One feature of Italy s turbulent politics remains consistent the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.

Their leaders must do more to tackle entrenched domestic interests and encourage foreign competition.

Structural reform, however, is a more difficult proposition, with strongly entrenched interests and cultural values militating against change and opening up a partly closed economy.

In the US, the president and Congress must both be engaged to ensure that entrenched domestic interests, such as agriculture and civil aviation, do not impede a potential agreement.

It needs to rethink the fundamentals of an economy and political system in which entrenched interests have become veto centers for reform.

In 1992, as the emerging Russian Federation teetered on the brink of economic and monetary collapse, he opted for radical reform, prompting a backlash from vested interest groups.

These are not libertarians. They believe in a strong state with robust executive powers, but one used in defense of established interests, with little attention to market principles.

As little as I like Sarah Palin, the fact is that entrenched lobbying and other special interests mean that a changing of the guard in Washington is too often only a change in branding.

Set against the impressive body of science underpinning the Chernobyl Forum, such responses reflect the tenacity not only of myths and misconceptions, but also of vested interests.

Creative Self Disruption

Even at Japan s world beating export firms, reluctance to confront the ingrained interests of the old boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines and the workers who make them.

That means facing down the myriad interest groups from industry lobbies to trade unions and entrenched bureaucracies that have (so far) successfully protected their turfs.

Plants that are long established in an area are called archaeophytes.

The vested interests that the Alliance members Austria, Prussia, and Russia had in the survival of their domestic institutions led each to seek to avoid conflicts that, in the past, they would have pursued as a matter of course.

But achieving it will require a thorough overhaul of the existing road transportation system and that means overcoming the complex combination of public and private elements, vested interests, ingrained business models, and massive inertia that has so far impeded its development.

The main enemy lies in deep seated mentalities, habits, and routines.

Why shouldn t Iraqis benefit from the proven experience of other peoples?

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The lesson is clear security interests must come before business interests.

Poland is not the only place where established religious practices are being questioned.

Ideas over Interests

The Coming Age of Interest

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Best interests of the child

America s Middle East interests are not identical with those of Europe.

Worse still, Europe also seems intent on ignoring its persistent strengths.

Most people would rather work for an established company, or for the government.

Those ugly and disruptive forces are having a severe impact on the bedrock of humankind's core values and human civilizations.

Surely, the national interests of the US and the West are not the only ones that matter.

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On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels.

An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.

The main lesson of Japan s approach is that launching an aggressive buying spree overseas merely upsets established international balances of interests thus generating greater tensions with the rest of the world while hiding the seriousness of structural problems at home.

All departments have their own role.

Vested interests are everywhere.

Growth is demanded by shareholders.

It allows only repression when the government faces protests and opposition outside the established channels.

It is the opposite of conformism, and opposes standards of relevant established practices (sometimes in a hostile manner).

The Department of Women's Affairs has prioritized violence against women as an area for policy development over a six year period and in its policy paper on Violence Against Women 2002 2006 it proposes to work to reduce and eventually eliminate violence against women, protect women who have experienced violence and ensure that perpetrators of violence are held accountable .

Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,

Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,

(b) Actions to make security interests effective against third parties and to enforce security interests are stayed

The summit s purpose is to take stock of successes and failures, and to move towards concrete strategies for action.

By contrast, the intrinsic importance of the rule of law, transparency, voice, accountability, or effective government is obvious.

Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.