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Companies continue to announce compensation packages for their top managers that leave people agape, not just because the gap between companies’ highest- and lowest-paid workers is so wide, but also because the compensation bears so little relation to firms’ performance.
If Europe, until recently, paid so little attention to its own identity it was because it incorrectly saw itself as the entire world; or, at least, considered itself to be so much superior to the rest of the globe that it felt no need to define itself in relation to others.
Given this focus, not to mention the UK’s history of aloofness and even disruption in relation to the EU, it is perhaps unsurprising that EU leaders view the UK as a hostile negotiating partner, lacking any real commitment to cooperation.
A Better Bailout Was PossibleNEW YORK – The recent exchange between Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers about “secular stagnation” and its relation to the tepid economic recovery after the 2008-2009 financial crisis is an important one.
Rather than assess a medicine’s safety in isolation, its adverse effects must be considered in relation to its efficacy.
The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities: mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels.
If the US dollar weakens in relation with other major currencies, China may not need to adjust RMB's nominal rate for quite a while.
Much of the debate about the UK’s “Brexit” referendum has little relation to Nietzsche’s ideas.
In fact, Western Europe’s extreme-right parties’ attraction to Putin’s negative agenda can be understood in relation to another authoritarian anti-ideology: Benito Mussolini’s fascism.
This official effort to portray native “Taiwanese” as a separate ethnic group, with scant relation to Chinese culture, was extended to language, as Chen favored using the Fujian dialect in lieu of the Mandarin spoken by 1.3 billion Chinese and taught all over the world.
Any claim about the fair distribution of tax burdens must make use of a baseline of comparison--something in relation to which the burden of each taxpayer is measured.
Consider the Pythagorean Theorem, which establishes the relation among the three sides of a right triangle.
In February 2007, Putin, in an anti-Western tirade delivered in Munich, declared: “I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe.
More recently, the Tunisian connection has come up in relation to one of the murkiest dossiers associated with Berlusconi’s foreign policy: Libya.
Over the past 40 years, expert committees convened by the World Health Organization have agreed that sexual health includes physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality, and is underpinned by respect for human rights and individual autonomy.
Indeed, rights are mentioned only in relation to reproduction, and concern only girls and women.
In relation to the past, he used to say, we make a choice of traditions, and with its help we express our views and options.
For now, because of the relation between the different levels of government, local governments have very little to gain from an economic upswing within the areas that they administer.
As we await the results, it helps to remember the complexity of the relation between effective leadership and communications.
In any case, to describe genetically modified athletes as mutants or inhuman is morally suspect, for it invokes the same kind of prejudice that we deplore in relation to other biological characteristics, particularly race, gender, and disability.
The Great IllusionThe saddest of the books on my office bookshelf is an old one published nearly a century ago: Norman Angell's The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage , which tried to prove that military conquest was obsolete.
Might there be a causal relation between the Bush administration’s cavalier, if not hostile, attitude toward law and its dazzling inability to acknowledge mistakes and manage midstream readjustments?
In fact, our relation to the planet will be like that of a gardener to a garden.
Although high growth requires large-scale capital formation, the relation between investment in real capital assets and human capital in China seems to be out of proportion.
Stability, equity, and sustainability challenges have become crucially important, and the role of the state in relation to markets may need re-thinking as a result.
In Avatar , the core themes highlight everything that has gone wrong with Americans’ view of themselves in relation to their country’s foreign policy.
It forces its adherent to define themselves in relation to others rather than by their own combination of ideas; and often the others have to be invented or caricatured for the purpose.
Countries with historically high debt levels have (on average) significantly poorer growth performance in the face of major shocks, and the long-term relation between high public debt and growth is distinctly negative.
But the economic importance of stories bears no close relation to their monetary value (which can be measured only after the fact, if at all).
The catchphrase coined by US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg in relation to China, “strategic reassurance,” actually signaled America’s intent to be more accommodating toward China’s ambitions.
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