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Just a couple weeks ago at Facebook, we hosted a very senior government official, and he came in to meet with senior execs from around Silicon Valley.
I removed my timing chip, and I handed it over to a race official.
And nowhere do we see that more clearly than in the European Union, whose 27 member countries speak 23 official languages.
The European Union is now spending over one billion euros annually translating among their 23 official languages.
If you're a public-sector official, release the funds meant for that school or public health-care center instead of stealing it for your personal purposes.
I went on to Bosnia, and early on in my interviews I met with an IMF official who said, "You know, Gayle, I don't think we actually have women in business in Bosnia, but there is a lady selling cheese nearby on the side of the road.
And when this story posted, I ran to my computer to send it to the IMF official.
The IMF official is hardly the only person to automatically file women under micro.
In the country once known for its passive resignation, where, as bad as things got, only four percent expressed their opinion to a public official, today 90 percent tell us that if there's a problem in their community, it's up to them to fix it.
But you can't even expand more, no, because Chinese Sina Weibo, when it was founded was exactly one month after the official blocking of Twitter.com.
At the top, you can see the official UN camp.
So nobody knows how bad this bias with the official statistics actually is, so I thought I would ask the person who's spearheading the effort to generate data on this, Pascal Lamy, the Director of the World Trade Organization, what his best guess would be of exports as a percentage of GDP, without the double- and triple-counting, and it's actually probably a bit under 20 percent, rather than the 30 percent-plus numbers that we're talking about.
It was an example of a culture clash that's happening all over the world between bewigged and bestockinged officials who think that they can rule over us without very much prying from the public, and then suddenly confronted with a public who is no longer content with that arrangement, and not only not content with it, now, more often, armed with official data itself.
The French E.U. official in charge of the funding rushed to block the painting.
"I'm convinced," I told a German official with the World Bank, "that it would be impossible for them to be bribed if they worked in Germany, in a German administration, just as I am convinced that if you put German officials from the German administration in those holes, they would be bribed just the same."
After they finished questioning me, one official said to another, "This was a false report.
Second official: I don't even know the place called [unclear].
And then there's that cliché, the African dictator or minister or official.
One WHO official at the time actually called that whole campaign "one of the greatest mistakes ever made in public health."
We don't make an assumption that the level of trust that we will have in every instance of a certain type of official or office-holder or type of person is going to be uniform.
And in Norway, where men have an automatic three month's paternity leave, but they lose it if they decide not to take it, a high government official told me that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids.
Seamlessly, when a senior government official decides to leave government and become a lobbyist for a private interest and convert his or her relationships into capital for their new masters.
Captain Valdez was the first high-ranking official to give us the helicopters and the support we needed to put these Christmas trees up, and he said in that meeting something that I will never forget.
To understand all this, I interviewed a top official from the ruling party in Turkey, and I ask him, "How do you do it?"
And of course, the government official said, "Of course you have to have a handrail."
At the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, an official told us that the War God there is now state property with no provisions for repatriation.
(Applause and cheers) A few years ago, I got a call from the highest ranking legal official in the state of Georgia: the attorney general.
Chaucer spent most of his life as a government official during the Hundred Years' War, traveling throughout Italy and France, as well as his native England.
There was a UN official who visited last year, and he said, "They ate all the grass so there was no grass left."
Mathias Jud: Yes, "Gelem, Gelem" is the title of the Romani hymn, the official, and it means "I went a long way."
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