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The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.
This is what happened in the eurozone when the interbank market first
broke
down in mid-2007.
The Berlin Wall’s ChildrenHONOLULU – Fifty years ago today, on August 13, under the cover of darkness, East Germany
broke
ground on the construction of the Berlin Wall, which became one of the most iconic symbols of violence and exclusion the world has ever known.
Though she would not be the first woman president (Rousseff
broke
the gender barrier) or the first from humble origins (Lula
broke
that taboo), she would be the first mulatto – darker-skinned than traditional Brazilian political leaders – to hold the office.
It encouraged individuals and financial institutions to make loans to and invest in the East Asian countries, drawn by high domestic interest rates and returns to investment, and reassured about currency risk by the belief that the IMF would bail them out if the unexpected happened and the exchange pegs
broke.
When that crisis broke, the IMF quickly committed itself to more than $100 billion in loans to the four countries involved, subject to conditions agreed on with the IMF, conditions on government budgets, monetary policies, banking regulations, and the like, varying somewhat from country to country.
And, when the news
broke
that Snowden was revealing his vast trove of documents from Hong Kong, the city’s residents took to the streets to demonstrate their determination to uphold the tradition of free speech that he says drew him there.
When the SARS epidemic
broke
out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the magnitude of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.
On May 21, a brave woman named Manal al Sharif
broke
the silence and apathy, daring to defy the ban on women driving.
Like Japan, the Bush administration’s relatively moderate stance toward North Korea has changed since the talks
broke
down last year.
Shortly after the news of the Cologne attacks broke, it was revealed that similar attacks had taken place at the We Are Stockholm youth festival in the Swedish capital two years in a row, with young refugee men encircling and sexually assaulting teenage girls.
Last week, the government of Germany – once the most fiscally prudent and disciplined EU country –
broke
the pact’s rules for fiscal discipline for the fifth consecutive year, and did so without (much) apology.
Though Turkey’s Western partners swiftly
broke
with Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in support of the opposition, the “zero problems” principle dictated that the Turkish government maintain relations with the old regime.
Uproar
broke
out when five local conservative barons sought to hang onto control of their regions by accepting the National Front’s support.
As former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke put it, if only countries like China had spent more, the bubbles that nearly
broke
America would not have formed in the first place.
Germany is demanding that Greece continue to service its debts in full, even though Greece is clearly
broke
and the International Monetary Fund has noted the need for debt relief.
Then, on September 1, the Soviets
broke
the moratorium, joined shortly thereafter after by the US.
That type of rigidity
broke
up the Soviet Union and nearly destroyed the Catholic Church.
Even if the nuclear warhead
broke
the asteroid into many small pieces, they could have time to re-combine into another large object.
As the National People's Congress was meeting, Dr. Jiang
broke
his silence by writing a long, heartfelt appeal to the leaders of China.
It only backed down when the pro-government Liberal Party, which held a number of functional seats,
broke
ranks as a result of intense public pressure.
While affluent white women, or women of any background who managed to get a high-quality education – America’s Hillary Clintons, Madeline Albrights, and Condoleezza Rices –
broke
through the glass ceiling, and even have the women’s movement to lionize them, working-class white women have watched their rise with understandable resentment.
In 1996, New York's stock market
broke
all records, rising to greater heights since.
Instead, the news broke, and the opposition Socialist Party received a dramatic electoral boost.
Soon after, war
broke
out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, followed by fighting in Transdniestria and Chechnya.
The younger, more modern, and outward-looking elements
broke
away from the traditional, anti-western, anti-Semitic older generation.
But the realignment of the rich, developed countries around the monetarist policies promoted by economists like Milton Friedman, which began around 1970,
broke
with all that.
In his notorious 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, Powell, a skilled orator,
broke
decisively with the political mainstream.
For example, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
broke
with tradition by displaying a critical attitude toward Israel’s more hawkish policies in the occupied territories, and did so without severing diplomatic relations with Israel.
Indeed, this could explain why Abe
broke
protocol to become the first foreign leader to meet President-elect Trump in New York, on November 17.Had Hillary Clinton won the election, Abe would have been forced to downplay expectations for his summit with Putin.
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