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The ECB’s rescue
operations
have hindered the internal depreciation – lower prices for assets, labor, and goods – that the troubled economies need to attract fresh private capital and regain competitiveness, while the euro’s appreciation is now compounding the challenge.
The increasingly forlorn resistance
operations
based on Indian territory were shut down.
Even though the US offered $2 billion of assistance to the military to be disbursed over a period of 3-5 years, Kayani has resisted American pressure to move against the Taliban’s sanctuary in North Waziristan, used to stage
operations
against US and NATO troops in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Indeed, under the cover of indignation over the Peshawar attack, the leading suspect in the case – UN-designated terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who served as LeT’s
operations
chief – secured bail.
But, rather than just selling products abroad, Japanese enterprises need to expand
operations
beyond their borders and cast a wider net for international talent.
Japanese companies have formidable R&D operations, but most will need to reconfigure them to obtain better returns and impact.
Closed and tightly managed R&D
operations
must be transformed into more fluid, open processes involving collaboration with customers and suppliers.
They will need to create innovative products, penetrate new markets, and make bold investments in equipment, technology, and talent, while simultaneously scrutinizing every aspect of their
operations
for inefficiency and waste.
Only a few observers dared to point out that this rapid reversal was the result of credit bubbles fueled by carry-trade
operations
hatched in overly liquid centers of global capitalism.
This unflinching support has carried over to the “just,” “defensive,” and “preventive” military
operations
that Crimea catalyzed, from Donbas to Syria, and even the trade war with Turkey.
The capacity for continuing this policy will soon be depleted, as the central-bank money flowing from the GIPS countries to the core countries of the eurozone increasingly crowds out the money created through refinancing
operations
there.
Indeed, Deutsche Bank has already stopped participating in refinancing
operations.
As a public bank, its financial
operations
are guaranteed by European taxpayers’ money, and its capital is immense.
While the enemy weaves in and out of the tribal areas, living and interacting with the people, the US fights the war against Al Qaeda superficially through military air strikes and covert special
operations.
The huge quantities of local water that LWRs consume for their
operations
become hot-water outflows, which are pumped back into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
During the record-breaking 2003 heat wave in France,
operations
at 17 commercial nuclear reactors had to be scaled back or stopped because of rapidly rising temperatures in rivers and lake.
Similarly, although the 2006 European heat wave was less intense, water and heat problems forced Germany, Spain, and France to take some nuclear power plants offline and reduce
operations
at others.
Following the September 2001 attacks in New York, and again after the bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, law-enforcement authorities across Europe launched mass-arrest operations, undertook widespread surveillance of mosques, carried out stops and searches of people who appeared to be Muslim, and used other intrusive measures that disrupted the lives of – and in many cases humiliated – law-abiding European citizens.
During President George W. Bush’s administration, the US worked with the Saudis to track financial flows to radical groups and thus weaken such groups’
operations
throughout the region, including in western Iraq.
Keynes gave the reason in 1923: “the fact of falling prices," he wrote, “injures entrepreneurs; consequently the fear of falling prices causes them to protect themselves by curtailing their operations."
Long before there was Islamist terrorism in the West, the United Kingdom, France, and the US relied on diplomatic chicanery and launched coups, wars, and covert
operations
in the Middle East to assert and maintain Western political control over the region.
With very few exceptions, the countries that have been attacked are those that have been engaged in the post-1990 Western-led military
operations
in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
The Paris terrorists pointed to France’s
operations
in Syria.
The UN Development Program administers the fund, and an independent steering committee oversees its
operations.
Predictably, Spain is the most important European investor in the region, though several important Spanish
operations
have recently passed to Italian companies, among them the utility Endesa, acquired by Enel, which is now the biggest private energy distributor in Latin America.
It has managed to sustain its terror
operations
in Europe despite being heavily bombarded since 2014, because it has been able to draw from relatively small subsets of more than 5,000 Europeans who have joined the fight in Syria.
ISIS has allegedly trained 400-600 fighters for “external operations” involving urban guerrilla warfare, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), surveillance, counter-security, and forgery.
It encourages fundamental analysis of a company’s operations, and some advocates hope that a Tobin tax would push firms themselves to focus even more on long-term value.
But let us not pretend that Russia’s military operations, which, to date, have been aimed solely at providing Russia with mastery over Syrian airspace and protecting its interests on the ground, are bolstering efforts to defeat the Islamic State.
Almost 30% expected to recover by the summer, and the remaining 10% foresaw normal
operations
after the autumn.
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