Western governments, particularly that of Germany, knowingly politicized financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
The U.S. apparently has also agreed to a fifth working group governing East-West financial relations at the urging of the FRG.
Incredible as it may seem, Western governments and banks chronically ignored established and disciplined lending techniques in their financial relations with the former Soviet Union.
While less well understood, the Non-Aggression Pact is also relevant to the contemporary international environment because it was in considerable measure the product of a German-Soviet commercial relationship that is structurally similar to current FRG-Soviet trade and financial relations.
The high stakes for Western security require that the new President and his team make the adoption of a more disciplined and prudent approach to economic and financial relations with the Soviet Bloc one of the first goals of the "comprehensive reassessment" of U.S. foreign and defense policy upon which they have just embarked.
There is still a propensity of some organizations to inflate their economic impact numbers for either political, financial, or public relations reasons.
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Relations with major financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund have improved, particularly in the light of more effective revenue collection -- up by about a half following the introduction of a consumption tax last year.
Ultimately, the ruling will likely be more of a public relations disaster than a financial one.
Most are ill-prepared to deal with the operational, legal, financial, regulatory, and public relations ramifications of such incidents.
Otherwise, your financial, political, and public relations motives could ultimately backfire if your findings are unsubstantiated with careless economic impact estimation techniques.
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The board will now look for a new director to restore relations with the international financial community, "based on mutual respect for accepted international banking standards".
Citigroup and other financial service companies are sweating out a public relations disaster for spending on sports stadium naming rights while taking TARP money from the government.
Kim Dae-jung, who died in 2009, and the Hyundai conglomerate were key players in the so-called Sunshine Policy years from 1998 to 2008, during which South Korea attempted to improve relations with Pyongyang through political engagement and financial support.
The remaining positions in the top-10 list of jobs for aspiring entrepreneurs seems like a mixed bag at first glance: lawyers (No. 2), registered nurses (No. 6), financial advisors (No. 8), public relations specialists (No. 9) and sales reps (No. 10).
Eligibility for U.S. military assistance, financial support, and other benefits that flow from cordial relations with the United States will be adjusted accordingly.
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It appears that financial institutions up and down Wall Street enjoy such cozy relations with the federal agencies in charge of regulating and overseeing their activity.
But they are outgunned by the massive influence and lobbying dollars of the financial services industry, which has to change its customer relations business model if the fiduciary rule is ever put into place.
These nouveau hatcheries invest lavishly in marketing, public relations, recruiting, accounting, legal counseling and financial advice--anything to bring young companies public in a hurry.
With new leaders in South Korea, Japan and China, North Korea's nuclear test also fits another longtime pattern of a undertaking a provocative act early in the tenure of other political leaders, then following it with steps to smooth relations in hopes of persuading the others to provide financial aid and other assistance.
The public thinks it's likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and remove U.S. troops from Iraq without causing a major upheaval in that country.
So the latest thinking is that, in tandem with any Westminster financial deal, Stormont ministers might try to implement some less contentious community relations initiatives.
"After a series of votes and statements and incidents we have decided to suspend our working relations with that body, " Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
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In return for cooperating on the denuclearization agreement, they've wanted to be off of that list because that can begin to lead to North Korean access to international financial institutions, the possible lifting of some sanctions, and eventually, a normalization of relations with the United States.
It is already clear that though Japan for long has enjoyed exceptionally cordial relations with Germany (neither side advertises this but it is a fact), financial officials in Tokyo are now pressuring their German colleagues to relax the austerity policy.
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Gaffney, Jr. commended Secretary Mosbacher for his approach to East-West economic relations and called on the Administration to obtain greater alliance coordination in East-West economic and financial security matters.
The live webcast can be accessed at the Facebook Investor Relations website at investor.fb.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables and slide presentation.
As a non-member, the U.S. retained the full panoply of tools to parry the first Russian ploy: bilateral diplomacy, relations with the four other littoral states who share our interest in blocking such Kremlin overreach, economic and financial pressure and, if all else failed, naval power.
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