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"All the free education and health care gives a certain balance," said a prominent writer.
The Economic Policy Trump Should PursueLONDON – As Donald Trump assumes the US presidency, a group of 35 prominent international business leaders, led by Unilever CEO Paul Polman and me, is stepping forward to defend open markets, endorse the fight against climate change, and demand a massive push against global inequality.
Claims that the United States is retreating from the international arena are probably exaggerated, but in at least two of the defining conflicts of recent years – Ukraine and Syria – the US has not played as prominent a diplomatic role as it once would have.
Yeltsin’s choice of Putin – encouraged, ironically, by Boris Berezovsky, the prominent Russian oligarch and Yeltsin advisor who is now exiled in London as Putin’s mortal enemy – was based on his belief that the quiet apparatchik, even if a former KGB spy, was a democrat at heart.
And it will be particularly embarrassing for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who argued that whatever distaste her conservative coalition colleagues had for the former Labor leader, it was wrong to stop a prominent Australian from seeking a position for which he was regarded internationally as manifestly qualified.
Currently, the Chinese Twittersphere has three prominent features: First, as China’s rulers strengthen their censorship efforts, Twitter has become highly politicized.
According to a November 2006 report by The Task Force on the Future of American Innovation, made up of prominent universities, think tanks, industry trade associations, and corporations, the high-tech trade deficit widened in 2005, for the third consecutive year.
But none – Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia being the most prominent – is strong enough to decide matters in its own favor.
Some prominent policymakers and analysts, however, argue that oversight aimed at identifying and stemming systemic risk is futile.
And, by shutting down such a prominent US-supported institution, he can send a message that no one who has stood up to him has won.
Although the film ultimately drew a large crowd, some prominent students chose to hedge their bets on the future by attending the competing event.
Despite some prominent women at the top of Latin American politics, the general absence of women from the region’s political life causes a serious democratic deficit.
The tribunal, which tries cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity, found a prominent member of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, guilty of complicity in the killings of 300 people, but gave him a relatively light sentence of 15 years in prison (prosecutors had sought the death penalty).
At the same time, the rule of law plays a prominent role in Chinese political discourse.
Prominent academics warn that China could fall victim to the dreaded “middle-income trap,” which has derailed many a developing nation.
This year has witnessed political opening, the release of several prominent political prisoners, and evidence of self-assertion by the nominally civilian government (headed by a former general, Thien Sein).
Some prominent Nigerians have also suggested that if the electoral crisis is not resolved before Obasanjo steps down on May 29, the chief justice should take over as interim president and organize new elections.
This behavior is most prominent among young people and some ethnic groups, particularly Latinos and Asian-Americans.
It will be difficult for the IMF to regain the trust of these increasingly prominent members.
One prominent example is former Yukos Oil Company Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose expressions of doubt about Putin’s leadership landed him in jail and, later, exile.
For a short while, many prominent people – Albert Einstein, for one – believed that only a world government would be able to ensure global peace.
In fact, when inequality rises, democracy suffers, which is why the demotion of the US in one prominent ranking of the world’s democracies is not particularly surprising.
In late 2008, anti-Thaksin mobs wearing yellow shirts and led by prominent business figures occupied Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport with impunity, seeking to annul the result of a general election in which pro-Thaksin forces gained power, despite Thaksin’s exile overseas.
One survey they cite found that 33% of female leaders in office from 1960 to 2007 had family ties to prominent politicians.
Professor Yu Keping, an influential Communist official and author of a prominent book called Democracy Is a Good Thing, is said to have the ear of President Hu.
But some Alawites are prominent opposition figures.
A choir of prominent American economists, including Paul Krugman, Kenneth Rogoff, and Nouriel Roubini, claimed that Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania must also devalue.
The prominent Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer insists that their prime aim is to finish off Georgia and its president, Mikheil Saakashvili, who remains in power and defiant.
Then, in January, five prominent television stations were fined for airing a statement by the Legal and Human Rights Center regarding possible rights violations during local elections last year.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the acquisition of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export controls and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
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