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The price
charged
to consumers would rise gradually from $0.06/kilowatt-hour to the full cost of $0.16/kilowatt-hour, but over a phase-in period of, say, 40 years (the lifespan of the newest of today’s coal plants).
But in today’s intensely
charged
climate, the Middle East has become a kind of ideological projection screen, a magnet for tendencies to demonization and idealization.
True, some central banks (Sweden in 2009 and Denmark in 2012) have
charged
banks for taking deposits, thereby posting negative interest rates.
But there are limits to such tactics, because if depositors are being charged, at some point it becomes preferable for them to buy safes and store banknotes.
Nonetheless, there is strong bipartisan support in the US for maintaining military bases in Afghanistan, as a means of projecting hard power, and the increasingly
charged
confrontation between the US and Russia over Ukraine has boosted that support considerably.
Neither of these suggestions requires unrealistic breakthroughs in highly
charged
geopolitical stand-offs.
The occasion was solemn and
charged
with symbolism.
This is the same Bashir who is currently
charged
with genocide by the International Criminal Court.
The company's stock was suspended from trading in 1997, after it was
charged
with overstating profits.
American Crony Capitalists Go to WarWhen financial crisis hit Asia in 1997, America's leaders
charged
Asian governments with practicing crony capitalism.
News junkies still need a tangible paper that can be read in the sunlight without a fully
charged
battery.
Republican candidates, running highly
charged
anti-Obama campaigns, trounced their opponents.
NAIROBI – The International Criminal Court, after facing harsh criticism from the African Union (and threats from AU states to withdraw), finally seems to be paying attention to Africa’s concerns about its approach to trying leaders
charged
with crimes against humanity.
Kenyatta and Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto – both
charged
with crimes against humanity in connection with the 2007-08 post-election violence that left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced several hundred thousand – are the first suspects indicted by the ICC to be elected to lead a country.
After all, it is one thing to deliberate on the pros and cons of confronting external forces of irrational violence; it is something else to lash out against the producers of brutal, politically charged, and upsetting imagery.
In releasing the five, the Obama administration claimed that it was simply doing what was necessary to secure the return by the Taliban of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (who has now been
charged
with desertion).
But when pressure is high, government leaders
charged
with financial management feel trapped in a corner during any currency crisis.
At the same time, a recent "white paper" produced by a working group headed by the IMF's former boss, Michel Camdessus, which was
charged
with proposing the type of structural reforms needed to achieve growth, was received with the usual outcry from trade unions.
Many leaders of Italy’s political center were
charged
with corruption; the left lost its appeal after the collapse of the Soviet Union; and the right never regained trust due to the fascist legacy.
Hardline Islamists, favored previously, are now out, and soldiers
charged
with mutiny have received the death penalty.
Spreads
charged
on loans to Argentina went from huge to obscene.
And then there is Woody Allen, accused of but never
charged
with molesting his seven-year-old adopted daughter.
When the agreement was signed, many Kenyans declared that such politically
charged
ethnic violence would “never again” consume Kenya.
Despite its failure to investigate the conflict’s root causes, the International Criminal Court has
charged
four senior Kenyan officials with crimes against humanity: Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, the former cabinet secretary Francis Muthaura, the former education minister William Ruto, and the radio executive Joshua arap Sang.
In April, the body
charged
with this task, the National Constituent Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling coalition – composed of Ennahda, and two small liberal parties, Ettakatol and Al Moubedra – released a third working version, which satisfied no one.
In the ideologically
charged
US policy circles of the time, de-Ba’athification was understood to be a decisive move to extirpate a heinous ideology.
After Abe appointed Haruhiko Kuroda as the new head of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and
charged
him with getting the inflation rate to 2%, Kuroda loosened monetary policy immediately and dramatically, by slashing interest rates and launching large-scale purchases of long-term government bonds.
And finance professor Luigi Zingales, also at the University of Chicago, has
charged
that his fellow finance specialists have led society astray by overstating the benefits produced by the financial industry.
In that case, should the local authority pick up the cost, or should projects be financed through public-private partnerships, with tolls
charged
to users?
Politics is also
charged
with symbols in other less visible respects.
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