Sir Rod's most ambitious recommendation was for a national road-pricing scheme to clear Britain's sclerotic highways.
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Anyway, Europe is in sclerotic decline, they scoff: the future lies in emerging markets.
Brown is axing top brass, firing thousands in the rank-and-file and shaking loose years of sclerotic bureaucracy.
If Italy and Greece had not been so over-indebted and sclerotic, they would not be in such trouble today.
It softens the deficit target for 2012 and puts more emphasis on overhauling the sclerotic economy through structural reforms.
Among the blocked measures are urgent proposals to ease Mexico's sclerotic labour laws and allow private investment in the energy sector.
Even if the freshmen Democrats can somehow reform the filibuster next January, the Senate will remain a sclerotic, wasteful, unhappy body.
And yet after 1979 Margaret Thatcher showed that a determined government could shake up a sclerotic economy (and defeat the miners).
Cable companies are not perfectly rational actors, they are often sclerotic bureaucracies strongly biased toward the status quo and large content companies.
The pan-Arab satellite television networks -- so different from the sclerotic state broadcasters -- gave Arabs a new window on the world.
They are our economy's secret sauce, the only thing that distinguishes the still-dynamic U.S. economy from those of sclerotic Europe and Japan.
The next step is harder: reform of Italy's sclerotic two-tier labour market.
And he has signalled that Germany is not the sclerotic economic giant that, after a decade of political torpitude, many suspected it had become.
Or that Wall Street and banking and money management would be turned inside out, uncorking money buried inside the musty trust departments of sclerotic banks.
The mechanism for getting technology out of the university was sclerotic.
And growth will slow inexorably unless several serious structural weaknesses are fixed, including a faltering education system, low workforce participation and a sometimes sclerotic public sector.
One reason is Britain's sclerotic planning system, which keeps new entrants out of the market while encouraging the supermarkets already there to expand their existing stores.
In any case, tax cuts would not have much effect unless they were accompanied by an ambitious set of liberalising reforms, to free up Italy's sclerotic economy.
Cables from Tunisia, another close American ally in the region, bluntly depict the regime of president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali as a sclerotic police state increasingly tarnished by nepotism.
In Dr. Topol's vision, innovation that enables real-time diagnosis and personalized treatments is a certainty, though not because reluctant or "sclerotic" doctors accept it or because Washington wills it into being.
Companies are either small family affairs or sclerotic behemoths.
This may have something to do with HSBC changing its expansion strategy, but it looks a lot more like the two British banks simply couldn't get their deal through India's sclerotic bureaucracy.
And the weak-currency countries would be under pressure to raise interest rates in order to support their currencies--even though higher interest rates are about the last thing most of Europe's sclerotic economies need.
The sclerotic and unwieldy grand coalition found it hard to discuss, let alone implement, many of the reforms that Germany needs, including to its tax and welfare systems, and to health care and the labour market.
As things stood until recently, an unhealthy sort of system linked northern and southern Europe, with subsidies and tourist euros from the north helping to mask and preserve dysfunctional politics and sclerotic societies south of the Alps.
So the medical examiner ruled that Khan had died of arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease -- which encompasses incidents like heart attacks, strokes and aortic ruptures -- and that his manner of death was natural, according to Cina.
It is the object of endless lectures about taxes and wages that are too high, welfare and pension benefits that are too generous, east German states that have become subsidy junkies and a labour market that is irredeemably sclerotic.
Toward this end, he would like to subject this priority effort to the same unbelievably sclerotic bureaucratic arrangements -- featuring numerous, ponderous program reviews known as "milestones" -- that typically keep new weapon systems from coming on line in less than twelve-to-fifteen years.
Sclerotic business dynasties are next.
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