People of all walks were coming to take a basic stability and state of well-being for granted.
One clause even calls for the state to maintain price stability.
They rates banks based on customer satisfaction, stability (state-by-state failure rates), availability of high interest rates, and size of the banking community (more choices is better).
On the plus side, the presence of the state has lent a stability and long-term perspective to the investment and growth of the Chinese economy, which is not just reminiscent of the keiretsu in Japan but also the family holdings in the chaebols in Korea.
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The pay scales vary wildly depending on the state, the size of the police department, and the financial stability of the city or state.
So long as Russia's economy was growing, consumer choice and stability gave the state legitimacy.
California workers might find it harder to find jobs because so many businesses are fleeing the state to find more economic stability.
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How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state.
First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha told parliament that the government will take whatever measures are needed to guarantee stability in Sudan, state-run media reported Monday.
"The Singapore market has shown that it's becoming far more liquid, and people also like having an exposure to the Singapore dollar, " a currency that has been favored by investors who like the city-state's political and economic stability, Mr. Crockett said.
Obama is also wrong to believe that his surge will buy enough time to inject stability into Afghanistan's state or society.
His health has raised concern about stability in the North African state.
Women are key to our future economic growth and stability, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the first-ever APEC Summit dedicated to women and the economy last Friday.
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The building society's chief economist, Robert Gardner, said this stability reflected the "uncertain" state of the economy.
To be clear, the 10bn euros needed by Cyprus's banks is a rounding error in relation to the resources of the European Stability Mechanism or of the German state.
It is noticeable that political stability in South East Asia's best governed state, Singapore, is not in question.
State and local government outlays and employment, normally rocks of stability, are declining due to budget deficits and vastly under-funded pension plans.
The Iraq NIE will look at sectarian violence, the stability of Iraq's government, economic trends and the state of the insurgency.
That said, the peace it creates can free a state to make the social investments that its populace actually needs, while the stability peace brings can pay its own economic dividends.
The combination of state-led investment decisions in the emerging world and a parochial focus on price stability in the rich world produced serial asset bubbles rather than efficient capital allocation.
The second main reason for Qatar's political stability is that the country's nationals enjoy a range of generous state handouts, which have swelled under the rule of the current emir, Emir Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who overthrew his father in 1995.
Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
In November, a Tunisian court rejected a request to release al-Mahmoudi and decided to extradite him despite arguments from his defense team that the lack of stability in Libya means he would not have a fair trial, according to Tunisian state news reports.
To achieve stability, Brazil must find a more sensible tax structure, get better control of fiscally lax state governments and reform its public pensions.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday described a "synergy" between the two countries to achieve worldwide security and economic stability.
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