That stasis, however, masks looming challenges to the sclerotic incumbents.
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Both major political parties have become sclerotic and devoid of ideas.
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He offered a charismatic alternative to the corrupt, sclerotic status quo.
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Obi-Wan and Darth have their sclerotic lightsaber joust to the death.
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Overhauling the sclerotic government bureaucracy is arguably his biggest challenge, businessmen say.
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In the increasingly sclerotic world of Silicon Valley, Levandowski was an outlier.
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Certainly outsiders can shake up a sclerotic bureaucracy and bring fresh perspective.
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Workers and students, it appeared, were united against a sclerotic Gaullist state.
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Politically fractured and economically sclerotic western nations can only look on in envy.
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Sclerotic labor laws in countries like France result in unyielding double-digit unemployment.
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The stilted, scripted, sclerotic ways of tradition are not always terribly effective tactics.
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I.O. was a sclerotic politburo, on the wrong side of the Vietnam War.
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This decision also has distinctly negative implications for El Salvador's already sclerotic economy.
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A sclerotic and retrospective set of disjointed processes has formalised into a proper discipline.
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What if someone took on the sclerotic, monopolistic electricity industry on explicitly conservative grounds?
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Sclerotic monopolies such as Ethio Telecom desperately need to be broken up and sold.
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That monetary stimulus lets leaders postpone reform in sclerotic economies like Italy and Portugal.
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Infrastructure repairs along Sainte-Catherine Street have also intensified the sclerotic nightmare of downtown traffic.
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He is, rather, the ultimate creature of the state's sclerotic political system and its true master.
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That will be the lowest of all 32 countries in the report bar one, sclerotic Italy.
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Without competition, those leagues' brand of baseball became the sclerotic and self-important product played today.
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This year's UNGA week was a near perfect encapsulation of the sclerotic nature of politics in 2019.
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To many of the voters who backed Trump, he represents the sclerotic uselessness of 21st-century Reaganism.
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As Democratic activists warned that the party had become sclerotic and disorganized, the electoral defeats piled up.
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But its political system and its political class, however dysfunctional and sclerotic, are remarkably resilient as well.
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Mr. Trump has also used his White House platform to begin changing sclerotic domestic policies and politics.
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"Every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time," she said.
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By comparison, Expedia has become "sclerotic and bloated" as the company lacked focus and direction, Diller said.
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The sclerotic, 30-year rule of former president Mubarak and the turbulence of Mursi's brief presidency were over.
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You still have a sclerotic, super-national government in Brussels that just continues," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box.
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For all of Moscow's nuclear capability, its sclerotic economic system never made it much of an economic competitor.
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Trump would not be an American Mussolini; even our sclerotic institutions would resist him more effectively than that.
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While she endured bewildering delays in the Bronx's famously sclerotic criminal justice system, Hailey attempted suicide multiple times.
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The country is too sclerotic, but if we can influence mainstream parties in five or 10 years, that's interesting.
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Inserting a stent into France's sclerotic labor market, he has moved to loosen hiring-and-firing regulations on companies.
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For Likud, it offers a chance to break free from the sclerotic Netanyahu years and offer up new leaders.
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Like continental drift, the rural-urban political and cultural divide has been slowing growing wider, and more sclerotic, for decades.
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Mr Street is exactly the sort of person that is needed to bring new talent into Britain's sclerotic political system.
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If the government is to create a financial system that is safe without being sclerotic, it needs to change incentives.
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Owls have enormous and powerful eyes, but these remarkable eyeballs are fixed in place by bony protuberances called sclerotic rings.
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In Austria, where that has been the norm for decades, government is sclerotic and politics plagued by far-right extremism.
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The bill sailed through Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, which sounds like a win for an otherwise sclerotic body politic.
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With a highly sclerotic economy, it is difficult to see how Italy might bring down this ratio through economic growth.
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Liberal school reformers say sclerotic teachers unions have obstructed student progress—rhetoric they use to promote a different privatization agenda.
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At the same time, they are obviously too sclerotic to imagine how democratic institutions can adjust to the new realities.
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He has shaken up the sclerotic body politic of Saudi government, and after several reshuffles, has invigorated and energized it.
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The sclerotic appeals process insures that years, if not decades, will pass before the condemned meet their state-authored fate.
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That was once unheard-of in an event where movement upward was traditionally sclerotic and the results sometimes seemed predetermined.
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Our sclerotic interest groups were born as idealistic causes then; our repetitive religious and intellectual debates were fresh and new.
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He said democracy was in trouble because in many countries it had become sclerotic, insufficiently responsive to the public's needs.
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" In Ethiopia, Dr. Frieden said an email, Dr. Tedros "rapidly reformed a sclerotic bureaucracy and implemented effective community-based services.
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The result has been that higher firing costs have led to to weaker productivity, sclerotic labor markets and higher unemployment.
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The growing polarization of today's politics has made our government at best hopelessly sclerotic and at worst prone to unpredictable lurches.
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What I am interested in are applications which seek to use Bitcoin to supplant our sclerotic, duct-taped global financial plumbing.
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The most obvious defect, he wrote, is a "sclerotic personnel system", whereby "it takes on average 213 days to recruit someone".
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We conceived of the Soviets as a liberal body politic of Russians controlled by the head of a sclerotic authoritarian state.
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David Steiner of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, in Baltimore, characterises many of America's teacher-training institutions as "sclerotic".
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Mr Abbas's corrupt, sclerotic government has spent much of the past decade feuding not with Israel but with its own people.
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He is, however, trying to speed up sclerotic decision-making by giving the heads of the group's profusion of brands more responsibility.
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Making America's workforce great again is possible, but it will take a willingness to disrupt the increasingly sclerotic post-secondary education cartel.
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Great former governors like Brian Schweitzer of Montana, who would have added real flair to a sclerotic Eastern-bound establishment or Sen.
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Quitting the sclerotic, undemocratic EU, the Brexiteers say, would set Britain free to reclaim its sovereign destiny as an outward-looking power.
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It doesn't have this constipated, sclerotic thing that cities like New York, London, Paris have, where whatever you do, nobody will notice.
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If he does win, Mr. Macron will inherit a sclerotic, underproducing, overtaxed, absurdly bureaucratic, highly partisan country with a huge security problem.
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"SCLEROTIC companies abound in Europe," says Christer Gardell, co-founder and managing partner of Cevian Capital, an activist hedge fund based in Sweden.
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The preparations for the Brussels meeting make clear that NATO has become a sclerotic, top-heavy organization with no clear reason to exist.
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As a result of its sclerotic economic performance and a 20-percent loss in international competitiveness, Italy's financial market vulnerabilities have only increased.
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What these cases have in common is that they have become hobby-horses for a sclerotic part of the conservative media-industrial complex.
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Many conversations about development brush over governments, who are viewed — fairly or not — as sclerotic actors who can't deliver services efficiently and effectively.
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They included loose monetary policy, heavy government investment and reforms to sclerotic social and corporate structures that have suppressed the country's economic performance.
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" He also said that Expedia has become "sclerotic and bloated" and it needed to stop "doing dumb things" and, instead, do "good things.
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As The Atlantic&aposs Annie Lowrey recently noted, in a look back at the 403s:In many ways, the American economy became more sclerotic.
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In his meteoric rise, bin Salman hasn't just been clearing out an aging, sclerotic bureaucracy, but he has also been energizing the nation's youth.
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Looking at the wasteful, sclerotic and undemocratic grouping that it has become, only a Euro-enthusiast of the deepest hue could think that we would.
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The battles take place within the regime elite and between the country's youthful public and the sclerotic oligarchy of senior clerics who dominate its institutions.
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"HR has been the poster child of the sclerotic back office," said Robert Brown, associate vice president at Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work.
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Rather, political power is now spread among multiple political parties leading to the formation of weak coalition governments incapable of reforming their countries' sclerotic economies.
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The more shrill the critics, the defenders of the sclerotic rot that brought us to this point, the more confident the American people should be.
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And as Senate Democrats' irritation grows with envoys who are ensconced abroad, an already slow confirmation process for new nominees could become even more sclerotic.
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On Monday Mr. Hariri scrapped the planned tax, announcing a hasty reform package to rescue the country's sclerotic economy and pledging to recover public trust.
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Every day, the Sanders-affiliated group, Our Revolution, motivates far more enthusiasm and support for progressive Democrats and causes than the sclerotic Democratic National Committee.
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Whether this deficiency is a product of inexperience or the sclerotic nature of bureaucracy is one of the things policy makers are trying to figure out.
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In the process, the social network has confirmed much of what the initial Times story alleged about the company's timid, sclerotic leadership in times of crisis.
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Perhaps 100bn rupees ($1.5bn) of refunds due to exporters once they can prove they have shipped their wares abroad is being held up by sclerotic administration.
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Yet there may be more to learn from the radical hopes of 1917, as we weather an era of sclerotic politics, restive masses, and ecological crisis.
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In a nation where politics have grown pitched and sclerotic, fighting brands online suddenly feels like the most effective political action many of us can take.
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He swept into a sclerotic Republican Party in which even its younger politicians are mouthing the same platitudes that were fresh and new 40 years ago.
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While Russia is of course an important geopolitical player, its sclerotic economy and isolated financial system mean that it's not an important player in global commerce.
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Since Fidel stepped down from Cuba's presidency when he was taken ill in 2006, Raúl Castro has cautiously begun to reform the island's sclerotic centrally planned economy.
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"Every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time, and I think they (conservatives) need an infusion of energy," Conway said.
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The political gains were clear, even if the economic consequences were mixed; unintended benefits included pushing credit away from sclerotic state companies towards more productive private ones.
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China is embarking on a series of sweeping ownership and management reforms aimed at making its sclerotic and debt-ridden state sector more responsive to the market.
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In classic street entrepreneur fashion, he identified an inefficient market: an incompetent bureaucracy; and sclerotic competitors: super-PAC dependent politicians who will say anything but the truth.
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The optimistic scenario is that well-managed fintech firms will bring much-needed competition and efficiency to China's sclerotic banking system, and profit handsomely while at it.
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Or that it is simply the result of 2.2 trillion euros in already-being-rolled-back European Central Bank stimulus forcing a famously sclerotic economy to budge.
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People are desperate for an alternative to these sclerotic political systems, and ideologies on the left and right have basically been frozen in place since the 1970s.
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Without deep economic reform, there is little prospect that Italy will be able to revitalize its sclerotic economy, which has continually underperformed the other major eurozone members' economies.
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Mr. Renzi became prime minister two years ago pledging to change Italy's sclerotic political system, but judging by the results from Sunday, voters have become tired of waiting.
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Back in 1998, when Mr. Chávez, then a charismatic former army officer, was first elected, he was riding a wave of popular discontent against a sclerotic political system.
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The question of whether the GOP as it exists right now — a sclerotic lattice of conservative ideology and interest groups — can remake Trump in its image is settled.
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BEIJING — Back in the Cold War, the sclerotic Soviet system proved no match for the lure of American soft power: bluejeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, Coca-Cola, Hollywood.
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In broad terms, supporters say they believe that the changes will help streamline Italy's sclerotic legislative process, where laws can take months, if not years, to get passed.
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Not bad for that oft-derided "sclerotic" Europe holding its own — and then some — with the Pacific Rim tigers free-riding on their huge, and growing, U.S. trade surpluses.
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Such views underscore one of the biggest challenges facing the wildly popular prime minister: delivering on his promises across a vast country overseen by a sclerotic and stifling bureaucracy.
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This is, perversely, thanks in part to the sclerotic planning system, which means that Britain has under-built for decades, and especially since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
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The old, sclerotic system of governance would have made it difficult to implement such reforms; allowing corrupt and privileged princes to continue milking the kingdom would have undermined them.
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That requires some emblematic wins to show global investors and corporations that Greece has not merely regained its mojo, but turned its back on fiscal mismanagement and sclerotic bureaucracy.
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" Silicon Valley, Foer writes, was supposed to be a liberating force—"the disruptive agent that shatters the grip of the sclerotic, self-perpetuating mediocrity that constitutes the American elite.
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So a year ago, I imagined that conservatism was sclerotic but ideologically committed, and that liberalism was wrong about the world but pretty good at fearmongering and voter targeting.
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He was the most charismatic of the student leaders, and an articulate spokesman for the concerns of a generation fed up with bureaucracy, conformity and a sclerotic political system.
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Unpacking Mr. Putin's decisions, one cannot escape the sense that he is haunted by memories of the sclerotic and impotent leadership of the Soviet Union in its waning years.
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are convinced that the flexibility and innovation of the tech sphere can be productively and profitably applied to the education sector, which is perceived as sclerotic.
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Purists might object to tinkering with the sport, but isn't the more radical change continuing down a sclerotic path where more and more of the action is no action?
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The prime minister's three-pronged package to revive the sclerotic economy – dubbed Abenomics – has led to a sharp plunge in interest rates and a gravity-defying leap in the yen.
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We can finally cut ourselves off from this dreadful corrupt, sclerotic sh*thole that produced the Enlightenment, Mozart, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Kafka, the Nobel Prize, Voltaire and the Eurovision Song Contest.
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The bank joined counterparts in the euro zone and Switzerland in slashing interest rates below zero in an effort to shake up its sclerotic economy and push up feeble inflation.
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Sisi has shown a similar reluctance to embrace Egypt's structural flaws, which include a sclerotic labour market and a budget deficit forecast at more than 6% of GDP this year.
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In Australia today, a political establishment, grown sclerotic and demented on its own fantasies, is facing a monstrous reality which it has neither the ability nor the will to confront.
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However innovators sometimes complain that they have trouble generating the resources they need to conduct the studies necessary, as small firms trying to break into an established and relatively sclerotic market.
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The Hainan government retains a big stake in it, but HNA has traits that distinguish it from state-owned enterprises, which tend to be sclerotic and run by bureaucratic grey men.
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In its latest historical phase alone it has absorbed the sclerotic, ex-communist east, overcome economic crisis in the early 2000s, taken in over 1m poor, often desperate immigrants—and coped.
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But Schmidt, who took over the job at the home of Botticelli's Birth of Venus last year as part of Italy's campaign to overhaul a sclerotic museum system, criticized the fine.
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And indeed, that is how Modi is generally conveyed in the international press, with a focus on his attempts to overhaul India's sclerotic tax system and to root out endemic corruption.
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In 2011, a popular revolt ended the nearly 30-year-old sclerotic regime of Hosni Mubarak, followed by the country's first and only democratic presidential election in Egypt's 5000-year history.
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"The litigation and lack of access to international capital has had a sclerotic effect on the country for years but it was facing a real financial squeeze this year," he said.
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When Mr. Macron criticizes the sclerotic system, he is referring to the size of the state and to the way its myriad rules benefit "insiders" with protected government or union jobs.
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This resemblance begins, as Matthew Schmitz pointed out in The Washington Post, with their status as "outsiders bent on shaking up their establishments," which they (and many others) deem sclerotic and corrupt.
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PARIS/FLAGY, France (Reuters) - In 1789, Louis XVI summoned France's aristocracy, clergy and citizens to discuss ways to plug the crown's dismal finances and quell popular discontent over a sclerotic feudal society.
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Britain must inoculate itself by getting out of the EU (or as Mr Hannan calls it: "the elderly, creaking, sclerotic economies on the western tip of the Eurasian landmass") while it can.
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Though short on detail, the document advocates a series of sensible measures, from privatisations and freer trade to reform of over-generous public pensions, sclerotic labour laws and the Byzantine tax code.
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They saw the destructive, sclerotic forces of tyranny in the Old World and they wanted to make the New World a place that protected the most sacred minority on earth: the individual.
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Ample global liquidity and European Central Bank bond-buying has allowed the Italian government to borrow at 2 percent despite Italy's public debt mountain, its shaky banking system and its sclerotic economy.
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But even if, as many experts suspect, implementing Brexit proves harmful, many proponents of Leave had legitimate complaints about the E.U., which they believed to be a sclerotic and overweening supranational body.
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Almost no young progressives I spoke to in the state had kind things to say about the effectiveness of the state party, which is seen as sclerotic, ineffective and out of touch.
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But there are already signs that business leaders are worried about what they see as a drift toward the sclerotic Germany of old, led by an unpopular government bereft of new ideas.
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WASHINGTON — For those who view the Justice Department's pardon system as slow and sclerotic, with its backlog of more than 235,255 cases, they need only look to the case of Matthew Charles.
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Insurance might well be the last frontier for disruptive innovation, but now, a generation of insurance tech startups is bringing new data models and product experience talent to bear on this sclerotic industry.
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I was a bum, surplus to his exacting requirements, and, for several years or so, Mr. Lek was content to survey my sclerotic progress in the lower ring with an amused, distant eye.
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Better a candidate closer to the Arab mean age of 22, they reasoned, than an uncharismatic septuagenarian and a relic from the sclerotic Mubarak era cast aside within weeks of the Arab spring.
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These institutes have done much good, in part by providing alternatives to sclerotic systems: the Allen Institute has helped change how neuroscience is done, speeding it up with such tools as automated microscopy.
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The Polish government says they are needed reforms meant to correct a sclerotic system plagued by corruption and links to to the days when this country was still under the yoke of Moscow.
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As such, the delay raises concerns over the perilous state of government finances as well as the durability of "Abenomics"—a set of fiscal and monetary policies aimed to shake up the sclerotic economy.
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This sclerotic management technique was the unwitting handiwork of Jerome Holtzman, a sportswriter who devised a statistic in 1960 that he called a "save" in order to measure the impact of shut-down relievers.
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The laboured process of negotiating an initial draft, which could see the parliamentary vote on the budget delayed until January, shows how sclerotic policy-making has become in Spain's new era of fragmented government.
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A major obstacle to financial health has of course been the firm's sclerotic and antiquated management system, which requires Alitalia's 12,500 employees to approve any major changes to the company's structure in a vote.
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Oftentimes, it isn't very effective and probably, alongside our prudish and sclerotic sex ed system, goes a long way toward explaining our high rates of teen pregnancies and STIs relative to other developed nations.
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The event proved the power of civil action in the face of a sclerotic authoritarian government and forced changes to building codes that are believed to have prevented many structures from collapse this time.
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Miami's once sclerotic arts world became roused by many of the newly arrived exiles — including the novelist Reinaldo Arenas and the painter Carlos Alfonzo — who brought an avant-garde spirit and an expansive vision.
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"The Germans' suggestion was for an early, humane, humanist Marx, a source for change in China — not the heroic, sclerotic, formalized Marx used for party purposes that Wu offered," Mr. Barmé said by telephone.
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From above, atop the Pão de Açucar outcropping or the jungle aeries of the lush Tijuca park, sharp contrasts take shape between sclerotic city streets and forests where monkeys, toucans and boa constrictors wander.
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One of them urged Lewis to consider an underperforming company with entrenched management or a sclerotic board: an activist investor, even if he came in and cut things and fired people—well, that's capitalism.
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For others it was a chance to reclaim sovereignty and control of its borders, free Britain from a sclerotic EU and build an economy more suited to a world racing into a technological revolution.
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Whether the referendum set for December 23.5th by Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, authorising a constitutional reform to which attempts to loosen up a sclerotic legislative system, is the right medicine remains to be seen.
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The government is already bloated with do-nothing civil servants; and in Egypt's sclerotic, statist economy, the private sector is incapable of absorbing the legions of new workers who join the labour market each year.
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Five Christians are on the IAF's list and Hamas, for the most part, has sidestepped the usual bombast about "resistance" and cast itself as a technocratic alternative to Mr Abbas's corrupt and sclerotic faction, Fatah.
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Promised reforms to the sclerotic public administration, justice system and taxation have not yet brought tangible benefits to people's pockets, and youth unemployment has stayed close to 40 percent despite a 2014 labor market reform.
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Yet the extracurricular bonking that they gingerly enjoy — she with a needy writer (Aidan Gillen) and he with a neurotic ballet dancer (Melora Walters) — appears to bring only marginally more pleasure than their sclerotic union.
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Mrs Pelosi and her fellow leaders are sustained by a sclerotic patronage system, of which her pandering to Mr Conyers was indicative, which has banished accountability and fresh talent from the upper reaches of the party.
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China's long-awaited mixed ownership reforms will allow private capital to invest in firms run directly by the central government, and are part of an ambitious revamp of the country's sclerotic and debt-ridden state sector.
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The startups that have achieved the most success in Tunisia are those that use and create tech products to mobilize communities, encourage civic engagement and fill the void in tech advances left by a sclerotic government.
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With sclerotic multilateral fora a dead end, the United States should prioritize bilateral trade deals with individual partners, or even better, regional deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or an updated North America Free Trade Agreement.
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Was the attack on the Marines at Khe Sanh simply a ruse to beguile the sclerotic Americans, and especially their obdurate leadership, into believing that Giap was attempting a repeat of the Dien Bien Phu victory?
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At a time that the European economy is already stuttering, with Italy in recession and the German economy on the cusp of a recession, the last thing that Europe now needs is a sclerotic U.K. economy.
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Critics warn that the state's progressive management has grown paradoxically sclerotic, overseeing a slow-motion public pensions crisis, neglecting infrastructure, and building a budgetary house of cards hostage to fluctuating income tax levels from the resident superrich.
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For too long the Leave crowd have got away with painting the pro-Europeans as the gloom-mongers, the people who think Britain so small and insignificant that it needs to hug tight to its sclerotic neighbours.
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Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, imports virtually all its fuel due to sclerotic and underutilised refineries, and even the state oil company is looking to the 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) Dangote refinery to help address this.
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But usually you expect an appointee in that outsider mold to then appoint a deputy who "knows the building," or has a clear understanding of how to exercise the levers of power in the aforementioned sclerotic bureaucracy.
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Whether that is the product of a politically motivated effort to tarnish the party, as the court's critics say, or the vigorous exercise of justice in a long-sclerotic system has become a matter of considerable debate.
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It took a once-in-a-century societal challenge — the stresses and strains brought by the global information age — and it took a political system that was too detached and sclerotic to understand and deal with them.
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Meanwhile, outside the United States, sclerotic Europe has managed to inch its growth rate up close to ours, while key emerging economies like China — a perennial worry for markets — seem to be on a sustained upward trajectory.
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India has transitioned in a few short decades from a moribund economy languishing under a sclerotic and byzantine bureaucratic model (sometimes referred to as the "license raj") into an increasingly open and competitive market for goods and services.
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Where Carter came to power before Democrats were prepared to make the transition from Ted Kennedy liberalism to Clintonian centrism, Trump is the avatar of ascendant, unabashed white nationalism, overtaking a sclerotic party still dominated by movement conservatives.
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And I hope that out of the wreckage of these sclerotic ideological parties, a new generation of leaders will emerge who package issues and solutions in a way more appropriate to our times so we can move on.
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The 1734 libretto, by Pietro Metastasio, already felt sclerotic by Mozart's theatrical standards; he tweaked it to create ensemble numbers amid the sequence of dry recitatives and pomp-and-firework arias that made up a traditional opera seria.
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China has pledged to push mixed ownership reforms to allow private capital to invest in firms run directly by the central government, and are part of an ambitious revamp of the country's sclerotic and debt-ridden state sector.
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Exactly 226 years after the decapitation of Louis XVI, who failed to plug the crown's dismal finances and quell popular discontent over a sclerotic feudal society, Macron started his speech by invoking the king and his wife Marie-Antoinette.
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In areas where we should have been able to cooperate, like transportation security, safeguarding special events like the Olympics and countering terrorist propaganda, Russia's sclerotic bureaucracy and general lack of interest (especially with issues like deradicalization) made progress impossible.
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It's a story of how GOP elites lost touch with a base that has grown increasingly dominated by working- and middle-class whites, who felt abandoned by a sclerotic policy agenda tilted almost exclusively toward the interests of the rich.
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The energetic leader of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata party seemed to usher in a radical change from the sclerotic Congress government he had deposed, promising jobs for the young, toilets for the poor and economic reforms for investors and entrepreneurs.
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This makes it worryingly easy to imagine the Britain of 2018 or 2019 in disarray: her party in revolt, her ministers and partners alienated, her government sclerotic, Brexit talks breaking down, the economy tanking and Number 10 in bunker mode.
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But if there's a silver lining to the bitter, two-year fight for the White House we've just witnessed, it's that we've seen how many of us are fed up with a system we view as sclerotic and stacked against us.
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Stamos cites this as evidence that hackers from Russia (and now Iran) have not been deterred from election meddling, and he accuses the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and Congress of a "sclerotic response" to manipulation campaigns during the 2016 election.
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The row has exposed deep divisions within the ANC, with one group loyal to President Cyril Ramaphosa opposing calls from a rival faction for the bank to do more to boost employment and kick-start growth in the country's sclerotic economy.
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I am a conservative who has long regarded the Republican Party as a sclerotic mess, a member of the media elite with a relatively low opinion of the media, an Ivy-educated meritocrat who often holds meritocratic liberalism in contempt.
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Mr. Trump will emphasize longstanding efforts to reform what many Republicans see as the sclerotic and inefficient United Nations organization, but aides would not say whether he would commit to the traditional level of American financing as Washington remains in arrears.
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Its prescriptions for financial aid, debt repayment and free community college are unlikely to clear the Republican-controlled Senate, but progress in the House could prod the sclerotic Senate to move forward on its version of a new higher education law.
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The layoffs follow a Q4 earnings call earlier in February in which Chairman Barry Diller slammed the company's processes and work ethic, saying it had become "sclerotic and bloated" and that employees were "all life and no work" for several years.
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Yet the BJP has little to say about the biggest obstacles to growth, such as the poor education of many workers, the lack of clear title to much of India's land and the domination of the banking system by sclerotic state-owned firms.
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Fueled by the rise of a younger generation of voters who are more educated and better informed than their parents, as well as increasing frustration with widespread corruption and sclerotic government institutions, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party nearly won the 2013 election.
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After the election, it was widely believed that, at last, France would be able to implement real economic reforms to galvanize its sclerotic economy, while at the same time, a new German-French alliance would be forged to produce a more integrated Europe.
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Trump has faced relentless criticism for his norm violations and rule-breaking, but it's unquestionably the case that at least some of his appeal was precisely the sense that a sclerotic American political system has become excessively unresponsive to the public's needs and desires.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has promised to overhaul the sclerotic justice system and his coalition has already made some changes, including cutting the amount of holiday that magistrates can take, lengthening prison sentences for bribery and increasing legal costs to try to limit frivolous litigation.
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Grass-roots groups across the state have been focused on gaining control of the Democratic State Committee, which oversees nominations for statewide candidates and the platform, and have been aggressively recruiting candidates in an effort to dislodge the existing — and to many, sclerotic — local leadership.
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But behind the anger was the much-contested figure of the president himself, a former investment banker who was elected two and half years ago promising to shake up a secure but sclerotic French system deemed too unfriendly to business, growth and job creation.
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Acquiring key technologies, rekindling innovation, bringing products and services to market faster, embracing risk (and failure), shaking up a sclerotic corporate culture — all these can be achieved by partnering with young companies, provided they're the right partners and the enterprise host doesn't crush the relationship.
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I think that's OK.BAGEHOT: On that point about the country's place in the world, some say Britain should cut itself free from the sclerotic EU and use the freedoms that it wins by leaving the union to build better relationships with the rising markets, with the Commonwealth.
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Put simply: as the Valley becomes the Establishment, it also becomes more sclerotic, more reluctant to experiment, more reluctant to try weird new things and take risks, and more prone to giving more money to the same kinds of people to do the same kinds of things.
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The whole point of Brexit was to liberate Britain from the bureaucratic shackles of the sclerotic, inward-looking, unaccountable EU in order to embrace a dynamic, enterprising, outward-looking future that would make sure the British people got back control over the decisions that affect their lives.
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The Trump administration portrayed its new rules as a needed remedy to make a sclerotic work force more efficient and responsive, but Newt Gingrich, who has been an informal adviser to the White House on Civil Service issues, has given a different explanation in the past.
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Were that to occur, Italy would not put an end to the sclerotic economic performance that has characterized it over the past two decades, which would mean that there would be little chance that the country would grow its way out from under its public debt mountain.
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As a result of many years of very rapid growth in the emerging markets and of sclerotic performance in the industrialized economies, China has now become the world's second largest economy, while the emerging market economies, including China, now account for over 28500 percent of the world economy.
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A populist democrat more interested in breaking apart the sclerotic system than reforming it, Yeltsin introduced a raucous version of democracy and a crony version of capitalism that ended up discrediting both in the eyes of Russians who lost their savings while oligarchs snatched up lucrative state assets.
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While Democrats like to say that they are the party of the young and that this portends their eventual return to power, they are led by a sclerotic band of elderly power brokers who bear a troubling resemblance to the party bosses of a bygone era of American political history.
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Rivals on both the left and the center dismissed Mr. Biden's narrative of his political career as a case study in steady leadership, and repeatedly questioned the most fundamental proposition of his candidacy — that he is uniquely well suited to unite the country and wring progress from a sclerotic Washington.
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"Every great movement, which the conservative movement is of course ... ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time, and I think they need an infusion of energy," Conway said, arguing that the insurgent President is a kindred spirit to conservatives who feel their views brand them as outsiders.
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Sclerotic transportation networks and clogged ports also add some 30%-40% to the cost of shipping goods within Africa, according to the Infrastructure Consortium of Africa, while the African Development Bank has pegged the amount of cash needed for infrastructure development on the continent at a whopping $130170 billion a year to 2025.
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The symbiotic relationship between Mr. Macron and a legislature made in his image is a hopeful sign to his many supporters that the sclerotic French politics of the past few decades have given way to an era of renewal in a country that has long embraced the principle of a strong presidency.
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To those of us who have lived with certain grim realities our whole adult lives — the widening moat between the rich and the rest of us, the sclerotic influence of money on politics, the N.R.A.'s unassailable coalition of greed and fear — they seem like facts of life as unalterable as death itself.
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The leaders of the two sides, one elected in free and fair elections and the other the third generation scion of a corrupt and sclerotic family dynasty, engaged in a long handshake that rivaled in length, if not the variety of grips, President Trump's friendly arm-wrestling with French President Emanuel Macron earlier this week.
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Like the Soviets, Iran is an economically weak, ideologically sclerotic regime run by septuagenarian men, punching above its weight internationally and given to bullying its own people and the international community, averse to accepting even the most obvious defeat unless it can sell it as an ideological victory at home and to its proxies.
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Moreover, an urban caucus within the House that included a smattering of big-city Republicans would mitigate the threat of polarized, low-density minority rule by discouraging Republican persecution of urban constituencies, incentivizing outreach to socially conservative communities of color and creating a needed platform for free-market ideas in sclerotic big-city Democratic politics.
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Jakarta Journal JAKARTA, Indonesia — Even on the best of days, it looks like an invasion, though a very slow one: Troops of motorbikes, like a disorganized cavalry, try to slice through enormous, honking lines of buses, trucks, private cars and taxis that are locked in a crawling war of attrition on sclerotic highways and roads.
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The transfer of these hallowed pads represented, both symbolically and in practice, John F. Kennedy's torch of space exploration being passed from government to the private sector — from a once-glorious but now sclerotic federal agency to a new breed of boyish billionaires who embodied the daring passion and imagination of history's great pioneers, adventurers and innovators.
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A weak government saddled with an unreformed Senate that can continue to block legislation is the last thing that a country needs when its economy is as sclerotic as that of Italy, when its government is over-indebted, when its banks are saddled with a mountain of nonperforming loans and when the country has become internationally uncompetitive.
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A high-inequality economy is one with less consumer spending and demand across the board, thus one with a lower G.D.P. A low-investment economy is a more sclerotic and less innovative one, and thus one with a lower G.D.P. Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion wonders: If giving money to shareholders is bad, why not ban dividends?
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The DPJ-led government struggled to implement reforms to Japan's sclerotic bureaucracy; backtracked on high-profile promises regarding U.S. military bases in Okinawa and Japan's controversial consumption tax; and struggled to manage the aftermath of the "triple disasters" of March 2011: the earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region, and the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Across the Atlantic, there would be new opportunities for wider market expansion with North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico (who both have trade agreements with the EU), with other European partners, such as Turkey and Switzerland, and if Brexit concludes, the U.K. The commitment to work together to reform the World Trade Organization can not only help fix the sclerotic practices of that organization but could potentially help give new life and direction to the global rules-based trading system.
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It's not hard to find architects, clients, builders, public officials and others familiar with the city's capital construction program ready to unleash symphonic tirades about New York's crazy procurement rules, about the petty, internecine squabbles among city agencies, about the city-required shotgun marriages between architects and contractors, the costly and onerous liability regulations, notoriously late payments and a vast, sclerotic bureaucracy that squanders millions of tax dollars by causing needless, yearslong delays in the name of value engineering, then scapegoats architects.
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