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.
Well, remember that this is India, where the politics are fractious, the bureaucracy oppressive and the courts sclerotic.
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.
On both occasions they had to overcome fierce resistance, as anybody must who takes on America's unionised and sclerotic public-school system.
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.
Its culture is sclerotic, and its leaders blame their failures on the world, Republicans, free trade, right-to-work laws and any number of other red herrings.
The next step is harder: reform of Italy's sclerotic two-tier labour market.
Needless to say, in such a sclerotic system, the poor suffer most.
In France, long an economic laggard with a sclerotic, quasi-socialist economy, Lieber sees a resurgence by consumers under Nicolas Sarkozy's new right-leaning government.
All this is coming at a time when Japan's sclerotic financial system and banks, waterlogged government and inefficient small businesses grow steadily worse.
And he has signalled that Germany is not the sclerotic economic giant that, after a decade of political torpitude, many suspected it had become.
Our system has grown sclerotic with the influence of special interests.
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.
NCB with its sclerotic big-company culture, fascinatingly large collection of bad and problem loans (about one-third of assets) and 2, 500 employees will be a job and a half.
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.
Perhaps the best that can be said for this new law is that America's intelligence services are so sclerotic that a shock at the top any shock is needed.
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In France, long an economic laggard with a sclerotic, quasi-socialist economy, Lieber sees a resurgence by consumers under Nicolas Sarkozy's new right-leaning government ( click here for story).
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.
Included in that package is the elimination of capital gains levies on the sale of corporate assets, which should set off the reform Germany's sclerotic corporate structure so badly needs.
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