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When Blix headed the IAEA before the Gulf War of 1991, he blithely assured the world, after several inspections, that nothing alarming was happening in Iraq.
In 2007, it established the National Leading Group on Climate Change (NLGCC), headed by Premier Wen Jiabao.
They belonged to the Fourth Army, headed by Zhang Guotao, Mao’s archrival.
Investors like to fantasize of economic reforms carried out by a post-Rousseff government headed by current Vice President Michel Temer and supported by Temer’s PMDB and parts of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
And there have been many bumps in the road – most recently, the Trump administration announced that the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was headed for the Korean Peninsula when it was actually going in the opposite direction.
Israel’s occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasir Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet.
In short, we may be headed toward a less “Germanic” economic policy in the eurozone.
Though headed by a veteran politician formerly of the National Religious Party, the second position on United Jerusalem’s candidate list was filled by Aryeh King, a far-right activist who ran for the Knesset (parliament) with a party called Strength to Israel.
In response, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a commission, headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, to investigate the causes and propose measures to address them.
America’s troubled private pension system – now several hundred billion dollars in debt – already appears headed for a government bailout.
His regime survives only through a ruthless campaign of terror conducted by the army, of which Mugabe is commander-in-chief; the police force, whose commander publicly declares political allegiance to Mugabe; the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization, which Mnangagwa headed for many years; and, of late, the ill-trained and brutal youth militia, whose loyalty to the ruling party is unflinching.
Admittedly, the reformers, headed by Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s first post-communist prime minister, faced dreadful choices, as the post-communist state had almost disintegrated.
Shekhovstov’s book is particularly interesting for its account of how Putin’s regime and Europe’s right-wing populists have made a common enemy of the global order headed by the United States and abetted by the EU.
Likewise, Macri’s victory could give voters in Venezuela – headed to the polls on December 6 – the courage they need to cast their ballots against their increasingly authoritarian government.
Israel, for its part, risked a diplomatic crisis with Australia last month by abruptly canceling an official visit by President Reuven Rivlin, who instead headed to Moscow for an urgent meeting with Putin.
Abbas and his negotiating team, headed by Erekat, have been successful in securing the support of all members of the Arab League.
The only positive signs in consumption are seen among the youngest households, those headed by people in their early twenties, who evidently hope that sooner or later the reforms will be approved and their tax burden reduced.
Iraq has been partitioned in all but name into Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish regions, while Libya seems headed toward a similar tripartite, tribal-based territorial arrangement.
The compelling legend is that within the space of a year, La République En Marche!, headed by a virtually unknown figure, has humiliated established leaders and swept to power on a wave of popular enthusiasm for a political outsider.
In 2007, China founded its National Leading Group on Climate Change, headed by President Hu, and adopted its National Climate Change Program, the first by any developing country.
With GDP headed to 12% below 2010 levels, a second program was put in place.
But, as the crisis has progressed, hundreds of thousands of refugees have headed toward Europe, with most taking the extremely dangerous marine route.
The Democrat Party, which headed the previous government, claimed that it offered similar reforms and cannot understand why the voters rejected them.
Meanwhile, China seems to be headed for the 6-7% growth rate that the government pinpointed last year as the economy’s “new normal.”
In Qaddafi’s regime, he headed the National Council and the National Economic Development Board.
Pragmatism can indeed be helpful, and the European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker is willing to embrace it.
Only a major recession could break this cycle; otherwise, we are headed for an energy crisis.
But if backwardation is strong enough, even investors who think that the US housing market is headed for a fall will still be able to expect a good return from home price futures, because they are already getting a discounted price in the futures market.
The homes of several senior civil servants have been raided recently as part of corruption investigations, and serious accusations of sexual harassment have been leveled against India’s top environmentalist, Rajendra Pachauri, who headed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it received the Nobel Peace Prize.
During the last decade, income growth came to an abrupt halt for most households in the developed countries, with those headed by single women or comprising young, less educated workers among the hardest hit.
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