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Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church’s more sensitive, doctrinal core.
In reality, the QE program was a huge debt-restructuring operation.
It would have been very dangerous to expose the federal government to this danger, given that the operation was rightly perceived at the outset as extremely risky.
India’s dilemma is this: it has 20 nuclear plants in operation, with an additional 23 on order.
Moreover, their stock-market dominance has hindered the healthy development of China’s capital market; they not only crowd out scarce resources for equity capital, but also complicate the normal operation of the market for mergers and acquisitions.
Four months after France’s military operation successfully expelled occupying forces from northern Mali, most French troops and equipment are headed home.
The allied military operation in Libya was a reasonably good example of this model.
And there is no longer-term vision of how the fiscal integration needed for the effective operation of a monetary union could be achieved in a practical timeframe.
Ensuring a stable and effective eurozone is essential to the smooth operation of the entire single market.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 70 civilians – and 21 children – have been killed during the operation, while more than 100 SDF soldiers have perished, including one female soldier whose body was mutilated by Turkish forces.
Those member states that are most heavily involved in an operation, in terms of both human resources and military equipment, are penalized by the financial burden that this commitment places on their national budgets.
After the operation, the donor was shown driving around in his shiny new taxi, beaming happily.
And any attempt to make investment bankers suffer more last fall and winter would have put the entire support operation at risk.
Indeed, at one point there was a dried bonito factory in operation, and more than 200 residents on Uotsuri, the largest of the islands (roughly the size of New York City’s Central Park).
The operation might involve restructuring as well.
Last November, Italy suspended its Mare Nostrum rescue operation (which it launched in 2013, after more than 300 migrants drowned off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa), because other EU member states refused to share the costs – some €9 million ($10.6 million) a month.
Instead, acting on the EU’s founding values, member states should co-finance a search and rescue operation along the lines of Mare Nostrum; strengthen their efforts to protect the rights of refugees; and share the burden of granting asylum.
This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.
By contrast, the inappropriateness of transplanting troops from Iraq into an emergency rescue operation is obvious.
Europe’s Race to the Bottom on RefugeesLONDON – European defense and foreign ministers agreed on Monday to an ambitious naval operation – involving contributions from 12 countries and over 1,000 troops – to disrupt human smuggling and trafficking in the Mediterranean.
Bolivia’s 1988 buyback of close to half of its defaulted sovereign debt, an operation funded by international donors, is a classic example.
With the larger part of the outstanding stock in friendly hands, and institutional bondholders pressed to liquidate their positions in the midst of the post-Lehman Brothers selloff, the operation was a success.
Large purchases would drive up prices in the secondary market, defeating the point of the whole operation.
Cheaper and more resilient electricity benefits everyone – from the sidewalk vendor to the most sophisticated pharmaceutical operation.
It is time for ASEAN to heed this call, shifting its mode of operation, so that mature democracies such as Singapore and Malaysia – which rank high in human-development indices – can become responsible global leaders, and expand their humanitarian problem-solving capacities.
Two people who have never run a presidential campaign, and whose political instincts contradict each other’s, are now running Trump’s operation.
Originally an anti-insurgency effort, the campaign quickly mutated into a killing and expulsion operation.
Not only is there insufficient political will for an international force, but, more importantly, there are valid doubts about the feasibility and prospects for the success of such an operation.
True, the news coming from Iraq is horrible, but the US is fighting a full-blown war in Iraq; it is not engaged in a counterterrorist operation.
But, while advocates speak of a limited “surgical operation,” what they are really talking about is the start of two wars: an aerial war, led by the US and Israel, and an asymmetric war, led by Iran and its allies.
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