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If you are good at analogies ("that fluttering oak leaf reminds me of a butterfly wing"; "that 17th-century
clock
is a computer with a round screen"), you have a basis for creative thinking, for approaching old problems in new ways.
Moreover, taking the first step starts the
clock
on others' trust and confidence that the next steps will in fact be taken, or else risks creating the false impression that the failure to achieve a particular goal reflects mistaken (or irrelevant) intentions, not inadequate execution.
Through bluster and demagogy, populist politicians are turning back the
clock
to a pre-empirical world, in which superstition and obscurantism were apparently better for everyone.
The
clock
is ticking: if the Madrid Summit takes place with an agreement between NATO and Russia for closer consultation and cooperation, enlargement could lead to major irritations in Moscow, possibly to deliberate anti-Western action and pressure on Russia’s neighbors.
As soon as the
clock
winds down on the final FIFA World Cup soccer match in July, the country will resume preparations to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
But the
clock
is ticking, and Africa’s AGOA privileges will soon be eliminated.
Setting the
clock
back would thus not simply return Europe to the mid-twentieth century.
Tellingly, their promises were to “take back control” and “make America great again” – in other words, to turn back the
clock.
Massive spatial inequality creates large communities of people with no future, where the prevailing aspiration can only be to turn back the
clock.
The logo on the Bulletin’s cover is a clock, the proximity of whose hands to midnight indicates the editors’ judgment of the precariousness of the world situation.
When the Cold War ended, the Bulletin’s
clock
was put back to 17 minutes to midnight.
But the
clock
has been creeping forward again.
US President Donald Trump’s trade war will neither reduce America’s trade deficit nor turn back the technological
clock
on China.
But even if this is how Trump’s America will behave, no one in today’s interconnected world can turn back the
clock.
Merely turning the deregulatory
clock
back 30 years would not do the trick.
Its workforce labors round the
clock
and its inventiveness, energy, and diversity counter provincialism with scorn.
Yeltsin was more than the man who saved Russia in 1991 when a coup by communist hard-liners threatened to turn back the
clock
by nullifying Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost.
Instead, they may simply deliver the Paraguayan state into the hands of Colorado leaders who are intent on turning back the
clock
on democratization, excluding Liberals, and marginalizing all groups demanding more effective and inclusive use of public resources.
Given the difficulty of rolling back the financial
clock
and the constraints of the Single Market, it is clear which way European countries will move.
But their control of the
clock
is less than perfect; and it will become increasingly ineffective if economic improvement faces additional political headwinds in the months ahead.
Or will they turn back the
clock?
But Iran also recognizes that the
clock
is ticking.
Work went on around the
clock.
Putin has also not turned the
clock
back on economic reform.
More important, with the
clock
ticking on default (which could come as early as July), the Greek authorities need to persuade their partners through action, not promises.
The reforms China needs cannot be accomplished in a slump, or by a large exchange-rate depreciation that deflates the world in a vain effort to turn back the
clock
to an era of export-led growth that stagnant demand in the West has rendered nonviable.
If the Trump administration thinks it can reset the
clock
by starting a trade war with China, it is as likely to accelerate China’s economic and military development as it is to slow it down.
For better or for worse, it may not be possible to turn back the
clock.
But the
clock
is ticking.
Even if China’s leadership wanted to, it could no longer
clock
its subjects from contact with Western goods, markets, ideas.
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