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Now, these Internet firms are using their positions to invest in China’s digital ecosystem – and in the emerging cadre of tenacious entrepreneurs that increasingly define it.
The absence of a common denominator among EU governments’ positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East’s deep problems.
Is the German government’s willingness to issue more debt and run bigger deficits limited because the market recognizes and penalizes nation states that allow their fiscal positions to weaken?
The problem is that politicians (and commentators) often pick the wrong examples to bolster their ideological positions.
As a result, in a modernizing environment, doctors and engineers can find themselves in positions of religious authority, leading a Koran study group and interpreting scripture.
Competitive elections for lower-level party posts have already been held, with votes for provincial and national party congresses showing electoral slates with 15-30% more candidates than positions.
I write seated in my office in Pristina, virtually hours before NATO strikes will hit Serbian positions.
The downside risk of capital-account liberalization, after all, is higher exchange-rate volatility, and even countries with sound liquidity positions could not prevent a run on their reserves.
In practice, of course, few people occupy top positions in groups or organizations.
And the subsequent fevered discussions about Trump’s core beliefs – maybe he was a crypto-Democrat, who had, after all, donated to Democratic candidates at one time and sympathized with Democratic positions (such as on abortion) – missed the point.
The response to the return of Russia’s imperial great power politics has nothing to do with punishing Russia, and a lot to do with establishing innately Western – especially European – positions of power.
They remain at the service of socio-economic systems in which personal relationships matter more than qualifications and skill, in which positions are doled out on the basis of loyalty, not merit.
So, trying to parse their positions to make a case for one over another is harder to do than guessing who will end up winning the World Cup.
Third, it is misleading to argue for a certain amount of immigration in terms of the need to fill certain high-tech or other positions.
In addition, it is essential to align the positions of Russia and the West on the anti-missile shield system now being developed by NATO, which will be a subject for discussion in Chicago.
Instead of trying to build non-partisan and competent regulatory institutions, all positions were stacked with political followers.
These pathologies are energized in societies that are bereft, where sheer despair leaves people in positions without hope and faith in their surrounding society or civilization.
The first explanation is that the banks have not, in fact, bought insurance, and some have taken speculative positions.
If news reports are correct, some members of the committee have been using their position to promote more accommodative negotiating positions.
The 1954 Hague Convention calls on states not to target cultural sites and to refrain from using them for military purposes, such as establishing combat positions, housing soldiers, or storing weapons.
Moreover, like managers everywhere, their responsibility is great, making their positions less secure, while companies must compete for the relatively few good ones, driving up their price.
American politicians must sell their ideas and values to voters;China’s leaders do not need to inform the press and the public directly about anything, including their foreign-policy positions.
Of the CCP’s roughly 80 million members, more than five million hold executive positions in state-owned or affiliated firms.
A senior sports writer with a Kenyan daily paper recently told me that this time women seem to be interested in learning the rules of the game and knowing more about players and their positions.
Indeed, though women around the world actually work more than men in total (including both paid and unpaid work), they earn one quarter less, on average, hold only one quarter of executive positions in the private sector, and occupy less than one quarter of all seats in national parliaments.
Nor is there any sign that any of these positions would be modified should Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, become president.
But, unlike the for-profit sector, the nonprofit world is not fluid and efficient, and nonprofits have no incentive to merge, particularly as some people would have to give up their board seats or leadership positions.
None of this would resolve Europe’s fundamental problems, namely weak fiscal positions, poorly functioning financial sectors, and lack of competitiveness.
But markets are subject to imbalances that individual participants may ignore if they think they can offload their positions on someone else.
Regulators, by contrast, cannot ignore these imbalances, because if too many participants are on the same side, positions cannot be liquidated without causing a discontinuity or, worse, financial collapse.
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