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Beyond the balance of representation in parliament and government, a balance might need to be struck between the highest
offices
of state.
As in Lebanon, Iraqis might need to create a balance between the
offices
of president, prime minister, and speaker of parliament, and to agree that a leader of a different major community will occupy each.
The UN has encouraged and facilitated the process – through quiet good
offices
during the last years of the conflict, human rights monitoring, assistance to the Constituent Assembly election, and monitoring arms and armies during the transition.
This view no doubt reflected a casual empiricism based on the mom-and-pop shops and small post
offices
that English dons saw when going outside their Oxbridge colleges.
For starters, national statistical
offices
often lack the institutional autonomy needed to protect the integrity of data, production of which thus tends to be influenced by political forces and special interest groups.
If private firms, media, and civil-society organizations identify specific problems and call publicly for change, their governments will feel pressure to take the steps needed to produce accurate, unbiased data – for example, by enhancing the autonomy of national statistical
offices
or providing sufficient funds to hire more qualified personnel.
Indeed, despite territorial disputes and other divisive issues, the commissioners of the patent
offices
of Japan, South Korea, China, and, to a lesser extent, Singapore and Taiwan meet often to define and coordinate their intellectual-property (IP) policies.
If a government sprang from reasonably fair elections and the elected government is able to fill the most important political offices, the country is deemed "electorally competitive."
In the complete autocracies - Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq under Saddam, and the United Arab Emirates - there have been no meaningful elections to fill the most important
offices.
Elections have begun to play a greater role in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, but none uses free and fair elections to fill the most important and powerful political
offices.
Finally, some Arab countries are not electorally competitive now but once did use free and fair elections to fill the state's most politically powerful
offices
(Lebanon).
Landlords chose to convert these
offices
to residences, and now about 40,000 people live in lower Manhattan, double the number before 9/11.
By using its good
offices
to mediate conflicts in places like Northern Ireland, Morocco, and the Aegean Sea, the US has helped in shaping international order in ways that are beneficial to other nations.
But, on top of all these woes sits corruption, crippling all the organs of state and reaching into its highest
offices.
Both parties want to strengthen their hold on as many state-level
offices
as possible, because the party that controls a state’s governorship and at least one of its legislative chamber gets to oversee how congressional districts are drawn (which happens every ten years).
The information needed to understand social, environmental, and economic trends is generally produced by government statistics
offices.
Likewise police stations, post offices, and other existing public facilities might, with modest adjustments, provide space for secondary schools for at least part of the day.
The third challenge in establishing a Palestinian state is to create the institutions of statehood: hospitals, ports, airports, roads, courts, police stations, tax offices, and government archives.
Indeed, with few exceptions, the same ministers have returned to the same
offices
as part of an administration backed by the same odd pair of parties (the left-wing Syriza and the smaller right-wing Independent Greeks), which received only a slightly lower share of the vote than the previous administration.
Suzlon Energy, an Indian company started in 1995 with just 20 people, has become one of the world’s leading wind power companies, with
offices
in 21 countries.
The UN’s core functions – leaving aside peacekeeping missions but including its operations at its New York headquarters; at
offices
in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi; and at the five regional commissions around the world – now employ 44,000 people at a cost of around $2.5 billion a year.
Another strategy would be to relocate some of the staff, including those in functional departments, to “regional offices” in the field.
Prodi's Commission decided to send Commissioners "into the field": their
offices
were no longer next to the President's office, but located in the department for which each was responsible.
These individuals read newspapers fabricated in the
offices
of the Communist Party; view only two television channels, both cut from the same cloth; and listen to radios that play the same worn-out speeches.
To date, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been addressing the crisis through the use of his "good offices," with Ibrahim Gambari serving as his representative to Burma’s rulers.
The "good
offices"
approach is effective when the weight of the world is behind it and, put simply, Gambari has not been given the clout he needs.
Moreover, although the AIIB will be based in Beijing, the ministry has said that regional
offices
and senior management appointments will be subject to further consultation and negotiation.
But in the mid-1990s governorships became elected
offices.
In Italy and Germany, the police have searched
offices
and private homes to secure relevant documents.
Already, in Gilani’s hometown of Multan, rioters attacked government
offices
and banks to protest electricity disruptions.
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