Approaching
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It will be a befitting award for the great actor now
approaching
the sunset of his acting years.
If you are good at analogies ("that fluttering oak leaf reminds me of a butterfly wing"; "that 17th-century clock is a computer with a round screen"), you have a basis for creative thinking, for
approaching
old problems in new ways.
India’s Decade of DecayNEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been in office since 2004, recently held what was only the second press conference of his current five-year term, which is rapidly
approaching
an inglorious end.
But the day is fast
approaching
when fires, droughts, and storms exacerbated by global warming will dwarf our ability to respond.
The problem is that five billion people around the world are not documented in national ledgers in anything
approaching
an organized manner.
From insistence that the end of the Kim dynasty was approaching, consensus is emerging on the continued existence of their regime.
With many of today’s advanced economies near or
approaching
the 90%-of-GDP level that loosely marks high-debt periods, expanding today’s already large deficits is a risky proposition, not the cost-free strategy that simplistic Keynesians advocate.
In these countries, the revenue-to-GDP ratio almost tripled in just 20 years, from 22% in 1995 to 64% in 2016 – far higher than the ratio in other emerging economies, and
approaching
high-income country levels.
With the household debt-to-asset ratio now
approaching
levels last seen in the 1990s, consumers have plenty of capacity to ramp up their borrowing.
What is incredible is the thoughtfulness with which Bhutan is
approaching
this process of change, and how Buddhist thinking guides that thoughtfulness.
Trump’s Crazed TransitionWASHINGTON, DC – With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States fast approaching, the strangest – even craziest – post-election transition in US history is about to come to an end.
This is a concern, because the global economy’s
approaching
slowdown comes at a time of heightened political fragility.
Approaching
the meeting, I was excited but nervous.
These subtler symptoms may constitute a pre-konzo condition, providing a warning that a child is
approaching
the disease’s threshold.
Like many observers around the world since the Brexit vote, the Kremlin does not look at the UK and see a country able to wield anything
approaching
global influence.
Recent events – the growing number of high-level defections from the regime’s leadership, the killing of three of President Bashar al-Assad’s most senior officials in a bomb attack, and the rebellion’s spread into Damascus itself – suggest that, after a long period of gradual decline, the Assad regime is now
approaching
collapse or implosion.
The message, it seems, is that a moment of decision is
approaching.
But the end is approaching, and serious thought must be given to several inherent dangers in the Syrian situation.
Parallel to this, the next tsunami is approaching, threatening to inundate the real economy.
That means that the world economy is
approaching
a protracted deep recession.
In July, Robert W. Merry wrote that Trump had “yet to score anything
approaching
a serious legislative victory – or to demonstrate any serious political momentum.”
Given the rapidly
approaching
2015 deadline to negotiate a new binding international agreement on climate change under the Durban Platform, a US administration that supports institutional solutions to global problems is vital.
Greece’s debt ratio is over 120%, Italy’s is around 100%, and the US is at 74%, up from 40% a few years ago – and rapidly
approaching
90%.
By contrast, the US unemployment rate has almost doubled, now
approaching
10%.
It was so tempting for a minister or a senior technocrat to explain that consolidation had to start immediately, because the 90% threshold was approaching, that most of them did not resist it.
Grand Bargaining with IranSTOCKHOLM – Slowly but surely, Iran’s talks with the international community about its nuclear program are
approaching
the make-or-break point.
More fundamentally, is the day
approaching
when, thanks to so many smart people and smarter computers, financial markets really do become perfect, and we can just sit back, relax, and assume that all assets are priced correctly?
Sweden’s Russia ProblemSTOCKHOLM – With a general election
approaching
in September, Swedish voters are being warned that now it’s their turn to be targeted by Russian interference in the democratic process.
A Sunni-Shia Bridge Too FarBAGHDAD – Iraq’s recent parliamentary election, the first since United States troops left the country in 2011, was held amid a rising tide of violence that is fast
approaching
the levels experienced during the 2005-2007 insurgency.
With hard times approaching, will Cristina try to be a twenty-first-century Evita and create an epic by exploiting Argentines’ flamboyant tendencies, armed with an exceptional power or will she adopt Rouseff’s sensible attitude and combat inefficiency and corruption while strengthening governmental institutions?
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