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For example, whereas France derives the majority of its electricity from nuclear energy, Germany rushed to close all of its nuclear power plants after the 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima plant.
Similarly, climate change is beyond the capacity of any country to address alone, and there are serious questions about whether the global community’s response is even close to aggressive enough to stave off disaster.
They are aided by the fact that some within the government would prefer to close a sorrowful chapter of human rights violations rather than bringing it to a conclusion.
It will be a close call.
Since World War II, Britain’s close relationships with continental Europe and the US have served as the two anchors of its foreign policy.
How much of it will be lost, particularly if a new regime in Baghdad punishes Jordan for its close ties with the Iraqi government, is a worrying question.
Relative to German bonds, the spreads in February of secondary-market yields of government bonds with maturities of close to ten years were 141 basis points for Italy, 257 for Greece, and 252 for Ireland, compared to just 32, 84, and 25 basis points, respectively, in 2000.
The ECB defined price stability to be annual inflation of less than but close to 2%.
It also assumed that machines and workers were close substitutes, whereas more often than not workers could still do things that machines could not.
Because computer programs and humans are close substitutes for such jobs, and given the predictable improvement in computing power, there seems to be no technical obstacle to the redundancy of workers across much of the service economy.
Because the plants must be kept running 57% of the time to avoid losses, many are likely to close.
This was the diagnosis offered two years ago by the so-called “Four Presidents” (the European council president in close collaboration with the presidents of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the Eurogroup).
And, in today’s economic climate, attracting private financing is essential, because there is simply no way that public funding alone can close the infrastructure gap.
Participants included: Robert McNamara, President Kennedy's Secretary of Defense;Theodore Sorensen, his close aid and speech writer;Ernest R. May, a professor of history at Harvard who has written a book about “The Kennedy Tapes"; and Graham Allison, a professor of political science at Harvard who, 30 years ago, wrote the classic study of the missile crisis “Essence of Decision.”
But, with the incomes of the bottom 90% having stagnated for close to a third of a century (and declining for a significant proportion), the health data simply confirmed that things were not going well for very large swaths of the country.
As a tumultuous year comes to a close, giddy global markets continue to set new records.
But, in rapidly growing emerging-market countries, the rich tend to close their eyes to the suffering of the poorest, except when they feel threatened by the risk of political upheaval, as in, say, Saudi Arabia.
As the Union reforms itself internally to strengthen its democratic character and become a truly open society, it must not close itself off from those outside it.
The world’s priority for the coming year must be to achieve peace in Syria, which will require close regional and international cooperation.
A half-dozen years after the financial crisis, regulators will find it discouraging to conclude anything other than that they have solved the problem or are close to doing so.
Populism can be a necessary corrective when political parties grow sclerotic, mass media become too complacent (or too close to power), and bureaucracies are unresponsive to popular needs.
Intensive animal husbandry procedures that place billions of poultry and swine in close proximity to humans, combined with unsanitary conditions, poverty, and grossly inadequate public health infrastructure of all kinds, make it unlikely that a pandemic can be prevented or contained at the source.
Thinner, better dressed, and more soft-spoken, she developed a kind of charisma that enabled her to appeal to a wider variety of supporters, from unemployed young people to the disenchanted middle class, from policemen wary of losing control to second- or third-generation immigrants who wanted to close France’s doors to foreigners.
SOROS: This is a subject that is very close to my heart.
Lessons From an Age of ProgressWASHINGTON, DC – Imagine that you are a committed internationalist during a tumultuous period in global politics, and you are now grappling with the outcome of a nail-bitingly close US presidential election.
At a time when advanced economies must close their fiscal deficits, current-account surpluses could have a deflationary impact on the global economy.
Japanese interest rates have been close to zero for many years – significantly lower than those in most other economies, especially in the pre-crisis period.
Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1937, maintained close ties with the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany.
Moreover, Indonesia’s government is threatening to close down United States Naval Medical Research Unit Two (NAMRU-2), a public health laboratory staffed by Indonesians and US military scientists.
Experience in Rwanda shows that curriculum redesign requires close cooperation with education and workforce development authorities, as well as government officials, teachers, and school administrators.
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