He passed a liberalized mining code that attracted foreign investment.
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Many trans advocates viewed the liberalized regulations as a victory.
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"Slowly but surely the states have liberalized laws," he added.
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The rule that would be liberalized is not a dogma.
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Liberalized trade has become politically radioactive around much of the globe.
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"He liberalized the economy and brought unification and growth," he said.
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Also, attitudes toward a variety of social issues have generally liberalized.
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Proponents of a liberalized immigration plan will have no more leverage.
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"They will be more exposed once gasoline prices are liberalized," Oviedo said.
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The power market, they say, will be liberalized after the 2018 election.
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Poland has liberalized power prices for companies but still regulates them for households.
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Liberalized trade has opened up markets in poor countries, making unhealthy food cheaper.
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International rating agencies welcomed the joint statement saying restrictions on them would be liberalized.
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Most had come to Canada after the immigration laws were liberalized in the 1970s.
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Among proponents of liberalized trade, the most hopeful history may be the most recent chapter.
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"Farm markets need to be liberalized, farming need to be made more competitive," she said.
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"Farm markets need to be liberalized, farming need to be made more competitive" she said.
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Caroline Norton successfully liberalized marriage, but the later legislation Knox outlines was not so progressive.
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A year later, the new rental law came into force that liberalized the housing market.
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The government has significantly liberalized India's investment regime, removing or raising caps in critical sectors.
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Citizens are yet to be convinced that liberalized trade is what's best for their future.
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At the same time, going from an authoritarian to a liberalized system is very difficult.
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ASMAN: Well, you know, a lot of people, including myself, by the way, Gordon, thought that if you liberalized the economy in China, the way that it happened after Mao, that the political system would become liberalized as well, and this seems to contradict that.
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Only 30 percent of people without such experience favor such a liberalized policy for those medications.
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And, in keeping with liberalized expectations of women, the spinster character is no longer twenty-seven.
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Downballot in this year's election, several more states joined those that had already liberalized marijuana laws.
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While Europe's flexible, liberalized market has helped absorb flows, it has caused havoc in global price dynamics.
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He enshrined Xi Jinping Thought as party ideology, scorning democracy and liberalized economics as decadent Western exports.
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But after economic turbulence in the 228s, maritime trade was liberalized, opening the industry to foreign competition.
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Under NAFTA, Mexico and the United States gradually liberalized sugar trade and by 2008 it was tariff-free.
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There are plenty of countries that have fully liberalized their markets and haven't seen big reductions in poverty.
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The stalemate highlights a fundamental and unresolved problem in China's half-liberalized property regime: who owns the land?
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Liberalized trade has amplified economic growth, but the spoils have been largely monopolized by wealthy and corporate interests.
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It could also lead to more liberalized trade in meat, dairy products, cereals and certain fruits and vegetables.
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He was just trying to make a very highly regulated market more liberalized and open for U.S. businesses.
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Banking became so liberalized and profitable, companies that had once produced or sold goods transformed themselves into banks.
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The Liberalized Remittance Scheme in India has allowed investors to send more capital to the U.K. since 2015.
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Regulations around small businesses were liberalized in 2010 as part of an effort to cut bloated state payrolls.
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Opponents, however, have argued liberalized marijuana laws carry major public safety risks and make pot more accessible to youngsters.
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Analysts had expected German sugar producers, because of their financial strength, to launch takeovers in the newly liberalized market.
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Because of the success of these state reforms, another eight states liberalized their marijuana laws in the 2016 election.
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There is a high likelihood that one of them would exact revenge on Kim in a liberalized North Korea.
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As India's market liberalized in the 2000s, buyers found it easier to obtain mortgages and a building boom followed.
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To this end, Republicans seek to discredit liberalized law enforcement initiatives adopted by a new breed of Democratic prosecutors.
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Meanwhile, as the states have liberalized sports betting, the industry has called for legislation at the US federal level.
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Since 1994 over 30 countries worldwide have liberalized their abortion laws to promote women's health and safeguard their rights.
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In general, they each have sound financial institutions, energetic private sectors, liberalized economies, and strong prospects for sustainable growth.
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Under Wu, Anbang was among China's most active overseas investors after the government liberalized offshore investment rules earlier this decade.
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It is now beyond argument that liberalized trade between wealthy countries and developing countries exposes vulnerable workers to substantial perils.
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"As much as attitudes have liberalized over the past 30 years, this is one that really doesn't budge," she said.
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Why has the fallout been relatively muted in the United States, which does have press freedoms and a liberalized democracy?
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Though Colombia is more politically conservative than many of its neighbors, it has recently liberalized policies on some social issues.
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In 53, a year after India liberalized foreign direct investment in aviation, Tata returned, first with AirAsia and then Vistara.
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The 1967 Abortion Act which liberalized access to abortion in England, Wales, and Scotland has never been extended to Northern Ireland.
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This means there are hundreds of families bent on revenge in a more liberalized regime that does not monitor every movement.
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Those things might still not be considered O.K., but in recent years the N.C.A.A. has liberalized rules regarding treatment of players.
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Brazil is one of the few countries that has liberalized trade overall but it still pulls in $39 billion from tariffs.
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He overhauled the judicial system, liberalized the economy, and eased relations with long-suppressed minorities like the Alevis and the Kurds.
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Mexico liberalized its energy sector in 2014, and has since held nine auctions for oil and gas fields both onshore and offshore.
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But, I would say, you know, China was moving in the '90s and in the 2000s toward market policies, toward liberalized pricing.
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The EU's rail freight market was liberalized in 2007 and the Commission said Lithuanian Railways showed no justification for dismantling the track.
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Since 1984, dozens of countries around the world have liberalized their abortion laws and worked to integrate abortion into their healthcare system.
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A more liberalized Saudi Arabia could attract professional services firms which currently base their staff in Dubai or Bahrain for lifestyle reasons.
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The International Franchise Association, which opposes the liberalized definition of joint employer established in 2015, also expressed unease with the settlement agreement.
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Opponents of liberalized marijuana laws have argued that such measures carry public safety risks and would make pot more accessible to youngsters.
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This form of transport has mushroomed in France as a low-cost alternative since the Socialist government liberalized that business last year.
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They offer a note of caution against the proposition that liberalized trade and investment alone can deliver the developing world from poverty.
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My grandfather stayed loyal to Rome -- although he was critical of the changes of Vatican II, which liberalized the church just slightly.
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India has moved away from the paranoid 1970s to a liberalized economy and is embracing the United States and global financial institutions.
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Police and protesters have been clashing for months over concerns the mainland Chinese government is eroding Hong Kong's more liberalized political system.
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Part of this is due to a 21 decree that liberalized rules governing imports and starting businesses, which fueled actual economic development.
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Nordzucker said earlier this year that it was considering acquisitions in the changed trading environment after the European Union liberalized its sugar market.
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Vietnam, which liberalized its economy beginning in the 1980s, in many ways represents the future the Trump administration is encouraging Kim to pursue.
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"Visas can only be liberalized if all the conditions are met and I remind you there are 72 of them," Hollande told reporters.
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Under a conservative-led government in 2012, Greece froze the mechanism of collective bargaining, cut minimum wages and liberalized rules covering mass layoffs.
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Before 6900, abortions upon request were effectively illegal in the U.S. Only 2628 states liberalized their anti-abortion laws to include certain exceptions.
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Opinion polls show attitudes have shifted more in favor of liberalized marijuana laws since California voters defeated a recreational cannabis initiative in 2010.
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Opponents of liberalized marijuana laws have argued that such measures carry major public safety risks and would make pot more accessible to youngsters.
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The point of the bill seemed to be to pretend that infanticide, which is already illegal, is a consequence of liberalized abortion laws.
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The Bolsheviks also liberalized divorce laws, guaranteed reproductive rights and attempted to socialize domestic labor by investing in public laundries and people's canteens.
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Under a conservative-led government, Greece froze the mechanism of collective bargaining in 2012, cut minimum wages and liberalized rules covering mass layoffs.
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Or is it an anti-censorship statement which suggests sexuality should be liberalized and presents public nudity as an anarchic way of achieving that?
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The second argument is that pursuit of liberalized trade and immigration policies has a short-term benefit for capital owners, but long-term costs.
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Trump's threats to get tough come after decades of liberalized trade deals and lower tariffs helped boost import and export traffic around the world.
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The bilateral deals had been much less important, in part because we're making bilateral deals with countries that had already liberalized quite a bit.
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As states have liberalized the use of marijuana, CBD-related products such as oils, lotions, chocolates and even dog food have stormed the market.
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To the south, once staunchly conservative Ireland legalized same-sex marriage in 2015 and liberalized its abortion laws in a separate referendum last year.
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As prime minister Mr. Nordli advocated a progressive social-democratic platform, including full sick pay; liberalized the nation's abortion laws; and empowered organized labor.
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The drought of drug-free bodies isn't just affecting places with liberalized marijuana laws like Colorado—where marijuana use can still get you fired.
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Theft escalated in recent years following reforms to the country's oil sector by previous President Enrique Pena Nieto, who liberalized the industry for foreign investment.
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Taiwan politically liberalized and democratized — as did South Korea and other Asian authoritarian states — and it powered the island's economy to a fully developed level.
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Further, recent bilateral talks updated the agreement to include fast-growing sectors, such as the digital economy and access to Mexico's recently liberalized energy market.
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Successive administrations in the United States, led by Democrats and Republicans alike, have embraced liberalized trade as a central component of the nation's foreign policy.
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And in late 2014, after a sustained decade-long effort, Mozambique liberalized its laws to permit abortion without restrictions or reasons during the first trimester.
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Certainly, that is its own specific context, but it is a liberalized one that aims to be highly transportable and legible to any arts audience.
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" Belgium likewise says that the US "presents no particular risk to the traveler" but "as the use of firearms is largely liberalized, crimes are often violent.
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Meanwhile, the government raised taxes significantly, liberalized the labor market, laid off civil servants, reduced salaries for public workers as well as pensions and social services.
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Small shopkeepers in Italy have long sought to overturn a 2012 bill that liberalized Sunday trading, saying their businesses face unfair competition from the big malls.
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Some of the bunkers, which were handed over to neighborhood authorities in the 2000s, when the country's economy was liberalized, were turned into shops or offices.
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This was interpreted to mean that countries that had tried to industrialize by protecting domestic markets could achieve Asian-type growth rates if they liberalized trade.
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Moreover, no state or country that has liberalized marijuana laws either through decriminalization or outright legalization has experienced anything like the nightmare scenarios predicted by prohibitionists.
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He also wants to produce a variety of maple-derived, marijuana-infused products, and he is hoping that the law will be liberalized as demand grows.
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China has said it will start trial trading in interest rate options next month to meet risk-management demand in an increasingly liberalized interest rate market.
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China has said it will start trial trading in interest rate options next month to meet risk-management demand in an increasingly liberalized interest rate market.
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On one hand, support for liberalized immigration policies, including a path to legal status and citizenship for the undocumented, is crucial to winning support from Hispanic voters.
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Trade with Jordan is already so liberalized that little can be done to improve it besides freeing agricultural commodities — a big potential employer of lower-skilled Syrians.
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Haiyou is the first bankruptcy by a teapot refinery since China liberalized oil imports in 2015 to increase competition in a sector dominated by state-owned giants.
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Saudi Arabia, which is trying to project a more liberalized image, recently lifted a 35-year-old ban on movies; theaters are expected to be built soon.
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The labor setup is key to an elaborate cost-cutting strategy that Mr. O'Leary pioneered in the mid-1990s, when the European air travel market was liberalized.
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While every woman I spoke to supported the rights of women to wear more liberalized fashion trends, most remained in black abayas — including at the fashion shows.
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Italy's retail gas and electricity market is due to be fully liberalized in July 2020 and energy companies are vying for market share ahead of that date.
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That development push, in the first decade after Mr. Assad took over from his father in 2000, liberalized parts of Syria's economy and energized the tourism industry.
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"Probably, Japanese farmers are not necessarily so much encouraging the more liberalized movement," noted Terada Takashi, a visiting professor specializing in international relations at National University of Singapore.
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Even though pot is still illegal in New York, some changes in enforcement—overwhelmingly applied to white marijuana users in wealthier areas—have created an unevenly liberalized environment.
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When India liberalized its economy in 1991 and opened up its aviation sector to private players, Goyal seized his chance and Jet Airways began operating in May 1993.
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Long claimed that the world's second largest economy took a different approach, and "liberalized the markets for trade and foreign investments" and discussed ways to promote international cooperation.
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Under that bill, the definition of prior drug convictions would be re-defined and liberalized, and mandatory minimum sentences for second and third drug convictions would be reduced.
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He has successfully appealed to middle- and lower-income white voters motivated by opposition to liberalized attitudes and social norms on matters of race, immigration and women's rights.
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"The European market is almost entirely liberalized, meaning you can fly from one market to another without any particular restrictions," says Oliver Clark of aviation website Flight Radar.
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Najib Razak also announced that margin financing rules would be liberalized and intra-day short selling allowed for all investors in Malaysia's market to make it more attractive.
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But most economic theory has shown that liberalized trade leads to cheaper goods, increased wages, and higher GDP on the global scale, while isolationism has the opposite effect.
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A market in the billions As states have liberalized the use of marijuana, CBD-related products such as oils, lotions, chocolates and even dog food have stormed the market.
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The latest findings underscore the complexity of the cocktail of chemicals found within the marijuana plant, at a time when cannabis laws are becoming more liberalized in many countries.
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The clamp-down, which marks the biggest regulatory change in the UK gambling industry since rules were liberalized in 2005, was welcomed by charities, the church and opposition politicians.
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China and Vietnam, on the other hand, liberalized their political systems a tiny bit when they opened their economies, but have so far largely maintained single-party authoritarian rule.
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Such a push, they write, would require "reversing robust political and economic trends" in places like the US or Europe, such as liberalized electricity markets and declining public investment.
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Property rights have been liberalized to permit homeownership, and behind the party's formidable internet firewall, entrepreneurs have built a politics-free, app-friendly economy that even apparatchiks can like.
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The 40-year-old, who liberalized French coach bus travel and Sunday trading in a former post as a minister, has eased labor protections since taking office a year ago.
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In his single term in the Oval Office, George H.W. Bush presided over the end of the Cold War and liberalized international trade, signing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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And even if goods trade was totally liberalized, it might still be useful to have a written agreement on liberalizing trade in services, rather than a blank sheet, Azevedo said.
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"The transition into the (EU's) liberalized sugar market is stamped with hard competition and a massive price fall," Gorissen said in a statement on the non-listed company's financial results.
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"It is vital, especially now that cannabis is becoming increasingly liberalized, that we explore alternative and innovative ways by which we can reduce and mitigate cannabis related harms," Englund said.
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Trump had also liberalized trade by scrapping broadband privacy rules, allowing Internet service providers to commercialize user data without explicit permission from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the report said.
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Trade flows between the U.S., Mexico and Canada escalated substantially under the more liberalized trading regime post NAFTA, supporting five million new jobs and wage gains in all three countries.
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Indeed, China has not liberalized, "contrary to our hopes" in the 2017 national security strategy, after decades of efforts to facilitate Chinese economic growth and welcome it into multilateral institutions.
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Individual states have liberalized marijuana in various ways over the past few decades, yet conflicts have often arisen between federal and state law enforcement agencies working under different legal regimes.
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The real scope of Chinese cuisine became apparent to Americans only in the competitive-cooking era of the late 1960s and 1970s, which coincided with liberalized immigration policy after 1965.
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Second, the privatization "appears to be a step away from the regulator's policy to separate 'nationalized' public transport infrastructure from a more liberalized and 'market-based' environment for operators," Osman said.
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Felber said that waning support for liberalized trade and markets was a function of the perception that companies are reaping big profits without tangible benefits for the rest of the population.
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It will be impossible for example for the U.K. to not tighten controls on EU migration and rules for non EU migrants are due to be tightened further rather than liberalized.
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The main concern about this liberalized definition is that it could theoretically make it more difficult for casual observers to discern whether truly enormous public rampages are actually on the rise.
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As a gas and electricity provider trying to build its share in a competitive and liberalized power market, Tokyo Gas needs to compete with cheaper baseload coal-fired power, he said.
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Campaigns like "Invest India" and "Choose France" appear closer in spirit to Trump's zero-sum world view than the idea that all gain from a liberalized market in goods and services.
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One of the biggest risks for the energy sector is for follow through on some of AMLO's campaign promises that are in direct opposition to the way liberalized energy markets work.
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Even before Trump took office, the engine of global trade had been slowing after decades of liberalized trade deals and lower tariffs helped boost import and export traffic around the world.
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"Under a more liberalized policy, more independent and foreign companies will join the investment that will make China more self-sufficient in chemicals," said William Chen, chemicals analyst at IHS Markit.
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Abortion and homosexual law reform made 1967 the standout year but ministers also ended theater censorship in 1968, liberalized divorce law in 1969 and passed the Equal Pay Act in 1970.
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A decade after France liberalized it energy sector, former monopoly EDF still holds around an 85 percent share of the retail power market, with most of its customers on regulated tariffs.
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The majority rejected the view, pressed by opponents of liberalized abortion, that a fetus becomes a "person" upon conception and is thus entitled to the due process and equal protection guarantees.
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The UK's proposals include "an Air Transport Agreement which seeks to maintain reciprocal liberalized aviation access between and within the territory of the UK and the EU, alongside UK participation in EASA".
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And a lot of countries liberalized their economy, their society, their politics over the past 50 years, more because they were convinced of the efficiency argument than of the deep, moral argument.
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"Even if the taxi industry was liberalized, there wouldn't be any room for Uber," Villadsen said and referred to recommendations on Wednesday in Sweden saying profit-making ride-sharing should be illegal.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Planned Mexican budget cuts in 2017 will be spread across ministries, and gas prices will be gradually liberalized next year, new Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade said on Thursday.
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The lesson Beijing took from the Cold War's end was that the Soviet Union had failed because it had liberalized its economy too little and its politics too much – a fatal combination.
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His brother did expand the number of allowable self-employed activities, but only professions requiring low skills were liberalized; huge restrictions on hiring and financing remain in place, and taxation is onerous.
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Earlier in the Obama presidency, the United States government liberalized rules on sending money transfers to Cuba, and much of it informally financed the re-emergence of a Cuban private business sector.
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This has allowed him to accelerate reforms requested by Western allies that would have previously have faced local opposition, such as wider labor rights and a liberalized investment code for foreign ownership.
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In Tuesday's order, the Judicial Council of the 10th Circuit said it had "greatly liberalized" the standards for accepting complaints, even accepting postcards as long as they identified who had filed the claim.
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His mother, Charlotte Caldwell, has called for the laws governing medicinal marijuana use in Britain to be liberalized, saying cannabis oil is the only treatment that has warded off her son&aposs seizures.
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Opening up more of its procurement market to foreign companies -- and getting access to foreign markets for its own companies in exchange -- would be a big step towards a more liberalized Chinese economy.
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"While the gains from a liberalized trade regime are not guaranteed, the alternative of trying to achieve a high standard of living by following a policy of economic isolationism will fail," he said.
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Myers, who researches the social and economic effects of reproductive health policies, said liberalized access to abortion in the 70s reduced the fraction of women who gave birth before 19 by a third.
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For instance, just as Dubrovnik was making headway in battling overcrowding from cruises, Croatian lawmakers liberalized the country's taxi laws, and the number of Uber drivers spiked, especially along the country's scenic coast.
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Instead, patients should be positioned to pay directly for more of their drugs with cheaper, higher deductible drug coverage, coupled with larger, liberalized health savings accounts, including specifically for seniors, the biggest consumers.
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Such was the strategy of the leaders at the time, a group that would be further liberalized after the death of Yugoslavia's lifelong president, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, in the spring of 1980.
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"If we were to liberalize services to the same degree as we have liberalized (trade in) goods, these balances would be cut in half for the United States and for the UK," Carney added.
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"We are looking optimistically into the new era of the liberalized EU sugar market and we are forecasting higher revenues for our sugar sector in the free EU sugar market," a Suedzucker spokesman said.
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Competition in the French retail electricity and gas market is heating up, over a decade after the market was liberalized with new players including energy giant Total and retail group Casino, launching discounted offers.
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The speech warned against giving in to the growing protectionist mood reflected in the new parliament, which he said could reverse gains made by the country since it liberalized its economy two decades ago.
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That would reverse a century of tough-on-pot policy coming out of Congress, reflected most recently in efforts by some members of Congress to squash the District of Columbia's own liberalized marijuana law.
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The government's next move is to implement policies such as tax reductions and to improve the protection of intellectual property rights, according to Miao, adding that the general manufacturing sector will be fully liberalized.
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Abandoning the quest to replicate human anatomy and embracing liberalized design dovetails with a move away from scandalous packaging and provocative designs to sleek modernism—things the average consumer wouldn't be ashamed to own.
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They have reaffirmed that agreement at the United Nations virtually every year since, and all but three or four countries have liberalized their reproductive health laws and policies, paving the way for lifesaving services.
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Sporadic looting broke out earlier this month after reports that gasoline and food prices were about to be hiked, and angry posts filled social media, echoing unrest last year after the government liberalized fuel prices.
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The European Union liberalized its sugar market in September, ending its system of guaranteed minimum prices and protected production quotas, giving producers freedom to expand and export more and linking EU prices to world markets.
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After decades of discrete and careful diplomacy, it is now seeking to extend its political, military and economic influence into Europe and Africa and offers developing nations an alternative model to the West's liberalized societies.
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Shirtless Trudeau is the face of a liberalized personality cult, packaged for a pliant media and sold to a generation of shallow, narcissistic Millennials who love selfies more than the noble customs of Western civilisation.
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China's economy has liberalized significantly in recent decades, but it's a country that flagrantly disregards all kinds of global trade rules, from denying market access to foreign companies to subsidizing many of its key industries.
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Under the new scheme, liberalized fuel prices would spread to other northern states by June 15, where infrastructure already exists to import fuels, and then to high-consuming central and southern states by late November.
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The ultimate hope is that sustained diplomatic engagement and liberalized trade will encourage ordinary Chinese citizens to engage in political activism, leading them (rather than the US) to create the pressure necessary to change their government.
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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde earlier this month said that Egypt needed to take "prior actions" including steps toward a more liberalized exchange rate and reduce fuel subsidies before the IMF board could approve the program.
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For example, a 2010 study by political scientists Brittany Bramlett, James Gimpel, and Frances Lee found that people who live in neighborhoods that supply large numbers of high donors are more supportive of liberalized immigration policies.
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When doomsday predictions about right to carry do not come true, states that have liberalized their laws look at their own experience, and the experience of other states, and decide that further liberalization is in order.
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North Korean coal producers and coal trading houses are allowed to decide prices and volumes for export, even though they are owned by the state and don't operate in a fully liberalized market, one trader said.
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Gun safety groups are pushing back, blocking liberalized gun measures in Montana and Florida this year even as the number of states legalizing guns on campuses, among the safest places in the nation, rose to 10.
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Demand for bank credit is also held back by poor rate transmission, Sun said, noting that the PBOC continues to publish benchmark deposit and loan rates that are not in line with partially liberalized market rates.
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The evidence on alcohol substitution is mixed: A 2015 study by UCLA researcher Rosanna Smart linked liberalized marijuana policies to fewer alcohol and opioid deaths among older adults, but more alcohol deaths among adolescents and young adults.
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Smaller independent or "teapot" refiners have enjoyed strong growth in recent years as China liberalized oil imports to increase competition in a sector dominated by state-owned giants, but their expansion has been curbed by tighter conditions.
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More than three decades after Switzerland liberalized property purchases for foreigners, and amid concern that foreign demand helps drive up prices, the cabinet said it was time to update the law to close loopholes and improve enforcement.
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In January, Reuters reported that newly liberalized issuance rules had resulted in a flood of high-yielding private placement bonds onto the Shanghai exchange, undermining government efforts to police risks in other areas, such as shadow banking.
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Quick take: The result, in a GE survey of 2,090 executives in 20 major economies, diverges from seven decades of broad business support for liberalized trade, which mainstream economists believe has powered rising prosperity and shrinking poverty.
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More than one in four people under the age of 30 are unemployed - one of the central grievances of protesters who want the economy liberalized and diversified to reduce its reliance on its oil and gas production.
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Then, in 2300, the country embarked upon a series of difficult steps in return for an international bailout of 21 billion euros, or $2200 billion, among them a new rental law that liberalized the capital's housing market.
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The movie market is one of dozens of industries Indonesia liberalized last week in a "Big Bang" shake-up that one minister called the largest opening of Southeast Asia's biggest economy to foreign investors in 10 years.
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In June, China's Cabinet said certain sectors, including telecommunications, airports as well as oil and gas exploration, would be further liberalized, after data showed investment by private firms slowed to a record low in the January-May period.
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As part of its quest to attract foreign investment, Zimbabwe's new government has liberalized indigenisation laws for many minerals but still limits foreign ownership of platinum and diamond projects to a minority, with the state holding 51 percent.
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VANCOUVER (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 50 countries have liberalized their abortion laws in the last quarter century, a map released by the Center for Reproductive Rights showed on Tuesday, despite a flurry of restrictions passed by U.S. states.
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With cannabis laws becoming more liberalized in many countries - particularly the United States - there is also an urgent need for more detailed and accurate scientific studies to explore how cannabis use can be made safer, the experts said.
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And recruiting matters perhaps more than ever because of several trends: better high school football, which produces more game-ready freshmen; better college development, which enables more underclassmen to enter the N.F.L.; liberalized transfer rules, which accelerate churn.
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"They liberalized the labor market, but they did not put the social protections in place at the same time," said Mr. Aghion, who believes when governments undertake structural changes to the economy, they must help people through them.
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India has further liberalized its foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for many sectors, opening new avenues for global investors and giants such as Apple as Asia's third-largest economy attempts to jump-start its years-low economic growth.
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India was next with over 280 followed by Argentina, Russia and Japan all with between 2401 and 239, while only three countries - Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia - had liberalized trade rules on a net basis over the period.
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The President would go into the midterm elections claiming that he achieved the "grand bargain," which eluded his predecessors, with legislation that liberalized certain parts of immigration while giving the hard-line right everything else that it wanted.
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A decision would require "competitive and stable fiscal terms, a liberalized Romanian gas market that enables free trade, and sufficient interconnectivity with neighboring free and liquid markets, in each case, for the duration of our concession agreement," King said.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese airlines will be able to set their own prices on more than 300 routes after the aviation regulator further liberalized fees in a major step forward for reform of the world's fastest-growing civil aviation market.
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More than one in four people under the age of 30, some 70 percent of the population, are unemployed - one of the central grievances of protesters who want the economy liberalized and diversified to reduce its reliance on energy.
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It is also historical that it is the first time when LNG brought through [the Klaipėda terminal will] be stored in Inčukalns natural gas storage facility in Latvia, where the gas market was liberalized just a few months ago.
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The EU is a member of the WTO's government procurement (GPA) agreement, whose members have liberalized access to each other's procurement markets, with an estimated $1.7 trillion annual spend, but Britain is not a member in its own right.
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But supporters say this is unlikely to happen as pay levels are similar on both sides of the Atlantic and while Germany has opposed a liberalized wet-lease regime with the United States, most other member states are in favor.
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In a bid to spur economic growth, the then Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti liberalized Sunday trading in 2012, despite pressure from the Roman Catholic Church and unions who said the country needed to keep its traditional day of rest.
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According to Shek, who studied brewing at Heriot Watt University in Scotland, the government liberalized brewing laws but has yet to promulgate any new regulations, so he had to acquire 7.5 acres of land for his planned 80-hectoliter brewery.
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Under the the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement — also known as CEPA — Hong Kong enjoys highly liberalized trade in goods and services with China and has since become the gateway to the Chinese market for many international companies.
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Dharmendra Pradhan, minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, said the new hydrocarbon exploration and licensing policy (Help) and a liberalized gas price regime would help reduce India's heavy dependence on imported energy over the next 10-15 years.
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Congress and a whole list of presidential administrations have diligently liberalized trade, creating first the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, then the World Trade Organization (WTO), while also entering into regional pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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By the mid 1970s, the Tanzanian economy had fallen into a deep crisis—only to be taken down deeper when the government pulled a 180 and seemingly overnight became one of the most liberalized countries in Africa in the 1980s.
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Although Washington has liberalized rules to allow U.S. and foreign firms - including Airbus - to seek licenses to sell passenger jets to Iran on a case-by-case basis, Boeing and other U.S. companies have displayed little appetite to take the lead.
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On the day of the grand opening, Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, spoke at the building's dedication, lauding it as an example of "spatial democratization" in Taiwan, which liberalized its political system in the 1990s after four decades of martial law.
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The economy was partially liberalized since 1994, and more so under Mr. Bouteflika, but it has largely served the ruling elite and its clients, who were granted generous loans, privileges and custom-made monopolies in return for their loyalty and support.
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Norwegian also set its sights on Argentina, which had liberalized its aviation sector in the late 2010s and saw numerous low-cost airlines set up shop, opening its latest subsidiary Norwegian Air Argentina and launching flights between London and Buenos Aires.
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For decades, dogmatic free traders wielding the policy levers in both Democratic and Republican administrations made extravagant promises about the magical, wealth-enhancing powers of liberalized markets while largely neglecting those thrown out of work by an influx of cheap imports.
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In 2016, the Supreme Court split 4-4 on whether President Obama could implement his Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents ("DAPA") program, which would have liberalized American immigration policy beyond actions already taken for young immigrants.
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Corresponding with and encouraging NCRI and other opposition groups will prove to be incredibly consequential in terms of strengthening motivation for Iranian activism in the future, and will begin to pave the long path for the emergence of a more liberalized government.
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More than one in four people under the age of 30, some 70 percent of the population, are unemployed - one of the central grievances of protesters who want the economy liberalized and diversified to reduce its reliance on its oil and gas production.
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"The number of customers switching is encouraging and the pick-up in JEPX activity levels is also welcome news as building capacity in the wholesale market will be key to ensuring success in liberalized markets," said Tom O'Sullivan of energy consultancy Mathyos Japan.
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Many other Irish laws have been liberalized in the last two decades — in part to align with broader legislation of the European Union and in part because of the church's waning influence, including a groundbreaking vote to legalize gay marriage in 2015.
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Speaking to a forum in Beijing, Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Guy Debelle said the experience of Australia and other countries suggested it can be beneficial to set up a strong prudential supervision framework before the financial sector and capital account are fully liberalized.
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With Mexico's population nearing 130 million and energy demand growing rapidly, its Pemex petroleum company was recently liberalized, paving the way for American asset managers BlackRock and First Reserve to close a major deal last year to fund a gas pipeline from Texas into Mexico.
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The 10-member bloc launched the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) initiative last year in a bid to unite Southeast Asia into a single market and production base, with a focus on free trade in goods and services, free flow of skilled labor and liberalized investment.
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The "sending jobs abroad" critique is reminiscent of Smoot-Hawley-esque protectionism, and the fact that it is rearing its head in the presidential election shows that we may be forgetting important lessons that the 90s have taught on the benefits of liberalized trade.
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While Sinn Fein said after Friday's vote in Ireland that the campaign for liberalized abortion laws would spread to the north, traditionally all political parties in Northern Ireland have been against allowing abortion, said Eleanor Crossey Malone, an organizer of ROSA, an abortion rights group.
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"There was a fear that a court case taken to the Irish courts, or then the European courts, would liberalize abortion in the same way access to contraceptives had been [liberalized]," Mary McAuliffe, a professor of gender studies at University College Dublin, told me.
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"China's best-case scenario, what it would really like to happen, would be a liberalized regime in the North, akin to some of the reforms that took place (in China) in the 1980s, so introducing economic reform, removing the concentrated power of the Kim family," Neill said.
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Likewise, Beijing's attempts to freeze out the only previous DPP president, Chen Shui-bian, forced Chen to make an abrupt about-face; he went from advocating liberalized cross-strait economic ties in his first term to pursuing a referendum on Taiwan's UN membership in his second.
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The 2016 election results illustrate the longer-term trend of liberalized cities: About 22 percent of the 65 million votes Clinton received nationwide came from the 21625 most populous counties alone, a larger share than any Democratic presidential nominee has won in the last seven elections.
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At the same time, it would put an end to an all-but-unique experiment in Western public policy: an attempt to combine explicitly pro-life laws and generally pro-family policy making with a liberalized modern economy and the encouragement of female independence and advancement.
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In addition to the revival of diplomatic relations for the first time in a half-century and liberalized rules for trade, travel and commerce, the new approach has paved the way for cooperation in intelligence-sharing, drug interdiction, scientific research and a host of other areas.
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Liberalizing the UK As prime minister, Wilson oversaw a number of historic moves that liberalized the United Kingdom, including the abolition of the death penalty, the legalization of abortion, the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, the outlawing of racial discrimination, and the initial decriminalization of homosexuality.
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Such threats can be neutralized, or at least kept in check, by pushing for a liberalization of the digital economy in the same way previously rounds of free trade talks liberalized the physical economy, limiting the ability of national governments to regulate, protect local industries and oversee multinationals.
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The bottom line: With the world's two largest economies weakening each other through a potentially protracted trade war, Juncker's dealmaking has put the EU in position to take the reins on the future of global trade, and given fresh legs to hopes for globalization and liberalized international trade.
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Instead, empowering older people to seek value with their money with more flexible coverage and larger, liberalized health savings accounts, stimulating competition among doctors and hospitals, and increasing the supply of medical care will generate what Americans most value and expect from health care — access, choice and quality.
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It has almost always been a minor chord in American politics, but it has flared from time to time — with the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the harsh restrictions on southern and eastern Europeans in 1924, and again today, 50 years after Lyndon Johnson liberalized immigration policy in 1965.
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Add to that a longstanding antipathy for regulation, high instances of irregular unemployment and fragmented systems of employment protection, and the fact that nonstandard employment has been significantly liberalized by successive labor market reforms since the mid-1990s, and the result is further isolation for those working on the margins.
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Britain is generally perceived as a liberalized economy, and by some measures of labor market performance this is no doubt true: Non-wage labor costs, such as employer contributions, are low and it is easy to lay off workers, which reduces the costs of taking them on in the first place.
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Opposition to the surge of non-European, nonwhite immigration is a bedrock of the Trump campaign, a crucial element of his attack on political correctness and a key component of the loyalty he elicits from noncollege, middle- and lower-income voters opposed to liberalized immigration — voters who believe they have been dispossessed.
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"To say definitively there's a new wave of designers is a bit of a stretch," said Meher Varma, a graduate student in the anthropology department at U.C.L.A. who has conducted a study of Indian fashion in the years since the country's trade policies were first liberalized in the late 1980s and early '90s.
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Compared even to China, at a comparable stage of its development, so China liberalized about 10 years earlier, so it's sort of 10, 20 years ahead, but if you take India and China when their economies were about the same size, then India has 10 times as many billionaires as China did then.
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Ousted autocrats have been replaced by leaders who also failed to create jobs, and eradicate poverty and corruption More than one in four people below the age of 30 in Algeria are unemployed - a central grievance of protesters who want the economy liberalized and diversified to reduce reliance on oil and gas.
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The United Nations, NATO and liberalized trade have been the pillars of Canada's foreign policy since 1945; Canada has imposed sanctions on Russia (Freeland, a Russian speaker of Ukrainian ancestry, is barred from travel to Russia for her criticism of its annexation of Crimea.) Canada supports the Iranian nuclear deal and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Direct-to-consumer empowerment Even the best versions of capped funding and liberalized waiver authority that limit the role of the federal government in health care program reform still essentially hand off too many important decisions concerning health benefit levels from one set of government officials at the federal level to other policy makers at the state level.
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The hope, for those like Strong, is that these experiments will not only alleviate global poverty, but show otherwise oppressive nations a better way forward—a concrete oasis that paves a path to more liberalized future governance—but it's unclear if that's been the case in any of the dozens of countries currently hosting an SEZ.
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If Democrats want to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, and protect the Dreamers from being deported, they need to agree to an extraordinarily restrictive and reactionary set of policies that will close the borders to millions of others and end the liberalized immigration policies that the nation has had on the books since 1965.
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The first is to look at the impact in hybrid regimes, or countries that have adopted some form of democratic rule but have not fully liberalized: If we go globally and think about populism around the world, we can clearly see how it's been succeeding in creative real disruptive changes — whether it's in Turkey or Hungary or Venezuela or the Philippines.
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Liberalized capital rules and investors taking a global "scan" mean the fortunes of the U.S. economy and Fed policy are now tied to the world economy; productivity is lagging with no reason to expect it to surge; demographic change may be weighing on demand as baby boomers scale back; and political risk, from Brexit to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is just the latest in a series of reasons businesses may hesitate to invest.
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Here, Congress adopted tax legislation that slashed the corporate tax rate (from 35 percent to 21 percent), further liberalized tax benefits for investment and permitted the "repatriation" of some $2.4 trillion of offshore investments – all at a projected revenue cost to the Treasury Department, according to the CRS's sister organization the Congressional Budget Office, of roughly $1.9 trillion over the next 10 years (including additional interest on the national debt and taking into account the TCJA's projected economic growth effects).
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"JetBlue's success in delivering low fare competition across our network of 90 markets, including more than two dozen international destinations, has not only been enabled by our deregulated domestic aviation market but also by America's liberalized and innovative Open Skies aviation policy which is intended to foster the same competitive benefits in the international aviation arena," wrote Robert Land, JetBlue's senior vice president of government affairs and associate general counsel, in a 85033 comment letter in favor of the U.S. agreement with Qatar and UAE.
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