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If the EU is to retain public loyalty, it must listen up and proceed to action.
Successful people, according to Carnegie, should retire from business while they still retain those talents and devote their remaining years to spending their fortunes on philanthropy.
Many emerging-country exporters, struggling to retain customers in the wobbly US and European markets, feel otherwise.
China’s drive to retain a significant say in the pricing of iron and bauxite, of which Guinea is the world’s major producer, means that it can always receive a warm welcome from officials tired of being lectured to by Westerners.
This includes the “four Cs of twenty-first century learning” (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication) – areas where humans retain a considerable advantage over artificially intelligent machines.
Because the country’s debt will continue to rise, regardless of its leadership, China will retain its favorite source of leverage.
Moreover, there is no perceived “re-denomination” risk affecting French assets, given markets’ confidence that France will retain the euro.
Indeed, the HDP’s electoral success is the main reason that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to retain its parliamentary majority.
But governments retain a role in fostering an enabling environment within which markets operate.
Nevertheless, after more than 60 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to retain a deep sense of insecurity.
Advanced democracies have built – and retain (despite recent setbacks) – extensive social safety nets in the form of unemployment insurance, retirement pensions, and family benefits.
They are less likely to have access to early-childhood programs that prepare them for school, and are more likely to attend schools that have high student/teacher ratios and that cannot attract and retain skilled teachers.
The Dutch retain the job-killing laws that make it impossible to sack regular full-time employees, but allow employers to sack part-time and temporary workers.
As a first step toward convening a second poll, Cowen has sought EU-wide agreement that, rather than reducing the size of the Commission, the provision of the Lisbon Treaty that allows for a “one member state, one commissioner” rule will be enacted, allowing Ireland to retain a permanent place.
She hopes for an exit from the EU whereby Britain would retain the benefits, but avoid the costs, of membership.
What matters is whether either type of leader could retain power once in office.
Unwisely, Chen went out of his way to shut out mainland Chinese capital and to retain barriers to other foreign investors in order to protect the domestic businesses of his political allies.
But having lost control of their national monetary policies, euro member countries retain only one macroeconomic instrument, fiscal policy.
Current polls indicate that the opposition’s dominance could slip significantly, but that it will almost certainly retain control of the country’s western regions and most large cities.
So, despite today’s doubts and difficulties, I retain an abiding faith in Europe.
One logical compromise would be for Assad to retain power for a short period.
In the United States, President Barack Obama, concerned about his party’s ability to retain control of the Senate, has decided to put off immigration reform until after the election in November.
But national supervisors and governments retain a significant role.
He has long championed a powerful idea: that each of us should retain control of our online profile, which should be readily transferable across portals.
In the end, policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid a lost decade depends on their ability to retain productive vitality in their economies, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.
Surrounded by hostile neighbors, such as Chinese, Mongols, and Manchus in the north and Japanese across the sea, Koreans have struggle tooth and nail for thousands of years to retain their ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and political identity.
The SGP's fundamental problem is that it must strike a balance between two contradictory goals: it must retain bite against excessive debt accumulation, yet it must also give governments more maneuvering room to enact structural reforms and restore Europe's competitiveness.
Rather than scaring global corporations and their home states, China would retain strong political support abroad – and the financing that it needs for its continued development.
Only radicals and populists -- of which we retain too many -- can afford a devil-may-care attitude toward making the state function more efficiently.
They would have a permanent right to live in Israel and would retain the benefits to which they are currently entitled as Israeli citizens, but they would now vote as citizens of Palestine.
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