Australian energy minister Josh Frydenberg's "strong moral case" for coal is at odds with the policies and research of the World Bank, the UN and the world's most austere energy agencies and has been called "deranged", "oxymoronic" and "wilfully deceptive" by observers.
He's religious, in an austere way.
Besides South Africa, the American Treasury Secretary is visiting the Ivory Coast, Namibia, Mozambique and Kenya to encourage policies that Washington and international lending agencies endorse: austere budgets, open markets, vigorous business competition and the sale of state-owned companies.
Among the key questions which will be answered are: What's the fate of research agencies in a relatively austere fiscal year?
But the paper that arrived for nightly production in Gray's Inn Road looked somehow austere, worthy and liberal to the hardened advertising agencies of the metropolis.
Metro's board gave final approval Thursday to fare increases and service cuts as part of an austere fiscal 2018 budget aimed at easing the transit agency's financial struggles.
And those cheery agency holiday parties are taking on a decidedly more austere look.
In 1853, the Mercantile Agency, the nation's first credit bureau, denounced him as "illiterate & boorish, [very] austere & offensive". The uneducated former boatman was not actually illiterate, though he wrote phonetically.
And in an austere environment for government, Mr. Gensler has sought to roughly double the agency's budget and staff.
The photograph, which was released by North Korea's state news agency, sparked particular interest because it marked a departure from the austere and authoritarian image Kim's father and grandfather had maintained.
