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And the bystanders are absorbing some of the hardest blows.
This will require the vast mobilization of zero-carbon energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, implying a power system that can handle intermittent energy sources that depend on when the sun shines, how hard the wind blows, and how fast the rivers flow.
Although football victories have sometimes united bitter opponents, such truces have been all too ephemeral, and usually end soon after the final whistle blows.
Nowhere is this more true than in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the uneven blows of history and varied national policies have resulted in a patchwork of fates for our many peoples.
One of those candidates was Santos, Uribe’s former minister of defense, who had delivered some of the military’s hardest blows to the FARC.
Governments have refused to reinstate the absolute wall of separation between commercial and investment banks, leaving taxpayers on the hook to pay deposit-insurance claims when the bubble-prone financial sector blows up.
Although there is such a thing as original sin – the wickedness that simmers, blows up, and scars young children and their family and friends – there is also original virtue, which is always present after terrorist atrocities.
But there is a pattern emerging, and no one will be surprised when Trump’s relationship with Kim blows up in his face, too.
With Europe staggering under the blows of investors intent on profiting from a catastrophe largely of their own making, it is time to reflect on the public purpose of global capital markets.
Yet the breadth and speed of Globalization 2.0 demand new approaches to cushion the blows of this disruption.
One of Modi’s more symbolic blows to the old establishment has been his government’s success in evicting high-status squatters from hundreds of government bungalows in central Delhi.
Two Blows Against Illiberal DemocracySANTIAGO – The number of elected governments competing to be the world’s worst has now fallen by two.
Yet the terrorist blows inflicted on New York, London, and Madrid over the past decade have not shaken Western democracies.
Over the past few months, the Tigers have suffered a series of devastating blows.
I have had the opportunity – first as Uribe’s defense minister, and now as President – to deal the strongest blows to the guerrillas and drug-trafficking gangs.
The blows to the transatlantic alliance have kept coming.
So what policies should be implemented in response to these economic blows?
But there is another problem with persistently subpar growth: It provides no cushion to shield economies from unexpected blows.
When hit by them, vigorously growing economies have cushions to withstand the blows and the resilience to shrug them off.
If the fund blows up, investors cannot tell whether it was due to bad management or just bad luck.
But that seems unlikely when banks and investors seem punch-drunk, barely reacting to regulators’ blows.
The next brings word about the impact on nations and peoples least able to cope with these blows – the poorest of the world’s poor.
Although we don’t exchange blows like men, we are just as passionate, especially since the world’s most famous tournament is being played on our continent.
The temptation to soften these blows by printing money as elections roll around will only worsen the financial situation.
Still, a country that refuses to suffer repeated body blows earns more respect than one whose restraint can be interpreted as weakness.
The first election campaign that I got involved in was some 50 years ago, in New York, where all of today’s candidates – Republican and Democrat – recently traded blows, with Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton emerging triumphant.
Economists who study growth almost come to blows at conferences over whether “institutions” or “culture” are more important to growth, with both sides seeking to take credit for Singapore, which inherited English institutions and elements of Chinese culture.
La Nausée RusseMOSCOW – The history of successive authoritarian regimes in Russia reveals a recurring pattern: they do not die from external blows or domestic insurgencies.
Obsessed with the war on terror as well as an ideology of privatizing the functions of government, the administration systematically sapped FEMA’s long-term ability to prevent disaster or at least cushion the blows when prevention is not possible.
More important, wind is cheaper only when the wind blows.
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