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That is why we must take steps that will facilitate energy savings as well.
Recent steps – including the closure of the United States Agency for International Development, a requirement that foreign-funded noncommercial institutions register as “foreign agents,” termination of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, and harassment of foreign civic and philanthropic entities – undermine the progress that US-Russian partnerships have enabled.
Of course, a central bank can take steps to devalue its currency indirectly, by expanding the money supply.
A smart government creates guaranteed demand not only for the solution itself, but for the steps along the way.
But, by making the status quo more comfortable and reducing the need for game-changing moves, these have been steps away from, not toward, a solution.
These are great steps forward, and they show that despite brainwashing and the complicity of many Serbs in the crimes of the Milosevic regime, democracy and open society have a chance of taking root in what remains of Yugoslavia.
Their goal is to take the country a few steps back and sideways, with the goal of moving forward in a completely different direction.
As the world observed Universal Health Coverage Day in December, I was left to reflect on the horrors of the last few years, and consider what steps we must take to improve health care in the future.
According to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the great leap forward to the creation of Eurobonds would perhaps be the culmination of that process, but for the moment small steps remain the order of the day.
The question, obviously, is whether or not these small steps serve any purpose.
It may well be that these small steps for the eurozone lead in the not-too-distant future to a giant leap for Europe.
Every small step helps, and the combination of small steps adds up to large strides.
Such steps include broadening financial markets to give more people access to credit and investment, strengthening social safety nets to protect the economically vulnerable, and improving educational access and quality.
If only rational reasoning was the basis of decision-making, the remaining 27 member states would, in line with their interests, move to strengthen the EU by taking immediate steps toward stabilization and enhanced integration.
But France insisted, single-handedly, on steps that ensured that majority voting would become more difficult and less representative.
The governments of the eurozone have taken some significant steps in the right direction to resolve the euro crisis but, obviously, they did not go far enough to reassure the markets.
Merkel can overcome political resistance only in a crisis atmosphere, and only in small steps.
Indeed, multilateral leadership requires not only clearer and bolder rules, but also a demonstrated willingness to bear the costs of those rules, whether by creating safe zones to uphold the “responsibility to protect” civilians or taking concrete steps to reduce – and eventually eliminate – nuclear arsenals.
To this end, three key steps are needed.
(And, with Sanusi now out of the way, Jonathan is unlikely to take any further steps against him.)
But, because world prices are likely to drop fast as the US steps up exports, Argentina has to act quickly in order to capture these potential gains.
Dogs are also more likely to obey a command to leave something desirable alone if their master stays in the room than if he steps out.
And Margaret Thatcher signed the Single European Act, which created the single market – one of the most important steps in European integration, and one that owed much to British inspiration.
Yet even the most enthusiastic advocates of military action against Iraq have to admit that such steps carry considerable risks, and no expert on the region I know shares the view, popular among arm-chair orientologists, that a change of regime in Baghdad will usher in a period of peace and stability all over the Middle East.
The country has sensibly resisted pressure from the European Commission to take more aggressive steps to reduce its deficit, which, at 5.9% of GDP, was the European Union’s third highest last year.
Statesmanship and the Greek CrisisNEW YORK – Sovereign-debt crises such as the one in Greece can be resolved only through bold steps by both debtor and creditor.
The first and most fundamental is to take steps to ensure that people need not flee their countries or, if they have, to create conditions that permit them to return home.
In the meantime, Article 136 of the existing Treaty on the Functioning of the EU would allow for some preliminary steps, such as the designation of votes at the European Council that are reserved for eurozone countries only.
In February, Moon said: “The United States needs to lower its bar for dialogue and the North, too, must show its willingness to denuclearize” as critical first steps.
The steps taken in this direction by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are welcome but insufficient.
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