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According to the professor, a series of questions followed, with the White House official keeping a running score.
But it certainly was unwise to allow a junior official to shout and wag his finger at Obama at one of the key Copenhagen meetings.
According to Bloomberg, a French official told reporters at the summit that there was no question of that after the retirement age was lifted to 62 from 60 last year.
Remarkably, in their resignation to the apparently inevitable choice for the top position, emerging-market leaders do not seem to realize that they should still challenge the United States’ prerogative of appointing the Fund’s extremely powerful number-two official.
Already, the Department of Defense announced that US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford and US Pacific Command Chief Harry Harris had spoken by phone with South Korea’s top military official, General Lee Sun-jin, to discuss military-response options to the launch.
Switzerland repatriated $684 million of former President Ferdinand Marcos’ money to the Philippines and $700million of General Sani Abacha’s funds to Nigeria, and, with other nations, returned to Peru more than $180 million stolen by former government official Vladimiro Montesinos.
An official of the National Alliance, America’s premier neo-Nazi group, said that he wished his own members had “half as much testicular fortitude.”
Owing to this base of support, Macierewicz is now the only cabinet official who can get away with not listening to Kaczynski.
Foreigners currently own about 30% of all US Treasury securities, with the latest official data putting Chinese ownership at $1.15 trillion in June 2017 – fully 19% of total foreign holdings and slightly higher than Japan’s $1.09 trillion.
While others took risks or sat in jails, they functioned in official and legal structures.
They must also ensure that additional official financing and debt relief will not distort incentives or create moral hazard.
Moreover, two key points are often lost in the debate about China’s official statistics, which the country first starting releasing in the late 1990s.
Truth from the TopWASHINGTON, DC – It is unusual for a senior government official to produce a short, clear analytical paper.
Jonathan appears to be incapable of tackling the official corruption that, as the US report emphasized, pervades all sectors, from the police to the courts.
Such mixed signals have further inflamed nationalist sentiments in China, and anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in many Chinese cities, including an attack on the Japanese ambassador’s official vehicle.
But why do the skeptics accept the truth of dismal government figures for construction and steel output – down 15% and 4%, respectively, in the year to August – and then dismiss official data showing 10.8% retail-sales growth?
That is the claim of two important recent papers, one by a bipartisan group of German economists, lawyers, and political scientists called the Glienicker Gruppe, and the other by Ashoka Mody, a former International Monetary Fund official who is now at Princeton University and the European think tank Bruegel.
In South Africa, we hadto clear our language of apartheid’s claptrap and the official euphemisms thatsought to shroud the horrors of our daily lives – euphemisms such asresettlement” for “banishment,” and “permanent removal” for “death-squadassassination.”Yes, we had to clear our heads of the official language beforewe could write in a creative one; and some of us had to pay dearly for writingsthat asserted the truth in the face of connivance with the official lies: Ourbooks were banned from publication and removed from circulation, and weexperienced – either formally or through pressure on our family, friends, andassociates – personal bans that kept us from the outside world (and the outsideworld from us).
According to Xu Zhitao, an official at the Chinese Communist Party central committee’s United Front Work Department, the allegation that “the Karmapa [may be] a Chinese agent or spy shows that India is keeping its mistrustful attitude toward China.”
Of course, everybody suspected that Greek public finances were in worse conditions than reported, but no one imagined that Greece’s official data were as detached from reality as they turned out to be.
“Enough is enough,” a mid-level North Korean government official recently uttered in a private conversation with a South Korean visitor to Pyongyang regarding Kim Jong-eun’s likely succession.
Indeed, in a time of austerity, US politicians might find it difficult to understand Europe’s willingness to cut defense budgets that already total far less than NATO’s official 2%-of-GDP target.
Moreover, many CCP members have been spooked by the arrest of Bo Xilai, a top official whom some suspected of plotting a power grab.
The net result is that it is now commonplace for official US government documents to pair China with Russia and to speak of it as a strategic rival.
Koreans need to step up, speak out, and do more, and that should start with more generous official development assistance.
Time magazine’s August 2, 1971, issue quoted a United States official saying, “This is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland.”
Having acquiesced in the genocide, the international community has conveniently forgotten it, and no Pakistani official has ever been brought to justice.
But the bureaucracy and its privileged networks benefited most, and a second, non-market source of inequality – endemic official corruption – became entrenched.
When a Japanese official says that he will take something “into serious consideration,” he means “no.”
Likewise, the reform-minded education and science minister, Dmitry Livanov, has been fired and replaced with the faceless apparatchik Olga Vasilyeva, a rare woman appointee known only for her Stalinist views (imagine the French president handing an important cabinet position to a mid-level official from the far-right National Front).
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