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Indeed, not even Obama avoided the trap of allowing America’s military means to determine its foreign-policy ends.
In terms of economic policy for the next four years, the main cause for post-election celebration is that the US has avoided measures that would have pushed it closer to recession, increased inequality, imposed further hardship on the elderly, and impeded access to health care for millions of Americans.
Tax increases and public expenditure cuts to reduce the deficit are essential if a debt crisis is to be avoided.
But if it is always regarded as relevant, the worst damage may be avoided.
These companies’ ready-made, proprietary, and typically dull offerings represent a route that should be avoided at all costs – lest we wake up to find ourselves in Minitel City.
Competitive devaluation, which skeptics are calling for, must be avoided this time around.
Feeble at best, they have invariably avoided the type of structural changes Pakistan needs if it is ever to break out of its recurring, worsening crisis.
A pitfall to be avoided here comes in sweetening the deal by converting a government monopoly into a private monopoly - which may be an improvement but falls far short of the desirable outcome.
Never mind that most of the crises could have been avoided, or late least substantially mitigated, if governments had let their currencies float against the dollar, rather than adopting rigid exchange-rate pegs.
Stable macroeconomic policies also need to be in place, while fixed exchange rates are to be avoided.
(The UN, the European Union, and the Union of South American Nations, focusing on other priorities, have avoided becoming collectively involved.)
But there is one potential obstacle that cannot be avoided: the May presidential election.
If the eurozone’s breakdown is to be avoided, Italy – indeed, the entire currency area – urgently needs an economic boost.
Above all, dominance by one group through a powerful presidency must be avoided.
Hiding behind the originality (in French presidential politics) of her gender, Royal has avoided specifying a detailed program.
To finance today’s wars, by contrast, the US government has not only avoided raising taxes, but has actually cut them on an enormous scale, with the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 now extended at least through 2012.
Others, however, have noted that Estonia pursued strict austerity in the wake of the crisis, avoided a financial crisis, and is now growing again vigorously, whereas Greece, which delayed its fiscal adjustment for too long, experienced a deep crisis and remains mired in recession.
On May 22, the Senate avoided it, by narrowly defeating – 51 to 48 – a proposed “currency manipulation” amendment to a bill that gives Obama so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the TPP.
Currency manipulation legislation is one tragedy that can and should be avoided.
To use a traffic analogy, policies with few adverse spillovers should be rated “green”; those that should be used temporarily could be rated “orange”; and policies that should be avoided at all times would be “red.”
And it is telling that, during Europe’s long struggle since the financial crisis, it has avoided any spectacular collapses, with the exception of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum.
When the cross-border interbank market stopped working this summer, a similar economic collapse was avoided only because the ECB, without much fanfare, became the eurozone’s central clearing house.
America’s Oil-Spill NationalismLONDON – American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided.
Current projections indicate that uranium shortages in the coming years can be avoided only if existing and new uranium mines operate according to plan.
For the West – and for Europe first and foremost – this dilemma cannot be avoided.
At home, though, Merkel fears this debate like no other – a debate that the financial markets and the crisis in many European countries will ensure cannot be avoided.
In the wake of revelations by the World Anti-Doping Agency about large-scale state-sponsored doping in Russia, the country avoided an outright ban by the skin of its teeth.
Agency rivalries will be avoided.
During the period I dealt with the six-party talks, I avoided adding my voice to the anti-North Korean invective.
Chile was the star reformer, but other countries – including Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea – also avoided pro-cyclical fiscal policies.
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