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Even with such steps, Iran and Saudi Arabia are highly unlikely to reach an agreement on Syria in the next round of international talks.
NEW YORK – The latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs by the United States and China has intensified the ongoing global debate about whether the world is facing a mere trade skirmish or heading rapidly toward a full-blown trade war.
Like her father, Marine Le Pen is likely to make it to the second round in May; indeed, polls have her winning the most votes in the first round.
In fact, neither of the two main parties – the Socialists and the Conservatives (Les Republicains, as they now call themselves) – is likely even to reach the election’s second round.
For example, the US Federal Reserve’s first round of so-called quantitative easing (QE1), implemented in the midst of the crisis, was doubly effective: By purchasing mortgage-backed securities, the Fed brought down interest rates in that important market (in part, probably, by signaling its confidence in those securities), and restored it to vitality.
During a Nigerian mini-bid round in 2006, ONGC-Mittal was offered the right of first refusal for three blocks.
But the 2007 licensing round appears to have been rushed through to raise cash during the dying days of the Obasanjo administration, and it would serve India’s government well to watch this process closely, too.
That is what the Stability Pact is about – a recognition that the region’s problems must be tackled in the round; a recognition that coping with crisis after crisis is far more costly than implementing a long-term strategy for peace.
In the first round of the 2010 presidential election – in which only 49% of the electorate participated – Santos obtained 47% of the vote.
But now that North Korea is overtly threatening to launch missiles at the US territory of Guam, and being further provoked by Trump, its response to another round of UFG could be less symbolic, and far more devastating.
The last thing that a fragile global economy needs now is another round of peak oil prices.
They may be down following their presidential candidates’ defeat in the first round of the presidential election, but they most definitely are not out.
If their combined impact more than outweighs the initial contractionary effect of expenditure cuts, then the economy may well pick up after a round of fiscal tightening.
This is also the moment to inject new energy into the Doha round of global trade talks.
A successful conclusion of the round would be the strongest possible action to counter protectionist tendencies and resume growth in world trade.
Lula's LegacyMEXICO CITY – The first round in Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for October 3, may turn out to be the only round.
Lula’s attempt, together with Turkey, to broker a deal between Iran and the West failed when the US convinced Russia and China, along with countries such as Mexico, to approve a new round of UN sanctions against Iran.
For the Socialist Party, which is eager to return to power but has not yet recovered from the humiliating defeat of Lionel Jospin in the first round of the presidential election in 2002, the question is whether it can afford to resist the wave of favorable public opinion behind Royal.
When the voters decide in the spring of 2007, their choice may depend more on negative than positive considerations, as it did in 2002, when Chirac faced the odious nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round.
With a new round of talks already being launched, little time has been lost in pursuing this goal.
If the next round of negotiations produces an agreement, France will have pulled off a daring diplomatic feat.
This new round of central-bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth.
If weak demand and high debt were the only factors in play, the latest round of monetary stimulus would be analytically straightforward.
As things stand now, the right is likely to win the first round, but with less than 50%.
The current round of talks has produced some progress on one of the issue’s two major sticking points: the heavy-water reactor at Arak.
Not so much an iron lady as a stubborn and dogged one, May has begun another round of effort to extract a few further concessions from European leaders to make her divorce agreement more palatable to her party, if not a majority of the public.
Similarly, the Bank of England (BoE) has finished its latest round of QE – which it launched after the Brexit referendum last June – and is considering hiking interest rates.
But when the financial system, left to its own devices, seizes up, as it now has, we are clearly in for a new round of regulation.
Today, some polls have him securing over 30% of the vote in the first round, more than twice that of other candidates.
But there is no guarantee that Brazilians will rally around Bolsonaro’s opponent in the same way, or that his advantage in the first round will not be too great to be overcome in the run-off.
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