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If the adjustment came abruptly, Chinese companies would suffer a sudden loss of competitiveness and no longer be able to export.
To be sure, back in the 1970’s, confidence in the credit of the British government collapsed, forcing it to borrow from the IMF so that spending could be cut and taxes raised gradually rather than abruptly.
The education ministry abruptly withdrew German as an optional third language in government schools, and replaced it with Sanskrit.
Things began to unravel when two cabinet ministers abruptly resigned, citing family commitments or policy disagreements.
In the course of the crisis, these debt-ridden economies’ consumers abruptly changed their purchasing habits.
The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer’s upper-house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax.
Capital that had flooded into emerging markets seeking yields no longer available in developed economies abruptly reversed course.
Since the early spring the American and European economies have both weakened abruptly.
Central banks want this tightening to come about gradually, but the brief history of unconventional monetary policy suggests that asset re-pricing tends to occur abruptly – sometimes disruptively so.
For ExxonMobil, the music will stop as abruptly as it did for Citibank.
Slowing the growth of the pension and health-care programs for middle-class retirees cannot be done abruptly.
But while trust takes years to establish, it can be squandered abruptly if a particular bank’s ethics are weak, its values poor, and its behavior simply wrong.
In 2012, the Chongqing region’s Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai – a prominent and charismatic figure who was widely expected to join the elite ranks of the Politburo Standing Committee – was abruptly removed from his post and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.
They are prone to asset and credit bubbles, which inevitably collapse – often when cross-border capital flows abruptly reverse direction – imposing massive social costs.
But, in a cold country where most of the population needs heating subsidies to survive and massive investments are required to increase energy efficiency, abruptly withdrawing support to households is politically unfeasible.
BRUSSELS – Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise.
In 2013, however, the fixed-contribution experiment ended abruptly.
No embryos are capable of suffering, or have hopes or desires for the future that are abruptly cut off by their death.
But it is rarely wise to judge financial health by one’s borrowing costs, which can change abruptly.
Recognizing this dangerous trend, the PBOC abruptly hit the brakes on capital-account liberalization last year, tightening capital controls to a degree not seen since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
He resigned in 2004 to run as Angela Merkel’s candidate for the largely ceremonial office of President of the German Federal Republic, a job he performed capriciously until he abruptly resigned.
Exile and loss; exile and longing; exile and banishment: frozen by tyrannical rule, these are memories abruptly released by the revolutions of 1989 and 1991.
But, soon after, when Obama arrived in Australia and Clinton landed in the Philippines, what looked like a clean narrative about the economy abruptly unraveled: Obama promised his Australian hosts that the US would station fewer than a brigade of US Marines in far-off Darwin to train and exercise.
During the Cold War, many people feared that mankind might commit suicide abruptly, by waging a nuclear war.
The government is then forced to re-impose central control abruptly, bringing about a sudden stop.
Right before the talks were abruptly cut off for Greece to hold its referendum, the two sides had agreed on fiscal targets for Greece; all that was left was to determine how the targets should be reached.
Turkey abruptly shifted its stance on Syria, and aligned its position with that of the major Western powers, for two reasons.
That question, often raised in the past, has been heating up in the aftermath of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s emotional outburst during the recent World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos, when he abruptly left a panel he was sharing with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
But, when Japan invaded the international settlement in 1941, operations were abruptly halted.
The worry, then, is that when the signals change – as they must – they will change abruptly, with attendant harsh consequences for growth.
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