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European countries behaved similarly, running up ever-higher debts.
Europe is fortunate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has behaved as a true European with regard to the threat posed by Russia.
After all, this is exactly how he had behaved as a senator.
For decades, Qaddafi had behaved as if he were, as his propagandists proclaimed him, “King among African Kings,” using his country’s abundant oil revenues to provide aid to his neighbors.
Indeed, Yale University historian Timothy D. Snyder, who could hardly be accused of harboring anti-Polish sentiments, has concluded that Poles behaved more or less the same as other people under similar circumstances.
In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear-armed neighbor.
They said that the borrowers had behaved badly, when the real problem was that the international system had created a veritable "house of cards," in which a mountain of short-term inter-bank loans could suddenly be reversed, causing economic collapse in debtor countries.
We showed that this notion was ill-founded: even small imperfections of information could have profound effects on how the economy behaved.
In a sense, Russia has behaved like Greece in claiming that NATO enlargement threatens its security.
It is the world’s largest and most powerful country, and the one most responsible for the climate change to this point, it has behaved without any sense of duty – to its own citizens, to the world, and to future generations.
In fact, correlations among a number of different financial-asset classes have behaved in an atypical and, at times, unstable manner.
The volunteers ended up being admitted to psychiatric institutions, where they behaved normally and claimed no symptoms.
However badly bankers have behaved – and some clearly deserve a decade or more in the sin bin – financial services are a crucial element of London’s economy.
The West accepted this decision and promised those who behaved many carrots.
One can imagine how political mavericks like former Polish president Lech Walesa may have behaved without oversight from the West.
The Trump administration behaved similarly in the lead-up to the debacle over its attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”).
Western entrepreneurs and investors have increasingly come to view Europe’s east as a part of a (now broader) domestic market and have behaved with a longer-term view.
There is, interestingly, a common thread running through all of these cases, as well as the 2008 crisis: financial sectors behaved badly and failed to assess creditworthiness and manage risk as they were supposed to do.
Like an airplane piloted in confusion, the European economy has not behaved according to the instructions.
If it had turned out that chlorine behaved chemically like bromine, the ozone hole would by then have been a global, year-round phenomenon, not just an event of the Antarctic spring.
So it behaved exactly according to its fear, launching a series of show trials targeting senior military officials and other perceived opponents.
For most of 2005, Americans behaved as if they didn’t really believe that oil prices would remain high, at least for a while.
But that is entirely because the Saudis have behaved since 2003 as if they feared Iraq’s Shia – and their own – much more than they do the Iranian regime.
The problem was that Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s predecessors behaved as if they were bound by a fixed exchange-rate regime.
In the US, Alexander Hamilton famously negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.
It behaved in ways that would have been unthinkable before – for example, its attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Throughout her career, Merkel has always behaved, not unreasonably, as if her main goal was to be reelected.
One difficult question not raised during those discussions at Harvard is this: what would have happened if the opponent had not been Khrushchev, who behaved rather rationally throughout the crisis, but had been an irresponsible Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il or a fundamentalist?
He behaved with great class and easily dismissed all the insults I had heaped on him only a short time before.
From the moment he fired Flynn, Trump has behaved as if he fears that Flynn has incriminating information that he might be able to trade to avoid punishment for improperly accepting and failing to disclose payments from the governments of Russia and Turkey.
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