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While it may be true that «minority firm owners are less likely to have bank loans of any kind, they have easy access to transaction loans from nonbanks,» Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in a paper last year.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation, PutinCon was the first event of its kind — a meeting of dissidents and journalists; of people who've been robbed by the Kremlin; of former soldiers who've seen too much; of prosecutors and politicians who know too much; of Russians and Europeans and Americans (North and South) who had enough of Putin's interference and violence.

According to the OECD, 45.7 percent of American adults between the ages of 25 and 64 have completed some kind of tertiary education in the form of a two - year degree, four - year degree or vocational program.

At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American society: an isolated act committed by a person with a shaky grip on reality.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has long been a force in American politics, but it wasn't always the kind of organization that came up in everyday conversation.

In recent years, the Sunshine State has become a kind of permanent American freak show, home to zombie face - eaters, and vigilante security guards who shoot black teens for wearing suspicious sweatshirts.

The specter of Google, Apple, Uber, Tesla, Lyft, or even Zoox cornering the future market of How Americans Get Around has created two kinds of paranoia in Detroit: a fear of taking on too much risk and a fear of not taking on enough.

But they're also the kind of cyberbullying that can wreak havoc on mental health, especially among young Americans — ironic considering that First Lady Melania Trump has expressed a desire to combat cyberbullying while still defending her husband, including the latest Morning Joe tweets.

«Any time we get bogged down on these kinds of issues unrelated to the governing agenda, it serves to delay and to sometimes complicate the real job that we have to do for the American people,» Womack said.

«I'll say something to all of you guys that I think the American people need to hear... he's really evaluating talent and so if people in the United States have lived the American dream and have been able to amass that kind of wealth, well certainly they're super talented or in what the president - elect says they're actually killers,» he said during a gaggle at Trump Tower, according to a pool report.

And that likely precludes any big shifts in economic policy, whether it's weaning the treasury off its resource dependency with a sales tax or imposing the kind of greenhouse gas emissions regime that would satisfy the Americans.

It means having a chance at the kind of life described in 1931 by James Truslow Adams when he coined the term «American Dream»: a life that's «better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.»

Do ordinary Americans have the right to bear arms, and if so what kinds should and shouldn't be allowed?

With only the two upper quintiles of American households seeing any kind of meaningful income growth, and the bottom three quintiles still feeling the lingering effects of the recession, the holiday spending landscape has likely become bifurcated.

Every American car brand, including Tesla, has some kind of on - or off - road truck or SUV, and many of them are delivering higher transaction prices and selling better than companies expected.

The problem with arguing that Afghanistan will become a haven for terrorists is that it is exactly the kind of open - ended, fight everywhere justification for forever war that the American people have opposed since at least 2008.

DUBNER: So, to summarize your overall argument about our rise and fall of American growth: would it be an overstatement to say that there was a lot of low - hanging fruit — physical and labor, and all other kinds of fruit that we picked beautifully and ate hungrily, and we did really well with — and that those things, once used up, that kind of gain will never appear again as far as you can see?

Unfortunately, millions of Americans don't have that kind of buffer against financial hardship.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

Unfortunately, we haven't seen here the kind of introspection now surfacing in the American media — or the kind of analysis you've provided in these two pieces and for which I (as a journalist and teacher) am grateful.

Common Cause, the left - leaning watchdog group, strongly believes that the McDougal payment was not a legitimate press function, and has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against both Trump and American Media Inc. over the payment, calling it «an illegal corporate in - kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.»

After the backlash, Trump issued a rare conciliatory statement and spoke to Panamanian press, insisting that he was simply criticizing the negotiating abilities of American politicians and that «if I were from Panama, I'd try and make the same kind of a deal, I respect that.»

American diplomats feared that socialist systems had certain inherent strengths in shaping their particular kind of markets to avoid a rentier overhead.

During this time we often also see informal kinds of partial debt forgiveness, for example when sovereign borrowers have repurchased their obligations in the secondary market at steep discounts, often secretly, or exchanged their obligations for other assets at a discount, for example the famous debt / equity swaps in several Latin American countries in the 1980s (see footnote 3).

When asked by Yahoo Finance how one gets that kind of opportunity, Munger said, «I have a very nice young Chinese - American who helps me.

«I think we'll have a run on raw materials of all kinds because we've taught people all around the world how to play capitalism,» he says, «and all those people want to live like Americans.

The conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, which backed the tax cut, has compiled a list of more than 100 companies that have announced some kind of financial benefit for employees resulting from the tax cut.

A family connection to law enforcement is not the kind of thing that has traditionally been viewed as discrediting in American life — and certainly not as discrediting in conservative political circles — but things are changing in the Trump era.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

Since they never once suggest that the debt incurred to fund deficit spending should be repaid in kind, as Keynes would have insisted, the only reasonable scenario would be for the FOMC to eventually make QE a permanent feature of the American political economy.

When asked how one gets into that kind of investing opportunity, Munger said, «I have a very nice young Chinese - American who helps me.

It has to do with the fact that as Americans, we must, MUST get the Zionists out of any kind of power within the United States if we want to save our home.

Comparing the treatment of Christianity in 42 and SPRING BREAKERS indicates that Americans have become more secular not through any kind of Enlightenment, but through illiteracy and a loss of reason.

The founding Fathers would roll in their graves if they saw the kind political leaders Americans have chosen in the past years.

Different cultures would do different things, but the Roman culture was very similar to American culture — kind of a melting pot, hodge - podge, mish - mash of several different cultures.

Others, on the contrary, see the rise of an oppressive, progressive anti-traditionalism as a kind of betrayal of the principles underlying the American experiment and the practice of American life as we have known it.

I'd like to present my findings from this research: first, because they're kind of interesting, and, second, so that I might redeem this semi-sordid situation by helping Ms. Tyler (who may or may not read the website of First Things, but, anyway) fill out her ballot with the names of the most distinguished and deserving individuals who have not yet made it into the 4,600 - member American Academy.

David Blankenhorn, executive director of the Institute for American Values, argues for this kind of pro-family tax reform: Such a family tax credit would boost real income by about $ 750 per child for precisely the families who have suffered an economic squeeze over the past 15 years.»

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

The self - congratulation in all this is a little hard to take — a kind of belief that, unfolded in full, would betray a vast sense of superiority to both those culturally backward Muslims who must be offered such tolerance and to those culturally backward Americans who must be lectured on tolerance.

Many Americans don't want to live in the repressive hate - filled kind of place this country would become if the Talibangelicals called the shots.

The African - American church has traditionally used a kind of «don't ask don't tell» approach toward homosexuality.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

It's this kind of over the top judgement, holding others to your personal religious beliefs, that are responsible for so many Americans today feeling that religion in general has nothing to offer besides bigotry, judgement, and a sad credo that everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do is wrong and evil.

It is also rooted in a certain kind of American exceptionalism that has a history on the right, but that conservatives don't talk about very much.

Anyone interested in American politics has to have a soft spot for these kind of meetings; they provide a chance to see and judge the candidates «up....

Anyone interested in American politics has to have a soft spot for these kind of meetings; they provide a chance to see and judge the candidates «up close» (within 15 yards) in a personal setting.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

They did, however, understand that government and religion (of any kind) were a bad mix and were very careful to make sure that American citizens, immigrants all, would be free to practice as they wished without governmental interference.

I have benefited from other efforts to classify civil religions, especially John A. Coleman, «Civil Religion,» Sociological Analysis, 31 (Summer1970), pp. 67 - 77, and Martin E. Marty, «Two Kinds of Two Kinds of Civil Religion,» in R. E. Richey and D. G. Jones, eds., American Civil Religion (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), although some of their distinctions are not incorporated in my typology.