Yet Vietnam undermines these efforts by allowing a tiny party elite to meddle in affairs of state, constantly overriding the advice of government technocrats and economic specialists.
He currently devotes his time and energies towards managing South Atlantic Petroleum, a leading indigenous oil exploration and production company he founded, while dabbling in affairs of state once in a while.
After all, as we all know, middle aged men engaging in affairs with 20something women are always telling their bit on the side how their still hot and sexy middle aged wives really do understand them.
Iraq is following a policy, a foreign policy, which does not intervene in the affairs of others and does not allow the others to intervene in its own affairs.
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This state of affairs is even more striking in international affairs than in domestic politics.
We are not to invest ourselves in their affairs in the way George W. Bush invested himself in the reform and freedom of the Greater Middle East.
It is also the most controversial intervention in aboriginal affairs in the 40 years since Australians endorsed a referendum transferring power to legislate for aborigines from states to the federal government.
But a study published in Health Affairs in November 2006 estimated that 25% of the uninsured were in fact eligible for public coverage, and another 20% probably could afford coverage on their own.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia categorically rejects any interference in its affairs or in the provisions of its judiciary under any justifications, " a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency read.
Some French philosopher said that the most powerful force in human affairs, as in nature, is inertia.
These include government interference in religious affairs, discrimination in economic opportunities, and a steady influx of Han Chinese that threatens to erode both regions' cultural identity.
Foreign Affairs: The highly publicized changes in Soviet foreign policy, including their flagship -- the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan -- is typical of Gorbachev's apparent, wholesale adaptation in foreign affairs of the Leninist doctrine of "reculer pour mieux sauter, " tactical retreat in order to advance strategic objectives.
Does any Senator want to assure such interference in our internal affairs in the future?
This rule applies just as much in domestic affairs as it does in international politics.
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Though limited in domestic affairs, his powers in foreign policy and appointments were large.
Salim Salim, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, described Clinton as having been intimately involved in African affairs since taking office in 1993.
The U.S. is fat and rich, and we can probably survive our sloppiness in domestic affairs, but mistakes in foreign policy are another story entirely.
Like them, he was against political and military intervention in European affairs, but not in the Caribbean, in Central or South America, or in the Pacific.
He is a graduate of Georgia State University and has a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Affairs and a Minor in French.
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True, the Republicans will not enjoy the same power to check presidential power in foreign affairs as they will have in domestic policy.
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My volunteer work in public affairs also keeps me current in my profession so that I can share current trends and knowledge of the discipline with my students.
Family members said Mr. Paladino would return to his life and business in Buffalo, where he is a wealthy and powerful force in local affairs and a ubiquitous presence in the community.
The signatories' recommendation that Mr. Bolton be made "permanent" in his position is backed by the decades of experience in international affairs that they collectively have in service at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
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The populous nation, a member of the OPEC oil cartel, possesses vast oil resources and is active in regional affairs -- most notably in its newly democratic government's efforts to battle HIV and AIDS and its regional peacekeeping missions.
It would be enough to tip the economy into recession, well, the global economy, and it my also be enough to really force the big importing nations to get much more aggressive in being involved in the affairs of these oil producers in the Middle East.
Michael Spence, another Nobel prize-winning economist, in a recent article in Foreign Affairs agrees that technology is hitting jobs in America and other rich countries, but argues that globalisation is the more potent factor.
"Achebe's frank, truthful and fearless interventions in national affairs will be greatly missed at home in Nigeria because while others may have disagreed with his views, most Nigerians never doubted his immense patriotism and sincere commitment to the building of a greater, more united and prosperous nation that all Africans and the entire black race could be proud of, " the president said in a statement.
Prior to that, Commissioner Sommers worked in the Government Affairs Office of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where she was instrumental in overseeing regulatory and legislative affairs for the exchange.
Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro has shown a deft touch in foreign affairs, but his government has been inconsistent in its economic management.
In foreign affairs, Bush defined the War on Terror in much the way that Truman shaped thinking about the struggle against communism for decades.
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