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From what we can surmise from this case – and many others like it – they are the semi-urbanized products of a highly conventional rural society where the roles of men, and especially women, are tightly regulated.
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A bonyad is a foundation very tightly connected to and actually run by the religious authorities.
We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.
While rural migrant workers will be encouraged to settle in small and medium-size cities, migration to metropolises will remain tightly controlled – or even be more strictly regulated.
Closed and tightly managed R&D operations must be transformed into more fluid, open processes involving collaboration with customers and suppliers.
Indeed, “After 25 years of being bound together ever more tightly, the world seems intent on re-segregating itself.”
When asked, for example, whether prices should be more tightly controlled than currently, 43% of participants in both waves of voucher privatization disagree.
But when growth does return, leverage will be far more tightly constrained than it was before.
The more tightly bound to the democratic world a country like Romania is, the less likely it is to experience dramatic social or political unrest or to eviscerate its democratic system.
Growth is tightly linked to changes in the labor market.
Indeed, one of the largest bribes (a reputed $180 million) paid in recent times in Nigeria was by Halliburton, a company tightly intertwined with US political power.
Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.
The European Central Bank, tightly focused on price stability, has been raising interest rates, and the US Federal Reserve may soon follow suit.
Today, China has replaced Germany (and Japan) as the world’s top exporter – but with one difference: it manages its exchange rate tightly, using capital controls and massive intervention in currency markets.
Because the bureaucracy tightly controlled banks and allocated credit, for example, chaebols expanded investment by cultivating good relations with bureaucrats and bankers.
Is it possible to maintain a rigorously independent chairman when it comes to interest rates, and a tightly accountable chairman when he is making supervisory decisions?
Such fears tend to overshadow the more pragmatic aspects of immigration, leading to tightly – even irrationally – regulated borders that limit the global economy’s potential.
Ironically, with the Trump administration’s policies likely to lead to larger budget deficits that put national saving under additional downward pressure, the need for Chinese and other foreign capital will actually intensify and the codependency trap will only close more tightly.
Or was she just the most beautiful girl at the party – the one an avid adolescent had asked to dance, and then held on tightly?
This implies a fundamental reversal of the present approach, whereby social policies belong to member states and the Union has tightly circumscribed powers of intervention, which, in addition, can only be exercised with unanimity.
But, given the massive number of new jobs that India and China need to create every year, and with the Internet remaining highly permeable, it is folly to think advanced economies can clamp down tightly on service exports.
Devaluing the renminbi by about 2% against the US dollar – the biggest one-day move since the renminbi officially eliminated its dollar peg – should give market forces more influence over the tightly controlled currency, while giving Chinese businesses a competitive edge in foreign markets.
Indeed, the scale of any increase in marijuana use will critically depend on how tightly regulated marijuana sales are – how many licensed growers there are, the number of sales outlets, their locations and trading hours, eligibility requirements for use, content of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient), and how much promotion and advertising is allowed.
When its equity and property bubbles burst in the early 1990s, the keiretsu system – “main banks” and their tightly connected nonbank corporates – imploded under the deadweight of excess leverage.
Obama did not, however, define the new goals tightly, leaving that up to NASA – a sensible and modest approach, but unfortunately a political mistake.
Until recently, their rulers had a common interest in keeping this Pandora’s Box of borders tightly sealed.
The very fact that the banking sector is tightly controlled has fostered dramatic growth in shadow banking activities, creating complex financial instruments and structures eerily reminiscent of those that helped create the 2008 crisis.
That is bad news for the hundreds of millions of Chinese whose political freedoms are being ever more tightly circumscribed.
The reality is that China’s tightly controlled currency falls only when the People’s Bank of China wants it to fall.
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