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And, with all due respect for Annan and Tutu, this is what external mediation would
amount
to – and it would threaten to cripple Spanish democracy.
China, meanwhile, drew plaudits just before the Copenhagen summit by promising to cut its carbon intensity (the
amount
of CO2 emitted for each dollar of GDP) over the next ten years to just 40-45% of its level in 2005.
My conclusion is that a good indication of this moving equilibrium does exist: the five-year forward oil price, or the
amount
paid for guaranteed delivery of oil five years from now.
Participants were divided as to the
amount
of future work, but almost all foresaw the continuing disaggregation of jobs into tasks in both low- and high-end work, from driving to lawyering.
As the fast-growing sectors absorb an increasing
amount
of resources, a shift toward more market-oriented interest rates is needed to ensure efficient allocation.
That’s a political imperative: with corporations sitting on trillions of dollars in cash while ordinary Americans are suffering, lowering the average
amount
of corporate taxation would be unconscionable – and more so if taxes were lowered for the financial sector, which brought on the 2008 crisis and never paid for the economic damage.
All of this entails a certain
amount
of instability, particularly if expansion is driven by negotiations among governments, rather than by democratic choices.
The implication is clear: The banks’ capital shortfall will be understated, and the
amount
of new capital they will be required to raise will be inadequate.
And its impending liberalization of its financial-services sector will
amount
to its biggest step toward openness since its accession to the WTO.
This week’s NATO summit in Warsaw will
amount
to a litmus test of the Alliance’s ability to adapt to the new more complex security challenges that it faces.
For example, the Alliance should develop a terrorism risk-assessment model, with a special focus on its southern flank, and upgrade the
amount
of actionable intelligence collected by and from partner and member countries.
A corporate giant has little incentive to change its practices if the fines imposed on it
amount
to, say, less than a week’s earnings.
Because the airline manager – known as the “financial wizard” – has no idea what the price of the pottery is, a creative solution is needed to determine the appropriate
amount
of compensation.
If all write the same number, that figure will be understood as the price, and thus the
amount
of compensation each traveler receives.
As a result, a huge
amount
of it ends up polluting the earth.
Specifically, they should revisit the consensus that banks will become gradually safer, and their required capital should
amount
to no more than 10% of their assets.
It enjoys a significant
amount
of political independence.
If a good education remains the preserve of the elite, no
amount
of irrational exuberance will be able to mask the long-term threat to economic growth and political stability.
The conditions imposed by the “troika” – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund –
amount
to an indefinite delay in addressing the needs of those asked to sacrifice and in repairing tattered social safety nets.
Why not pay them the same
amount
to share their knowledge and skills in high schools?
Public finance (or, in some cases, government-regulated cooperative insurance funds that
amount
to public financing) pays for most discretionary medical services, with private insurance supplementing only minimal extra services.
Responding to Russia’s razing of Aleppo with carrots would
amount
to paying tribute to a cynical, criminal policy.
Budget deficits and the resulting national debt are important not only in themselves; they also contribute to a country’s current-account deficit, which is the difference between its level of domestic investment by businesses and households in structures and equipment and the
amount
that it saves to finance those investments.
That amount, which includes the saving of businesses and households, is reduced by the
amount
that the government borrows.
Refusing to consider any
amount
of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.
This is exactly what Trump often does when one of his businesses runs into trouble, and it would effectively
amount
to a partial default on the national debt.
The result was a vast
amount
of cheap liquidity that helped to stabilize the financial sector, restore stock and real-estate prices, and increase domestic demand.
And that is likely to be an upper bound, because it assumes that US retailers will pass through to consumers the full
amount
of any increase in import prices.
And yet, while Russia has made it through to the tournament’s knockout round, the excitement of the games, and the unlikeliness of Russia’s success,
amount
to a fleeting distraction.
Indeed, China’s leaders seem convinced that price-keeping operations
amount
to an effective mechanism for manipulating stock prices in whatever way they see fit.
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