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Perhaps Eban was too urbane, too much of a scholar and gentleman to be able to make it - in Disraeli's phrase - to the top of the greasy pole.
The renewal process could affect the top and bottom layers, and inevitably it is necessary to recondition the institutional links between them.
Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country's trade balance.
Obama was praised extravagantly a year ago; 12 months on, the criticism is over the top, too.
Though this is partially offset by foreign-exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster-relief costs - and this on top of its depressing demographic trends.
Opium money is corrupting Afghan society from top to bottom.
At the top international level, soccer has become faster and more athletic, and the top teams can shrink space on the field more effectively.
A long-recognized principle is that balanced expansion of taxes and spending stimulates the economy; if the program is well designed (taxes at the top, combined with spending on education), the increase in GDP and employment can be significant.
But many politicians defend Stanculescu; among them, the current Defense Minister Victor Babiuc, former President Ion Iliescu, and most top army officers.
There's only one problem: it wouldn't benefit those at the top, or the corporate and other special interests that have come to dominate America's policymaking.
Europe's strong support for the region's economic development must remain the top priority, as Arab countries introduce necessary reforms.
On the top board - military relations among states - the world is, indeed, unipolar, and likely to remain that way for decades.
Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top-line revenues takes a toll on bottom-line margins and profitability.
So, two crucial items must claim priority at the top of the world's economic agenda in the months ahead.
The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars - and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration's record deficit.
To gain control of the mandarins, the DPJ plans to place 100 lawmakers in the ministries' top leadership, as well as three dozen political appointees to policy staffs in the office of the prime minister.
Moreover, perhaps in anticipation of a change in power, the mandarins have moved forward the annual personnel changes in the major ministries' top administrative positions.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
Few Chinese, even in the top ranks of the Communist Party, are convinced Marxists anymore.
A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy's was speaking a half-century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.