But our policymakers did clear it.

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

Indeed, elected officials in Russia have become an endangered species.

This problem is widely acknowledged, not just by officials but by bankers themselves.

In normal times, citizens and officials alike would welcome this trend.

Yet the US and other countries did sign the Monterrey Consensus urging developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 of Gross National Product as official development assistance.

Short of the US national security archives suddenly falling open, we are unlikely to find a definitive account of the President's innermost thoughts.

Top officials even declare that the US never signed on to such a goal.

Moreover, different US officials certainly have different priorities.

The state authorities have treated me like I'm an old gossip, a trouble maker, a whiner.

But Japanese policymakers, media, and academics largely continue to favor a sudden and substantial hike.

But Chinese officials viewed the move as proof that Japan was trying to disrupt the status quo.

These senior officials are henceforth to be selected through an open, transparent, and merit based selection process.

His top officials leave to join the banks, as his budget director Peter Orszag recently did.

Until recently, Israeli officials have publicly and privately refused to respond to the Palestinian request for a ceasefire agreement. Instead, they press for the impossible request that the Palestinian Authority dismantle the militant groups, an act that Israel, with all its powers, has not succeeded in accomplishing.

Voters tend to get rid of governments once the incumbents have lost their most precious attribute the benefit of the doubt.

Until recently, Israeli officials have publicly and privately refused to respond to the Palestinian request for a ceasefire agreement.

Various studies show that tall men are often favored, and that corporate CEOs are taller than average.

Cuban officials stress that the purpose of these changes is to increase efficiency, not to alter the socialist model.

Elected officials everywhere must adjust, to varying degrees, to fulfill the expectations of those who put them in office.

But not long after, the budding solar energy market in Kerala found itself marred by controversy as a far reaching fraud case came to involve government officials.

What are his official job duties?

To date, Iraqi officials have not been willing to deal with this escalating violence against women, or even to discuss it.

Officials at all levels of government in China have a reputation for running up high bills while wining and dining guests and other higher ranking cadres.

At that point, senior US officials might well arrive in a country, offer advice, and find that nobody is bothering to listen.

Many Thai military and police officials now privately admit that the insurgency cannot be defeated through security measures.

Other highway officials admitted having their palms greased by inflating invoices by 30 to 40 , and by false add ons.

Arao further disputed the need for a special law mentioning public officials, reasoning that they are already assumed to be following a code of conduct.

For example, policymakers insist on the importance of public private partnerships and argue that the private sector needs to learn to work with the public sector.

Now, the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and other high officials of the Administration are all claiming, in defiance of international law, that torture is legitimate.

Sometimes individual Iranian officials may have acted on their own to order and coordinate specific operations they will now feel freer to do so.

It is worth stepping back and asking What would the world economy look like today if policymakers had acceded to the populist demand of no support to the bankers?

Unused to planning and possessed of limited human capacity, senior officials in the ministries are very nervous, an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reported.

Indian officials bemoan the fact that overseas Indians lack both the wealth and the propensity to invest back home.

Officials shut down beach access from Ponto Beach in Casablad to Swami's in Ecinitas for 48 hours for investigation and safety purposes.

No agreement was reached as to who is entitled to vote at the general meeting whether the statutory representatives only, or also officials given power of attorney.

Oil executives bragged that they could drill a couple of kilometers down, then a kilometer across, and hit their target within a few meters.

Even if officials come to the conclusion that the hackers were supported by Russia, they will need to weigh the possible consequences before a decision on the disclosure of such information is made.

This development comes at a time when counties across China begin to experiment with a similar system requiring officials to report their family income and investments.

In May 2014, the Chitwan National Park officials and Nepal army personnel found a dead de horned rhino only few weeks after the Nepal celebrated the second consecutive Zero Poaching Year.

It could use force, and some officials have argued that if North Korea launched a war in response to a limited American air strike, Kim would lose his regime.

Iran has established excellent relations with post Taliban Afghanistan and post Saddam Iraq, and the most senior officials of both countries consistently reject US allegations of Iranian interference.

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Over the long term, however, US policymakers must make steady progress in restoring confidence in the nation s fiscal health by cutting politically sacred programs like social security, Medicare, and defense. Officials will have to put aside short term motives and party orthodoxy to bolster America s aging infrastructure, reform its education and immigration systems, and pursue long term fiscal consolidation.