Officially
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Were Dutch law to permit the sacking of full time employees (not likely in these prosperous times) the proportion of the work force
officially
sanctioned as too sick or disabled to work would dramatically decline, as would the number of part-time and temporary workers.
When the Cold War ended, the truth about the massacre finally came out, and was
officially
recognized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
In January, she
officially
announced that Britain would not seek membership of the EU single market, because this would require free movement, a position confirmed in the Tories’ election manifesto.
In January 2009, the annualized growth rate in the second half of 2008 was
officially
estimated to have been -2.2%; but current figures reveal the contraction to have been much sharper – a horrendous -6.3%.
The full force of the fiscal stimulus package began to go into effect in the second quarter of 2009, with the US National Bureau of Economic Research
officially
designating the end of the recession as having come in June of that year.
True, no country has been
officially
reprimanded for excessive deficits or debts.
Initiatives aimed at fostering scientific excellence in Europe, like one recently launched in Germany that
officially
defined three universities, all in the southern part of the country, as “excellent”(qualifying them for extra funding), seek to make universities more attractive and thus more competitive.
The eurozone, on the other hand, is governed by the
officially
unofficial Eurogroup, which comprises the member states’ finance ministers plus representatives of the ECB and, when discussing “economic programs in which it is involved,” the International Monetary Fund.
This was also the pattern in India, the most recent country to be declared
officially
free of polio, with no cases since 2010.
Officially, North Korea began opening up to foreign investors in 1984, when the government enacted the Foreign Joint Venture Law, following the success of a similar law in China.
For example, in Uganda, banks now extend loans to women to buy land; women in the Democratic Republic of Congo can
officially
register their businesses; and, in Indonesia, women can use alternative forms of collateral to obtain loans.
Furthermore, America
officially
joined the East Asia Summit in 2011, easing concerns in the region about China’s increasingly aggressive posture in the South China Sea.
In defiance of overwhelming global opposition, not to mention past United Nations General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, Trump announced that the US will
officially
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Officially
recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, he asserted, “is a long-overdue step to advance the peace process and to work towards a lasting agreement.”
Only 26 years later did a French president, Jacques Chirac,
officially
acknowledge the role French collaborators played in the deportation of 90,000 Jews to Nazi death camps.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
Officially, economic growth has slowed to near 7%; but many believe the real number is below 5%.
(Among the list of those who have
officially
adopted inflation targeting in one form or another are: Israel, the Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, South Africa, Thailand, Korea, Mexico, Hungary, Peru, the Philippines, Slovakia, Indonesia, Romania, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Iceland, and Norway.)
Officially, renationalization is anathema.
Officially, this is the aim of establishing a European banking union.
They are simultaneously rootless
(officially
unrecognized in a country so obsessed with race that it counts 135 other “national ethnicities,” making them literally one race too many) and root-bound (legally barred from moving, working, or marrying outside their village of origin, and subject to restrictions on family size).
Of course, as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson used to say, “a week is a long time in politics,” and Sarkozy will
officially
become a candidate only this week.
He has revoked M5S members’ right to use that symbol for supposedly breaking the “rules” – or what is
officially
called the “non-statute” – of his “anti-party.”
The so-called Islamic State may not be
officially
recognized by anyone, but it is being built on the basis of immigration.
From a geopolitical perspective, China’s AIIB initiative is a bold and successful gambit in what Ely Ratner, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, describes as “an institutional competition for global governance that has now
officially
begun.”
Yes, it
officially
belongs to India, but only because of the McMahon line, a boundary drawn by British imperialists in 1911, which China no longer accepts (though China did settle its boundary with Myanmar along the same line).
After all, May had cleverly called the election at a moment when it could not be about Brexit: one month after invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, thereby
officially
initiating the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.
Moreover, each of the countries has bilateral free-trade agreements with the others and with the United States (though the US Congress has yet to approve the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, as it is
officially
known).
And Libya has
officially
requested that the UN monitor its elections next month.
And yet, when news broke last month that China had
officially
replaced Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, instead of crowing about surpassing a longtime rival and having the top spot, held by the US, in its sights, the government issued statements emphasizing that theirs remains a “poor, developing” country.
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