During a retrospect of how the EU has accommodated to financial adversities since 2008, a commentator says that "in terms of _______, nothing has changed", implying that those in charge, at least when it comes to financial matters, have pretty much remained the same.
My first thought was "faces", but my uncertainty eventually prevailed.
Now I'm thinking "figures", perhaps, as in "public figure", "persons", as in, say, the legal definition of a "natural person", or "personages" (which sounds quite nice, though I've never really used it...)
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