Tables
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The Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe is a first step, but it is little more than an empty framework with three amorphous working
tables
for discussion.
At the end of a day digging coal, teaching children, or waiting tables, Russians now want reasonable services, a logical tax system, and regular paychecks.
Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been an island of violence and turmoil in a relatively stable (if oppressed) region, now the
tables
are turned.
In most legal systems today, animals are property, just as
tables
and chairs are.
English usage should change to make it clear that animals are fundamentally more like us than they are like
tables
and chairs, paintings and mountains.
Then the
tables
turned.
With lower wages, more jobs are created, because employers find it profitable to realize a larger fraction of the blueprints on their
tables
and the ideas in their heads.
Indeed, if the
tables
were turned, there would be ample cause to worry for the future of the US – a country that I love and have long admired.
Interest in the arcane principles of finance has always been an inclination particular to people who love to pore over numerical
tables
and study mathematical formulas.
Yet the
tables
have turned: Saudi Arabia is now more dependent on the US than vice versa.
A Movable Financial FeastLONDON – There was a time when league
tables
were to be found only on the sports pages of newspapers.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility,
tables
of happiness indicators by country, and
tables
that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
Bank league
tables
have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.
There are also now several different league
tables
– which are generating considerable angst – that rank financial centers based largely on surveys of firms.
So far, the message from the most recent
tables
is not too alarming for the incumbents.
The world needs more women climate leaders, whether around the
tables
where policy is made or at the helm of businesses, steering them toward sustainability.
Following World Wars I and II, the European powers and the United States sat around distant
tables
and fabricated frontiers, giving birth to Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia – and thus to most of the of the Middle East’s current ills.
On most of these grounds, the dollar has been the world’s most attractive currency since 2009; but as economic recovery spreads from the US to Japan and Europe, the
tables
are starting to turn.
Water
tables
are dropping where farmers are lucky enough to have wells, and rainfall has become increasingly unpredictable.
Medieval European cavalries later put political power into the hands of the wealthy, who could afford to support horses and their groomsmen, but the return of mass armies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries often turned the
tables.
Meanwhile, open data on acquired infections in British hospitals has led to the publication of hospital-performance tables, a major factor in the 85% drop in reported infections.
But even if Ahmadinejad’s overzealous attempt to deliver “the oil money to peoples’ dinner tables” added to inflationary pressures, it also seems to have reduced poverty and inequality significantly.
In Russia, however, the KGB is famous for turning the
tables
in any struggle with the Kremlin apparat.
So how can the
tables
be turned?
MP’s would have read and analyzed it attentively, asked ministers many questions, and, if necessary, insisted on re-writing various
tables
presented in the draft.
Indeed, one senses a certain satisfaction in some countries that have been the targets of human rights criticism by the US; now they sense an opportunity to turn the
tables.
If the
tables
were turned, and Indian forces were attempting to chip away at Chinese territory, the PLA would surely respond with more than words.
Now the
tables
have turned.
That is why we spend time in conference rooms and around kitchen
tables
trying to identify and mitigate them.
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