The two-term Congress government - which has been hit by corruption allegations and claims of inaction - is expected to face a tough general election, correspondents say.
It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.
Yet the Bush Administration continues to embrace a policy--at home and around the world--of pure inaction at best.
Meanwhile, Ms Bair has suggested that systemic regulation be done (or at least overseen) by a multi-agency council, an idea that is gaining traction even if others (including, again, Mr Dugan) worry that such supervision-by-committee is a recipe for inaction.
He has been dubbed "inaction man" - a comparison with Mr Ashdown, who brought his former marine training to his political career - and his main challenger, Simon Hughes, seized on this, with the health spokesman describing himself as the more energetic of the pair.
It's easy to exploit such fears in this economic climate, but these tired old canards -- trotted out in every minimum wage fight -- are just an excuse for political inaction and continued corporate greed.
Sometimes, in fact, patient inaction and waiting-out anxiety is the right protocol.
It can be soundly argued that regulatory inaction and too-lax monetary policy earlier in the decade are what caused the current economic malaise in the first place.
After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel-efficiency standards so that by the middle of the next decade, your cars and trucks will get twice -- will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.
Markets prefer congressional inaction, and the stock run-up that we have experienced since the inauguration is living proof.
El-Baz also said the Bush administration's perceived inaction has badly damaged U.S. interests in the Arab world -- from oil interests to trade to American travel abroad.
He says he wants certain questions answered first, but they amount to a technical smokescreen for policy-driven inaction.
Do not bury your head in the sand and hope it will go away-such inaction never works and may increase your risk for a lawsuit.
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The result is an absurd combination of creative accounting, pointless penny-pinching and helpless inaction.
For the activists, Mr. Koch's perceived inaction was all the worse because many gay and anti-AIDS activists believed that he himself was gay.
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While the ECB has since been consistently raising interest rates, the U.S. Federal Reserve has been on a steady road of inaction for the last year after undertaking its own rate-increasing campaign in 2004.
For the first time in U.S. history, a personal inaction (not purchasing something, in this case, a health- insurance plan) will be deemed unlawful.
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We also looked at how investors often misfire when buying target-date mutual funds and how Congressional inaction over the fate of the estate tax is leading to chaos for financial planners and their clients.
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But those commissioners, the respective athletic directors, coaches, sports information directors and staff, and the TV and radio broadcasters all participated directly or indirectly by inaction, in creating the atmosphere and environment conducive for just this sort of over-the-edge-ness.
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So we -- I would note, in that poll, as long as we're talking about it, that the change in view that Americans have developed in -- as it regards to the sequester, now that it has been implemented and the cuts are being felt -- I think frustrations with the result of congressional inaction are growing.
But the committee's chairman, Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), is complaining that State Department inaction has forced the postponement of a trip to Asia by investigators looking into the possibly illegal or improper donations.
After two years of inaction, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 17, 2012, set a one-year deadline for districts to strike deals with their unions or lose their annual increase in state aid.
In recent months, growing public anger over government inaction and its prosecution of a journalist who published those named has forced the authorities to re-examine the details of about 2, 000 Greek individuals and companies who had accounts in Switzerland and who may not have paid tax on all their income.
Using the latest brain imaging technologies, researchers have been able to prove that we human beings are neurologically wired to over-estimate the size of risks, under-estimate our ability to handle them, and downplay the costs of inaction.
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Its inaction spared the country the much longer agonies afflicting Latvia and Lithuania, where similar crises were met with half-hearted attempts to keep hopeless banks in business.
We have the beginnings of a long-range energy policy and although we still have to catch up after decades of inaction, we are making real progress.
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