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That condemnation matters, because passing judgment on the trade-off between the efficiency gains to be had from any merger versus the threat to competition is a subtle matter, not an ideological one.
Part of Lugovoi’s acclaim is derived from the fact that the list of unspeakable crimes committed by the late Alexander Litvinenko in the course of his brief life is growing longer in Russian media reports with every passing day.
Making America’s Deficits Great AgainFRANKFURT – US President Donald Trump and congressional Republican allies have succeeded in passing their big tax legislation.
The Sun Will Rise AgainTOKYO – In Japan, memorial services for the dead are normally held 49 days after their passing.
My friend managed to talk insistently to the three until eventually they left her and her son alone, only to pounce on a married couple that happened to be passing by.
The ASCE calculates that the US needs about $1.7 trillion of investment in surface-transportation infrastructure through 2020 to achieve a passing grade.
The US Treasury and the IMF knew, or at least hoped, that with the passing of the crisis, global attention would turn elsewhere.
Then, in passing, he added that “countries outside the region, we hope…will respect and support countries in the region” in their efforts “to solve…dispute[s] through bilateral channels.”
“Whenever we heard the train coming,” my father once told me, “all the young boys in the village would run as fast as we could through the apple orchard to greet the passing Americans.
Under previous grand coalitions, the Bundestag has served less as a platform for open discussion of diverse views and preferred outcomes than as a machine for passing laws.
But, with the passing of the founding revolutionary generation, this discipline and control melted away.
Indeed, every passing day now seems to bring worse news—even weekends no longer provide respite from the steady stream of gloom!
Passing around the begging bowl to international donors when a crisis erupts is time-consuming and has failed to deliver the right results.
And here is another painful thought that Harvard historian Niall Ferguson often emphasizes: many of the leaders and legislators who are passing judgment on new rules for banks are the same leaders and legislators who oversaw the regulation in the run-up to the financial crisis.
French state capitalism is dead, and France is finding it hard to come to terms with its passing.
Summers was criticizing Europe’s focus on the second-order issue of Greece while far graver imbalances – between the EU’s north and south, and between reckless banks’ creditors and governments that failed to regulate properly – worsen with each passing day.
So, in passing the baton to his eldest son, he could be said to have dealt with that risk in the most logical way possible.
In the short run, though, the world is engaged in a gigantic game of passing the parcel, with no country wanting to take the habitual exporters’ goods and their capital surpluses.
They included misguided government interference with markets, high income and capital gains taxes, mistaken monetary policy, pressures towards high wages, monopoly, overstocked inventories, uncertainty caused by the reorganization plan for the Supreme Court, rearmament in Europe and fear of war, government encouragement of labor disputes, a savings glut because of population shrinkage, the passing of the frontier, and easy credit before the depression.
They wreak havoc by traveling deep into the lungs, contributing to inflammation, cancer, and respiratory infection, or by passing into the bloodstream, where they can trigger changes in blood vessels that cause heart attacks and strokes.
And, with each passing year, the protesters will grow younger.
Unfortunately, these findings largely fell on deaf ears, and the firm’s foreign-exchange salespeople probably got bored passing on yet more of the same pieces to their clients.
But if we are to achieve the “separation because of respect” that Yitzhak Rabin envisioned in the 1990s, there is no time to lose: the point of no return is inching closer with each passing day.
The prospect of a truly hard landing – that global investors wake up one morning, suddenly recognize the US current account’s cannot be sustained, dump dollars, and bring about a crash of the global economy – is becoming less likely with each passing day.
As a result, Iraq's refusal to cooperate in making the scientists available for interviews--the key to its entire strategy of denial--was mentioned only in passing at the end of the inspectors' reports.
If parliaments want to tie their own hands, they can do so simply by passing a law.
To be sure, this does require some passing acquaintance with the US Constitution, where the Electoral College is defined.
Thaler once told me that Merton Miller, who won the economics Nobel in 1990 (he died in 2000), would not even make eye contact when passing him in the hallway at the University of Chicago.
The events now grow more breathtaking and grandiose with each passing year.
If that happens, Hezbollah could be overwhelmed, particularly because the three areas of Shia concentration – Beirut’s southern suburbs, South Lebanon, and the northern Bekaa Valley – are geographically separate, with lines of communication passing through mainly Sunni regions.
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