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US Vice President Joseph Biden has put counterattacks against Russian computer networks on the table, but that could trigger an escalation, while ceding the moral high ground.
For example, US sanctions eventually brought Iran to the
table
to negotiate a nuclear deal; but sanctions were effective only because a broad international coalition, ultimately backed by the United Nations Security Council, isolated Iran financially.
The Dark Side of Voting TechnologyNEW YORK – According to an unpublished “kitchen
table
survey,” conducted before last November’s presidential election in the United States, approximately 95% of the predominantly Hispanic members of one of America’s largest domestic unions preferred the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
If new members and regions are not offered a seat at the table, the Council will face increasing irrelevance – and the world, more than ever in need of effective conflict resolution, will be far worse off.
This raises the question of whether Israel’s repeated refrain that “all options are on the table” implies that even a nuclear strike is possible.
And it repeatedly uttered threats that “all” options are on the
table.
Ahmedinejad’s election two years ago came with great expectations, with the new president pledging to “bring oil prices to the dining
table
of all households in Iran,” and to crack down on corruption.
In his view, the brain is not a Turing machine that manipulates symbols according to a
table
of rules, which is the model on which computers and artificial intelligence have been based.
There is even a league
table
of the world’s funniest jokes (I did not laugh much).
The World Economic Forum’s Financial Development Index – yet another league
table
to consider – shows Hong Kong and Singapore very close indeed to London, with China now ahead of Italy on the overall measure of financial sophistication.
They knew that Germany, an enthusiastic champion in the fight against AMR, would be chairing the G20 this year, and could be expected to bring bold proposals to the
table.
To secure Lebanon, and to bring Hamas to the bargaining
table
with Israel, it is Syria that Israel and the United States must deal with, one way or another.
And his trade and industry minister is unlikely to repeat the antics of a recent predecessor, who placed a gun on the
table
while negotiating import and export quotas with local producers.
But health is only a small part of the Bank’s “portfolio,” and it typically works in this area with partners who bring to the
table
expertise in medicine.
Some are recalcitrant and are more than willing to see the euro rise because, with rate hikes off the table, the strong euro may be the only way left for fighting the incipient inflation they fear.
The problem is that once reform of the Fed is on the table, all kinds of other ideas will surface.
For European cities, the results are listed in the
table
below, which uses Germany as the benchmark.
These differ vastly across countries, as the
table
suggests.
The battle over Turkish membership in the EU will be fought on many fronts: in the country itself, where the government is currently undertaking major reforms in order to qualify for candidate status; at the negotiating
table
once the European Council in December 2004 authorizes the Commission to enter into formal accession talks; and among the public within the existing member countries.
We are also working closely with the Confederation of Food and Drinks Industries in Europe on its European Food Sustainable Production and Consumption Round
Table.
While developing countries may pursue smaller trade agreements, the two major deals on the table, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are as good as dead after the election of Donald Trump as US president.
Confronted with the prospect of a US veto, an increasing number of international observers flatly oppose the Palestinian plan, on the grounds that it is unlikely to generate concrete political gains and would merely deflect attention from the main requirement of Middle East peace-making: a return to the negotiating
table.
The options currently on the
table
leave the home-regulator principle largely intact.
Formerly, the LDP and the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) disguised their ideological confrontation, at least publicly, while making deals under the
table
after behind-the-scenes negotiations.
Of course, to put on the
table
a comprehensive settlement plan that addresses all of the final-status issues, with compromises that all sides could be persuaded and pressured to accept, would require statesmanship.
Moreover, though such a body should be inclusive, it need not have global ambitions; it would be impractical to try to bring everybody to the
table.
But, in order to be taken seriously by the US, the EU needs to bring well-developed, well-resourced policies to the table, rather than 27 half-baked ideas.
To push Iran toward the negotiating table, and, more importantly, assert his authority and save face, Trump might be tempted to heighten tensions, if not provoke Iran into a confrontation.
The task now is to persuade Palestinians and Israelis to begin the process, to start taking steps to improve the situation on the ground so that they can tackle more far_reaching matters at the negotiating
table.
An agreement based on the parameters that are now on the negotiating
table
would thus put us in a position more dangerous than a game of Russian roulette.
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