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In a sea of pessimism about democracy in the EU’s neighborhood, some winds are still blowing in the right direction.
The Greek crisis, having been building for years, is blowing the hardest.
The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.
Last time, international cooperation was underpinned by fear of blowing up the planet.
Prime Minister David Cameron, knowing which way the wind is blowing, has promised more.
Fine words are not enough; leaders must commit to putting them into action, and civil society must be vigilant in tracking progress and blowing the whistle when not enough is being done.
Even the owner of the Bridgewater Canal eventually saw the way the wind was blowing – and invested heavily in the rival railway.
But they are also monitoring carefully which way the political winds are blowing.
Where the Bolsheviks had the October Revolution and the subsequent civil war to deify Lenin, Putinists used the second Chechen war, triggered by blowing up of Moscow apartments, to raise up Vladimir Putin as national saviour.
But it is better than blowing up trade in North America.
But the liberties of Europeans will not be better served by blowing up the institutions that were carefully constructed in the ruins of the last calamitous European war.
I am confident that, notwithstanding the headwinds blowing from the eurozone crisis and the slump in demand worldwide, China can continue its dynamic growth.
Snowden and the PopeNEW YORK – Pope Francis increasingly resembles a gust of fresh air blowing through the musty chambers of the Catholic Church.
The winds of global change began sweeping through Asia roughly two decades ago, first in East Asia, then engulfing China, and in the course of the 1990’s blowing on to South Asia, most importantly India.
But there was no evidence that the more widely dispersed ash blowing over Europe from Iceland would cause similar problems.
But the main reason why wind and solar power cannot be a major solution to climate change stems from an almost insurmountable obstacle: we need power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
When the wind is not blowing, wind-generated electricity is the most expensive electricity of all, because it cannot be bought at any price.
Better mechanisms for storing and releasing that energy – when the sun isn’t shining, the wind isn’t blowing, or when electric cars are on the move – are also critical.
Blowing up people with bombs is no better than clubbing them to death.
And, rather than surging forward, the US economy, regrettably and exasperatingly, will remain captive to unusual sluggishness, while its vulnerability to the ill winds blowing from the rest of the world will only increase.
As long as the tailwinds of global quantitative easing, cheap oil, and further institutional inflows keep blowing, equities could continue to rally.
Moreover, Abdullah understands that his wobbly regime will only be able to withstand the radical gales that are now blowing if it can forge the type of stability-seeking alliance that Metternich built.
First, does the leader recognize which way the winds of history are blowing?
Blowing Away Nuclear PowerBRUSSELS – It has been evident for years that Europe needs an energy system that can cut dependence on fossil fuels, bring down future energy costs, and fight climate change.
Trump and the Republicans, by contrast, chose to cut taxes on both businesses and their owners, while blowing an unsustainable hole in the federal budget, exacerbating inequality, and imposing new burdens on the most productive parts of the country.
Outbreaks usually occur at the beginning of the calendar year, when dry winds from the Sahara Desert begin blowing southward.
What about the Stern gang's blowing up of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in order to liberate Palestine from the British?
Moreover, gradual adjustment in the bilateral exchange rate is needed to prevent global imbalances from blowing out.
He should consider the corollary: Small countries looking for easy gains by blowing up the international system can also end up undermining themselves.
To avoid blowing past the 2º threshold, all parties to the Paris agreement will need to raise the level of ambition of their current commitments by 2020.
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