Jesper Koll, chief economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, reckons that the government would have to cut spending and raise taxes by a combined 8% of GDP every year just to stabilise its finances.The tendency to blanket the countryside with roads, dams and bridges is often cited as one of the main indictments of Japan's political system.
All of this seems to add up to a reasonable counterargument to Christie's main indictments against the teachers' union, and so I asked Keshishian and Giordano why they thought they were having such a problem making their case to the public.
Their main method, the indictment contends, was the manipulation of social media through posts by Russians operating under stolen identities.
The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said, "We're very pleased that the main part of the indictment has held up".
The main target of the indictment, according to the article, was a political ally of the state's governor, Chris Christie, a nationally prominent Republican running for re-election.
Although the charges carry relatively light sentences — up to a year in jail for fifth-degree conspiracy and a maximum of four years for falsifying business records — Mr. Morgenthau said the main purpose of the indictment was to expose Iran's nuclear-proliferation efforts.
Mr Ruto remains on trial in a separate but similar case.Since their indictment, the two main accused have agreed on paper to co-operate with the court.
The main evidence assembled in the indictment is a fifteen-page record of phone calls that he allegedly made to other Ergenekon members, yet nothing in the transcripts appears criminal in nature.
A former Pentagon employee accepted gold jewelry worth thousands of dollars for illegally steering nearly $6 million in contracts to an Iraqi company for work at a sprawling American military base adjacent to Baghdad's main airport, according to an indictment released yesterday by the Justice Department.
It had been one of the main points of the Marxist indictment of capitalism that it obliged people to bleed their labour-time into producing things they could feel no connection to, commodified things which had no real qualities except their price.
