A special effort should be made in order to strengthen their prospects.

Take your positions.

Waiting on Hamas

Can he recover?

Both sides are deeply committed to their positions.

Before the modern globalization era, unions could thrive by organizing on a national scale, giving them enormous bargaining power vis à vis both employers and consumers.

With that, Hezbollah threw away its political position in Lebanon.

The best method of strengthening Ahmadinejad, however, appears to be to threaten the country and the regime as a whole.

Until 2000, the government tended more to rely on the advice of the OSCE, but even since 2001, it has tried to buttress its position by claiming that it gets along better than ever with the OSCE and its mission.

This new challenge will strengthen the magazine and improve its quality, but it cannot succeed without the help of its followers.

Without the right strategy, Latin America will continue to fall behind.

The tsunamis provide an opportunity for the UN to reclaim the high ground that it lost recently.

One Europe able to stand its ground in the coming global competition.

Only Cuba holds out against the continent's push toward democracy and open economies.

How, then, is it possible that even these people seem to be getting ahead?

To freeze a fragile status quo, to consolidate one s position, or to remain separate from others perceived as temptations or threats (or both) such have always been the goals of politicians who build walls.

Israelis fear of terrorism or the North Korean leadership s fear of abandonment by their martyred people. To freeze a fragile status quo, to consolidate one s position, or to remain separate from others perceived as temptations or threats (or both) such have always been the goals of politicians who build walls.

Its favored arrangement could divide the opposition, keep Musharraf ascendant, and provide continuity in the Pakistan army s campaign against militants.

Within the Arab world, moderate and liberal groups are losing ground to radical Islamic movements.

The US can put weight behind its demands by placing conditions on its financial assistance to Moldova.

Given Nigeria s history of sit tight military dictatorships, that is real progress.

Time to Fix the Euro

For reasons of its own, the Bush administration has found it advantageous to nurture the fear that September 11 engendered.

In fact, a monopolist, once established, may be hard to dislodge, as Microsoft has so amply demonstrated.

The interests of the West and Nigeria repeatedly clashed, but Nigeria always stood its ground.

Today, amid a rising tide of anti Americanism, US policy on Pakistan is rapidly unraveling.

Whether trade will recover next year is an open question.

But, crucially, he was careful not to back down until the last possible moment.

Even though Tom just had his fortieth birthday, I don't think he's over the hill yet.

(b) To increase coordination and cooperation in addressing this problem and continue to present their observations and conclusions to Governments

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Hold your positions.

Nor does it account for the fact that giant companies are exploiting this largely unregulated environment to set themselves up as the new sovereigns.

Fixing, not Sinking, the WTO

Is the dollar on the way out as the world's unchallenged reserve and trade currency?

The state is on its way back as an economic player not least in the US.

The ritual witch hunt now underway may be the only way for bosses to regain their bearings.

Smaller and bigger EU members seem to be lining up in opposing camps.

With the assistance of foreign donors, The Daily News acquired a new press and managed to keep publishing a first rate newspaper.

And, by holding a major portfolio, a junior partner can avoid marginalization and strengthen its position for the next election.

Euroskeptics, it seems, are gaining ground everywhere, and a kind of xenophobia is on the rise.

Indeed, America s technological lead together with its enormous capital assets and dynamic business culture, exemplified in Silicon Valley could ultimately reinforce its global standing.

The extremist positions are clear.

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Iran is intensively working toward the same end, while continuing to expand its hegemonic position in the region.