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I was in Korea last week, and several of my friends and colleagues, some in prominent public positions, were thrilled at the prospect of the new US president.
So, no matter how large a weight we place on their happiness relative to the happiness of others – whether we regard them as praiseworthy captains of industry who merit their high positions, or as parasitic thieves – we simply cannot do anything to affect it by raising or lowering their tax rates.
The price of the talks has already been high, with all sides having ramped up violence to strengthen their respective positions ahead of the negotiations.
Typically, faculty members establish private firms, often with students and support staff, while retaining their academic positions, and university administrations invest in legally independent incubator companies, usually in molecular biology, computer science, combinatorial chemistry, and other fields.
This type of cross-utilization has proceeded farthest in newer industries, such as biotechnology, which already offer post-doctoral positions that approximate conditions in universities.
As in the Khodorkovsky case, the Kremlin seems to be using the courtroom as a platform for clarifying the positions of the Russian elite.
Although he sometimes supported American policies, Mubarak frequently rebuffed the US when its positions did not align with his own.
This is in line with the Party’s recently announced policy that the next generation of leaders should have an average age of around 55 years, with up to four top positions filled by leaders not yet in their fifties.
Even in countries where gender equality has advanced furthest, women are over-represented in lower-paying jobs, under-represented in senior government and business positions, and on the receiving end of most domestic violence.
The willingness to give up power if necessary is one of the advantages that professors bring to such positions.
US news organizations are fortifying their positions by emphasizing core journalistic practices such as source verification and fact checking.
By 2020, we want women to occupy 30% of leading management positions – a goal that presupposes a more flexible working environment, as well as support from foreign workers to take over domestic and personal services.
As a first step, the State Department must move faster to fill critical vacancies for positions dealing with South Asia.
And they are consistent with positions taken by the German Ministry of Finance under the previous government.
And besides, some deputies in the CDU, and many in its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, are sympathetic to the FDP’s positions.
But they now seem to use their positions with far more confidence in putting women and their concerns squarely at the center of their agendas.
But nearly 16 million Americans are either unemployed or have dropped out of the labor force, while more than half of the jobs created during the recovery are low-wage positions that usually do not offer such plans.
So far, however, the US and the EU have been loath to relinquish their privileged positions.
A bold international move would be needed to overcome entrenched positions, and that means a deal involving substantial concessions by the US and the EU on agriculture in return for commensurate commitments by India, Brazil, China, and others to open their own markets for services and agriculture.
In effect, financial markets have established an implicit veto over much of economic policy and the people who can hold top policymaking positions, and it is time to think how we can escape that hold.
Higher trade figures may persuade Vietnam to maintain friendly bilateral ties, and perhaps even to adopt more accommodating positions on thorny regional security issues, such as the South China Sea dispute.
Moreover, her positions on many social issues seem quite distant from those of her constituency.
Workers who hold part-time positions in a firm but want a full-time job, have a legal right to fill such a position when a job opens up.
Similarly, his administration’s declared positions on the environment, on energy, on defense and on foreign policy are all strongly right-wing or unilateralist or both.
International experience suggests that, in the short run, more capital flows into a country when its currency appreciates, and most empirical studies have shown that gradual appreciation has only a limited effect on countries’ current-account positions.
As the dollar appreciated in international markets, these economies became less competitive and experienced sharp deteriorations in their current-account positions.
Diplomats in some EU member states have started to worry that attempts to placate Trump could force them into self-defeating positions, thus reprising the relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush in 2003.
Irreconcilable positions?
Perhaps weaker commodity prices will create space for other imports, and commodity producers’ trade positions will swing toward lower surpluses.
As a result, center-left parties across Europe have begun to change course, with social democrats in several key countries changing long-held positions on migration.
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