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Banks naturally avoided traditional business loans (which would have to be backed by more capital), and instead loaded up on the highest-yielding – and thus riskiest – AA or AAA mortgage- backed securities that they could find.
Credit for the absence of a truly serious Islamic challenge, however, should perhaps be given to Indonesia's moderate and mainstream Muslim leaders and groups, such as Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadyah, who avoided incendiary words and deeds.
And for those countries that are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of global warming, far more needs to be done if catastrophic effects are to be avoided.
Only a strong leader, de Gaulle thought, could have avoided defeat.
The war that erupted in 1991 in no small measure pitted those parts that had been ruled by the German-speaking empires against those that avoided such colonization.
We have avoided tough decisions for decades.
But in some cases, additional public capital probably cannot be avoided, as distasteful as it is.
These people avoided politics on principle, but also because they were afraid of losing their state jobs, or of disappearing altogether.
Yet the abyss can be avoided.
A debtor’s negotiating strategy is to make creditors believe that a collapse would produce some much bigger catastrophe, which can be avoided only by more concessions and more support.
By calling the election a year early, they avoided a scenario in which worsening inflation would have sapped the Conservatives’ popularity.
As a result, Greece has avoided generalized bank failures, and it has been able to continue paying its public employees.
America’s growth trajectory will be 2% below what it would have been had the financial crisis been successfully finessed and the lesser depression avoided.
True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in the 1930s to greater protectionism, bank failures, severe austerity, and a deflationary environment.
And yet one is tempted to ask the question: would a different political approach have avoided regime collapse?
Proper disinfection of equipment is generally affordable (especially in comparison to the cost of equipment itself), and contamination of medications and solutions can be avoided through training and vigilance.
Each referral that was avoided saved patients, on average, 110 Ghanaian cedis ($25), and the high success rate of closed cases reduced waiting times in clinics.
Under the illusion that lifestyles revolving around cheap oil and big cars were America’s perennial right, fuel-economy standards languished for decades, and politicians avoided the t-word like the plague.
Fortunately, Mnuchin has so far avoided fulfilling one of Trump’s irrational promises: to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
These problems are exceedingly common and artfully avoided because the science that would account for them just doesn’t exist.
A “cliff-edge” scenario – in which the end of the two-year negotiating period brings a sudden change to an unclear or even undecided regulatory regime – must be avoided at all costs.
It is remarkable that the world has avoided disaster thus far.
Adherence to these principles ensures that private rent-seeking and appropriation of oil profits, a major dimension of the so-called resource curse, is avoided.
Certain players, led by big banks, extracted huge profits during the boom, and avoided the deep losses that they deserved during the bust.
After all, the European Union has avoided becoming a focus of heated contestation precisely because it never got much of a share of what Europeans produced (its budget, at just over 1% of the EU’s GDP, has barely changed in relative terms for the past 40 years).
Zionism was too weak, and the enemies of the Jews too strong, for the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust to be avoided.
Moreover, Poland avoided extreme booms and the deep recessions that follow.
The discounted cost of the resulting stream of fixed annual costs totaled $800 billion, but damages avoided by this approach amounted to a discounted value of only $685 billion.
Expectations of less political turbulence were enhanced at the start of 2013 by a bipartisan agreement that avoided the so-called fiscal cliff (though at the last minute and with much rancor) and a deal reached later in January to raise the debt ceiling (albeit temporarily).
So far, Norway has avoided the worst pitfalls of the Dutch disease by using its massive oil revenues to establish a national savings scheme, the Petroleum Fund, which is permitted to invest only in foreign assets.
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