Even in the narrowest terms, at a time in which the government has imposed so much instability on the sector, international students represent huge investment into higher education.
Peer deeper, however, and the message is far less reassuring.Noodles all roundFor a start, bilateral deals impose so much paperwork and bureaucracy on trade that companies rarely make use of their provisions.
You don't expect lacerating intimacy from a former Disney star, but Gomez fails to impose so much as a trace of personality: from the electro-punk opener Birthday onward, she's competent and entirely impersonal.
That said, in the People's Republic, contemporary mothers, flooded with information that promote a more liberal model of modern parenting, are conflicted: on one hand, they exert tremendous pressure on their (single) kids to excel academically; on the other, they feel guilty for imposing so much stress on cherished dumplings.
And nothing imposes so many unnecessary costs.
The bank now imposes so-called haircuts of as much as 29 percent on government debt used as collateral, meaning that banks cannot borrow at the full face value of the bonds.
On the other side, the violence in Greece is a reminder that democratic governments can impose only so much hardship before people rise up.
One of the lessons of "The Children Act," crisply directed by Richard Eyre ("Notes on a Scandal") and adapted by Ian McEwan from his own 2014 novel, is that the world can impose only so much order on something as unruly as human desire.
This imposing masterpiece, like so much of the Spanish piano repertory, has long been virtually the private preserve of the venerable Alicia de Larrocha, and Mr. Hamelin's recording is as compulsively listenable as some of her best.
