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The World Bank, which engaged in a similar decentralization a while back, has become better at serving its clients as a result (without facing difficulties in recruiting top talent).
They are intellectual butlers, serving the interests of those in power, not vigilant observers of shifting reality.
With his case still under appeal, he now languishes in a prison cell serving a 12-year sentence.
She is now serving a seven-year prison sentence for supposedly abusing her position as Prime Minister by signing a gas deal with Russia – and awaits the completion of two more trials.
The terrible French peacekeeping experience in Bosnia in the early 1990s, in which France lost 84 soldiers serving in a humanitarian capacity under restrictive ROEs, justifies their fears.
In the 1980s, while serving as Norway’s prime minister, I chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development, at the invitation of then-United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
Indeed, given that most jobs in developed economies require little or no physical strength, cultural values that discourage women from working outside the home are rightly regarded as archaic, serving only to undermine women’s economic and political freedoms.
In India, remote cellular towers, which would otherwise have to be powered by diesel generators, are serving as “anchor customers” for new mini-grids.
Today’s emerging Sino-Russian ties are serving as a catalyst for the rise of opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and, perhaps, a new Cold War -- something both Russian and Chinese leaders say they are against.
Each became so caught up in its role of serving the other that both effectively repressed their economic sense of self.
To date, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been addressing the crisis through the use of his "good offices," with Ibrahim Gambari serving as his representative to Burma’s rulers.
Likewise, the AfD has wrested the anti-refugee mantle away from the CSU and Seehofer, who went so far as to try to undermine Merkel’s government from within while serving as Minister of the Interior.
Achieving all of this requires that the bureaucracy focus on serving the economy, rather than – as has too often been the case – vice versa.
As Duke University’s Peter Feaver, an expert on public opinion who is now serving as a White House advisor, recently pointed out, Americans will tolerate casualties when they believe that a war is just and has a reasonable prospect of success.
They championed recall votes as a way to remove leaders and officials serving vested interests rather than citizens.
The IMF, sitting on a pile of funds, sought and found a new function: serving as an economic consulting agency to countries in trouble -- an unusual agency that brought funds with it instead of charging fees.
But the global economy clearly is not serving everyone equally, and many people believe – with good reason – that it is not serving them at all.
The reason I ask is that 65,000 people actually did write such letters to Barack Obama every week when he was serving as president of the United States.
China’s leadership clearly understands that the economy cannot reach its full potential with central and local bureaucracies serving as substitutes for the market.
The censorship issue has long grated at Google (Brin, with his Russian background, is reported to be especially hostile to censorship), but the company could argue that transparency about censorship was better than not serving China at all.
Yet disarmament has its own contributions to make in serving these goals and should not be postponed.
Although he has been in politics for decades, he has not held a government post since serving as deputy health minister under former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
Some have even held important political positions, serving as ministers, members of congress, governors, and mayors.
But, while there are currently more than 100,000 troops from various nations serving in UN peacekeeping missions around the world, member states are not providing adequate resources, training, and equipment.
The author is currently serving as an outside economic adviser to the Alliance for Competitive Taxation, a coalition of 42 American companies.
For three years I fought alongside Tutsis, finally serving as personal aide to Paul Kagame, now Rwanda's president and his country's leading political and military strategist.
Under this scenario, Germany would play a role in global peace and security through the European seat, as well as serving as a periodic rotating member.
Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters alike now scorn the Fed – whose legitimacy is based on abstract theories that assume away winners and losers, rather than on democratic accountability – for serving the interests of major banks.
This leads to a “chilling effect” among those serving in the military public affairs field, who conclude that there is no tolerance for innovation.
What has happened during the Ebola crisis in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone – where schools serving five million children remain closed or have not reopened quickly enough – makes this case, too.
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