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Leave by unfrequented streets, without fanfare, without even a drum!

Silently, without much fanfare, this approach has been compiling victories beyond chess.

The gold braid and buttons, the fanfare of brass, the postures and attitudes of heroes.

Third, Chinese aid is dispensed rather quickly and unceremoniously, lacking the burdensome fanfare of lengthy negotiations and voluminous project documents, a practice many scholars and practitioners term checkbook diplomacy.

That action is typical of some developed countries, which, while giving with great fanfare some assistance to the developing countries, quietly take away even more through harmful trade and economic policies.

This empowerment of an effective local leadership was done with much persistence and little fanfare. But these nuts and bolts projects created for the first time the building blocks necessary for effective Palestinian nation building.

This empowerment of an effective local leadership was done with much persistence and little fanfare. But these nuts and bolts projects created for the first time the building blocks necessary for effective Palestinian nation building.

Far from being an exercise in winning popularity, this had been a serious attempt to explain multilateralism and role of the United Nations its purposes, inner workings, strengths and contradictions in plain terms, without fanfare or rhetorics.

Germany accepted, with much fanfare, a large number of unregistered refugees from Hungary and offered them a warm welcome. This decision arguably tempted so many more refugees from the Arab countries that soon thereafter Germany was forced to impose border controls.

Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay. This allowed Germany to improve its competitive position in world markets vis à vis the other large euro zone economies, where there were no productivity revolutions, silent or otherwise.

And, notwithstanding all of the fanfare surrounding Abenomics, Japan s economy remains moribund. In the six quarters of Shinzo Abe s latest stint as prime minister, annualized real GDP growth has averaged just 1.4 up only slightly from the anemic post 1992 average of 1 .

One explanation for the drastic budget cuts of recent years is that public health institutions usually operate with little fanfare and out of the public eye. At their best, they prevent disease without a trace, leaving little visible evidence of their crucial function.

The media marked the publication s 60th anniversary with much fanfare, hailing the breakthrough that ushered in the age of genetics, and calling it one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. The British newspaper The Guardian featured the headline, Happy Birthday, DNA!

We have seen the Arab Spring blossom haltingly in a few countries in others, it is still uncertain whether it will bear fruit. Myanmar s transition is in some ways quieter, without the fanfare of Twitter and Facebook, but it is no less real and no less deserving of support.

With much fanfare, the IMF recently embraced a new institutional view that seemingly endorses re regulating global finance. While the Fund remains wedded to eventual financial liberalization, it now acknowledges that free movement of capital rests on a much weaker intellectual foundation than does the case for free trade.

In the heat of an international crisis, the Security Council passes resolutions to great public fanfare, establishing an official UN mandate. But then the UN Secretary General is left, resolution in hand, to ask UN member states for the actual, tangible resources necessary to implement what has been commanded.

Moreover, the economy wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all. Western European productivity growth almost matches America's, suggesting that the new economy is coming to Western Europe, only quietly and with much less fanfare than in America.

NEWPORT BEACH After instant and seemingly coordinated fanfare in Europe and the United States, the proposal for a European Union US free trade area has been generating little media attention. There are three reasons for this, and all three highlight broader constraints on good national economic policymaking and productive cross border coordination.

This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, Maryland, a retrogression has occurred in the process. Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, Maryland, a retrogression has occurred in the process. Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

With fanfare and idealism reflected in the slogan Rights Brought Home the Human Rights Act came into effect in 2000. But the high minded liberalism of the then elite had a practical point as well should the government have any soiled linen, it should be laundered in British courts rather than be aired before a panel of international judges.

Though there will be plenty of fanfare, it will inadequately reflect the UN s value, not only as the most important political innovation of the twentieth century, but also as the best bargain on the planet. But if the UN is to continue to fulfill its unique and vital global role in the twenty first century, it must be upgraded in three key ways.

Little more than a decade ago, European leaders announced to great fanfare the Lisbon Agenda, a policy blueprint to make Europe the most competitive, knowledge based economy in the world. The new Competitiveness Pact, proposed at the EU summit by France and Germany, did not make the same pretensions to global grandeur, but was instead sold as a step required to ensure the survival of the euro.

At Doha in November 2001, they pledged to give something more valuable than money the opportunity for poor countries to sell their goods and earn their way out of poverty. With great fanfare, developed countriesseemed for a while to be making good on their promise, as Europe extended the Everything but Arms initiative (EBA), under which it was unilaterally to open its markets to the poorest countries of the world.