Word: sustainibility
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...adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Friedman called himself cautiously optimistic about whether China’s growth could continue in the face of threats such as overproduction, dramatic rises in income inequality, and bad lending practices. “If the Chinese are able to sustain the level of growth that they have experienced, [they] will liberalize and democratize, which does not mean that their liberal democracy will look like ours,” he added. The event’s other main speaker, Yasheng Huang, an associate professor of international management at MIT, contrasted developments...
Should we expect any change from your husband's administration, or do you plan to continue his course? Under him Argentina has had unheard-of macroeconomic achievements - not only growth but a historic restructuring of Argentina's foreign debt, especially with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order to sustain that growth. So I'd say we've already experienced a huge change under President Kirchner. Now we can build on it with things like improved education and a system of national public health...
...billions of dollars in Argentine debt are still insisting on restructuring terms that leave them with less heavy losses. Our restructuring plan isn't something capricious. In fact, it's based on economic and, more important, capitalist rationality, because we've determined it's the only way we can sustain the economic growth that the IMF, which was the original devil in this whole situation, had always insisted on from the beginning. There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses...
...leadership roles. "There's a lot of soul searching in our movement right now," says J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine, because of the spectacle of highly successful preachers losing their way. "There's a saying, 'Your anointing can take you to a place where your character cannot sustain you.' I'm hearing that a lot more often these days...
Taylor said the increase was warranted, adding that while the pub was not established to make a profit, it could not sustain the revenue lost on each drink...