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Their real triumph occurred in 1989, when Communism collapsed and the emerging new societies needed a language to express their goals.
In the Netherlands, support for the Labour Party, which chose an anti-immigrant leader, collapsed in the recent election.
Unsurprisingly, economic diversification stalled, and when oil prices collapsed, so did the economy.
To illustrate, he posted the diagram below, showing how business confidence collapsed in Greece during the late spring of 2015, and picked up again only after my resignation from the finance ministry.
Likewise, consider the number of authoritarian regimes that collapsed and democracies born in the last 40 years.
Growth collapsed in Africa in the late 1970’s because of the weakness of the former, and fizzled in Latin America after the first half of the 1990’s because of the weakness of the latter.
Europe's fixed exchange rate mechanism collapsed in 1992.
Key elements of the army refused to accept the coup, and it soon collapsed – with the Soviet Union soon to follow.
In this respect, distinctions between left and right have indeed collapsed.
In the early 1970s, when the fixed exchange-rate regime established at Bretton Woods collapsed, the IMF seemed to have outlived its function.
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the end of World War I, the great powers of the day, Britain and France, carved out successor states in order to ensure their control over the Middle East’s oil, geopolitics, and transit routes to Asia.
A Declaration of America's InterdependencePRAGUE: Many Americans seem overwhelmed by the feeling that, because the Soviet Empire collapsed, the dangers of war can be crossed off the list of potential risks.
After communism collapsed, Hungarian leaders, and the Hungarian people, thought that their less restricitve system offered big advantages over other communist countries in the race to reform.
Meanwhile, efforts to rebuild the Bretton Woods international monetary system had collapsed, casting a shadow over prospects for international trade and global economic growth.
A few months later, Russia defaulted on its sovereign debt as its currency collapsed.
That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.
There has not yet been a direct military conflict between any major powers, nor have the EU or eurozone collapsed.
In the 1990’s, when communist regimes collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, and dictators fell in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, the Arab world stood out for its lack of popular, anti-authoritarian movements and developments.
Many observers believe that these exemptions hit the world’s financial system especially hard when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.
After it bought the 67,500-ton, Soviet-era Varyag carrier – still little more than a hull when the Soviet Union collapsed – China repeatedly denied that it had any intention to refit it for naval deployment.
But, though Germany would pay the highest economic and political price if the EU collapsed – its interests are simply too interwoven with the EU’s – no one should hope for German renationalization.
Even before the Soviet Union’s demise, resulting in 15 new countries, its European “empire” had collapsed.
Historical efforts at monetary union have sometimes collapsed, and sometimes they have survived multiple crises.
The arrangement collapsed because the US did not want to tighten monetary policy and run more restrictive fiscal policy: keeping US voters happy was understandably more important to President Nixon than maintaining a global system of fixed exchange rates.
Administrations have collapsed in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, and Ireland.
Perhaps burned by the way stock prices and real estate collapsed when the 1980’s bubble burst, savers would rather go for what they view as safe bonds, especially as gently falling prices make the returns go farther than would be the case in a more normal inflation environment.
When Communism collapsed, we set about helping the countries of Eastern Europe to establish democracy and make the transition to the market economy.
When growth slowed sharply and credit flows collapsed in the wake of the Great Recession, budget revenues plummeted, governments were forced to socialize private-sector liabilities, and fiscal deficits and debt soared.
With Europe offering only empty promises, and the UN unsure of how to catalyze progress on the talks’ ambitious 12-point agenda (which included more than 100 items), the effort collapsed in 2002.
The ensuing massive bank bailout, plus continued budget deficits and declining nominal GNP, means that Ireland’s debt is ballooning, while its capacity to pay has collapsed.
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