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So it would make sense to conduct small, reversible experiments to determine what substances might be put at what altitude to reflect incoming energy, and to include the results in global climate models to ascertain where they would be most effective and benign.
The contrast with its benign policy toward Libya in 2011 reflects how Russian foreign policy changed with the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin.
But, as many critics have pointed out, the economic assumptions underlying the Trump administration’s benign scenario appear improbable.
Moreover, charismatic leadership can be problematic even when it takes a benign form.
After a year in the wilderness, wondering what would become of benign globalism and neoliberal ideas, Davos man had found a new North Star: pragmatism.
The film begins with the story of Chai’s own newborn daughter being diagnosed with a benign tumor.
Last month, I highlighted three indicators – the oil price, long-term US interest rates, and the dollar’s exchange rate – suggesting that global conditions would remain benign.
If, however, Trump blends more benign populist policies with mainstream pro-business ones, he will not face a market fallout.
The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.
Around the world, people are being admitted to hospitals with infections that do not respond to antibiotics, and relatively benign germs – like Klebsiella and E. coli – have become potent killers, shrugging off medicines that in the past easily contained them.
As such, what began as a laissez-faire attitude of benign neglect– largely a result of ignorance and inattention – is evolving into something more forceful.
It is a benign form of global competition that increases productivity everywhere, provided that the markets for final and intermediate goods and services remain open.
Though China is no colonizer, it would be a mistake to assume that its growing global footprint is purely benign.
In short, now is not the time to pursue a policy of benign neglect.
After the Communists seized power in China in 1949, the US openly viewed Chinese Communism as benign, and thus distinct from Soviet Communism.
While large deficits are usually undesirable, sometimes they can be benign or even desirable, such as in recession, wartime, or when used to finance productive public investment.
The rest of the world shares that benign inflation environment.
Already in February, the Bundestag voted to change Germany’s benign asylum laws, thereby suspending family reunification for refugees, decreasing monthly cash benefits, facilitating deportation of failed asylum-seekers, and designating Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia as safe countries of origin.
But how can we stop benign disinflation from turning into bad deflation?
It is impossible to know whether this benign pattern will hold.
Indeed, in its 2006 annual review of the US economy, the IMF was extraordinarily benign in its assessment of the risks posed by the relaxation of lending standards in the US mortgage market.
Still others hold a more benign view: Sino-African relations constitute a partnership, in line with the New Partnership of Africa’s Development, a pan-African organization that seeks to empower African states in their international relations.
These shifts will be gradual, persistent, and less predictable than what investors had come to expect during the deceptive calm of the euro’s first decade, when the currency union’s establishment, together with EU enlargement and liberalization, appeared to create a stable and benign environment.
On the subject of despotic rulers, Rouhani offered only the benign observation that they lack the ability to connect with and understand their people.
During the last half-century, America has been a reasonably good steward of international stability – a kind of benign bully operating in the collective interest.
It would greatly facilitate the creation of an effective banking union, and it would allow member states to undertake their own structural reforms in a more benign environment.
Germany assuming the role of a benign hegemon would benefit everyone, but that seems to be unattainable.
Even more benign shortcomings – such as slowness in modernizing laws to catch up to changing realities – detract from economic wellbeing.
The assumption that a benign growth and interest-rate environment was a permanent state of affairs led to a massive failure of fiscal counter-cyclicality in the advanced economies, as budget deficits became chronic, rather than a response to depressed domestic demand.
A benign example is Adidas’s sponsorship of tennis tournaments.
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