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Summers, for his part, is right that “a liberal education that does not cause moments of acute discomfort is a failure.”
But he errs in not acknowledging that some students experience acute discomfort by being made to feel as though they do not belong.
This will require a more acute collective awareness of the violence and chaos threatening territories and people worldwide, including in Somalia, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and, most recently, Mali.
The added deficits of Sandersnomics, or for that matter those of any other politician, would further depress America’s national saving – thereby exacerbating the multilateral trade imbalance that puts such acute pressure on middle-class families.
Conflict is most acute in closed societies characterized by a politically repressive climate and culturally induced obstacles to growth.
After much soul-searching, I voted for the bill, though without any acute sense that I was striking a blow for freedom.
Italy’s illness is far more acute than Germany’s, but both are potentially serious.
In other words, beyond completing China’s transformation into an open, market-based economy, Xi must establish a strong rule of law that applies to all, while addressing acute inequality of income, opportunity, wealth, and wellbeing.
As labor becomes a less important part of the economy, and working-age men, in particular, become a smaller proportion of the workforce, problems related to social inclusion are bound to become both more chronic and more acute.
Things are trickier when public finances are under acute stress and markets are worried about sovereign solvency, as is the case in southern Europe.
Second, adjustment fatigue is widespread and becoming more acute.
To make matters worse, Chad is in the Sahel region, which has suffered acute famine over the last few years, and declining oil prices have hit the regional economic outlook.
These challenges are particularly acute in the European Union, where policy paralysis has prevented governments from fully implementing the reforms needed to overcome the financial crisis that began a decade ago.
All Central Asian countries suffer from pervasive corruption, acute income inequalities, political succession problems, and transnational criminal groups that cooperate more effectively than the region’s frequently feuding governments do.
Primary providers are the first place Costa Ricans turn when they have a health problem, as practitioners offer acute, chronic, and preventive services.
Third, the authorities created multidisciplinary primary health-care teams capable of delivering preventive care services, such as vaccinations and education, in conjunction with acute and chronic medical support.
For example, acute asthma may be the focus of care at one moment, but might shift to the patient’s diabetes later.
But the most acute danger may lie in the realm of national security.
A weak, economically stagnant, and politically insecure France poses an acute danger to the entire European project, because a France that remains in that state will inevitably succumb to the type of anti-European nationalism that Le Pen represents.
Getting low-cost drugs for acute heart attacks to developing countries would cost just $200 million, and prevent 300,000 deaths.
The problems of war-ravaged countries are far more acute and their choices much more constrained.
India understands, though, that the collateral damage would be too high, the price in civilian lives unacceptable, and the risks of the conflict spiraling out of control too acute to contemplate such an option.
Many ailments that may afflict an economy are chronic, not acute, and thus call for other types of treatment.
Several provisional quantum-gravity models of particular phenomena involving black holes have been proposed; but, because none has been tested experimentally, no one knows whether these models are correct (indeed, some lead to acute paradoxes).
The challenges of mutual dependence are particularly acute with respect to food.
In that respect, it may be argued that his power is more wide-ranging than that of his predecessors, but in fairness it must also be noted that the patterns of corruption that his predecessors faced were not as acute and widespread as they have become in recent years.
During the Cold War, the global strategic interdependence between the United States and the Soviet Union was acute and well recognized.
At least two other factors are vital to understanding the acute crisis in 30-40 fragile states around the world today.
An acute awareness of the magnitude of civilian suffering in conflicts such as the Syrian civil war or the ongoing horrors in the Congo Basin, and an appreciation of how cycles of violence perpetuate themselves over generations, can actually make women much more likely to urge the use of force in interventions.
As for Yellen, it is true that she was President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve during the last years of the massive US housing bubble – which was particularly acute in her district.
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