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Social factors other than birthplace should be studied to evaluate what causes
primary
multi-drug resistance.
This is now totally implausible, because all of Britain’s opposition parties, plus the clear majority of Conservative MPs whose
primary
loyalty is to business interests, would block it.
Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the “troika” (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF): it converted a
primary
budget deficit into a
primary
surplus.
When the UN was founded in 1945, the
primary
objective was to prevent the outbreak of World War III.
The government had budgeted for a large
primary
surplus (which excludes interest payments), which was projected at 4% of GDP.
If Greece had defaulted in January, this
primary
surplus could (in theory) have been redirected from interest payments to finance the higher wages, pensions, and public spending that Syriza had promised in its election campaign.
Given this possibility, Varoufakis may have believed that he was making other EU finance ministers a generous offer by proposing to cut the
primary
surplus from 4% to 1% of GDP, rather than all the way to zero.
If the EU refused, his implied threat was simply to stop paying interest and make the entire
primary
surplus available for extra public spending.
But what if the
primary
surplus – the Greek government’s trump card in its confrontational negotiating strategy – has now disappeared?
With the
primary
surplus gone, a default would no longer permit Tsipras to fulfill Syriza’s campaign promises; on the contrary, it would imply even bigger cutbacks in wages, pensions, and public spending than the “troika” – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF – is now demanding.
Chinese universities should produce higher-quality graduates at a slower rate, and all other students should matriculate through vocational programs, which will lose their current stigma as they become the
primary
educational option.
Is Bankers’ Pay Really the Root of Financial Evil?CHICAGO – Compensation practices at financial firms stand accused of being a
primary
cause of the recent global financial crisis.
Add to that the modern scale effects on professional and “superstar” incomes – a result of winner-take-all global markets – and a picture emerges of fundamental forces tending to concentrate
primary
income at the top.
The IMF Is Bleeding Argentina to DeathWhen Argentina's financial crisis first exploded, I pinned the
primary
responsibility on Argentina itself, rather than on international institutions such as the IMF.
While the IMF’s
primary
scenario is that Irish and Portuguese debt levels will soon stop rising, it comes with a chilling litany of downside risks.
At this point, with both major parties set to choose their nominees in state-level
primary
elections or caucuses, there can be no predictions, only informed (or uninformed) guesses.
If the real interest rate on Greek debt were 4% (more or less what Greece is paying now for the emergency loans from the European Union) and annual GDP grew by 2% on average, the required
primary
fiscal surplus each year for the next quarter-century would be 5.7% of GDP.
Even with German-level interest rates, Greece would have to run a
primary
surplus of at least 2% of GDP – still quite large, and far from today’s deficit.
An unequivocal reaffirmation of that understanding, particularly by the United States in the light of its role as
primary
backer of Kosovo’s independence, is now needed if China is to be reassured that its unity will not be called into question.
In other words, a central bank’s
primary
responsibility is not to preserve the health of the firms that make up the banking sector, but rather to maintain the robust functioning of the economy as a whole.
Frederick Smith, CEO of Federal Express, has argued that “the
primary
task of leadership is to communicate the vision and values of an organization.”
The troika is still demanding that Greece achieve a
primary
budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5% of GDP by 2018.
In terms of transforming a large
primary
deficit into a surplus, few countries have accomplished anything like what the Greeks have achieved in the last five years.
Until the crisis of 2010, when fiscal problems in Greece and elsewhere created anxiety in financial markets, some economists had speculated that the euro might soon replace the dollar as the world’s
primary
reserve currency.
Having already lost a year of
primary
education in his hometown, where it was simply too dangerous to attend school, he then spent another year out of the classroom when the family arrived in Lebanon, where they now reside.
The fall of the Soviet Union undercut the
primary
source of NATO's legitimacy.
Although all of these constitute potential or actual threats, the biggest challenges facing the US are its burgeoning debt, crumbling infrastructure, second-rate
primary
and secondary schools, outdated immigration system, and slow economic growth – in short, the domestic foundations of American power.
There is also a dark cloud over the mortgage market following a judgment by the Supreme People’s Court in 2003 that banned the repossession of homes that are a
primary
residence.
Niyazov forced students, from grammar school to the post-graduate level, to make his idiosyncratic book, the Ruhnama , the
primary
focus of their studies.
The
primary
task they face is to reinvent Georgia as a corruption-free nation.
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