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In fact, they couldn’t formulate a workable alternative to Obamacare, because some within their ranks refuse to accept the basic laws of arithmetic.
Though some Republicans pretend otherwise, there is simply no solution that decreases the role of government without increasing the ranks of the uninsured – and thus raising total health-care costs.
With per capita GDP of more than $37,000, Japan still ranks among the world’s richest countries, specializing in the highest-value links of global supply chains.
And income inequality in Japan ranks among the lowest in Asia.
Yet it ranks 95th in per capita GDP.
They also began purging military ranks of anyone with Islamist sympathies.
Thus, Mashal has attempted to close ranks with Fatah, and is seeking to move Hamas’s Diaspora headquarters from Damascus – a powerful symbol of his efforts at re-invention.
That’s good for large companies, but it leaves behind smaller companies that can’t afford to train the middle ranks or compete for the best.
Many are separated from their families, and thousands more join the ranks of displaced persons every day in what is becoming the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our time.
Three significant factors led to the peace accord: the Colombian armed forces’ increased effectiveness, which enabled them to decimate the FARC’s ranks;Santos’s previous diplomatic groundwork, wherein he repaired Colombia’s previously fraught relations with neighboring Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, an axis that had long contributed to sustaining the FARC by providing logistical and political support; and, finally, Cuba’s new policy of rapprochement with the United States, which Santos was wise to exploit in his own efforts to make peace.
But there is also distrust of the Fed on more specific grounds – distrust that extends well beyond the ranks of the Tea Party.
According to a recent survey of 65 mainly emerging countries worldwide by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which ranks countries by their education standards, around half of Latin American 15-year-olds performed below the basic levels in math, science, and reading comprehension.
For promoters of “America First,” what the rest of the world thinks ranks second.
London is the only city in the United Kingdom that ranks in the world’s top 50.
In terms of emissions per capita among the world’s polluters, India ranks 128th – between Anguilla and Moldova.
January marked the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the treaty that created a single market with the United States and Canada, and helped to propel Mexico into the top ranks of manufacturing exporters.
The development of the region’s oil and gas fields ranks high on the agenda of most of the countries with interests in the region; but operating costs in the Arctic are high, and, with energy prices low, most projects have been slowed or delayed.
Governments will need new accounting and reporting standards to calculate wages, forecast incomes, and categorize workers within the growing ranks of the self-employed.
Advanced economies dominate MGI’s latest Connectedness Index, which ranks countries on both inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people, and data relative to their size and share in each type of global flow.
While such interests do exist, they do not lead older people to close ranks and organize themselves.
“Only by enacting such policies will globalization’s losers begin to think that they may eventually join the ranks of its winners.”
Pakistan’s army and navy have also opened their ranks to women.
For example, the United States, which ranks third among 195 countries on MGI’s Connectedness Index, has done rather well.
In that case, Australia’s per capita contribution ranks 71st worldwide.
In Asia, the country ranks 13th in English fluency, behind both China and South Korea.
Only through this process will Serbia be able to rejoin the ranks of free and healthy European nations.
The latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), published by the consultancy Z/Yen in London, revealed that the Rock had risen further and faster up the ranks than any other center – 17 places, from 70th to 53rd position, since the previous report in September 2013.
In fact, according to Standard Chartered Bank, China ranks first worldwide in terms of both overall M2 and newly issued currency.
Because the public sector can no longer absorb the swelling ranks of university graduates, the MENA region now has one of the world’s highest rates of youth unemployment.
Or will they place themselves in the tradition of paranoid nihilism and pollute their ranks with the political vandals that France still produces in abundance?
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