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As a result of high-profile Congressional opposition, China’s state-owned energy company CNOOC withdrew its bid for Unocal, an American energy company, in 2005, before a CFIUS review that most likely would have cleared the deal on national-security grounds.
The key to overcoming resistance is to give affected workers grounds to hope that they can find a new job.
Romer grounds his case in an ongoing debate in his field about the role that ideas play in promoting economic growth.
The celebrated pipeline between Chad and Cameroon caused water pollution, devastated pygmies' hunting grounds, destroyed harvests, and spread AIDS - perhaps the inevitable result of ill-educated migrant workers toiling thousands of miles from home, with a horde of prostitutes following them.
To be sure, a youth unemployment ratio of 13% or 19% is not grounds for complacency.
Some object to it on the grounds that it typically exploits the poor, for whom the choice to sell their bodies may not be truly voluntary.
But others object on the grounds that reducing sex to a commodity is inherently degrading and objectifying.
The only grounds for confidence on this front after Trump’s victory is that he may actually do none of the things he said he would, such as starting a trade war with China, walking away from alliance commitments, and supporting Japan and South Korea going nuclear.
Of the large oil companies, only one – France’s Total – has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.
The decision to recommend the renminbi’s inclusion, far from having been made on sound economic grounds, can only be understood as political.
Social vulnerability and frustration at the political system’s failure to provide solutions are the grounds upon which radical movements have always emerged to offer facile solutions.
In both cases, members of Boko Haram, which in the Hausa language translates roughly to “Western education is a sin,” sprayed a school with bullets as they invaded the grounds to steal food and other supplies.
After all, political and technological developments that are currently underway offer grounds for genuine hope.
But one could just as easily find a priori grounds for predicting that countervailing forces will emerge if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow.
One delicious irony in Europe is that Chinese banks are contesting the requirement to subsidiarize in London on precisely those grounds.
Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, and soon perhaps other countries in the region will serve as fertile grounds for a new, more militarily oriented Al Qaeda, which will become a more powerful factor in the Middle East’s cacophony of interests and ideologies.
In some countries, discrimination is sanctioned by law, with leprosy treated as legitimate grounds for divorce, for example.
They state that no one should be discriminated against on the grounds of having or having had leprosy.
Yet there are grounds to hope that it is within our reach.
Some of his “politically naive” economic advisers, including me, advocated a much larger increase, phased in gradually over five years, on both fiscal and environmental grounds.
Demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital, Skopje, shouting that the government has opted for a policy of open discrimination on “ethnic and religious grounds.”
But some serious scholars declined to sign, not only on grounds of the political futility of such public statements, but because they disagreed with the “bipartisan US commitment to ‘liberal hegemony’ and the fetishization of ‘US leadership’ on which it rests.”
German policymakers thought that the issue would disappear with the monetary union’s launch, on the grounds that no one in the United States worries about a Californian boom that produces the equivalent of current-account surpluses (if anyone bothered to measure them).
Unfortunately, when use of force has been justified on humanitarian grounds, interventions have focused narrowly on tactical military considerations.
Moreover, recent economic research finds that higher taxes are justified on welfare grounds, because the costs to smokers are huge (even though the external costs to others might be small), and that higher cigarette taxes do not hurt the poor (since the self-control value of higher taxes helps the poor more).
You cannot legally insult people on the grounds of their race, beliefs, or sexual orientation.
Concern for the environmental implications of trade, humanitarian objections, or adjustment difficulties might all constitute grounds for an opt-out of this kind.
Suddenly, the U.S. began to act as if the Japanese retail distribution system or its longshoremen labor practices were a matter for bilateral negotiation, on the grounds that these may have some impact on trade.
Corporations and businesses will be among the big beneficiaries, a bias justified on the grounds that this will stimulate the economy.
Europe now has a single supervisor in the European Central Bank, but it lacks a common deposit insurance scheme, which German officials oppose on the grounds that there has been inadequate risk reduction in the European banking system.
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