Sami and Layla led an enviable life.

In these circumstances, straight is the gait and narrow is the path that the Federal Reserve will have to walk hardly an enviable position.

I also renewed my support for a subsidy to companies for their ongoing employment of low wage workers. (Singapore adopted this idea with enviable results.)

Despite its enviable location next door to the rich and booming US, Mexico s growth has ranged from poor to tepid since its economic crisis a decade ago.

Simply put, while Japan has some reason for hope, its position is not enviable. And, if South Korea is not careful, it could end up in much the same place.

Spain was not in an enviable position. The rapid deterioration of fiscal position after the crisis made any substantial countercyclical response impossible, while regulatory constraints limited the economy s structural flexibility.

More broadly, as the US and Japan recover, cracks are starting to appear in emerging countries that, relative to the advanced countries, had enjoyed enviable rates of economic growth since 2008.

He achieved an enviable rate of economic development for a country starved of natural resources, helped to eradicate poverty, and deepened Tunisia s ties with Europe through tourism, trade, and cultural relations.

In this respect, the composition of the Barroso Commission worries me the role given to my friend, the German Social Democrat Günter Verheugen, is no more enviable than that given to Barrot.

Given that roughly a third of the electorate does not think he won fairly, and in view of the precariousness of the rule of law in the country, Calderón s position is even less enviable.

Such statistics explain why policymakers have so far failed to recognize that there is a problem at all. But middle aged workers enviable conditions will soon begin to erode, as mounting competition from emerging economies and relentless technological progress weaken their grip on the system.