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Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria.
China, a close ally of the government in Khartoum, is now carefully weighing its oil interests and its strategic concerns in the South.
But, with so many persistent tail risks and global uncertainties weighing on final demand, and with excess capacity remaining high, owing to past over-investment in real estate in many countries and China’s surge in manufacturing investment in recent years, these companies’ capital spending and hiring have remained muted.
He is also weighing whether to change the current Constitutional Court into a Supreme Court to which citizens could appeal under some conditions, and whether to waive the president’s authority to preside over the High Council of the Judiciary.
Members of Congress criticized Yellen for meeting privately with the president and treasury secretary, and denounced her for weighing in on issues tangential to monetary policy.
In addition, Fed officials should avoid weighing in on issues that are only obliquely related to monetary policy.
Drug approval and use requires a careful weighing of desirable and undesirable effects.
Only by carefully weighing costs and benefits can we avoid flushing good money down the drain.
The Unha-3, a three-stage rocket weighing 92 tons, follows the Unha-2, which failed spectacularly in 2009, so the evident progress that North Korea has made in its missile technology in such a short period has shocked governments around the world.
But, while it has overcome them all, with the European Union now comprising 28 states, many of which now share a common currency, the EU faces another, equally important challenge – that of reducing the burden of regulation weighing down its major industries.
Weighing the mother-to-be, and weighing and measuring the baby, are important tools with which to frame educational messages, and educational sessions can also be used to provide micronutrient supplements and de-worming intervention.
Policy wonks focus on weighing a “Canada option” (a free-trade agreement for goods) against a “Norway option” (a sort of junior membership in the single market).
In weighing these options, admission of the Baltic countries quickly seems the better solution.
We must stop weighing pounds against ounces, and collaborate to develop the tools needed to eliminate the HIV/AIDS scourge once and for all.
Other children load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70 kilograms and carry boxes weighing 15 kilograms in temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade.
The oldest consideration weighing against a tax cut goes back to 1950s neo-Keynesians, who viewed tax cutting as anti-growth.
China’s Burma TestBurma’s peaceful protests are nearing their tipping point, with the military junta weighing the potential costs of a full military crackdown.
Such a low loss-absorption capacity would get you run out of town in the US, where regulators are weighing a 5-6% leverage ratio (twice as much equity on a non-risk-weighted basis), and some responsible officials are still pushing for 10% or higher.
Because policymakers operate in second-best environments, optimal reform trajectories - even in apparently straightforward cases such as price reform - cannot be designed without due regard to prevailing conditions and without weighing the consequences for multiple distorted margins.
One cannot assess financial markets without considering political risk and monetary policy, or retail strategy without weighing consumer confidence, which is influenced by the political environment.
Now preparing to take power, Trump is using many of the same tactics he used during the campaign, prioritizing rallies over press conferences, weighing in on the US comedy show “Saturday Night Live” instead of focusing on, say, the escalating crisis in Syria.
Micro, Macro, Meso, and Meta EconomicsHONG KONG – Given the crisis weighing down the world economy and financial markets, it is not surprising that a substantive reconsideration of the principles of modern economics is underway.
It is not a good sign that the high costs in many Chinese provinces have been weighing down overall growth.
We thus implicitly suggest that Mexicans would be far wose off today without NAFTA and its effects weighing in on the positive side of the scale.
Indeed, it is our duty, and the very basis of any successful civilization, that important decisions are made only after scrutinizing all relevant information and weighing the relative merits of every position.
Even Chile, after a lengthy process of weighing its options, is still pondering whether to acquire a dozen American-built jet fighters or a joint Swedish-Brazilian alternative.
But longer-term structural issues are weighing down labor markets as well.
A passenger weighing just 50 kilos would get a discount of the same amount.
During the next crisis, no one should want the IMF’s director to be distracted, or to be weighing interests that are not pertinent to protecting global financial stability.
In fact, the economic challenges facing the Arab Spring countries have become even more pressing, weighing heavily on these countries’ political prospects.
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