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First, governments would be better served by focusing on stability, even if it means sacrificing some output.
Societies would be better served by a policy focus on factors that have been shown to be critical to life satisfaction: relationships, community, security, and physical and mental health.
Volunteering does not only enhance the lives of those who are served; it also boosts the life satisfaction of the volunteers.
But China’s quest for international respect is not well served by its embrace of rogue nations like Sudan, Venezuela, and Burma, much less by its secretive military build-up and its recent adventure in outer space.
In the latest caucus, in Nevada, Clinton’s presumed advantage among non-white voters, who are a far greater factor in Nevada than in Iowa or New Hampshire, seems to have served her well, with Sanders failing to win enough African-American voters, in particular, to defeat her.
Bankers will certainly regard the outcome as what in England we like to call a “curate’s egg” (served a rotten egg by his bishop, a young clergyman, when asked whether the egg was to his liking, replied that it was “good in parts”).
China moved to current-account convertibility in 1996, but retained a substantial number of controls on capital movements, which have served as a shield against financial contagion.
Nor was it important only during the Cold War, and after, when it served as an anchor for European unity and a source of hope for the countries of the Soviet bloc (which are now the most pro-European countries of all).
For several decades, growth has served as a substitute for sensible social cohesion policies.
Of course, QE and ultra-low interest rates served a purpose.
In the late 1990s, I worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank, where he served as Chief Economist.
And, instead of reducing the chances of a nuclear standoff in South Asia, the White House plan served only to distract attention from efforts to address tensions between India and Pakistan.
But China’s balance sheet has served it well, enabling the extraordinarily high rates of investment that have fueled rapid growth.
Justice has finally been served.
This served as a guarantee of "international political immunity" for Russia.
In fact, Akihito’s meeting, on his recent visit, with relatives of Japanese soldiers who remained after WWII to start families with Vietnamese women served as a symbol of bilateral reconciliation.
In 2015, the same establishment that now supports Macron and rails against the “alternative facts,” loony economics, and authoritarianism of Le Pen, Donald Trump, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and others, launched a ferociously effective campaign of falsehood and character assassination to undermine the democratically elected Greek government in which I served.
Slaughter had served in a Republican administration, under President George W. Bush.
But this reset was largely facilitated by the personal ties between Obama and Dmitri Medvedev, who served as President for four years before Putin returned in 2012 for a third term.
Under neither of these interpretations can those who negotiated and signed the Kyoto Treaty be said to have served the world well.
Of course, the world has been served a lot worse since.
Separate facilities, better leave structures, and altered work schedules have served to make this growing cohort of women in the Pakistani military more comfortable.
Before he died in 2009, Roh (under whom I served as Foreign Minister) was a political mentor and close friend to Moon.
We can also rehabilitate the technocrats who served under Saddam, so that they, too, have a chance to serve their country.
Tea Party Victory, Global DefeatCANBERRA – You wouldn’t expect much interest beyond the United States, or even beyond his own state, when an 80-year-old conservative legislator, who has already served six terms, loses his party’s endorsement to run yet again.
The demonstrations thus served as both an acknowledgement of and a challenge to Putin’s autocratic ambitions.
But the financial-market turmoil fueled a panic among eurozone leaders, leading them to misdiagnose the malady and prescribe the wrong medicine, which has served only to generate new symptoms.
When Obama was faced with a campaign crisis over incendiary racial remarks by his former pastor, he did not simply distance himself from the problem, but made use of the episode to deliver a speech that served to broaden the understanding and identities of both white and black Americans.
And they served to convince young, discontented Muslims that extremism was the only possible solution to their societies’ weakness and lack of opportunity.
By withdrawing from NATO’s integrated military command, France excluded itself from political decision-making within the Alliance and thus became the equivalent of the “Harkis”– the local soldiers who served with the French army during the Algerian war: fine soldiers, but with virtually no reward for their service.
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