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After committing to a 17% reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 – and despite his declaration that he would not tolerate inaction in this area – he simply stopped raising the issue after the Republicans’ sweeping victory in the November 2010 mid-term elections.
Since politicians ask us to entrust them with sweeping powers, it can be argued that we should know as much as possible about their morality.
Improving Governance in the Arab WorldWASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed a sweeping consensus about what underlies many of the region’s problems: a lack of good governance.
The Health Costs of Tax ReformNEW YORK – The sweeping tax bill that US President Donald Trump signed into law on December 22, 2017, may have been presented as an early Christmas gift.
It is as if a new wave of counter-enlightenment is sweeping the world, with the most restrictive views dominating the scene.
Combined with sweeping government benefit policies that classify millions of people living in Chernobyl-affected areas as invalids, such myths encouraged fatalistic and passive behaviors and created a “culture of dependency” among affected communities.
Not everyone is basing their treatment of Russia’s wealthy on sweeping generalizations.
Assuming Ramaphosa has the determination, political savvy, and support to drive sweeping change, he will not be alone.
In particular, President Donald Trump has announced sweeping cuts to the United States’ international aid budget, in order to appease economically frustrated US voters who want their tax money spent at home.
Surely, higher education will eventually be hit by the same kind of sweeping wave of technology that has flattened the automobile and media industries, among others.
In 2012, the government implemented sweeping labor-market reforms to increase companies’ internal flexibility (making it easier to dismiss permanent workers and facilitating wage moderation), and introduced a model for reducing workers’ hours.
A Dramatic Comeback for EuropeLONDON – The Dutch are famous for building dykes that hold back the tides and storms sweeping across the Atlantic.
Last month, President Xi Jinping announced a set of sweeping economic reforms at the Central Committee’s Third Plenum, setting forth his vision of “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Moon, who was elected to boost jobs and curb corruption, campaigned on sweeping away his predecessor’s policies, including her hardline approach toward North Korea.
Few know better than the Eurocrats of Brussels that the unrest now sweeping across Arab countries was only a matter of time in coming.
The sweeping retaliation against unrelated products was intended not only to promote domestic industries, but also to ensure that South Korea lost far more than China did.
Commentators have affixed the “populist” label to the wave of demagogic politics sweeping Europe (and much of the rest of the world).
But this is not an issue of sweeping moves that will change the world from one day to the next.
But I also noted that there is no reason to think that, in the absence of the legislation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Bush administration would have asserted sweeping new authority over derivatives and pointed to the legal certainty problem that career lawyers thought was important to address.
Arab Myths and RealitiesWASHINGTON, DC – With Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt – widely considered to have one of the region’s most stable regimes until only recently – and Colonel Muammar Qaddafi clinging to power in Libya, there is no clear end in sight to the turmoil sweeping across the Arab world.
Bush Loses in the Supreme Court and America WinsTwo rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.
A new appetite for risk seems to be sweeping the continent;Atomico reports that more than 85% of founders say it is “culturally acceptable” to start one’s own company.
That assumption would be wrong because, in December, the US Congress passed a sweeping tax bill that will, at least in the short term, disproportionately benefit higher-income households.
Ambivalent ArabiaA democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.
Lifting the state of emergency that has been in force since 1963 – giving sweeping powers to the regime and its security services – would be both a symbolic and tangible step in the right direction.
But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian regimes shared – all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the legitimacy of democratic politics.
Rather than imposing sweeping tariffs, it could tailor its actions to the intellectual-property dispute.
But it was clearly at odds with the massive technical changes sweeping across the retail sector, and eventually the communications industry, which soon produced Fedex, faxes, mobile phones, and the Internet.
Less sweeping is the Medical Home Model, also developed in the US, which seeks to create teams of caregivers to provide better access and continuity of care to patients suffering from multiple diseases.
Reformers often lack patience, and his plan for sweeping economic changes in just 500 days was as utopian as Khrushchev's promise of "Developed Communism" in 20 years.
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