Word: agreement
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...hold it forever, though, and what happens next is Topic A in private-equity circles. Everybody agrees there's a shakeout on the way; at industry conferences one hears predictions that anywhere from 20% to 50% of PE firms will go out of business. There's less agreement about the survivors. Will they land back atop the financial heap and continue to steer a big part of the U.S. (and the global) economy? Will the top students at the top business schools still pine for PE jobs? Or was the PE boom just an artifact of a three-decade debt...
...from the feet up.” Smooth teamwork is not the style of diplomacy the world is used to seeing at these meetings. After all, we’ve come to expect deadlock on the most important issues. The last G-20 summit ended with nothing but an agreement to meet again, and the Doha round of international trade talks was a joke...
...While the Bush administration’s scheme to place missile interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic was admittedly inflammatory, Polish and Czech agreement to the plan reflects a very real concern for the conventional military guarantees included in the pact. Even if the Obama administration does not go ahead with the plan to install defensive systems in these Central European nations, it should still make it clear that any sort of aggression against our allies in this region would be absolutely unacceptable. To that end, the Obama administration should implement a conventional defense treaty with Poland...
...amend its constitution in order for the changes to be implemented. The report recommended that the UC’s Finance Committee have a rotating membership, but that idea received some resistance from Council members. “I think that everyone’s in agreement about FiCom in that there needs to be institutional memory,” said Sundeep S. Iyer ’11, FiCom chair, referring to the concern that a rotating membership would detract from the committee’s ability to make consistent decisions. UC representatives also discussed the reports recommendation that...
...Reform of international financial institutions. The World Bank and IMF originated in planning for post-World War II economic reconstruction, and there is broad agreement that their mandates need rethinking. The IMF needs a fresh injection of cash if it is to help stabilize economies in a mess, and developing world nations - who will lead the recovery, when it comes - are campaigning for a greater role in shaping the priorities of these institutions. Expect the issue to be punted downfield for further discussion later in the year...