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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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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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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When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.
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Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas to die, it is of course their wives -often infected and sick themselves- who look after the men until they die.
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What seems to be happening is that U.S. business sentiment is faltering and consumer sentiment is tailing off.
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At that point in time he did something that was unacceptable. It was unacceptable. Period.
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The ostensible purpose of the 'golden rule' is to enhance confidence in the Government's handling of fiscal policy. It is doubtful whether it is any longer fulfilling that function.
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Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
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It is not clear what the impact of estrangement between the U.S. and some its allies will have on the financial sphere. The last G7 meeting did not achieve a great deal.
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I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
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I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.