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In Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked mountainous nation with a history of civil unrest and quick government overthrows, local politicians are furious about the US Defense Department’s recent decision to renew a controversial fuel-supply contract for the air base at Manas, a key hub for air operations over Afghanistan.
Rather than focus on quick policy fixes, Europe’s leaders need to pursue long-term solutions.
The result is promotion for such officials, because they have delivered quick GDP growth.
This, I believe, is why America is so opposed to a quick transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis.
Even with Obama as president, they may be quick to denounce the combination of arrogance and hypocrisy that they see as linked to America’s view of her “special and unique mission.”
The US has been quick to distinguish between commercial and military espionage.
NCDs – slowly evolving chronic conditions that primarily affect older adults and are unlikely to be resolved with a quick technological fix – are not.
In 1989, the fall of repressive East European regimes in quick succession stunned the world, including dissidents who had long recognized communism’s vulnerabilities.
Yet time and again, other major central banks – especially the Fed and the European Central Bank – have been quick to follow, with equally dire consequences.
A quick survey of the history of religious conflict shows that theological controversies have never been resolved by theological arguments.
Even if inaction (or action oriented towards the longer term) is the best policy, it is not an option for democratically elected politicians, whom voters expect to govern, which inevitably means action with the potential for quick results.
The post-Ebola recovery will not be quick, easy, or cheap.
Organized crime depends on an abundant supply of young people who are willing to risk their lives in the hope of quick economic gain.
But Obama was quick to recover from mistakes in a practical way.
But this won't provide the quick fix that the Bush administration yearns for, because a declining dollar need not bring about an equivalent rise in the price of US imports.
Or would they become mired in ineffective, poorly-funded attempts to obtain quick results, and then say it couldn’t be done?
America’s recent wars have provided such immediate gratification, before quickly giving way to grief – the ultimate quick high followed by a very deep low.
Having overthrown Hosni Mubarak’s iron-fisted 30-year-old regime in a remarkably quick and relatively peaceful manner, Egypt’s revolutionary masses were to leave the streets and pursue an all-out drive for economic prosperity and social justice.
The ABS model explains Dubai’s economic resilience and its quick recovery after the global financial crisis.
Having done so, the government has been quick to impose a travel ban, freeze his bank accounts, and make clear that it will monitor his activities closely.
Political parties appear far removed from citizen demands, beset by internal divisions, incapable of addressing deep-rooted inequality and lawlessness, and prone to populist or authoritarian leadership that promises quick fixes to entrenched problems.
There are no easy and quick fixes to education – every US president since Gerald Ford in the mid-1970’s has called for educational reforms, with little effect.
The US has tried quick fixes before.
In the short term, a little hypocrisy may seem like a small price to pay for a quick victory.
It is not an easy task, and there are no quick fixes.
It is not quick or easy, and it often requires difficult trade-offs.
As the French, instinctively sympathetic to the anti-austerity argument and conscious of their increasingly junior role in the Franco-German partnership, were quick to notice, the German stance also signaled a potential shift from a “European Germany” to a “German Europe.”
Was it preferable to start with economics – try and get rich, quick, but don’t rock the boat politically – in the manner of the Chinese?
Governments have been quick to believe that the protests are fundamentally about high prices and unemployment, but the issue that unites Arab discontent is inadequate governance.
Expensive quick fixes to increase energy security are crowding out other important priorities in Central and Eastern Europe, such as long-term investment in tertiary education and research, and much-needed improvements in dilapidated health-care systems.
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