Balance
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If they vote for legalization, it will probably be 20 years or more before anyone can say whether, on balance, they decided wisely.
No academic laurels are to be won by finding innovative accounts as its cause: the collapses were the result of financial weakness in countries where bad policies produced hyper-inflation, which destroyed banks’
balance
sheets.
The answers, if they exist, lie in the slow and painful cleaning up of
balance
sheets; and in microeconomic restructuring, which cannot simply be imposed from above by an omniscient planner, but requires many businesses and individuals to change their outlook and behavior.
First, they will offset the contractionary effects of the expected increase in the federal funds rate and the shrinking size of the Federal Reserve’s
balance
sheet.
Smaller member states, notably Finland and Ireland (as well as Spain) and the two non-euro area countries Denmark and Sweden, have stuck to the principle of fiscal
balance
or small – though diminishing – surpluses.
And Europe cannot deploy the type of power needed to tilt the
balance
in Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
Nonetheless, this scenario (which the realist school might foresee) can be avoided, especially if we shore up the existing structures of multilateral governance, which can help us to manage shifts in the
balance
of power.
Not so long ago, issues such as the environment, the
balance
of work versus leisure in daily life, and the role of marriage, abortion, and other family concerns were secondary political disputes, as politicians fought over who would receive what share of a nation's wealth.
With households desperately trying to rebuild their
balance
sheets, and with capital investment remarkably healthy, the only places to boost spending to restore capacity utilization and unemployment to normal levels are exports, government purchases, and construction investment.
Before the advent of the European Union, for example, Europe conceived of world order as a
balance
of great powers, in which multiple religions and forms of government could coexist.
Kissinger’s hope is that these countries and rising powers like India and presumably Brazil (he leaves Latin America out of his account of world orders) will be able to forge agreement on a set of rules that all will regard as legitimate, thereby maintaining a stable global
balance
of power.
Kissinger focuses on inter-state relations – on how, from one country’s perspective, to avoid war with other countries while deterring them from aggression or other actions likely to upset a regional or global
balance
of power.
The Europeans could have tipped the
balance
decisively in favor of the reformers by finally rewarding the efforts of the pro-EU Turks at last December's summit of EU leaders.
This shift in Turkey's strategic role may also be reflected in a new domestic
balance
between the military and the forces pushing for reform.
The Internet changed the
balance
of power between individuals and institutions.
China is constrained by a natural
balance
of power in Asia in which Japan (the world’s third-largest economy) and India (about to surpass China in population) have no desire to be dominated by it.
Horror of debt is particularly marked in the elderly, perhaps out of an ancient feeling that one should not meet one’s maker with a negative
balance
sheet.
On balance, that may even make membership more appealing for non-members such as Denmark and Poland.
But surely there can be a
balance
between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.
Debates rage over the bilateral trade
balance
and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft.
They understand the tension between the different values involved in an issue, and how to
balance
the desirable with the feasible.
And yet that failure may be overlooked thanks to a further feature of this tale, evident after the arrest when the man who had been Ghosn’s co-CEO, Hiroto Saikawa, brutally ejected him: Japanese managers have reasserted their traditional solidarity at the firm in an effort to shift the
balance
of power in the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Motors alliance away from Renault and back toward Nissan.
But it will take leadership to translate that vision into action, just as it will take leadership to
balance
our larger long-term interests against the fierce urgencies of now.
Governments engaged in war do not worry about debt-to-GDP ratios or bank
balance
sheets.
It is a major flaw of the system of international law that the application of the lofty principles of universal justice should be conditioned by the global
balance
of political power, and that the world’s most notorious abusers, such as Libya and Iran, are allowed to pose as guardians of human rights in UN agencies.
In the immediate aftermath of World War I, a triumphant America withdrew from global responsibility, with tragic consequences for the
balance
of power in a Europe that was left to face its inner demons alone.
But, in developingsuch innovative approaches to emissions reductions, we must always specify theoptimal feedstock for each product, and find the right
balance
between fossilfeedstock and renewable resources.
The key to Iran’s new era, however, lies more in the new internal
balance
of power among Tehran’s political factions than to electoral mandates.
And other countries in the Middle East feared that the agreement would alter the regional
balance
of power and damage their own interests.
The necessary
balance
may vary according to local conditions.
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