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And it is yet to be established whether Varoufakis
broke
any laws in the way he and his colleagues worked on their contingency plan.
It’s been three years since the bubble broke, and more than two since Lehman Brothers’ collapse.
World War I
broke
out largely because of the militarization of the political decision-making process.
The Tea Party’s Modest ProposalWASHINGTON, DC – America’s Tea Party has a simple fiscal message: the United States is
broke.
When the East Asian financial crisis
broke
out in mid-1997, the advanced countries and the International Monetary Fund were quick to blame the victims -- the borrowing countries.
If illicit deals are what it takes to gain access to the resources and markets they needed, private firms have been more than willing to strike them, offering cash or other payments to officials who bent or
broke
rules on their behalf.
If this line of thought sounds familiar, perhaps it is because it (more or less) recapitulates the foundations of the unsustainable planning system with which the accession countries
broke
at the beginning of the 1990's.
Then, in July, just before the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, news
broke
that Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo – who had been detained by the Chinese government for most of the last decade over his calls for democracy – had been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.
A decade later, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, with the British attacking American ships and impressing sailors, Congress
broke
with the past.
And that increasingly bizarre behavior came even before the news broke, on December 1, that Trump’s first national security adviser and close campaign aide, retired General Michael Flynn, had agreed to plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in exchange for his cooperation with the investigation.
The first shock came from US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who
broke
with more than two decades of strict discipline by suggesting that a weaker dollar would be in America’s interest.
The situation of the people – or rather the fight about their situation – is periodically in the news, most recently when violence
broke
the otherwise reasonably effective ceasefire in August.
But after President Richard Nixon
broke
– under great pressure – the link between the dollar and gold, exchange rates started to fluctuate much more than before.
Muhammad Atta, Zacharias Moussaoui, and Kamel Daoudi were "born again" in Marseilles, London, and Montreal, not in Egypt or Morocco (and they all
broke
ties with their families).
Indeed, it is now clear that Saddam was but a year away from securing his first atomic bomb when the Gulf War
broke
out.
Okinawans were already furious that the Democratic Party of Japan-led government
broke
its pledge to relocate the Futenma Air Base.
After an unconscionably long delay of seven days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally
broke
his incomprehensible silence about the rape.
And yet, when news
broke
last month that China had officially replaced Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, instead of crowing about surpassing a longtime rival and having the top spot, held by the US, in its sights, the government issued statements emphasizing that theirs remains a “poor, developing” country.
For starters, prisoners at Alcatraz who
broke
rules or were violent were punished by being put in “D Block,” where the cells had no windows; at Gitmo, all the cells that journalists are shown lack windows or natural light.
As for other government ministers, their shame-faced apologies for the Windrush scandal have been all the louder, because the story
broke
the same week that the heads of government of the Commonwealth met in London for their biennial conference.
Manafort offered to work for Trump for free – he eagerly sought the job – but it turns out that he was dead
broke
at the time.
In Sunday’s election, Argentina’s voters
broke
the pattern: for the first time in almost a century, the president will not be a Peronist, a Radical, or an army general.
In 2012, bloody clashes
broke
out between the Rohingya and the ethnic Rakhines, who feared becoming a minority in their home state.
The framework for US macroeconomic policy changed dramatically when the international monetary system
broke
down in 1971.
At best, there were temporary successes, but the policies always
broke
down.
Colombia and Ecuador
broke
diplomatic relations in March 2008, after Colombia’s army pursued FARC guerillas, who have been fighting Colombia’s government for decades, into Ecuadorean territory.
But Bild has already proven that it can do serious investigative work, such as exposing how Russia propped up the Donbas region’s economy after it
broke
away, paying salaries and pensions and funding job-creation efforts.
One such ally could be Somaliland, the former British protectorate, which
broke
away from Somalia in 1991 and lies to the northeast of Ethiopia.
With the LDP suffering from organizational sclerosis, Ozawa and some four dozen fellow legislators of the Tanaka faction
broke
away from the LDP in 1993 in a bid to build a two-party system.
Her revelation of her mastectomy – and the evident support of her partner, Brad Pitt – has elicited a rapturous response from popular media, including the tabloids that once damned her as the “other woman” who
broke
up Pitt’s previous marriage.
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