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Leave aside governors (the BJP asked all to resign to make way for political appointees soon after its 2014 election victory) and start with the judicial system, which has come under scrutiny since January, when the Supreme Court’s four most
senior
judges held an unprecedented press conference to question Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s allocation of cases.
China’s New Normal and America’s Old HabitsNEW HAVEN – China is generating a lot of confusion nowadays, both at home, where
senior
officials now tout the economy’s “new normal,” and abroad, exemplified by America’s embrace of Cold War-style tactics to contain China’s rise.
Indeed, that was the theme of the just-concluded China Development Forum (CDF) – an important platform for debate among China’s
senior
officials and a broad cross-section of international participants that occurs immediately after the annual National People’s Congress.
In his keynote speech at the CDF, Zhang Gaoli, one of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee (the Chinese Communist Party’s highest decision-making body), declared that the
senior
leadership has rendered the “strategic judgment that China’s economy has entered the stage of the new normal.”
Developing a new approach – based on a broad, systemic perspective – should become a top priority of those with the capacity to deliver change, including CEOs and
senior
public officials.
This is a point made by international inspectors operating under United Nations auspices, as well as by
senior
US officials, including Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
Presidential appointments to
senior
posts in America’s government are subject to open hearings.
Trump also asked
senior
US intelligence figures to try to convince Comey to go easy on Flynn.
The next day, at a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump told
senior
Russian officials that firing Comey had relieved “great pressure” on him.
After all, China’s major trading partners, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and
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Chinese officials themselves have long recognized the structural vulnerabilities caused by excessive investment and low household consumption.
Rather, the problem is rooted in the period from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, when bipartisan majorities enacted – or supported the expansion of – the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, which provide, respectively, pensions and health care to
senior
citizens.
In the 1950’s-1970’s, American policymakers made three crucial policy decisions, opting for a privatized, market-driven health-care system that provides the world’s most expensive care; basic pensions indexed to inflation for all seniors; and free health care for all
senior
citizens.
As one
senior
commander told me, “the Taliban are better equipped and have more fire power.”
This was recommended by a
senior
US military commander, who said that “60% of insurgent activity could be curbed by reconciliation.”
As one
senior
Afghan government official said, “If you can’t remove a corrupt judge, how can you deal with the Taliban?”
As a
senior
member of Blair’s government throughout its tenure, he shares responsibility for everything that Blair has done.
In preparation, he has replaced
senior
generals in the Pakistani army with officers considered more beholden to him, evidently hoping that this will ensure the military’s loyalty even after he removes himself from the chain of command.
Whatever the truth behind Chen’s fall, and despite the widening corruption probe of other
senior
government officials, data and evidence recently released by the government and multilateral institutions suggest that the authorities are fighting a rearguard battle against a rising tide of graft.
The CBRC uncovered 1,272 criminal cases and disciplined 6,826 bank employees (including 325
senior
managers).
Even in countries where gender equality has advanced furthest, women are over-represented in lower-paying jobs, under-represented in
senior
government and business positions, and on the receiving end of most domestic violence.
Skeptics of the AU’s motives focus on Article 46A (bis) in the amendment to the court’s statute, which prohibits the prosecution of “any serving AU head of state or government…or other
senior
state officials based on their functions, during their tenure of office.”
Twenty years ago, in 1996, I was
senior
counsel to Madeleine Albright, then America’s ambassador to the United Nations.
When “access journalism” leads
senior
editorial decision-makers to identify with political elites, explaining the government’s thinking to the public becomes their primary purpose.
Having lost direct access to
senior
officials, they can now focus strictly on holding the administration to account.
LONDON – In the early 1970’s, Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal reportedly confided to
senior
members of the royal family his fear that, just as in a single generation the country had moved from “riding camels to riding Cadillacs….the next generation could be riding camels again.”
Senior
executives of multinational companies tend to have pre-conceived notions of China as just another developing country, and thus evaluate Chinese officials by comparing them with those in other developing countries.
Moreover, Western corporations are hierarchical and autocratic, similar to the Chinese one-party state, so
senior
executives’ errors of judgment are rarely challenged directly by their underlings.
But he has now come full circle, is seen in the company of
senior
National Front leaders, and even named Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine’s father and the party’s founder) the godfather of his third child.
Unfinished business includes a deposit-insurance scheme, as well as the creation of a
senior
tranche of safe sovereign assets, or eurozone-wide risk-free securities.
Both approaches need strong
senior
management support, because they can succeed only in a culture very different from the more controlling, hierarchical R&D environment that remains prevalent today.
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