On October 20th the government proposed clarifying the powers of the pensions regulator, an official watchdog, to make firms top up underfunded schemes and to combat conflicts of interest when companies transfer pension liabilities by buying annuities.
The proposals also would combat conflicts of interest.
It is saturated with combat, ego, conflict and risk.
As the relations among the family members and their employees blossom into marital combat, generational conflict and quiet class war, Mr. Im, with serene, almost voluptuous assurance, creates a tone that hovers between ice-cold comedy and feverish melodrama.
On this occasion, the cross-generational rapport veers from the sympathetic to the testy accompanied by an occasional burst of physical violence, as if to suggest that combat and conflict are scarcely the province of the front line alone.
It was further confirmation that though the world's first and only supermarket tabloid for mercenaries, mercenary-wannabes and anyone fascinated by combat and conflict remains one of the most identifiable military brands around, it no longer carries the impact it once did.
When did our nation get dumbed down enough - yes, I said it - that we are willing to accept the spoon-fed tripe from the hands of politicians who steer themselves and their families well clear of military combat and conflict, yet eagerly feed more men and women into the maw of a ravenous war fueled by religious dogma and oppression?
"To combat these conflicts, state officials need to launch awareness programs.
Terms like "armed conflict," "combat" and "battlefield" are integral to the proper functioning of human rights law and international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions.
Above all, they insisted that they could rely on the inclusiveness of their social assistance networks to combat or dampen conflict.
