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The credit for imparting urgency to an issue that had become a hardy perennial of Indian politics goes to the mass campaign that coalesced around a Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare, who insisted that a “Jan Lokpal Bill” (“People’s Ombudsman”) drafted by his followers had to be enacted in toto.
When Yassir Arafat, the perennial PLO, Fatah, and Palestinian Authority leader, died, Palestinians in theory had a chance to end this history of disasters.
Under the illusion that lifestyles revolving around cheap oil and big cars were America’s perennial right, fuel-economy standards languished for decades, and politicians avoided the t-word like the plague.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians’ worsening plight is still a perennial grievance on the Arab and Muslim street.
For almost two decades, Taiwan’s presidential elections have attracted global attention not only for the robustness of Taiwan’s democratic culture, but also for the perennial question of whether the winner would seek formal independence for Taiwan.
Indeed, both countries have entered an era of perennial water scarcity, which before long is likely to equal, in terms of per capita availability, the water shortages found in the Middle East.
A dysfunctional justice system and a jungle of red tape are a perennial curse for investors.
The outcome is far from certain, but even isolationism, a perennial American malady, seems to be making a comeback.
Add to this the perennial crisis on the Korean peninsula and the Taiwan conflict, which could flare up again anytime.
Meanwhile the market is mispricing perennial structural challenges, in particular mounting and unsustainable global debt and a dim fiscal outlook, particularly in the US, where the price of this recovery is a growing deficit.
This cozy relationship created a “moral hazard” in Pakistan, as the generous flow of US aid insulated the government and military from any sense of urgency about economic reform: some foreign friend would always rescue the country from its perennial shortage of cash.
Finally, North Korea’s nuclear aspirations are a hearty perennial for any US president.
They explained that until recently this was a perennial river – one that flows throughout the year – but now the river stops flowing during the dry season.
Finally, Egypt – a perennial candidate for a permanent or rotating African seat in a reformed Security Council – has important relationships throughout the region, particularly with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries that are directly supporting some Syrian opposition groups.
Similarly, threatening North Korea with isolation, the hardy perennial of diplomatic pressuring, does not work, because isolation is exactly what the North Koreans want.
The perennial Russian order – the dominant state and a powerless, fragmented society – remains largely in place.
But the issue of how we should think about exchange rates and their appropriate management is a perennial one.
Rather than privatizing, governments around the world are increasingly looking for ways to address their SOEs’ perennial weaknesses, including their lagging corporate governance, low productivity, and subpar innovation.
Some of these will be perennial problems in need of no introduction: North Korea and its nuclear ambitions, China and its global ambitions, Russia and its spiteful ambitions, and of course, the Middle East and its dysfunctional ambitions.
In the past, this key regional actor suffered perennial economic crises, bouts of hyperinflation, and occasional military coups that, brutal as some were, seemed to many Turks a welcome respite from weak center-left and center-right governments.
One hopes that all of the current candidates vying for the US presidency will be up to the challenges – both perennial and unanticipated – that they will face.
Different attitudes toward risk are a central factor in the perennial controversy over how much stimulus is optimal.
(Karimov and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev are perennial rivals.)
The ministry’s forecast answers the perennial “who is to blame” question very clearly: the slowdown reflects Russia’s own “internal problems.”
Solidarity could count on the logic of Gorbachev's recent reforms in the neighboring Soviet Union, the perennial inefficiency of the communist economic system, and the unwillingness of the government, under General Jaruzelski, to go back to the martial law regime.
World leaders gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly probably won’t have time to discuss this perennial political challenge.
These developments (and many more) are rooted in a more pedestrian – and perennial – problem: the inability or refusal to recognize the need for course correction (including new management).
The perennial over-borrowing of the old PRI governments is gone, and public finance is on a fairly sound footing.
Then, of course, there is Tibet, perhaps China’s greatest domestic security concern, and also a perennial source of tension with India, owing to territorial disputes.
Yemen, for its part, has no perennial surface water; its citizens depend entirely on rainfall, groundwater, and flash flooding.
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