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Today, although these lessons on the limits of the markets have become commonplace in academia, they have still not been brought on board by many international economic institutions.
First, “connectivity wars” will be commonplace.
The economists’ commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation: debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.
But the commonplace gloom about Japan’s prospects is grossly overdone.
The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached “epidemic” proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock.
We can, in fact, make it commonplace.
Coincidentally, cryptographic systems which themselves use quantum computation are already commonplace in laboratories, heralding the development of communication that is both perfectly secure - even against quantum attack - and immune to future advances in mathematics or technology.
In the eighteenth century, cheap and washable cotton undergarments produced a revolution in hygiene, but soon this had become so commonplace that the cotton revolution no longer generated any excitement.
It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
Similarly, dam building and river diversion have become commonplace, as humans’ water consumption has risen nine-fold over the past century, to the point that mankind now uses more than half of all accessible fresh water – roughly two-thirds of it for agriculture.
Nationalist statements that would have been confined to the extremist newspaper Den in the early 1990’s are now considered normal, “centrist,” even commonplace.
Inside the European Union, the ugly term PIGS (Portugal, Italy/Ireland, Greece, Spain) is now a commonplace, denoting countries that have endangered the euro’s stability and are forcing northern Europeans into costly bailouts.
Anti-dumping action against imports from China, Vietnam, and other Asian exporters is already commonplace in developing countries.
Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases.
Of course, a major reason for this broadening of the university's role was its cost effectiveness: combining research and teaching was far less expensive than maintaining separate institutions for each purpose, as became commonplace in Europe.
Many neo-cons emerged from a leftist past, in which a belief in revolution from above was commonplace: “people’s democracies” yesterday, “liberal democracies” today.
But the charges against Khodorkovsky are as flimsy as they are tendentious: the privatization case had been amicably settled previously, and Khodorkovsky has merely used tax avoidance schemes that are commonplace in Russia--and that have been upheld in court.
Automatic aircraft operation is already becoming commonplace – especially in the military – but further increases will require a similarly automatic airspace.
Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950’s.
The net result is that it is now commonplace for official US government documents to pair China with Russia and to speak of it as a strategic rival.
Second jobs have long been commonplace and third jobs are now becoming a necessity for many.
Hold the SaltGENEVA – Parents, take note: there is a serious health risk lurking in your homes to which your children are being exposed daily – a commonplace household ingredient that features in most meals: salt.
My father was a (genuine) rocket scientist, and I figured that just as airplanes had become commonplace over the course of his life, space travel would become commonplace over the course of mine.
Violence and brutality that were once beyond the realm of possibility now seem commonplace.
That by itself could make solutions that now seem out of reach commonplace in the future.
Such a statement is now commonplace for most political leaders around the world, even though it neglects to address the question of how much we can do to help America and the world through climate policies versus other policies.
With the taboo on discussing the succession broken, talk about the physical and mental fitness of the likely successor became commonplace, and members of the ruling family who objected to the prospect of being ruled by a severely incapacitated crown prince came to enjoy broad support.
At a time when voter apathy and corruption are commonplace across Latin America, Brazilians demonstrated that politics can be relevant and exciting.
Multi-drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, E. coli, and salmonella are now commonplace.
In most conflicts, prisoners' rights are routinely debased, torture is commonplace, and the inviolability of cultural and religious edifices is ignored.
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