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But having such a problem would be a luxury.
Just this week, the technically bankrupt Citigroup’s senior executives were about to buy a new $50 million luxury French jet for themselves, until the White House stopped it.
Shareholders know of hundreds of agricultural enterprises, hotels, luxury villas, banks, investment companies and corporate jets owned by Gazprom.
Just as Volkswagen uses its A5 platform to build 19 different vehicles, from luxury Audi A3s to small SUVs and budget models, a biological chassis would be a minimal microbial platform onto which could be bolted genetic instructions to make drugs, biofuels, cosmetics, or whatever one desires.
Some have cited the recent struggles of luxury hotels and restaurants (which, in China, are supported largely by government spending) as evidence that the anti-corruption campaign is discouraging growth-enhancing activity.
Again and again, we seem to choose the dubious luxury of another safari park over the prosaic benefits offered by an extra farm.
As an angel investor in start-up companies and a sometime philanthropist, I have the luxury of traveling the world and talking with articulate people who give me an unofficial, clear-eyed view of how most countries actually work.
Time is a luxury that Europe does not have.
Chinese consumer spending has remained strong despite the slowdown in industrial output and investment and the government’s efforts to constrain spending on luxury goods.
From German cars to French luxury goods, European industrial competitiveness should not be underestimated.
The international trade in CITES-listed species is a multibillion-dollar business, ranging from timber to exotic pets to luxury leather products.
That credibility will take time to recover – and time is a luxury that Brazil does not have.
Osama bin Laden’s PakistanNEW DELHI – The killing of Osama bin Laden by United States special forces in a helicopter assault on a sprawling luxury mansion near Islamabad recalls the capture of other Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistani cities.
The Dutch labor market has the highest concentration of part-time and freelance workers in Europe, with nearly 50% of all Dutch workers, and 62% of young workers, engaged in part-time employment – a luxury afforded to them by the country’s relatively high hourly wages.
Trump does not have the luxury of an imperial approach.
Arafat set the standard as to what is acceptable and what is not, and Abbas cannot allow himself the luxury of deviating from it.
That means, in many cases, less luxury spending – something that is hard to reconcile with the image of France as the country of fashion, perfume, and champagne.
But excess is out of style, and there are reports of cutbacks in luxury goods everywhere.
Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods company that owns the Cartier and Montblanc brands, has said that it is facing “the toughest market conditions since its formation 20 years ago.”
Could the crisis remind us that we buy luxury items more because of the status they bring than because of their intrinsic value?
The harsh reality – thrown into stark relief by the Japanese disaster – is that we do not yet have the luxury of dumping coal, gas, and nuclear power.
Unfortunately, for many of the 6.4 million school-age refugees currently under the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency, access to education remains a luxury.
In fact, one can find similar achievements in Chile and Brazil, which have not given up on democratic checks and balances, political pluralism, or freedom of the press, and have not enjoyed the luxury of $300 billion in oil revenue in the space of one decade.
India’s best option is to hold out a credible threat of military action, while imposing, together with other democratic powers, economic sanctions that undercut support for Yameen among the Maldivian elite, many of whom own the luxury resorts that now have far too many empty rooms.
In a developing country, he declared, telephones are a luxury, not a right; the government had no obligation to provide better service; and any Indian who was not satisfied with his telephone service could return his phone since there was an eight-year waiting list for telephones.
The surprising strength of the German economy, with more vigorous growth than at any time in the past 15 years, is due to the dynamism of emerging-market – particularly Chinese – demand, not only for investment goods, engineering products, and machine tools, but also for luxury consumer products.
The market develops from top down, initially focusing on luxury goods, such as perfumes, electronics and expensive cars in big cities.
But Trump’s claim is consistent with his intense focus on “deals,” as if trade negotiations were a one-off transaction for the next luxury property or package of distressed debt.
For starters, China will have to clean up its environment – something that ordinary Chinese now view not as a luxury, but as an imperative.
Gone are the utopian dreams of the 1970’s, when there were visions of life-long learning and paid leaves of absence to pursue topics that might be useful for further professional advancement – or might also include the sheer luxury of studying ancient Greek or Assyrian art.
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