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It must recognize a strong popular desire for individual autonomy, more leadership positions for women and the young, and greater support for individual enterprise (along with reforms of social insurance that make it cost-effective and truly inclusive).
A Republican president also would make appointments to many key policymaking positions, from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to regulatory agencies.
National governments must also adopt positions on the Dublin Regulation so that negotiations with the European Parliament can finally start.
Did they change their political positions?
No surprise, then, that Barrot was given a minor role on a new European Commission that is liberal and Atlanticist, quite out of sync with French positions.
Big banks became particularly influential not just through their financial clout, but also through their control of key policymaking positions in Democratic administrations.
Is the desire for such information a residue of an era in which women were excluded from a wide range of roles and positions, and thus denied the privileges that go with them?
But those losses have been in low-wage positions, and have been offset by new employment in other areas.
But for every market mispricing there is a profit opportunity: if long-term interest rates are, indeed, too low and long-term bond prices too high, investors will short long-term US bonds, park the money elsewhere, wait for bond prices to return to fundamentals, and then cover their short positions.
If, say, the Bank of China and the Federal Reserve decided to teach speculators a lesson by pushing the dollar’s value relative to the yuan up by 20% for a month, they could do so, bankrupting many financial institutions with short positions.
Their withdrawal has opened the door to a new generation of politicians, with a significant number, particularly on Macron’s party list, coming from civil society, rather than from other elected or public-sector positions.
But the observable diffraction pattern--the intensities and positions of the individual reflections--represents only half of the data needed to deduce the structure of the diffracting object.
In mathematical terms, it gives the amplitude, but not the phases--i.e., the stages in an oscillatory motion--without which the atomic positions could not be determined.
Whether it is at work, in school, or even on dating apps, we have already become accustomed to having our eligibility assessed by impersonal tools, which then assign us positions in a hierarchy.
It is this reality that has led the Americans to endorse two Israeli positions – recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and intrusive security arrangements – that the Palestinians are bound to reject.
Such blanket statements and superficial judgments do not belong in the selection of individuals for important positions.
On the other hand, net-foreign-asset positions of countries with a short-term orientation and a low savings rate tend to deteriorate, while their foreign debts mounts.
After years of structural adjustment programs, the health-care systems of many developing countries – especially in Africa – had been ravaged, with 30-50% vacancy rates in health-care positions, bare dispensaries, and never-ending queues.
For example, women are often passed over in favor of men for training abroad, and they still cannot hold command positions.
Ironically, in 2007, in response to an earlier SEC proposal to grant shareholders’ access to proxy, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen ampamp;Katz, a law firm famous for its anti-shareholders’-rights positions, used the opposite argument: “No real-world crisis has shown that the current system needs radical revision.
There can be common ground between these two positions, particularly with respect to primary schools.
Among the most common forms of corruption is the “sale” of government positions – a practice that has little to do with growth, especially when it is conducted by high-ranking officers in the army, such as the Peoples’ Liberation Army generals who have been arrested during the campaign for trading promotions for bribes.
With a force of 14,000 men, Townshend met the Turks at Ctesiphon, where they occupied heavily fortified positions on the east bank of the Tigris.
Faced with a major converging advance, the Turks decided to evacuate their forward positions, enabling the British to enter the city on March 11 th , 1917.
At stake is the presidency, but also positions for 27 state governors, 54 senators and nearly 1,600 elected officials.
Increased oil revenues improve the fiscal positions of most producing economies, and some have taken advantage of global investors’ hardier appetite to issue sovereign debt.
Once the insiders had saved their own positions, they no longer saw any need to maintain the exchange rate.
Once a new technology is established, private entrepreneurs, with the help of venture capital, adapt it to global market demand, build temporary or long-term monopoly positions, and thereby capture large profits.
Rodrik proposes the creation of public venture capital firms – sovereign wealth funds – that take equity positions in exchange for the intellectual advances created through public financing.
He has nothing to do with the communist era and has sacked all former Party members from important positions, even barring former Prime Minister Leszek Miller from standing for parliament.
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