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And now, with the Fed’s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.
These laborers, housewives, and others, some of whom live on the equivalent of $0.60-0.70 or less a day, are seldom given a place at the
table
to discuss policy.
They might think that, soon enough, other countries will be lining up to offer the North a seat at the diplomatic
table.
All of the relevant players – including those, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that are not sitting at the
table
but whose presence is very much felt – are clinging to their initial positions.
Furthermore, military or semi-military intervention is not the only option on the
table.
The US has invested much in shuttle diplomacy to bring Netanyahu and Abbas to the negotiating
table
and is not ready to see these talks collapse.
Dietary sucrose – or common
table
sugar – is composed of two molecules in equal proportion: glucose and fructose.
To see the resulting political terrain, imagine a two-by-two table, with the four quadrants occupied by Remainers and Budget Cutters;Remainers and Economic Expansionists;Brexiteers and Budget Cutters; and Brexiteers and Economic Expansionists.
Congress initially rejected the measure, but a dramatic 770-point drop in the stock market focused politicians’ minds, bringing them back to the
table
– and to agreement.
The Global Ocean Commission urges the remaining 40% of the WTO’s members – and especially the biggest players currently blocking this process – to accept the relatively modest proposals on the
table.
Harboring a grudge, one chemist rallied the Academy to block the committee’s recommendation for the Russian Dmitry Mendeleyev, who created the periodic
table.
Following the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a new opportunity to end Syria’s agony has emerged, because all the important players (except ISIS) are now willing to sit down together at the negotiating
table.
The simple fact is that even if US trade negotiator Susan Schwab had refused to make a single “concession,” and if Europe, Japan, and the big emerging markets had kept their best offers on the table, the US would still remain more open than all but a few small countries.
Expectations for the Geneva talks are so low that trivial matters – such as the fact that President Bashar al-Assad’s negotiators and the opposition are sitting together in the same room (though not at the same table) – are being hailed as successes.
Kerry’s initiative would have a greater chance of success were more money on the
table.
Quite a few of them are already back at the
table
gambling away with the taxpayer’s money and peddling their new “financial products”; they know that when the next crash comes, the taxpayer will have no choice but to bail them out again.
That argument ended only when it became clear that the Chinese could squeeze no other concessions out of those on the other side of the
table.
What Trump fails to recognize is that, while a small country may feel intimidated by the US at the negotiating table, it can still stand up and walk away.
The rest of Europe needs to feel as though it has a seat at the
table.
This, together with the knowledge that his army is weakening and the pool of new recruits is drying up, would force Assad to reconsider his long-term prospects and, most likely, force him to the negotiating
table.
They are poised to take their seats at the top
table
– and perhaps to change its shape.
The dispossessed minorities who have the strongest stake in civil rights play no role during the democratic transition for the simple reason that they cannot normally bring anything to the bargaining
table.
With these new powers seeking a place at the geopolitical table, they and the older powers can benefit from mutually agreed global “containment” of their domestic parochialism and short-sightedness.
But only the humanitarian mission has any realistic chance of being delivered through the four-part strategy now on the table: air strikes against Islamic State forces; training, intelligence, and equipment for Iraqi and Kurdish military forces and Syria’s non-extremist opposition; intensified international counterterrorism efforts; and humanitarian assistance to displaced civilians.
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And yet, even today, hardly anyone apart from specialists understands general relativity – unlike, say, the theory of natural selection, the periodic
table
of the elements, and the wave/particle duality in quantum theory.
Indeed, African summits, which in the past saw democrats and dictators from different language, religious and cultural environments sharing the same table, usually produced little serious development policies because they indulged in pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
Why, with clearly formulated alternatives on the table, did the government choose a predictably disastrous course of action, at such high human cost?
With the Germans helping to reconcile conflicting national interests by putting a little extra on the table, the process of European integration reached its apogee with the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro.
If one lacks a seat at the table, then one is probably on the menu.
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