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Consider this: we tend to retain our rough drafts, years of e-mail traffic, and thousands of ghastly digital snapshots on our hard drives, not because we have decided that they are worth remembering, but because keeping them is now the default way of doing things.
Russia, having seen its gross domestic product fall 40% since communism’s end, needs to retain its defense industry as one of the few sources of national revenues.
That shift will only accelerate further during and after Trump’s presidency, unless major changes are made to retain America’s costly, hard-earned global preeminence.
Although the Party’s carrot-and-stick approach has worked since 1989, it is doubtful that it will retain its efficacy for another 17 years.
Yet, despite the difficulties that have bedeviled the CFA (and the euro of late) – indeed, despite the absence of viable regional customs unions (except in the East African Community), let alone a single market – Africans retain a strong allegiance to the idea of a currency union.
But America’s determination to destabilize Iran and the Iranian government’s determination to retain power reduce the likelihood of this scenario.
To hire and retain skilled workers, many foreign-invested enterprises routinely pay above the minimum wage.
With the state planning to retain a 95% share of Saudi Aramco, ensuring equitable treatment of all investors, as provided by Saudi corporate-governance rules, could not be more important.
Another would combine asylum policy, border protection, and cooperation in police and judicial affairs; this area could retain control-free internal borders, which is increasingly difficult between countries with widely differing asylum policies.
These entities, which retain considerable borrowing capacity, should be redirected to secure the surge funding required to address the migration crisis.
Originally formulated after an experience with poor trains in West Africa, Hirschman realized that if a complex social system allowed people to leave (exit), its efficiency might deteriorate; a better solution would be to retain people (loyalty), which would give them incentives to articulate demands (voice) that would improve the system’s performance.
Instead, Turnbull has subordinated whatever rational and civilized instincts he was thought to retain to the demands of the small-minded extreme conservatives in his party.
India is not, of course, the only nation to retain severe punishments for homosexuality.
Of course, in times of horror such as the Holocaust and Ukraine’s Holodomyr, isolated and powerless individuals may swaddle themselves in indifference simply to retain some shred of sanity.
Hong Kong and Argentina retain the option of terminating their currency boards, changing the pegged rate, or introducing central bank features, as the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has done in a limited way.
Or would they perhaps even have preferred, God forbid, to retain some nexus to the British Crown as a self-ruling dependency?
In Africa, oil is usually extracted by foreign companies, so well designed taxes are needed to ensure that countries retain a fair share of the profits.
Navigating it will require Italy to retain its credibility with other European Union member states and international investors.
Or does he believe that enmity toward the US is necessary to retain the ideals of the revolution and the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic?
Any government seeking to retain the support of voters typically goes out of its way to make roads passable.
The relatively tight labor market is causing wages to rise at an accelerating rate, because employers must pay more to attract and retain employees.
To mitigate such risks, the international community could maintain its traditional policy of sitting tight and hoping that governments retain control of their nuclear infrastructure.
Yet Indonesian officials waver from assuring the Chinese that they retain equal rights as citizens, and they have allowed various forms of discrimination to run rampant.
The economic case for a European globalization fund is that trade policy has been delegated to the European level, while Union members retain control rights to block decisions.
Countries that want to retain power in a changing global order must learn to share it, which requires accepting and embracing the contours of a new world.
As it stands, US lawmakers routinely delegate technical issues to experts; but, given the hazards of these experts’ often-unwarranted certitude and insulation from popular opinion, lawmakers wisely retain authority over important decisions.
For starters, the central or federal government should retain significant fiscal powers.
In general, Obama has pursued a policy of nuclear balance in which steps towards disarmament are accompanied by measures to retain America’s nuclear primacy.
Whereas advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons wanted his administration to employ a zero-based approach to nuclear planning, with the burden of proof on those seeking to retain nuclear weapons to fulfill essential military functions, the NPR presumes the continuation of current nuclear roles and missions unless convincing arguments exist to end them.
According to Harm Reduction International’s research, of the 33 countries that retain the death penalty for drug offenses, only a handful – mainly Saudi Arabia and China – actually carry out executions.
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