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Fortunately, Barack Obama understands that.
Barack Obama understands this; indeed, it helped to secure his victory.
Barack Obama understands this networked dimension of leadership and the importance of the soft power of attraction.
The law is applied sparingly, if at all, to the Party elite, and the interests of justice (at least as the outside world understands the term) are rarely the highest priority in such situations.
Market participants would rationally assume that every stock price is the true expected present value of future cash flows, with the appropriate rate of discount, and that those cash flows reflect fundamentals that everyone understands the same way.
The statement will be based on consultations with many of Japan’s, and the world’s, leading WWII historians, as well as – and more important – with himself, his conscience, and his heart, because he understands the significance of his words on this highly fraught topic.
Moreover, while the Fed’s official responsibility is to manage the US economy, its leadership fully understands the international impact of Fed decisions.
Putin understands this very well.
The Fed understands that if it were to apply monetary stimulus in an effort to prolong the current expansion artificially (as Trump has pressured it to do), the result would be to fuel inflation.
Unlike Chirac, he understands that it is counterproductive and unrealistic to ask countries like Bulgaria or Romania to choose between their European or Atlantic loyalties.
That there will now be a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgrade suggests that the current Yugoslav leadership understands that it needs to heal the wounds inflicted on its own people by the murderous Milosevic regime.
He is one of the country’s rare politicians who understands economics, and how to put the government to good public use.
Bo understands that he should not be perceived as a pitiful loser who gutlessly besmirches his honor.
Who now remotely understands – let alone takes the trouble to try to understand – the great political dramas of intellectuals like Arthur Koestler and Victor Serge, people who risked their lives for and then against communism?
Putin understands instinctively that Russia needs elements of democracy, if only to distinguish the new Russia from the old, and to let the odd gust of healthy fresh air in.
America’s political and military establishment understands the increasing importance and complexity of East Asia’s security challenges, including the strategic and operational dilemmas that China’s ongoing defense transformation is generating.
As any student of economics understands, this kind of situation decreases overall welfare, because every consumer will be forced to pay the maximum of what they are willing to spend for each good or service they purchase, keeping nothing “extra” for themselves.
Success requires coordination and an end-to-end project operating system, so that everyone on a project understands their role and agrees on key performance indicators.
He understands the worldview of the ex-KGB men in the Kremlin very well and is unlikely to approve of revisiting how property and wealth are divided in Russia.
He understands all too clearly the constraints he faces.
But when he wakes from his reverie, Putin understands that it cannot possibly be in Russia’s interest for Trump to win in November.
Abbas well understands the riskiness of his strategy: there will be brutal retaliation from Israel.
Such a faith understands that belief is a matter of hearts and minds, not of bricks and stone.
The true Hindu seeks no revenge upon history, for he understands that history is its own revenge.
As Obama understands, such authoritarian aid is a serious challenge to the West’s geo-strategic interests, including the fight against drug traffic (Guinea has become a transit point on the route from South America to Europe).
Hamas understands that accommodation with the Jewish state – and attending to the tedious business of providing decent governance in Gaza, rather than accumulating a formidable arsenal with help from Iran and Sudan (for which “Palestine” is just a pretext) – would mean the end of the organization as we know it.
As Macron himself surely understands, the EU’s long-term viability requires that the “European project” appeal to its citizens more than its leadership.
The business community certainly understands the potential, given the masses of soccer-related consumer goods, high retail mark-ups on sportswear, and blanket advertising both on and off the pitch.
But his successor – perhaps we should say Davos woman – understands that they are both necessary and insufficient.
The left understands that the government’s role in providing infrastructure and education, developing technology, and even acting as an entrepreneur is vital.
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