And it's hollowing out – we're in Iowa – it's hollowing out communities like this and hurting what are I think, basic capitalistic ideals.
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Hollowing out State Department In her testimony, Ambassador Yovanovitch spoke of the threat to US diplomacy and the hollowing out of the State Department.
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That hollowing out, as I said, is actually not inevitable.
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But that will mean hollowing out care for their residents.
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This has contributed to the hollowing out of the economy.
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The hollowing out, we can think of things like travel agents.
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This phenomenon has been called the "hollowing out" of white America.
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The hollowing out of centrist politics happens on the right too.
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Congress must also stop the hollowing out of our diplomatic capacity.
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Since his inauguration, President Trump has been hollowing out our federal agencies.
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Yet higher costs are preferable to the hollowing out of European industry.
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It has amounted to a hollowing out of confidence in democracy itself.
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So a lot of people though think it's hollowing out the job market.
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Second, President Trump could issue executive orders aimed at hollowing out certain regulations.
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This hollowing out of the personal role of the statesman withers political life.
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As the rich get richer, in other words, the middle class is hollowing out.
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Outsourcing and hollowing out of our manufacturing industries is also part of the problem.
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For Gorillaz this manifested as a very literal draining, hollowing out, of the planet.
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The backdrop: Half a century ago, there was a hollowing out of big cities.
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He is hollowing out half of a ripe pineapple for their Friday seafood special.
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In America, cheap products from China are blamed for hollowing out the industrial heartland.
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We are hollowing out because kelp is being farmed, and the kelp is going away.
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There are a lot of towns, because we spent 35 years hollowing out these towns.
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Another trend the report said was "worrisome" was the hollowing out of middle-income jobs.
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The hollowing out of these relationships, the fraying of bonds rather than a dramatic break.
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In Hollowing Out the Middle, written nearly eight years before Donald Trump's rise, Carr and Kefalas preface the book with this: In many ways the travails of hollowing out small towns and their Main Streets were an ominous harbinger of economic hard times to come.
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Yet today Western civilisation faces a crisis of confidence, a hollowing out of the liberal order.
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It is a hollowing out that could radically reshape how foreign policy is forged in Washington.
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But for me, the more vital issue is the hollowing out of America's corps of correspondents.
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To Democratic critics, the administration's approach has contributed to a hollowing-out of American moral authority.
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He argued that the EU is hollowing out democracy by taking control of nations through institutional means.
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Cutting, cubing, or hollowing out a watermelon is not easy — it's time-consuming and incredibly messy work.
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Block caving involves hollowing out an ore body and allowing it to collapse under its own weight.
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The persistent deficit and hollowing out of our manufacturing industry also raise serious questions for national security.
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If the Trump administration is upset about the hollowing out of American government, it does not show.
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Politically, the biggest "hidden injury" is the hollowing out of the middle class in advanced industrialized countries.
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The transformation is hollowing out suburban shopping malls, bankrupting established brands and leading to staggering job losses.
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We're in Iowa, it's hollowing out communities like this and hurting what are I think, basic capitalistic ideals.
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He can legitimately claim firsthand experience and some successes confronting the hollowing-out of the American manufacturing economy.
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Few poets have ever commented so acutely on their own dissemination, and the concomitant hollowing out of self.
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Thousands of judges were purged in the aftermath of the failed 2016 coup attempt, hollowing out the service.
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Thousands of judges were purged in the aftermath of the failed 2000 coup attempt, hollowing out the service.
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"When I read these stories that there's this hollowing out, I take offense to that," Mr. Tillerson said.
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Meanwhile, a hollowing-out of many middle-class jobs by these macro forces has left many voters worried.
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The company reported the positive financial results at a time when newspapers nationwide have experienced a hollowing out.
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The ball had ground away the ligament in mortar-and-pestle fashion and was hollowing out the socket bone.
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They watched as the virus torpedoed through the stained cells, hollowing out clear craters on the plate's purple surface.
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Still, the unintended hollowing out of a healthy middle class may have severe consequences for union strength and solidarity.
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Our government's ability to respond effectively has been undermined by hollowing out our agencies and a disparagement of science.
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European companies are not accused of hollowing out the American industrial heartland, as is the case with Chinese competitors.
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It's really the underlying phenomenon, we are hollowing out the middle class in many areas without having good recipes.
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"It's a hollowing out of the foreign service," Nicholas Burns, a retired career foreign service officer, told the magazine.
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That's the principle that the Warren Court upheld, and that the current Court is at risk of hollowing out.
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And this isn't a recent problem -- the hollowing out of our communities has been happening for the last 40 years.
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And in their 2009 book, Hollowing Out the Middle, they outline some systemic factors that sort people into various groups.
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There was a long crusted pole, which could be made into a pipe augur for hollowing out logs for plumbing.
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" Mr. Burns added, "There's growing concern about the hollowing out of American diplomacy and the huge challenge of its renewal.
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"There is no hollowing out," he said during a question-and-answer session following his speech at the Wilson Center.
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All this reflects the continued hollowing out of our political language, in which words often generate emotion without producing meaning.
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Rather, it will be a subtler, if no less consequential, form of political hollowing out, with serious consequences for democracy.
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Well, some might argue that the rise of ride sharing and the gig economy is hollowing out long-term employment.
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We have so far avoided the hollowing out of the middle class suffered by other countries like the United States.
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Will this send the consumer trend toward delivery on-demand into overdrive, further hollowing out the retail and restaurant sectors?
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To reproduce, the gall wasp manipulates the physical characteristics of its tree host, the sand live oak, hollowing out its stems.
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Rather, the report warned darkly, Internet innovations stand to widen inequalities and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.
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These factors, resulting in blight, a hollowing out of the middle class, and politically destabilizing anger, replicate the early Industrial Age.
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But he also punctured the Republicans' tattered economic orthodoxy, defending entitlements and blaming free trade for hollowing out the middle class.
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Trumpism isn't a flood tide; it's a subsidence flood, caused by the hollowing out of the ground beneath our democratic institutions.
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Penney, it is not immune to the twin killers of e-commerce and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
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"Our government's ability to respond effectively has been undermined by hollowing out our agencies and the disparagement of science," Biden said.
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Our government's ability to respond effectively has been undermined by the hollowing-out of our agencies and the disparagement of science.
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Many are less concerned about disputes over the clergy than about a hollowing out of Catholic life in the Chinese countryside.
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Without changing that dynamic, he said, it is going to be difficult to halt the hollowing out of the middle class.
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Rising inequality chips away at the bonds of social solidarity, hollowing out the middle class and placing deep barriers between citizens.
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I don't know if you've looked at the studies -- I look at them every day -- is that we're hollowing out CO2 consumption.
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The innovations of superordinate workers, he argues, have created a huge divide between them and everyone else, hollowing out the middle class.
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And with online markets hollowing out the brick and mortar space, online sellers don't really have a choice to not be online.
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From then until his death in 2013, Mr. Chávez waged war on Venezuelan institutions and civil society, hollowing out his country's democracy.
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Conversely, in Western societies, a hollowing out of the middle class began as manufacturing migrated, technological advances eliminated jobs and wages stagnated.
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And that backlash, added Mingeirou, has helped normalize violence and harassment, either by dismantling legal protections or by hollowing out support systems.
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China's entry into the organization in 2001 accelerated the hollowing out of American manufacturing jobs, as imports of cheap Chinese products boomed.
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But they never adequately deciphered how to nationalize party politics without aggrandizing presidential power, and without hollowing out state and local party organizations.
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And so, I don't know if the hollowing out of the U.S.' number our resource, our intellectual property, is a great idea either.
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While the company adopted dual headquarters and asserted it was keeping its Pittsburgh covenants, locals perceived a hollowing out and migration to Chicago.
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"There's a hollowing out," says Daniel Clark, a lawyer at Rising for Justice, a free service which provides advice to tenants facing eviction.
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By hollowing out the crystals, Nestle said each particle dissolves more quickly on the tongue, so less sugar can be used in chocolate.
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He during a question-and-answer session following a speech at the time that there had been no "hollowing out" at the department.
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And prior Supreme Court nominees testified that Roe was "settled law" — and then went to work hollowing out abortion rights from the bench.
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And this is when, like so many other people in recent years, he came to believe that technology is hollowing out our economy.
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Mr. Tillerson, who has clashed with President Trump and may be fired soon, has presided over the hollowing out of the State Department.
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These are typically places where the urban core is still hollowing out rather than adding people, while the suburban frontier continues to grow.
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The other was inspired by economic discontent, the flight of well-paying jobs overseas and the hollowing out of many of our communities.
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He repeatedly mentioned that Senate legislation aimed at hollowing out the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, had failed by one vote.
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Mr. Rood's departure accelerates the hollowing out of the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, said Derek Chollet, a former assistant secretary of defense.
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The hollowing out of mid‑sized manufacturing cities in America's Heartland has helped to fuel the rise of populism on the left and right.
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He said nothing about Mr Erdogan's increasingly autocratic rule, or about the crackdown that is hollowing out the rule of law in his country.
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Kavanaugh's record shows that if confirmed to the Supreme Court, he would destroy our reproductive rights by, at minimum further hollowing out Roe v.
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Having seen the hollowing out of video stores, many film lovers want to be proactive in curtailing the loss of their beloved movie theaters.
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This could prove yet another example of technology hollowing out working-class jobs, as convenience store clerks go the way of gas station attendants.
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But then the start-ups hit financial troubles, hollowing out parts of Wangqingtuo, leaving factories shuttered and unwanted bicycles piled up on empty streets.
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Earlier, he stood up against the framing and arrest of Turkish military officers by using false evidence and the hollowing out of the judiciary.
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For years mainstream pop has been hollowing out, moving toward slower tempos and smoother textures, but usually this correlates with a draining of energy.
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Without greater clarity on who is leaving, we cannot definitively say that the minor reductions in staff constitute a "hollowing out" of the department.
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We certainly shouldn't overlook that O.G. of monopoly villains, Walmart, a chain whose growth is nearly synonymous with the hollowing out of local economies.
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The Freedom Caucus's absolutist demands have obscured a more fundamental point on which it and the Republican leadership agree: downsizing and hollowing out Medicaid.
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To minimize production costs, they continually transferred labor intensive industries to developing countries, which however resulted in the "hollowing out" of the West's domestic industries.
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Still, Canada is well-positioned to benefit from innovation, Wilkins said, but must manage the transition to avoid a hollowing out of the middle class.
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Unfortunately, that is a reality of rural life in North America, the hollowing out of communities and the migration of the rural young to cities.
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That is true of the populist, racist alt-right that helped deliver Mr. Trump the White House and are now hollowing out the Republican Party.
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And it only weighed about 40 pounds because with 3-D printing we could make it stronger but lighter weight by hollowing out the inside.
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But if advances in technology can't keep up with the hollowing out of the best wells, then drillers won't be able to deploy cash efficiently.
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If China comes to the party on North Korea, however one judges that, does the hollowing out of the US economy suddenly slip off the agenda?
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I view it as the need to fill a void, or the hollowing out of a space that understands itself only as a vessel for fullness.
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The only economist among Mr Trump's economic advisors (the rest are businessmen) is Peter Navarro, who argues that China is responsible for hollowing out American manufacturing.
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After the long hollowing-out of season five, then, they all feel a little like improvised explosive devices, set on a collision course with each other.
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These excessive levels of concentration and market power are devastating our independent family farmers and ranchers and hollowing out the rural communities in which they live.
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At one meeting, Bezos was regaling attendees with visions of hollowing out asteroids and transforming them into space arks when a woman leapt to her feet.
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The hollowing out of Canada's manufacturing sector has also contributed to the disappointing export recovery, reducing its ability to benefit from U.S. growth, BofAML's Gordon said.
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You settled on flutes because you figured that would be fun and easy, you didn't know that hollowing out wood is the nightmare that it was.
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The hollowing out of our country and its middle class over a rapid period of just 85033 years is the central question for policy makers today.
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The bureau's new director, Kathleen Kraninger, has now proposed hollowing out nearly all of the meaningful requirements in the rules — including the ability-to-pay requirement.
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So what is the point of all this, Trump's great hollowing out of our government, the gleeful shredding of democratic norms, the trashing of our highest office?
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In the global south, according to the HPA report, it destabilizes entire states, destroying the basic functioning of government while hollowing out swathes of civil society institutions.
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The collapse of the oil price in the 1980s and 1990s weakened a stable social democracy, hollowing out its welfare state, causing bank failures and exposing corruption.
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IIOA would put a powerful new economic development tool in the hands of mayors and governors working to recruit investment without hollowing out the local tax base.
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Instead he sets out to show the transformation, and often enough the hollowing out, of large tracts of twentieth-century life as the product of global capitalism.
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Donald Trump has been particularly vociferous on the matter, blaming trade for hollowing out the middle class and promising to rip up existing agreements with other countries.
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As the years tugged at Mr. Stanton's face, pulling down the corners of his mouth and further hollowing out his cheeks, his face became a fantastic landscape.
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"I'm pleased that today's announced plan will help address the hollowing out of the Renewable Fuel Standard," she said, referring to the federal rule on ethanol requirements.
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The popularity of the Greens, alongside the growth of the AfD, highlights the hollowing out of the center that's happening not just in Germany but across Europe.
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And across the whole of the developed world only Russia is being deinstitutionalized to the same degree that the Trump administration is hollowing out America's federal underpinnings.
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Cozying up to dictators, threatening war via tweet, hollowing out our State Department... There is absolutely no doubt: President Trump is the worst president in modern history.
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"Nicolas Maduro has financed his regime by hollowing out Venezuela through economic mismanagement, corruption and the assumption of onerous debt," Mnuchin said in a briefing with reporters.
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Fox News is a "megaphone to racists and conspiracists" and "cover for the corruption that's rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class," Warren tweeted Tuesday.
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Much of Barry's concerns, however, center on Trump's "hollowing out" of his White House team that runs cyberspace policy, a worry shared by a number of experts.
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The hollowing out of middle-wage work will likely continue, per the report, without deliberate intervention to provide workers with skills they need to get higher-paying jobs.
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The fourth factor was the hollowing out of the Iraqi army, which simply ran away as ISIS made its most dramatic advances during the first half of 2014.
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Trump appealed to voters unhappy with the hollowing out of the country's manufacturing sector and fearful of the country's changing demographics, campaigning on a harsh anti-immigration message.
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He's also slashed US funding for civilian federal agencies that conduct development and diplomacy to protect global security, and presided over the hollowing out of the State Department.
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In the years of austerity that followed the financial crisis, defense budgets all over Europe were slashed in an uncoordinated manner, hollowing out most member states' military capabilities.
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For virtually the entire election cycle, Trump has been blaming Obama for torpedoing America's strategic position, hollowing out its military, and making the world a more dangerous place.
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But most experts believe the opposite is true: that Tillerson's hollowing out of the State Department has weakened the agency's ability to address America's big foreign policy challenges.
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Without explicitly naming the president or other officials in the Trump administration, Ms. Yovanovitch lamented a general "hollowing out" of the department in which she spent her career.
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Trade and immigration have become boogeymen, while technological advances and the huge efficiency gains they bring truly underpin the "hollowing out" of the middle class behind the scenes.
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Regional inequality resulted from Clinton-era globalization hollowing out factory towns in the 1990s and runaway firms seizing control of large sectors of the economy, swallowing Main Streets nationwide.
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However, his health care overhaul alone invigorated the right wing, and by the end of Obama's tenure we saw a hollowing out of Democratic office holders across the board.
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"Once you start reducing the work and hollowing out the workforce, you can't turn that around overnight," said Mark W. Everson, former IRS commissioner and vice chairman of Alliantgroup.
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These ideas have triggered the closing of factories, the hollowing out of the middle class, and the proliferation of low-wage work in the place of good, union jobs.
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It's much easier to imagine a gradual hollowing-out of democracy akin to what's happened in Hungary, a rise of soft fascism cheered on by Fox News and Breitbart.
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But amid the administration exodus — which is hollowing out not just the communications office but various policymaking arms — the absence of some of Trump's closest political advisers is striking.
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All they do is complain about the hollowing out of the middle of America, and how America is struggling so badly, and have to make these radical changes in Washington.
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And, he wrote this book, I think, ostensibly to support the Democratic argument that the middle of America's hollowing out, and income gap is widening, and rich are getting richer.
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Mr McCluskey is a creature of a hard-left faction within the left, a parasite that has grown fat by hollowing out the trade union movement and the Labour Party.
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Tatiana Vorozheikina, a Russian expert on Latin America, argues that the hollowing out of institutions and the privatisation of state power is precisely what Russia and Venezuela have in common.
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That was when he delivered many of his best shots at Clinton — particularly on her support of trade agreements, which he insists are responsible for hollowing out the middle class.
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This has led to a hollowing out at the earlier stages of investing, as many firms have gone even more amoebic (so-called "pre-seed") while others have gone later.
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Or maybe they're a rickshaw racing Cadillacs; a sprained ankle away from hollowing out their roster, acknowledging reality, and trading the remnants of cornerstone-talent for an ostensibly brighter tomorrow.
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Translation: absolve our government of a major responsibility envisioned by the Founders and along the way strand working people who need reliable commuter service while hollowing out protections for workers.
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A sharp slowdown in Australia's mining and steelmaking industries had cut freight demand, while the hollowing out of the country's manufacturing base was also hitting margins and demand for haulage.
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But it's Democrats who have seized the tax issue in this race -- arguing that Balderson's support for the Trump tax cut would contribute to hollowing out Social Security and Medicare.
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The discount chains are also getting a lift from the hollowing out of the middle in retail, which has left shoppers with fewer choices to find quality stuff for cheap.
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The hollowing out of the middle-skill work force is a classic tragedy of the commons, and few in leadership positions today feel a personal responsibility to help address it.
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Ms. DeLauro, who has clashed publicly with Ms. DeVos, said she plans to "hold the secretary accountable for the hollowing out of the Education Department" through staffing and program cuts.
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The hollowing out of coal country reflected new technologies, like mountaintop removal, which require few workers, plus competition from other energy sources, especially natural gas but increasingly wind and solar power.
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Since then civic life has received a succession of blows: the contraction of the trade-union movement, the centralisation of decision-making in Whitehall, and the hollowing-out of regional economies.
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"We are now seeing more and more retail stores shut down and the tax base of many municipalities eroding due to the hollowing out of the sales tax base," Lampert wrote.
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Donald Trump won the presidency on a platform that accused China, and others, of manipulating the global trade system to its own advantage, hollowing out the U.S. economy and manufacturing employment.
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The "hollowing out" of the Midwestern venture deal pipeline becomes readily apparent when you look at funding data for the past several years, which you can find in the chart below.
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The second malaise Weisman identifies as blunting Jewish alertness to the peril of the times is the hollowing out of a Jewish identity that is neither uncritically Zionist nor devoutly religious.
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Violence, economic upheaval, corruption, organized crime, civil war and the hollowing out of state authority in Latin America have been the results — hardly a laughing matter for any of these countries.
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It has demanded a whole-of-government approach after Trump spent years hollowing out agencies of career officials and replacing them with acting leaders because he liked the "flexibility" that offered.
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Domestically, the chief argument against the dollar's role is that the same overvaluation that makes imports cheap also makes exports expensive, contributing to the hollowing-out of the American manufacturing sector.
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It is the hollowing-out of Egypt's political and civil life, a process that began more than half a century ago, when the army and the Brotherhood began a ruinous rivalry.
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Talk about union, because the hollowing out of unions, I agree with you, has been ... It's been bad, but let me just say, remember I said this started in the 230s?
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Now, thanks to the hollowing out of bank branches, we have payday loans where a $600 loan can balloon to $2000 in fees and the only ATMs available feature a $3 fee.
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Why it matters: Former State Department officials have begun to publicly say the cuts are going too far, House Democrats say the department is undergoing an "intentional hollowing-out" and Republican Sen.
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But the extremists demolished many of the area's churches before they left, and almost all of the freed captives, along with their families and neighbors, have since fled, hollowing out the community.
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" Corbyn will say: "The disregard for rampant inequality, the hollowing out of our public services, the disdain for the powerless and the poor have made our society more brutal and less caring.
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Yet former officials at the agency say the hollowing out of career foreign service officers from senior level positions has deprived the department of the experience needed to face the current situation.
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At the same time, most Brits prefer to keep a stiff upper lip and carry on, worrying that overturning Brexit may lead to greater disruption and hollowing out of the democratic process.
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Far-right members are "hollowing out the whole structure from within, and it's like tooth decay," said Esther de Lange, a lawmaker with the Christian Democratic Appeal, a center-right Dutch party.
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Equally damaging to our democracy, and much less noticed, has been how deep state conspiracy theories — in which loyalty trumps expertise — have been used in the hollowing out of the federal bureaucracy.
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She hoped to discern why these stalwart heralds of tiny farm towns are hollowing out like so many other things in the region where I grew up and where Lenz still lives.
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Building these facilities can set off chain reactions that leave local governments without a tax base, kill small businesses, and ultimately have a hollowing-out effect on many of America's cities and towns.
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The news channel is a "hate-for-profit racket" that provides "cover," she says, for the very thing she's campaigning against: "corruption that's rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class." pic.twitter.
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"You see the hollowing out in Europe of the center, and political fracture and fragmentation," Heather Conley, director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told me.
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One of the biggest problems facing the Tory Party (presuming that it can avoid being torn apart by the madness of Brexit, a big assumption) is the hollowing out of the middle class.
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" The network, she wrote, is "designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that's rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.
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Many experts fear the next wave of innovations will destroy millions of jobs, hollowing out middle-income employment across manufacturing and the service sectors, even as new highly skilled computing jobs are created.
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Mr. Orban is hollowing out his country's fragile institutions and challenging core precepts of the European Union — with the acquiescence of the European Union itself, and the passive enabling of the United States.
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Faith in unregulated free markets has led to the dominion of the rich; the disinvestment in the public sector has led to the hollowing out of the institutions upon which democratic society rests.
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Automation is hollowing out entry-level positions as companies use machines to do the routine tasks, such as searching through legal precedents or examining company accounts, that used to be done by junior employees.
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The disease would wipe out government officials and educated, trained professionals that make up the backbone of a society, leaving elderly people to care for orphaned children, a process the experts called "hollowing out".
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But that contributed to "a hollowing-out of Beijing's control over its far-flung territories", as Jude Blanchette of the Conference Board, an American research organisation, explains in a blog post about Wang Huning.
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At the rallies of both candidates, many attendees express overlapping concerns on issues — opposing trade deals that eliminate manufacturing jobs, cuts to Social Security, wealth inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class.
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Some passengers go to great lengths to conceal their weaponry, hollowing out a can of shaving cream to stash a knife, for instance, or hiding a blade in a statue of the Eiffel Tower.
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If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that's exactly what they will do — abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hit back at critics, including lawmakers, who charge that he is hollowing out America's oldest government agency and undermining diplomacy at a time of deepening international crises.
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Because South Shore's middle class has traditionally decided the community's priorities and how to pursue them, the gap left by its hollowing-out makes it difficult for neighbors to get together to solve problems.
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In Lehman's case, the top of the house didn't understand how the hollowing out of assets due to the slow but steady collapse of the subprime mortgage market would lead to its own downfall.
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It resulted in the hollowing-out of the American economy because it prevented American capitalism from adjusting to the tsunami of cheap manufactured goods coming out of China and its east Asian supply chain.
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By the time Walmart reached the level of sales that Amazon enjoys today, it had become the focus of a buy-local movement that accused the company of hollowing out local economies and labor markets.
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In "Ruling the Void: The Hollowing-Out of Western Democracy," the political scientist Peter Mair pointed out that even political parties of the left no longer really aimed to represent people, but to govern them.
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But they are a first attempt at finding an alternative to a free-trade system that has built up the People's Republic of China while hollowing out the factory towns that once made America great.
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But whether he actually pulls out of it — and he can't without Congress's support — experts say Trump's trade policies are already "hollowing out the WTO from within" and damaging U.S. business prospects around the world.
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Trump's prolific personnel problems also signal to our enemies and allies that losing intelligence doesn't phase him -- setting the stage for actual threats to go unaddressed, while we witness the hollowing out of US intelligence.
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But when Brazilians look at the shell of their National Museum, above, some see the fire as a symbol of the hollowing out of the whole country and the near-abandonment of basic public services.
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We should not fear a coup or seizure of authoritarian emergency powers, but a slow hollowing-out of our legal system to the point where the people no longer have meaningful control over their leaders.
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Notably, Trump has empowered federal agents to arrest undocumented immigrants en masse (though the number of deportations is not rising) and has apparently endorsed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's hollowing out of the American diplomatic corps.
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When he studied all the information as to what was going on, he realized that the biggest reason that we're seeing the hollowing out of the middle of America is the breakdown of the American family.
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Because vegetable instruments don't last, fresh ones have to be made every time they play, and they had spent the hour before rehearsal carefully drilling into carrots and hollowing out squashes with an ice cream scoop.
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"The US is about to go through a very challenging time, where the hollowing out that Trump has been doing, eroding the democratic guardrails and strengths of this country, are going to be clear," Berenguat said.
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Unlike the problems plaguing the three next smallest divisions, where bad matchmaking has put too much distance between champions and their most deserving challengers, the 205-pound weight class—once the UFC's marquee division—is hollowing out.
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" Warren added that she viewed Fox News as being "designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that's rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.
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But the high costs of local production and dependence on what turned out to be a fickle domestic market also sowed the seeds of the industry's hollowing out and dispersal into newer plants in far-flung states.
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Wermy has modified one of the console's original cartridges, hollowing out space for a micro-SD card reader, and emblazoned its body with a Raspberry Pi sticker that looks like it dates back to the early '90s.
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Still, Tillerson and the Trump administration more broadly have faced staunch criticism for what some in the U.S. foreign policy community have described as a hollowing out of the State Department, especially its most senior career employees.
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A group of Deadspin staffers quit en masse in solidarity, all but hollowing out a site that had not only been a beloved destination for literally millions of readers, but was also a cash cow for its owners.
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" Beruff fired back at Democratic critics in an email to The Hill on Monday, saying Democrats "think it is a mistake for me to use strong language condemning them for hollowing out our military and making America weaker.
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Mr. Trump's rhetorical posturing against military engagement in the Middle East has coincided with the hollowing out of the United States' refugee program, whose cap Mr. Trump slashed this year to 18,000 people, down from 110,000 in 2016.
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In a City Journal article from July, "The Hollowing-Out of the California Dream," Joel Kotkin writes: Its political leaders and a credulous national media present California as the "woke" state, creating an economically just, post-racial reality.
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While newer and more dynamic companies are on the rise in China, the risk is that they won't develop fast enough to offset the hollowing out of light manufacturing, which remains a shrinking but significant employer across the country.
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The connection he drew between the extent to which tasks were routine or not, and the ease with which they could be automated away, proved important as policymakers began to grow worried about a "hollowing out" of the workforce.
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We know how it all worked out, the hollowing out of the American middle class, skyrocketing costs for needs of American life, crippling debt, declining birth rates, declining life expectancy, a historic opioid epidemic, and record high suicide rates.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said Tuesday that he was offended that anyone would suggest he was hollowing out the State Department, but he also suggested that the department's budget should be cut by about a third.
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In her 1999 book, "No Logo," Naomi Klein presents the acceleration of corporate branding as a kind of hollowing out: Companies that used to manufacture wares or harvest foods — that used to sell things — became brands, which sell ideas.
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Moreover, a riskier corporate balance sheet might be fine when things are going well, but increase the risk of a catastrophic failure when things go wrong — essentially hollowing out whatever productive capacity made the company successful to begin with.
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In certain areas of the U.S., a hollowing out of manufacturing activity has impacted people, but the nation is predominantly a services-centered economy, Credit Suisse Chief Economist James Sweeney told CNBC at the bank's annual Asian Investment Conference.
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Wisconsin and Michigan, two Democratic strongholds and rustbelt states hit hard by the flight of blue-collar jobs, appear to have bought the Trump line that NAFTA and globalization were to blame for the hollowing out of middle America.
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The embrace of Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump, visible nationally in huge rallies, has stirred Iowa's latent Midwest populism, with voters angry about the hollowing out of the middle class, Wall Street greed and the corrupting influence of money in politics.
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The deep hatreds unleashed in the Syrian conflict, the absence of any trust and the hollowing-out of any moderate presence, as well as the continued involvement of outside powers in arming different proxies, suggest the war has years to run.
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This being a Guillermo del Toro movie, the hints of the eventual hollowing out of neighborhoods are depicted with the same sense of grandeur as the unlikely love story that follows, done up in deep, rich colors and moody lighting.
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He certainly has watched a number of his leaders be targeted over time, and I think that he has had to pay attention to some of the hollowing out of his leadership that has taken place over the past several months.
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Discussion documents released ahead of a party policy conference that will be held from late June fret about "internal squabbles, money politics, corruption and poor performance in government", and even "the hollowing out of the capacity of the democratic state".
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He warned that the reason for the pressure on the democratic order is the rise in income inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class, as the rich get richer and people in developing nations see their lives gradually improve.
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By prematurely offering to work with Trump before he has shown even the slightest bit of contrition—before he has even filled out his sure-to-be controversial cabinet—congressional Democrats are hollowing out the argument they made for months.
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The scrapping of the Ford plant was a bitter blow, coming after U.S. President Donald Trump had blamed the country for hollowing out U.S manufacturing on the campaign trail, and threatened to impose hefty tariffs on cars made in Mexico.
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With the U.S. dealing with unprecedented threats, President Trump is hollowing out the State Department by freezing hiring, forcing out career staff, closing offices and publicly undercutting his Secretary of State– eliminating the very diplomats and diplomacy needed to prevent conflict.
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As The Week's Ryan Cooper and HuffPost's Zach Carter have explained, the U.S. has accepted the world's largest trade deficit for 40 years, in a trade-off between cheaper goods, global stability, and the hollowing out of the country's industrial base.
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In a video announcing her decision to form an exploratory committee, Warren did what other Democrats have in the past shied away from -- pointing specifically to the people, party and institutions she blames for hollowing out the American working class.
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They are right to express concern about the exodus of senior foreign service officers, the current hiring freeze, the numerous unfilled positions at senior levels of the agency, and the resulting threat of "hollowing out" the State Department as an institution.
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And sure enough, with the hollowing out of the middle class, we saw (via Mark Thoma) what Kevin Williamson at National Review describes as the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy And what is the lesson?
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I know even better the never ending cycle of deepening addiction and the effects on every aspect of your life, from loss of health, any hope of a career, financial ruin, utter hopelessness and the hollowing out of one's soul.
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The bipartisan embrace of "free trade" benefited the wealthy and hastened the hollowing out of the middle class around the same time that the endless wars of the Bush-Obama era were reaching their apogees of fiscal bloat and strategic failure.
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If the leader of the African National Congress, his relatives and his influential associates could dodge their tax duties, the rest of the country might shirk them, too, hollowing out the government's ability to function at the most basic level.
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Losing the ancient French provincial capital is another blow to Frenchness — tangible evidence of a disappearing way of life that resonates in France in the same way that the hollowing out of main streets did in the United States decades ago.
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The answers have social and political implications at a time when broad swaths of the country feel alienated from and resentful of "elite" cities that appear from a distance to have gone unscathed by the forces hollowing out smaller communities.
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In his dozen-odd books and countless TV interviews, Trump emphasized the notion that China is both a strategic competitor and a job thief, hollowing out America due to cheap wages and an undervalued currency giving it unfair export advantages.
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I wanna talk about where jobs are going, but talk about the mechanics of the hollowing out, of how that happens, because you're right, there's low-end jobs and the sort of piecework — it's piecework of this day — and the high-end jobs.
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It was left to everyone else at the conference to discuss the hollowing out of democratic institutions, societal norms, humans interactions and so on — as a consequence of data (and market capital) being concentrated in the hands of the ridiculously powerful few.
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The hollowing out of the middle classes, as salaried workers see their jobs threatened by artificial intelligence and globalisation and their dreams of home ownership destroyed by rising property prices, is increasing the number of people who are sympathetic to Corbyn-style socialism.
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What the BLS is reporting: The top line is that the hollowing out of the middle of the job market — the leading dynamic in the deep economic dissatisfaction across the manufacturing and rust belts — is likely to continue over the next decade.
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After Trump gets through trashing the very government he was tasked with administrating, slashing regulations and hollowing out institutions, there will be a genuine need for someone who regards public service as a noble calling and who can properly craft and implement programs.
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The time travel device essentially negated all the tension and drama that were built up in the previous nine episodes, hollowing out the story's biggest developments — not unlike the third season of American Horror Story, Coven, where witches were resurrected over and over.
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Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian foreign minister, said she was worried about movements around the world that have blamed trade and immigration for the hollowing out of the middle class, and that Canada was "doubling down" on its openness to trade and immigrants.
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If the logic of the Athens Biennale has taught us anything, the only success has been in hollowing out the space where the language of progressive activism transforms social norms into a radical upheaval of an un-enlightened avant-garde millennial mass.
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"The hollowing out of our middle-class has been 40 years in the making, and the need to create lasting economic security for our workforce demands action," said a statement from California Governor Gavin Newsom when he signed the bill into law.
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In both cases, he began hollowing out his predecessor's accomplishments — in the first instance by announcing he would end government subsidies for insurers, and in the other by refusing to certify that Iran was in compliance with the terms of the 2015 agreement.
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This hollowing-out of the foreign service, combined with Tillerson's inability to appoint people to vital positions like ambassador to South Korea, delayed American responses to major crises and weakened the State Department for a "generation," according to George Washington University's Elizabeth Saunders.
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Jacyn Heavens, CEO at Epos Now, a cloud-based software provider with over 30,000 retail and hospitality customers, also bemoaned the hollowing out of the number of peaks and said the changed shape came on top of price increases seen at many U.K. convenience stores.
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Yet here we are in a world where such processes are increasingly constrained not only by economic and technological changes, which reward oligopoly and rent-seeking, but by a hollowing out of the state's regulatory capacity in ways not seen since the medieval era.
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The inaugural National Conservatism conference, hosted by the Edmund Burke Foundation, is an attempt to build a new vision of conservatism less wary of state power and more focused on addressing American social ills like fraying family ties and the hollowing out of small towns.
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But the stagnation long seen in the median household income numbers is consistent with the broader story of the hollowing out of the once-mighty American middle class over the last 30 some-odd years, that has left the US an increasingly unequal society.
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Within hours of the last American soldiers departing, Mr al-Maliki returned to his Shia sectarian ways, betraying promises made to the Sunnis and hollowing out the army (equipped and trained at a cost of $26 billion to American taxpayers), creating a corrupt praetorian guard.
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He can convene hearings on subjects ranging from Russian interference in elections worldwide, to possible diplomatic ways forward on North Korea, to the inadvisability of allowing the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to hold security clearance, to the hollowing out of our State Department.
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"Better-than-expected growth performance will likely allow Taiwan's central bank to keep rates unchanged through 2019-20," DBS economist Ma Tieying said in a note, adding that "Made-in-Taiwan" was making a comeback after two decades of investment exodus and industrial hollowing out.
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"And when I read these articles that there's this hollowing out, I take offense to that on their behalf because the people that are serving in those roles are doing extraordinary work and they know they're not going to get the job permanently," Tillerson said.
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This time it's in an awareness of the social reality the show's been portraying for 15 years, a reality which is now, thanks to a certain wild-haired, linguistically inventive Falstaff gone bad, at the center of American politics: the hollowing-out of the white working class.
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One major result of the adoption of this new technology and the dramatic drop in gas prices it has produced is the hollowing-out of the U.S. coal industry, reduced from a 35 billion-dollar industry in just 2011, to a 3 billion-dollar industry in 1703.
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More recently, the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton of Princeton have argued that the hollowing out of the economy and loss of middle and working class supports, like unions, have contributed to a broad increase in self-reported pain in those groups, both mental and physical.
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The recipe for a Sanders upset in Iowa calls for a large turnout of voters under 234 and those at the lower end of the economic scale, appealing to their anger at Wall Street, the influence of money in politics and the hollowing-out of the working class.
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In an era of fractious disagreements and high-stakes political gridlock in Britain, the decision to add extra insurance was more evidence of the hollowing out of confidence among lawmakers that their colleagues would abide by the courtly traditions and effete codes of conduct that once dominated the chamber.
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" "Fomenting division is his way of distracting us from the fact that he is actually making things worse for Americans, by giving tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and big corporations while proposing devastating cuts to Medicare, imposing tariffs that hurt farmers and consumers and hollowing out the Affordable Care Act.
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"As retired senior leaders of America's military, we believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world," the generals and admirals write.
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"Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists — it's designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that's rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class," Warren wrote in the email.
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At precisely the time when diplomacy matters more than ever to American interests — when we are no longer the only country calling the shots — the president is engaged in unilateral diplomatic disarmament: hollowing out the idea of America, retreating from international commitments and disdaining the institutions and practitioners of diplomacy.
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Antonio Ferman, the mayor of San Alejo, a small town near Isla Perico, said a venture of the scale proposed by the Chinese may well create some desperately needed jobs in the area, which is hollowing out as people facing unemployment and gang violence seek to migrate to the United States.
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Most often, the signposts that should alert us are disguised: the altered constitution that passes for reform, the attacks on a free press justified by security, the dehumanisation of others masked as a defense of virtue, or the hollowing out of a democratic political system so that all is erased but the label.
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For a candidate who argues that free trade has led to the hollowing-out of U.S. manufacturing, the most ironic cut may be that car companies are building in Mexico rather than the United States, largely because it has freer trade than the United States does with the rest of the world.
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In point of fact, no — our corporate taxes are among the very highest in the industrialized world, make us uncompetitive and incentivize our companies to bolt; our regulation is stifling expansion and job-creation; and free trade policies have played their role, along with offshoring and automation, in hollowing-out our middle classes.
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If national progress leaves backwaters and local projects are discarded as inefficient, or because the market hasn't yet spoken, we are left with national zero sum choices and wind up maintaining industries that do national damage for the sake of local workers, leaving workers to fend for themselves, or hollowing out their communities.
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"The larger concern is that Trump is hollowing out the WTO from within, and we have really seen that play out with the imposition of tariffs on the import of steel and aluminum in the name of national security," Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, geo-economics fellow at U.K.-based think tank Chatham House, told VICE News.
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Government officials, who asked not to be identified discussing personnel changes before they were announced, said at least two to four more high-ranking figures affiliated with Ms. Nielsen were expected to leave soon, too, hollowing out the top echelon of the department managing border security, presidential safety, counterterrorism, natural disasters, customs and other matters.
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McKinley credited Pompeo with bringing the State Department back from what he described as a "hollowing out" under former Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonThe Hill's Morning Report - Witness transcripts offer new clues; Election Day Five takeaways from the first Trump impeachment deposition transcripts Trump taps North Korea envoy to be No. 85033 at State Dept MORE.
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In recent years, multiple cities in the EU — including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin and Paris — have sought to put restrictions on Airbnb and similar platforms in order to limit their impact on residents and local communities, arguing short-term rentals remove housing stock and drive up rental prices, hollowing out local communities and creating other sorts of anti-social disruptions.
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Health care and the environment are key issues Scott and Nelson blamed one another for the green algae and red tide that has plagued the southern Florida Peninsula, with the governor arguing that Nelson had failed to secure federal funding for cleanup efforts and the senator accusing Scott of effectively hollowing out the state's environmental agencies.
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The movie takes its title from a 50-year-old Marvel comic superhero who might easily have passed out of existence had he not crossed paths with the African-American comic book writer Christopher Priest, who broke into this white industry during the 1980s and achieved influence in time to keep Marvel from hollowing out the character that has now become one of its most lucrative properties.
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"Maintaining American troops at the time could not have reversed the forces that contributed to ISIL's rise: a government in Baghdad that pursued a sectarian agenda, a brutal dictator in Syria that lost control of large parts of the country, social media that reached a global pool of recruits, and a hollowing out of Iraq's security forces," Obama said during remarks at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
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While McKinley credited the secretary with bringing the State Department back from the "hollowing out" that took place during former Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonThe Hill's Morning Report - Witness transcripts offer new clues; Election Day Five takeaways from the first Trump impeachment deposition transcripts Trump taps North Korea envoy to be No. 6900 at State Dept MORE's tenure, he complained about the lack of support for career diplomats from State Department leaders.
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Per Senator Warren and Bernie SandersBernie SandersWarren to protest with striking Chicago teachers Sanders: 'Outrageous' to suggest Gabbard 'is a foreign asset' Democratic strategist: Sanders seeking distance from Warren could 'backfire' MORE version of events, American manufacturing jobs were predominantly lost because of bad trade policy pursued by the United States, while according Yang, trade policy was a small factor but automation was predominantly responsible for the hollowing out of the American middle class.
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And just as in the early decades of the 20th century, when a conservative-dominated Supreme Court repeatedly struck down progressive economic policies like child labor and minimum-wage laws leading up to the New Deal fight, Democrats fear that the new majority will systematically crush their achievements — not just hollowing out past gains like abortion rights, but also striking down programs they hope to enact if they regain power, like expanding Medicare or efforts to curb climate change.
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They argue over whose hands should be on the steering wheel while President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE leaves mud tracks across democracy — appointing a judiciary of ideologues and neophytes, smearing the FBI, tarring disagreeable media but feathering Fox News, hollowing out the State Department.
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