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At a time of strong resistance to higher energy costs, this may well be among the most effective – not to mention politically savvy – mechanisms for advancing the goals set out in Paris.
Establishment parties were once controlled by globalization’s beneficiaries: capital owners; skilled, educated, and digitally savvy workers; urban and cosmopolitan elites; and unionized white- and blue-collar employees.
Savvy American politicians even make use of it for their own purposes.
Greater clarity about how much water enters and leaves catchments, and for what purposes, would enable smarter policies, just as savvy investors rely on good financial accounting.
Coming in the same week as China’s poorly handled removal of Tung Chee-hwa as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, the anti-secession law episode illustrates that the mainland’s PR savvy has its limits and that Taiwan will remain an emotional and divisive thorn in the side of Sino-US relations.
And, in a sense, the composed and politically savvy Le Pen may be even more dangerous than the erratic political novice currently occupying the White House.
Savvy investors, like frustrated voters, recognize that low growth and high unemployment actually enlarge deficits and add to debt in the short run.
According to him and his many supporters, the US is led by weaklings who are being exploited by savvy foreign powers, masquerading as allies.
They are technically savvy organizations with the ability (more or less) to protect users and detect abusers; they have a direct (though impersonal) relationship with their users; and they compete for users’ business, so that, unlike governments, they will suffer if they perform badly.
He is a savvy marketer who tapped into the political zeitgeist by pandering to working-class Republicans and “Reagan Democrats,” some of whom may have supported Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
That is all the more likely, given mounting domestic pressure for reform from a technologically savvy and globally engaged young citizenry.
But China has already shown itself to be handling US trade pressure in a more savvy way than Japan did in the 1980s.
Schools, however, can nurture a new generation of environmentally savvy citizens to support the transition to a prosperous and sustainable future.
This political savvy, combined with the country’s improving economy, could help the regime weather today’s turbulence and the next violent upheaval.
For those with the skills, capital, and savvy to prosper in the post-industrial age, services offered inordinate opportunities.
They are savvy, business oriented, and eager for foreign investments.
Courage, fortitude, competitive savvy, and other virtues rightfully command our moral admiration.
This transformation has placed the world in the hands of a younger generation, more technologically savvy than their parents and connected to one another through social networks that are not confined by territory, language, or government.
As it stands, the EU lacks the experience and savvy that the US accumulated over decades as an international hegemon.
Today's savvy investors, and the financial industry as a whole, need to look ahead, beyond today's market prices and policies to the market prices and policies of the future.
Savvy investors will look for companies that can withstand the current populist revolt against globalization and take advantage of incipient economic and technological trends.
They don’t shout at large mobs, but are slick performers in radio and TV studios, and are savvy users of social media.
This piecemeal approach is politically savvy but analytically perplexing, as it provides no clues regarding the big picture.
The great economist Hyman Minsky’s “merchants of debt” sold their toxic products not only to the credulous and ignorant, but also to greedy corporations and supposedly savvy individuals.
And savvy Bank presidents have known that the best way to deflect political pressure is to add yet more bells and whistles – especially when they are visible and loud.
And while Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had been savvy policymakers back in the 1970s, they had become rather erratic by the early 2000s.
For that, American know-how and savvy will be indispensable.
However, Ronald Reagan’s defense buildup and negotiating savvy, along with George H.W. Bush’s skill in managing the end of the Cold War, were important to the final outcome.
A growing number of savvy business people are also starting to wonder whether the United States will be able to right its economy anytime soon.
And many homeowners, eager to participate even more in the boom and feel like savvy capitalists, bought more expensive houses than they normally would.
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