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On the Tuesday afternoon when the US played Belgium in the knockout round, every bar in Aspen, Colorado, was packed.
When my driver was Ethiopian, as often happened, we would commiserate over the national team’s defeat by Nigeria in a qualifying round, then celebrate the US defeat of Ghana, and end by agreeing that in four years, or certainly in eight, the US team would be among the world’s best.
After the current
round
of enlargement is completed, the EU's eastern border will likely run to the east of the Baltic states, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, with Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova on the other side.
In France, more than 7% of voters cast their ballots for Trotskyite and Communist candidates in the first
round
of the presidential election, while the Socialists, who received 27% of the votes, are much more left-leaning than Germany’s Social Democrats.
In the end, Gollnisch’s plan may have backfired: a few days after Le Pen’s appearance, the headline in a weekly magazine read, “What is new with the FN?Marine!”On April 21, 2002 – a date that still resonates in French political memory – the 73-year-old Jean-Marie received 17% of the vote in the first
round
of the presidential election, thus knocking the former socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, out of the second-round runoff.
But, to win the second round, she will need to defeat Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old centrist who finished ahead of her in the first round, with 24% of the vote.
Stunned by Mr. Lavin's success in the first round, Mr. Lagos was forced to rethink his strategy.
That is why it is reasonable to hope that the next
round
of victories in global development will turn out to be even more impressive than the last.
Buoyed by their easy success that first night, the assassins came back the next for a second
round
of mayhem – and again a few days later.
But, while the first
round
of articles read like press releases, the scientific community has since spoken out forcefully.
The charismatic and workaholic President Uribe was allowed – for the first time in Colombia's modern history – to stand for a second four-year term as an incumbent, winning outright in the first
round
with an absolute majority of 62% of the popular vote.
Since 2009, Akazi Kanoze trainings have prepared more than 37,000 youth for work, with more than 65% of participants in the initial
round
of training employed six months after graduation.
From the vantage point of the European Central Bank, which is coping with another
round
of distress in the periphery (primarily in Italy, where the frailty of the banking system is fueling capital outflows), the euro’s weakness is a godsend.
And, a few days ago, Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, publicly warned that the world risks a harmful and ultimately futile
round
of competitive exchange-rate depreciations – or, more bluntly, a “currency war” (a term used previously by Brazil to express similar concerns).
This latest
round
of monetary tightening in China reflects the authorities’ growing concern over liquidity.
In 2010 – following the Fed’s announcement of a third
round
of quantitative easing – Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega accused advanced countries of waging a global “currency war.”
Yet I am told that the chances of getting more money in the US for an extra
round
of fiscal stimulus this year is zero, as is the chance of getting more money this year to intervene in the banking system on an even larger scale than America’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Indeed, the failure of many emerging-market governments to tighten macroeconomic policy sufficiently has led to another
round
of currency depreciation, which risks feeding into higher inflation and jeopardizing these countries ability to finance twin fiscal and external deficits.
Today, this grievance sits at the heart of popular frustration, particularly among disaffected urban youth, who helped ignite the latest
round
of unrest.
That process has already begun with another
round
of experimentation through three new Special Economic Zones in Hengqin, Qianhai, and Nansha to pilot the emergence of a creative, knowledge-based services economy.
More importantly, it is very likely that countries’ abilities to navigate the rising social tensions generated by gaping inequality could separate the winners and losers in the next
round
of globalization.
But such policies seem politically untenable in the short term, even though – according to the World Bank’s estimation – an appropriate conclusion of the current trade
round
under the auspices of the World Trade Organization could contribute $350 billion a year to developing countries by 2015.
Gilani did, however, say that they had “discussed all core issues, including Kashmir,” and that they “hope the next
round
will be more constructive, more positive, and will open up a new chapter in the history of both countries.”
Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will suffer another
round
of decline, just as they did after United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s failure in February to produce practical measures to recapitalize America’s banking system.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and the new WTO
round
are both important means to this end.
Each further
round
of budget cuts has worsened the recession, increased social tension, and further reduced confidence… Neither the IMF nor anybody else would advise any developed country to adopt such masochistic and self-destructive policies….
The fear was that, if China sought a weaker exchange rate to escape deflation, the result would be another
round
of global competitive devaluations and even more deflation.
On the other hand, the far-right National Front and its leader, Marine Le Pen, are enjoying a steady rise; polls give the party one-third popular support, the highest in the country, making it very likely that Le Pen will reach the second
round
of the presidential election.
Sarko v Sego At LastThe surprise in the first
round
of the French presidential election was that there was no surprise, except for the huge level of voter turnout.
Four winners and one clear loser emerged from the first
round.
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