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And his trade and industry minister is unlikely to repeat the antics of a recent predecessor, who placed a gun on the table while negotiating import and export quotas with local producers.
This is why relations with Russia must also be placed high on Europe's agenda this year.
In all likelihood the Americans would "have done an Iraq on Pakistan," as one highly placed member of the foreign ministry conceded to me in the week after September 11 th .
And the broader impetus behind this Economists’ Declaration, convened by The Rockefeller Foundation and now with more than 300 signatures, has placed global health and development at a historic crossroads.
With most advanced economies pivoting too quickly to fiscal retrenchment, the burden of reviving growth was placed almost entirely on unconventional monetary policies, which have diminishing returns (if not counter-productive effects).
Finally, with the opportunities that Turkey's Islamic traditions, regional contacts, resources, and geography provide, the EU will be much better placed to exert a stabilizing influence on a region that will affect Europe's security in any case.
Most spectacularly, the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek placed the monumental caption “IT’S GLOBAL WARMING, STUPID” over a picture of flooded Manhattan.
Once this “imperfect knowledge” is placed at the heart of economic analysis, the implications of our inherently limited ability to predict market outcomes become clear.
While normalization and the related downsizing of the ECB’s bond purchase program are part and parcel of the long-awaited recovery cycle in Europe, the modalities, magnitude, and speed of execution remain critical, especially when the post-crisis era is placed in historical context.
In the case of the western Atlantic stock of blue-fin tuna, several countries argued that the existing management body – the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) – is best placed to manage the stock.
In Defense of Polish PlumbersSupporters of Europe’s social model claim that what distinguishes it is the importance placed on “social cohesion.”
Indeed, the European Commission, which is working toward creating an energy union, is well placed to initiate an open dialogue with non-EU countries on long-term energy policies.
To be sure, the crisis has placed a stranglehold on countries worldwide.
In addition to raising worries about the drug’s availability, the move exposes one of the great flaws of the US health-care system: profits can be – and often are – placed ahead of people.
Although Germany’s net investment as a share of GNP remains one of the lowest in the developed world, the additional investment implies more jobs in the construction and machine tool industries, followed by rising employment wherever the investment is placed.
The availability of inexpensive products from China has long placed downward pressure on prices even of non-Chinese goods in the US market.
Banks have been gradually placed on a stronger footing, with more loss-absorbing equity capital.
As societies become richer, the relative value placed on different dimensions of life may shift.
We now know that in Europe and the US, they are to be placed before a one-man firing squad.
True employee ownership, in which employees participate meaningfully both in earnings and control, appears effective in a surprisingly broad range of circumstances so long as ownership can be placed in the hands of a class of employees who have highly homogeneous interests.
Without limits placed on the appetites and prejudices of the majority, intolerance will rule.
At the same time, however, it must focus on workers and elevating the experience of their work, which economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and Alfred Marshall placed at the center of their concerns.
Moreover, given that nationalism in China often serves as a proxy for popular frustration with the authorities, one can see why the government, not wishing to be outflanked, has not placed Japanese, Filipino, South Korean, or Vietnamese sensitivities among its top priorities.
Development banks like the French Development Agency (AFD), where I am CEO, are well placed to contribute.
The Basque terrorist organization ETA has ended its truce with the Spanish government, and, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding, placed bombs in the town of Burgos and on the island of Majorca.
In the run-up to the 1997 meeting in Kyoto, Japan, for example, the oil company Mobil claimed in an advertisement placed in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that “the cost of limiting emissions could range from $200 to $580 per ton of carbon,” based on “a study just issued by Charles River Associates.”
A security services insider, Putin was seen as well placed to protect Yeltsin and his oligarchic allies.
The best coursework on offer – in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and literature – can be loaded onto a mobile phone and placed in a student’s hand.
Apparently, I was expected to sit there, without touching my glass, glowering with arms folded until everyone else had placed theirs back on the table.
The continent is well placed to build diversified economies based on low-carbon, sustainable infrastructure.
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