Word: pariah
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...failure of punitive diplomacy and prohibitive consequences of military action have prompted a growing number of experts in France, a key U.S. ally on the Iran issue, to argue for an entirely new approach, based on a diplomatic approach that treats Iran less like pariah, and more like a partner...
...getting taken off the list so important to the North? First, simply, it was a matter of face, of reducing its pariah-state image - a tangible symbol of being welcomed back into the global community. Second, removal held out at least the prospect, down the road, of some economic benefits. A spot on Washington's terror list scares off the world's multilateral lending institutions - including the IMF, World Bank and Asia Development Bank - from even considering aid programs given that the U.S. is their largest contributor...
...governments. The sparring often results in conflicting regulations, uncertain lines of authority and onerous tax burdens. Contributing to this hostile environment are corruption, a capricious legal system and local suspicion of foreign companies, which are often viewed as carpetbaggers rather than investment partners. Not that Indonesia is a complete pariah to outside investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years as the economy has improved. But reform is required, economists say, if Indonesia is to become more competitive regionally and globally. China in 2007 attracted seven times more FDI than Indonesia, India almost twice as much. Indonesia...
...macroeconomic stability in the country and reconstruction in the country. For that we need international support. We need to restore basic services: schools, hospitals ... We need to restore our productivity of the land. We need to restore Zimbabwe again as part of the family of nations, not as a pariah state. So there is a plan, we have a plan. One does not underestimate the challenges, but that does not mean it cannot be done...
...That may have been unfair to McCain, since the Senator from Arizona won the Republican nomination in much the same way Obama has triumphed - as an outsider, an occasional reformer, a pariah to blowhards like Limbaugh. But it's also true that McCain has a choice to make: in the past month, he has wobbled between the high and low roads, at one point calling Obama the Hamas candidate for President after a member of that group "endorsed" the Senator from Illinois. If McCain wants to maintain his reputation as a politician more honorable than most, he's going...