Word: centralization
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...There are two aspects of the ongoing recession that may come as a surprise to some observers as events unfold. The first will be the failure of central banks to re-ignite credit growth in the ailing banking system. The second will be the failure of governments' debt expansions to increase the cost of funding. In other words, the long end of the yield curve will continue to be depressed, just as it has been in Japan for the past 16 years. In the early 1990s observers in Japan argued that 10-year Japan government-bond yields of 3.5% could...
...case where greater African unity could have a major impact is the failed state of Somalia, where a vicious internecine conflict has raged since the collapse of central government in 1991. Somalia has been a center of lawlessness and disorder for some years now, and failed military intervention by the United States and Ethiopia in 1993 and 2006 demonstrates that only a much stronger, multilateral African group can have any hope of success...
...Born in 1943 in the Yazd province of central Iran. As the son of a revered Ayatollah, Khatami grew up in a strictly religious household. He has achieved the third-highest level of Islamic clerical rank...
...loosen your wallet and $200 off purchases of $1,000 or more. Show off your new goods at the hotel's Rose Club, where you'll get complimentary cocktails. Rates for the "Be My Valentine" package start at $645 per night. Feb. 13 and 14 only. Fifth Avenue at Central Park South...
...weekend brought further reminders of the bloody rifts that still crisscross the country. On Saturday, the top official in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voiced anger over what he described as provocative troop movements by the central government around Kirkuk, the disputed oil-rich city. The Associated Press reported that the Kurdish prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, denounced a move by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy Iraqi soldiers ahead of the provincial balloting on the outskirts of Kirkuk, which both the Iraqi central government and Kurdistan regional authorities claim. The Iraqi government denied the accusation...