, of course, such countries’ political economies demand short-term gains, beginning with basic services like potable water and electricity.
For now, sanctions against Russia should be maintained until peace gains traction.
Productivity growth only seems to be dropping, the logic goes, because the statistics we use to measure it fail to capture fully recent gains, especially those from new and higher-quality information and communication technology (ICT).
Indeed, a recent review of research on productivity by the Brookings Institution and the Chumir Foundation confirmed that gains from new technologies are underestimated, owing to measurement issues relating to both product quality and consumer surplus.
But these two types of mismeasurement, the report continues, explain only a relatively small share of the slowdown in economic gains.
And, like Vietnam, will the US – exhausted and nearly bankrupted by the effort – see all of its supposed gains evaporate soon after it leaves?
The main reason for this is that the lion’s share of the productivity gains achieved over the last 30 years has been seized by the well-off.
Despite these hurdles, technological innovation should help Chinese producers realize productivity gains and deliver savings to consumers.
Reform of the pension system is often attacked as a zero-sum game, in which whatever one person loses another gains.
Until recently, something approximating this arrangement prevailed in the European polity, redistributing integration’s gains to produce mutually beneficial outcomes for diverse European groups.
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