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Two teenage girls (Trini Alvarado and Robin Johnson, both likable), who are patients in a New York City hospital, escape their confines and move into an abandoned warehouse; after attracting media coverage via a prominent disc-jockey, the kids become cult celebrities.
And even as the Fund opposed them, prominent economists – among them Paul Krugman – endorsed their use.
It’s a big stretch for the Brexiteers to ask us to believe that the world’s most prominent leaders, European or not, have all got the impact of Brexit wrong.
School textbooks remain simplistic, with the Communist role still the most prominent and the Nationalist role more of a caricature.
Because of its economic and trade muscle, China is bound to play a more prominent role as the Doha round unfolds.
But the Chinese policy elite are also very taken with the idea that a first-rank country needs a prominent banking system that is active internationally.
China is like Cinderella – finally allowed to attend the ball and given a chance to become a prominent player.
Reassuring alliance governments does not require only that “any constructive engagement would have to be based on military reassurances within NATO,” as prominent experts like Wolfgang Ischinger and Ulrich Weisser have said.
One prominent example is Essam Derbala, the head of the Consultative Council of the Islamic Group (IG), a post-jihadist organization that led a terror campaign in the early 1990s, before abandoning political violence in 1997 and engaging in mainstream politics.
Meanwhile, there are now more than three million Indian-Americans, and, as with many other immigrant populations, they have become ever more prominent and powerful.
Prominent US politicians who supported the 2003 invasion – including many Republicans – now admit that it was a mistake, as do a majority of Americans.
Inequality, Interests and Competition , edited by the prominent economists Santiago Levy and Michael Walton, argues, vested interests are capable of blocking changes that would make the economy more productive and efficient.
In the early sixteenth century, the German princes attempted to settle the philosophical challenge presented by Protestant reformers by engaging Martin Luther to debate a prominent orthodox Catholic theologian, Johannes Eck.
The prominent climate economist Professor Richard Tol of Hamburg University has analyzed the benefits and costs of cutting carbon now versus cutting it in the future.
And his campaign’s warning against prominent Jews, such as George Soros, who were claimed to be part of a global conspiracy to undermine America, did not go unnoticed.
The concept of a debt overhang has been around forever, but it became prominent during the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s.
The fastest growing sectors of the economy since the late nineteenth century have been those loosely classified as “service industries,” often involving the dissemination of information and entertainment – activities in which Jews have been especially prominent, from publishing to vaudeville and from movies to commercial sports.
Not only was Dawes, like Hoover, a prominent Republican; he was also an ex-RFC official.
While politics may have influenced that particular decision, there is no doubt that Lagarde is at least the most prominent French woman alive.
Yet, when it comes to the imposition of capital punishment, both are prominent.
Reform in Saudi Arabia is in every sense a bizarre compromise between the opposing forces of the al-Saud’s prominent wings and the forces of the official Wahhabi religious establishment.
Most important, the graph allows us to evaluate the targets that China and the US – the two most prominent holdouts from the Kyoto protocol – have proposed.
During Barack Obama’s presidency, both were prominent figures in the racist “birther” movement that insisted Obama was born outside the US, and therefore was not entitled to be president.
Greater Western engagement is needed to ensure that the “Europe factor” is equally prominent.
Peggy Battin, the most prominent American bioethicist working on assisted dying and euthanasia, also took the stand.
For decades, prominent British politicians have propounded their disdain for Europe; as a result, euroskepticism in the United Kingdom has become entrenched.
Migration between the two continents has been and will continue to be a prominent feature of the human story.
Another prominent economist, Harvard’s Lawrence Summers, has objected that this story is incompatible with a second recent trend, namely declining employment of men aged 25-54.
The best-managed state-owned enterprises could emerge – or remain – as successful and prominent players, adapting to expanded market competition and combining innovation with economies of scale.
His visit to Ghana highlights the desirability of prominent people from the diaspora making a positive contribution to African affairs.
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