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For countries hosting refugees from these conflicts, the challenges have been acute.
This type of violence is particularly acute in the area around Mosul.
As long as the shocks don’t worsen (and as some become less acute), confidence and growth will recover in the second half of the year, and stock markets will rally again.
The allergy to industrial policy is particularly acute among those who equate it with subsidies and tax breaks.
The greater the political instability, the more acute is the need for a framework that will finally start to address the deep divisions and challenges facing the British economy.
A recent study conducted in China, including 862 patients who were between the second and tenth day after onset of acute stroke, is the largest truly randomized trial using death or dependency as the primary outcome.
In the acute stage of the crisis, there is so much nervousness and anxiety that it is almost impossible for anyone to borrow.
As with heart attacks, the acute stage is usually followed by stabilization, in which banks are recapitalized and the fear of immediate failure wanes.
That was what happened in the major industrial countries in the 1930’s, where an acute crisis in 1931-1933, with some government recapitalization, was followed by a decade of contracting bank lending to private firms.
When faced with acute, seemingly overwhelming threats like Islamic terrorism, Russian adventurism, and demagogic populism, the best refuge can be fundamental principles and values – complemented by a little common sense.
Experience has shown that only an acute crisis can force Europe’s leaders to act together in a concerted effort.
The problem is a global one, but it is particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 88% of young students– some 202 million boys and girls – are not achieving a sufficient level of reading proficiency.
For starters, the conflicts of interests within such a eurozone might be much less acute than those that emerged during the crisis a decade ago, when creditor countries were obliged to bail out the debtors, which in turn felt squeezed by forced austerity.
At the moment, however, gender bias remains a significant obstacle to global progress, and it is particularly acute in the workplace.
The tension is particularly acute in Saudi Arabia, which has warned the US about the dangers of Iraq’s possible collapse and now finds itself in an unequal face-off with Iran.
The current crisis of Islam might not be congenital, but Islam’s predicament is acute.
But these defeats do not mean the downfall of ISIS, much less Islamist terrorism, or that the Middle East’s most acute conflicts will be resolved anytime soon.
With inequality still a problem (though nowhere near as acute as elsewhere in Latin America), more progressive and comprehensive income, capital gains, and property taxes are essential.
Moreover, as more European bonds are issued, this problem becomes more acute, because the existing overhang of private debt becomes increasingly risky.
The danger is all the more acute when the president is taking advantage of skepticism about facts to manipulate perceptions and create space for his own unethical behavior.
During the 2002-2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), in Asia, twice-daily temperature checks conducted by teachers made a clear and immediate contribution to stopping the spread of the disease.
China may be more effective in targeting its retaliation to cause acute political pain.
As the world learned with the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – which first appeared in China in 2002 but was not reported by Chinese officials until it spread to four other nations – globally shared health risks demand absolute global transparency.
The Saudi stock market index is up by 78% since the start of the year, hugely out-performing the main US and European indices - and this in a region plagued by conflict, nuclear tensions, terrorism, and acute political challenges.
Asia is suffering from an acute financial panic, in which the once-euphoric international investors who poured money into Asia are now fleeing the region at a dramatic pace.
But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.
The hope is to reduce acute emotional distress and prevent the onset of post-trauma psychiatric disorder.
For a child born in the 1960’s, the diagnosis of the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), meant almost certain death, with a survival rate of less than 10%.
And yet, while this strategy has indeed resulted in better outcomes, the acute and long-term morbidity of therapy has been substantial.
Corruption and failure to embrace meaningful political reform have become acute shortcomings.
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