Beyond the technical pro-growth aspects, the 9-9-9 plan would shake up the politics-as-usual status quo.
The Chinese emphasis on personal connections (guanxi) makes it hard to distinguish between business-as-usual and corruption.
With Russia and France anxious to get back to oil-business-as-usual, Iraq tested the council's resolve to destruction.
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That this is often approximately true is why DSGE models perform well enough in a business-as-usual economy.
But it has impressed New Yorkers accustomed to politics-as-usual and to do-nothing mayors enmeshed in party machines.
If impact investors do take up this question, they will find themselves having to push beyond business-as-usual thinking.
None of these questions are adequately answered by a World Bank continuing with its current model and business-as-usual.
The stark contrast from NBC's buttoned-up, business-as-usual event was even more apparent when ABC announced its bold lineup.
One of the more surprising supporters of an abandonment of royal business-as-usual is former newspaper editor Sir Max Hastings.
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So there is strong support among Americans for his belief that the place needs a shake-up, not business-as-usual diplomacy.
But Minnesotans, who put Mr Ventura into the governorship because they were fed up with politics-as-usual, dislike personal needling.
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Like the biotechnology of the 1970s, geoengineering cannot be treated just as science-as-usual.
Already in the 1970s, Barbara knew that 'business-as-usual' no longer represented 'solid ground'.
Or is it, in fact, the pet approach of the experimenters pitted against a treatment-as-usual or less than ideal opponent?
His budget early in the year was a business-as-usual document with no reforms and even the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it 97-0.
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After his improved shot selection against Sri Lanka, Mohammad Ashraful reverted to his frustrating business-as-usual, while key man Tamim Iqbal looked listless.
By keeping out of the bickering between the mayor and the Ford family, he is presenting himself as an alternative to politics-as-usual.
The industry has not been cleaned-up and will soon return to business-as-usual.
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After all, Barack Obama may have pledged to dump politics-as-usual in Washington.
In short, EU business-as-usual was a big loser at last week's polls.
But the 157-page American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is business-as-usual.
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If they make that pledge, it is probably reasonable for families and local authorities to trade with Southern Cross on a business-as-usual basis.
The point of the study is not to predict what will happen, but merely to point out what could happen in a business-as-usual scenario.
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Speaking easily and looking less tired than previous days, Clinton succeeded in projecting the desired image: a 'business-as-usual' chief executive focused on the people's work.
The regulator's objective is to set the cap so that there is a shortage of allowances relative to what the companies' business-as-usual emissions will be.
Of course when the emergency fades, these conditions disappear, and leaders tend to revert back to business-as-usual behaviors, with far less speed, action, and innovation.
But it may not be as resilient as Mumbai's business-as-usual signs.
However, governments will need to step up policies to stimulate renewable investment if the industries are to grow substantially, it says: business-as-usual will not be enough.
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The coming debt ceiling vote may be the best chance to demonstrate that change before voters once again punish politicians who promise change and deliver business-as-usual.
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As the authors acknowledge, there is little chance of business-as-usual halving the number of hungry by 2015, a goal enthusiastically endorsed by world leaders in 1996.
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