Tom lacks flexibility.

To seize them, however, US foreign policy toward the Middle East will have to develop a higher level of sophistication than the current debate reveals.

The False Panacea of Labor Market Flexibility

But the decreased flexibility in response to economic shocks will certainly test it.

Using the nepo could be considered an excellent way of exercising the brain, as it keeps it active and flexible at any age.

I think that Italian isn t flexible enough in his perception of the situation.

For example, the materials used in girdles for women are used in artificial hearts because of their good flex life.

Much is made of Asia s Teflon like resilience in an otherwise tough post crisis climate.

Unfortunately, Japan s public officials appear incapable of similar flexibility.

More flexibility would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth. It would allow the central bank to raise interest rates aggressively to control runaway credit and investment growth, and keep inflation in check.

More flexibility would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth.

This calls for generosity from the EU and flexibility from Moscow.

Increased currency flexibility would allow China s central bank to use monetary policy to enhance China s financial and price stability.

Meanwhile, average public debt has soared to 87 of GDP, leaving little space for policy flexibility or innovation.

So don't look for any improvement in US employment to come through factory jobs. Instead, it is the greater flexibility of services that has produced the resumption of employment growth in the US.

This is particularly true of greater labor market flexibility, a key asset for long term growth that can lead to a short term increase in unemployment.

No flexibility existed within either bloc for smaller groups of members to deploy alliance assets.

But the world has moved since the 1970 s in the direction of greater exchange rate flexibility.

Economically, easier recourse to temporary contracts gives firms more flexibility in adjusting to changing market conditions.

More confident politics and less reliance on Hamilton's third power would add to the flexibility of a society.

And this precedent of flexibility will inevitably be much more widespread in a mega Union.

A few years of limited exchange rate flexibility is a poor substitute for rapid completion of structural reforms.

They had been independently developed at Tecgraf in 1992 1993 to add some flexibility into two different projects (both were interactive graphical programs for engineering applications at Petrobras company).

There is some risk that appreciation of the exchange rate if greater flexibility were allowed could precipitate deflation.

The same could be argued for another favorite word of this approach, flexibility.

This type of decentralization and flexibility is difficult for governments to accomplish, given their central accountability structures.

To be sure, structural reforms often favor policies like labor market flexibility.

And the rest of the world wants the flexibility afforded by the currency of the largest, strongest, and most stable economy.

Since unemployment is low among the more highly qualified, higher demand for their services will lead to an increase in wages rather than an increase in employment.

So the unemployed ask for more social protection, instead of flexibility, increasing the fiscal drain on the economy.

Due to a fundamental asymmetry in the flexibility of wages this will lead to a net decline of employment.

(a) To acquire technical skills not readily available within the Organization, including accessing state of the art technologies and expertise or acquiring needed flexibility to meet quickly changing circumstances

It intends to boost domestic demand and is committed to moving gradually toward greater exchange rate flexibility.

The fanatic is inflexible and inertial, a steamroller ready to flatten everything in his way.

Ignore political feasibility for the moment, and ask what good employment protection should look like.

Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

A couple of reforms were belatedly enacted timid intervention on pensions and a further increase in labor market flexibility.

Today is Europe s moment of maximum flexibility as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU s leverage weakens.

Germany, the leading proponent of austerity and the most influential creditor, was accused of insufficient flexibility and solidarity

Both economies have experienced currency crises within recent memory South Korea in 1997 1998 and Brazil in 1999 and both subsequently took steps to increase their financial resilience. They reduced inflation, floated their currencies, ran external surpluses or small deficits, and, most importantly, accumulated mountains of foreign reserves (which now comfortably exceed their short term external debts).

Both economies have experienced currency crises within recent memory South Korea in 1997 1998 and Brazil in 1999 and both subsequently took steps to increase their financial resilience.

But NATO s repeated demonstrations of resilience should not blind us to the fact that it no longer provides a healthy basis for the transatlantic security relationship.

And the determinant of that flexibility and ability to adapt lies in political institutions and their willingness to challenge interest groups, mediate social conflicts, and maintain the rule of law.

Thus far, the government has demonstrated some flexibility while trying to manage this new challenge with traditional means.

Inequality adds color and variety to societies it is one of the marks of lively, flexible, and innovative countries.