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Given all of this, one hopes that opposition from political figures like Clinton
amounts
to naught – an entirely plausible outcome, in Clinton’s case, because the TPP should be enacted before the presidential election in November 2016.
Nowadays, many start-up companies – particularly Internet start-ups – are raising serious
amounts
of capital for their stones alone.
Furthermore, as the economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out, the US defense budget
amounts
to $1.9 billion a day – just three days of which would plug the gap facing the Global Fund.
Since its independence from Belgium in 1962, Burundi has suffered five episodes of what
amounts
to the same civil war.
The Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve injected huge
amounts
of cash into their economies through “quantitative easing” (QE) – massive purchases of long-term government and corporate securities.
Forests contain huge
amounts
of carbon.
Today’s version of that question is: why will richer nations spend obscene
amounts
of money on climate change, achieving next to nothing in 100 years, when we could do so much good for mankind today for much less money?
The
amounts
involved contribute to the creation of a new aristocracy that can pass on its wealth through inheritance.
The EU’s official reaction to the police violence witnessed during Catalonia’s independence referendum
amounts
to dereliction of duty.
This is monetary policy on steroids, and, to opponents of inflation-inducing money creation, it
amounts
to playing with fire.
But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the
amounts
of money that firms and their associations spend.
If sizeable
amounts
of Canadian gas are to flow across the Atlantic, both Canada and Europe will need to beef up their investments in the necessary LNG terminals and storage facilities – a complex and expensive undertaking.
When the central bank buys large
amounts
of bonds, all asset prices, including housing, tend to increase.
The plaintiff alleged that large
amounts
of funds were channeled to the troika’s favored candidates to contest the 1990 general election, in which Nawaz Sharif’s party won a big victory over Benazir Bhutto’s Peoples’ Party.
Indeed, considering that China’s per capita income
amounts
to only about 10-20% of that of the US, with massive regional differentials within China, its growth potential, as dictated by the convergence hypothesis, is far from tapped.
The ECB has provided essentially unlimited
amounts
of liquidity to euro-area financial systems.
Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kWh produced, and it emits much lower
amounts
of other pollutants like NOx, SO2, black carbon, CO, mercury, and particulates.
Instead, the Copenhagen Accord merely asked countries for voluntary pledges to cut their emissions by specific
amounts.
Leaving
amounts
to losing lifelong connections, and therefore can be traumatic.
They can carry enormous
amounts
of current, making them ideal for urban power grids.
Even taking into account the increasing demographic differential, which now
amounts
to about half a percentage point per year, the US economy has grown by about 4.5 percentage points more over these three years on a per capita basis.
Unfortunately, as the UK will demonstrate, this strategy
amounts
to nothing more than a self-fulfilling prophecy of decline.
The combination of a young population and a crumbling economy is a combustible mix, one that
amounts
to an existential threat to the regime – and the regime knows it.
More fundamentally, its promise of decentralized transactions with no intermediary authority
amounts
to an untested, Utopian pipedream.
Beyond his boastful talk about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, his government has recently announced a new naval doctrine – one that
amounts
to an alarming echo of Germany’s naval challenge to Britain prior to World War I.
Given annual inflation of at least 11%, this
amounts
to roughly an 8% real reduction in planned spending.
More important, at least for now, the decision
amounts
to an endorsement by the IMF of the progress China has made toward renminbi internationalization, while reflecting – and reinforcing – China’s growing economic clout.
And the Soviet Union followed with a research reactor from which Libyan scientists extracted small
amounts
of plutonium.
Estimates of the
amounts
needed by developing countries to help them adapt to these challenges vary between $50 and $100 billion per year.
African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small
amounts
of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.
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