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Emerging markets need to create theirs in a greatly compressed timeframe.
A compressed schedule makes it difficult for World Bank members to rally around an alternative candidate.
Delhi's barely breathable air has become tolerable, following a big move to compressed natural gas in public transport, retirement of old vehicles, and higher emissions standards in new ones.
Others include compressed air and large-scale battery storage.
The European Central Bank has weighed in with more specific concerns: “Vulnerabilities in financial markets continue to build up amid pockets of high valuations and compressed global risk premia.”
Third, contributing factors included low interest rates, compressed risk spreads, and global imbalances that accommodated low savings in the US, consumption in excess of output, and a mounting trade deficit.
Over time, there will be a tendency for these divergences to be compressed, but that won't be a result of the Euro.
Consider the example of Greek-Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed weight of “establishment” views that were long entrenched in both countries.
In theatre, the wealth and complexity of being are compressed into a simplified code that attempts to extract what is most essential from the substance of the universe and to convey this to its audience.
Even more problematic is the revelation that CCS and BECCS would most likely be used for “enhanced oil recovery,” with compressed CO2 pumped into old oil wells for storage, thereby creating a financial incentive to recover more oil.
With interest-rate spreads having compressed sharply, and with the threat of a meltdown averted, both domestic and foreign investors continue to return to peripheral economies, thereby alleviating severe credit rationing.
Relative to the recent past, the cost of capital will increase, debt will be more expensive and less ubiquitous, and risk spreads will not return to pre-crisis compressed levels.
Indeed, 1989 was a watershed, producing the most profound global geopolitical changes in the most compressed timeframe in history.
Argentina has the world’s largest fleet of vehicles running on compressed natural gas; families use gas intensively; most electricity is generated with gas; and the petrochemical industry is based on it.
Common money makes these regions safe for investors, reflected in lower interest rates and higher growth; risk premiums are compressed because these countries no longer have central banks or exchange rates to fiddle.
Technology-based ambient-carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) – that is, using sorbents (a material used to absorb liquid or gas) to capture CO2, which is then compressed and stored in underground geological formations – is a low-risk, high-impact option for reducing CO2 concentrations.
In Uganda, midwives in village health centers send compressed ultrasound scans to remote specialists, nearly doubling the number of newborns that can be delivered by a skilled health worker.
The compressed wage structure that AMLO will introduce typically means that, at the low end, public sector jobs are highly coveted: they offer higher pay, shorter hours, better benefits (such as pensions and health insurance), and greater stability.
For reasons outlined by Jeremy Stein of Harvard University, I personally support raising policy rates when credit growth and asset prices are buoyant, leverage is increasing, and risk premia are compressed, and cutting them when the financial cycle goes into reverse.
Society “pays” them back by according them a social status that makes their position desirable, even if wage differentials are compressed, as they often are in the public sector (and were in Venezuela at the time of the lethal attacks on expertise).
Compressed carbon, for example, could be used as a building material, which would be a game changer if scaled up to industrial-level use.
For weeks, social and professional interactions were mediated by digital technologies that compressed physical distance and blurred the boundaries between the digital world and the real one.
The latter, with keen eyes and nervously compressed lips, only feared lest they should be carried away by this abuse.
And their suffocation increased; the air, driven back by the water, was compressed into a sort of bell in which they were shut up.
This served as a tank for the compressed air, which a trigger-operated valve could release into the metal chamber.
The air compressed inside the craft sent its decks flying, as if the powder stores had been ignited.
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
The lips which had been compressed in dogged sullenness throughout, quivered and parted involuntarily; the face turned ashy pale as the cold perspiration broke forth from every pore; the sturdy limbs of the felon trembled, and he staggered in the dock.
CHAPTER XLVI RECORDS A TOUCHING ACT OF DELICATE FEELING, NOT UNMIXED WITH PLEASANTRY, ACHIEVED AND PERFORMED BY Messrs. DODSON AND FOGGIt was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney cabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up Goswell Street; three people were squeezed into it besides the driver, who sat in his own particular little dickey at the side; over the apron were hung two shawls, belonging to two small vixenish-looking ladies under the apron; between whom, compressed into a very small compass, was stowed away, a gentleman of heavy and subdued demeanour, who, whenever he ventured to make an observation, was snapped up short by one of the vixenish ladies before-mentioned.
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
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