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The US economy is in a mess – even if growth has resumed, and bankers are once again receiving huge bonuses.
This decentralized delivery of goods relies on employees working for two weeks before receiving a paycheck, companies offering each other lines of credit, and banks offering bridge loans.
Instead of receiving help from his country’s government, he was tortured, murdered, and dismembered by a team of its agents.
Those receiving the money are as responsible for this tragic situation as those providing it; but we can stop, and reverse, these outflows.
But Souley Madi is resigned to receiving unfair cotton prices, perhaps for a long time.
Remarkably, Yushchenko won strong backing in the parliament, receiving confirmation by a vote of 296 deputies out of 450 members.
(I recall receiving several detailed briefings on Iran from American delegations during my time as General Counsel of the World Bank Group.)
The degree of public and political attention that refugees and migration are receiving this year is not likely to be repeated in my lifetime or in that of the next generation.
Meanwhile, renewable energy sources are receiving record amounts of investment – some $329.3 billion last year, according to research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Although few antidepressant drugs have been licensed for pediatric use, rates of prescribing in the under-18 age group have risen by around 60% over the past decade, with over a million children and adolescents receiving what are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s).
Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy take them to suppress bacteria that would otherwise overwhelm their weakened immune systems.
That is the equivalent of receiving an extra two hours of free time every day, on top of the ten hours on average that we spend awake and not at work.
We are receiving a wave of interest and readiness for further dialogue on this topic within the EU and beyond.
At the same time, having never had to take “no” for an answer – and after receiving a series of nods and winks that hinted that membership might one day come – Turkey’s expectation of eventual EU integration became increasingly palpable.
Chinese officials have been on the receiving end of a lot of gratuitous advice.
Good people get to know each other by biting each other and it serves bad people right if they are bitten by good ones…”Friends of my generation invariably comment when I mention that I was born on August 18: “Hey, that was the anniversary of Chairman Mao first receiving the Red Guards.”
On the receiving end, industrial countries’ governments are anxious that new sovereign wealth funds (SWF’s) are being used strategically, rather than simply following the logic of the market.
In West and Central Africa, only 2.1 million of the 6.1 million people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral therapy.
The problem is that the institutions of higher education – both public and private – that have been receiving significant levels of federal support have not been subject to much accountability.
The allegations included financial irregularities, receiving EU funds without the proper ministerial authorization, and "tarnishing Egypt's image."
Our children are not recognized by the state, and thus are prohibited from attending school or receiving medical care.
In 2000, upon receiving debt alleviation, Uganda chose to eliminate all school fees and says its number of schoolchildren nearly doubled thereafter.
In its 2015 Economic Report of the President, the US Council of Economic Advisers found that the share of US workers receiving either paid-for or on-the-job training fell steadily from 1996 to 2008.
But it is the attack on women’s rights that is receiving the most powerful pushback.
For example, after receiving only 43% of shareholders’ support, Bruce Gans, an independent director of Hospitality Properties Trust, resigned.
As Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini point out in a recent Harvard Business Review article, some 17.6% of all US jobs, receiving 30% of all compensation, are in “management and administrative” functions likely to involve significant zero-sum activity.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown deserves the accolades he is now receiving.
It would also have to contribute to the EU budget, without receiving any spending in return.
VER credits are like carbon credits, but, rather than receiving funding from Kyoto Protocol sources, the private sector provides the financing.
One controversial issue stoking tensions has been the workings of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) established by the current government after receiving a clear mandate to try those accused of mass killings and other atrocities 43 years ago.
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