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From that point on, policing of the protests became utterly passive.
Even when times were better, Merkel’s passive political style allowed vacuums to form, which were filled by other political forces within her party.
The 75% of Russians who make up the Putin majority are essentially passive, and seek only the preservation of a paternalistic state.
Yet many open-minded people remain curiously passive in the face of religious extremism.
The government’s Guiding Fund program has provided a total of $27.4 billion to venture capital and private equity investors – a passive investment, but with special redemption incentives.
Both reforms are incomplete and may not be sufficient to jump-start the economy and mobilize a singularly passive civil society.
For the French, Sarkozy’s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.
But despite protests by the yesterday’s proponents of deregulation, who would like the government to remain passive, most economists believe that government spending has made a difference, helping to avert another Great Depression.
They would have criticized him had he remained passive while Bamako fell into the hands of terrorists.
European leaders cannot remain passive in the face of the dangerous populist tsunami now crossing the continent, and they know it.
A passive follower keeps his head down, shuns risk, and avoids criticism.
Indeed, the war against the arts and humanities in the US coincided with the emergence of an increasingly ignorant and passive population and a government that serves at the pleasure of corporate interests.
What we are seeing in Europe today is more likely to be delayed adjustment rather than passive acceptance of real wage cuts by workers and unions.
The manufacture of electrical products, such as chips and passive devices, has quite often been shifted completely to Asia, while even automobiles that are still assembled in Germany rely heavily on components produced in Eastern Europe.
So the good news that nobody has to be afraid of Germany is accompanied by bad news: Unintentionally, the colossus is exerting a kind of passive hegemony; his lethargy is slowing down Europe's dynamism.
Today, however, the quality of corporate-governance frameworks worldwide is challenged by the growing complexity of investment chains and the dominance of passive and short-term investment strategies.
By its immobilization, however, such a community may simply be too passive to oppose the violent men acting in its name.
In the asset management industry, there have traditionally been two types of investment strategies: passive and active.
The passive approach includes investment in indices that track specific benchmarks, say, the S&P 500 for the United States or an index of advanced economies or emerging-market equities.
As a result, actively managed funds typically do worse than passive funds, with returns after fees even lower and riskier.
To keep costs low, smart beta strategies need to be passive.
Weeding out the bad and the ugly based on these scores, and thus picking more of the good apples, has been shown to provide higher returns with lower risk than actively managed alpha or passive beta funds.
With better returns than passive beta funds at a lower cost than actively managed funds, smart beta vehicles are increasingly available and becoming more popular.
But the ability to solve immediate problems encourages a passive, money-heals-all approach.
To that end, the structure of sovereign wealth is evolving from a legacy model of passive state ownership to one that recognizes that SOEs’ survival hinges on their ability to compete internationally.
Even if many emerging-market sovereign funds would prefer to remain quiet, non-voting investors with passive stakes in foreign companies, the tech-sector acquisition spree that is currently underway demands that they gain a better understanding of their rights as shareholders.
Spontaneous reporting rates to regulatory agencies are low – approximately 1% – and ongoing monitoring is passive in many countries.
The Primakov government was remarkably passive.
But in financial markets prices are not merely the passive reflection of independently given demand and supply; they also play an active role in shaping those preferences and opportunities.
Without a strategic re-orientation of its own – to remain passive is a risky endeavor in a rapidly changing world order – Israel would further delegitimize and isolate itself internationally.
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