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But nowhere is the problem as acute as it is in Europe, or, rather, the eurozone, where German savers are suddenly discovering risk across the European periphery.
Given that these problems are most acute in Africa, Blair’s priorities have some merit.
But a debt-based recovery would be short-lived, and would sow the seeds of more acute debt troubles in the future.
But the fact that reforms and actions were undertaken only lately, and under the pressure of acute crisis, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of reaching consensus.
The resulting economic insecurity for the working and middle classes is most acute in Europe and the eurozone, where in many countries populist parties – mainly on the far right – outperformed mainstream forces in last weekend’s European Parliament election.
These include not only acute questions like Iran’s nuclear program, but also long-term issues critical to the Arctic region, such as maritime safety, energy development, responses to oil spills, and fisheries management.
The migration crisis has appeared to be more acute in Italy because its system for processing asylum applications and repatriating those who do not qualify is slower than in other member states.
(The Cyprus rescue made the need more acute by making the field even more uneven.)
Now that US President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to reduce military engagement with Asia, the need for strategic cooperation among regional actors is becoming even more acute.
Diseases are spreading, wells are drying up, storms are smashing cities and destroying crops, and rain is either a distant memory or an acute danger.
Ukraine and BeyondGENEVA – The Ukraine crisis has evolved from acute to chronic.
Under Putin, the challenge of upholding human rights in Russia has remained acute.
Confusion was especially acute in early 2010, when “Growth in a Time of Debt” was published.
The old version of the European response--what psychologists might call "dollar envy"--will only become more acute.
But the risk is particularly acute in the EU, because populist political forces, should they win power, are likely to reject, in the name of national sovereignty, the supranational rules that form the basis of European institutions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel – whose East German upbringing should have given her especially acute insight into Putin’s authoritarian mindset – has described the Russian leader as detached from reality, guided by nineteenth-century Machtpolitik.
This intractability is, in some cases, understandable; the pain of survivors and their descendants remains acute.
But it makes little sense to cast blame on Saudi Arabia, which entered the conflict not to project power, but to neutralize an acute security – even existential – threat.
And while deaths from many other diseases, including acute malnutrition, have declined, hidden hunger remains pervasive.
A few dozen emergency workers who battled the fire at the reactor succumbed to acute radiation sickness.
The differences in values and strategic interests within the groupings are no less acute than the disagreements that their various members have with the West.
Rapid economic growth could slow in the face of acute scarcity if demand for water continues to grow at its current frantic pace, turning China and India – both food-exporting countries – into major importers, a development that would accentuate the global food crisis.
Some types of cancer – for example, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, testicular cancer, and acute myeloid leukemia – can be consistently cured using aggressive chemotherapy.
But evolution has failed to keep pace with biomedical and technological advances, allowing chronic pain (pain that persists beyond an acute injury or condition) to become a disease in itself.
Such programs must recognize and tackle the acute challenges the continent faces.
In fact, the impact of NCDs is especially acute in low- and middle-income countries; according to the WHO report, more than 80% of diabetes-related deaths occur outside high-income countries.
They would contend that low interest rates raise financial-stability risks that grow more acute with time.
The sense of revulsion is acute: Many of the Five Star Movement’s supportershope to transfer control of Italy’s government to citizen-representatives, whose every move would be digitally monitored to preclude corruption.
But the mutually reinforcing recession and debt crisis that Spain now faces have reinvigorated Catalonia’s long-standing secessionist movement; austerity has transformed a chronic, though manageable, problem into an acute existential question.
Santa Clara County, California is introducing a pilot project aimed at reducing the cost of supporting people with acute mental illness.
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