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Cuban Time TravelHAVANA – For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that the US maintains against Cuba.
The longer he maintains such policies, the more likely it is that markets will gradually move toward alternatives to the dollar.
Antoon maintains that it was also a crime.
Nonetheless, Bhagwati maintains, when it comes to overall trade and capital movements, freer is better.
Its report maintains that the ESAs have “quickly established well-functioning organizations aimed at contributing to restoring confidence in the financial sector,” and that market participants seem broadly satisfied with their work.
Slow German growth, he maintains, is a sign of natural convergence.
Indeed, it is one reason why Saudi Arabia maintains an equal distance from all Iraqi factions, and why we are the only country not to have sent a permanent ambassador.
The government maintains liquidity provision at whatever levels are needed to keep the economic engine humming, in a manner dangerously reminiscent of what Thailand was doing before its crisis.
The European Union’s recently released 2030 framework for climate and energy policies maintains the focus on domestic policies aimed at boosting efficiency and deployment of renewable energy.
Obama maintains the idea of service to a historical mission for the US: the important job of guaranteeing global security.
But it is India – which maintains open borders with Nepal, and received millions of Nepali refugees during the civil war – that probably has the most at stake, as renewed conflict would destabilize India's hill districts, while leaving its Himalayan borders vulnerable to Chinese encroachment.
More surprising, France dismissed a money-laundering charge brought against another billionaire, Suleyman Kerimov, though Kerimov, a member of Russia’s Federation Council, does maintains close ties to the Kremlin.
One school of thought maintains that the Cold War was won as a result of decades of sustained US and Western pressure on the Soviet Union and its allies.
Iran maintains that the Security Council is the only body legally authorized to verify allegations concerning the use of such deadly weapons and to decide on the appropriate response.
The president – to be directly elected in the future given another AKP-initiated amendment that was approved by a referendum in 2007 – thus maintains the predominant role, which underscores the AKP’s confidence that it will continue to control the presidency in the years ahead.
It can hold the fort because it maintains one of the world’s strictest regimes of exchange and capital controls.
Ahmadinejad maintains some support among the poor and rural classes, but he is viewed with disdain by much of the ruling class, even within his own political camp.
Not a single embassy sits within the city limits; even the United States maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv.
If it maintains that policy, the WTO’s entire dispute-settlement system will be crippled within months.
On the one hand, he has introduced a flat income tax that favors the wealthy and a child tax credit that benefits only higher-income households; on the other hand, like Putin, he maintains a coterie of “friendly” oligarchs who help shore up his power, not least by controlling the Hungarian media.
It maintains the country’s improved relations with the IMF, and it has even approved an agreement with the US to guarantee investments.
But the German establishment credibly maintains that a European army is meant to supplement and strengthen NATO.
Assuming that the US economy maintains its long-term growth rate of 2%, China would have to grow by 3.7% annually.
If China maintains its growth momentum over the next two decades, the global system will face huge challenges.
But this could prove to be a hollow solution, given that the UK maintains a trade surplus with the US, and Trump is a vocal critic of American trade deficits.
As a result, Turkey no longer considers a federalized Iraq a threat to its security, as long as each federal unit maintains a measure of ethnic diversity.
The troika maintains its myopic focus on fiscal austerity;Greece remains reluctant to reform.
Russia's presence runs deeper than the troops it maintains in the area.
Even the banks' traditional role of long-term support in corporate governance maintains its enduring attractiveness, and its extension to countries going through an early phase of economic liberalization and corporate growth increases the prospects of their long-term success.
But the agreement only maintains the existing tax rates, so taxpayers do not see it as a tax cut.
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