Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CCis a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1937
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
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I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
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Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
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We have one girl, Nadia Underwood, who just went for her fifth shoot in Japan. She's only 17 and she's already made $250,000.
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Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so large a current account deficit without them and would have had to curb internal demand a while ago. The same is true, of course, of the U.S. (and of the U.K. for that matter). The key question in these instances is how reliable the capital inflows are.
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Treasury yields have fallen across the board as the market waits to see how much damage the hurricane will do.
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I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
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The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.
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I'm not big on titles, but I think any title that is associated directly with the Secretary General will gain access.
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In some ways, I think people who have been in the career service have an advantage.
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
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It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.
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There's a feeling the stock market is overbought and it would be dangerous to keep pushing it higher.
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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I should have moved for a continuation and deposed him. It affected the outcome. I called (Alcorn's) girlfriend without interviewing her in advance. It was a horrible mistake that prejudiced the case.