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Just as lies and corruption are contagious, so, too, moral truth and bravery spreads from one champion to another.
They were contagious across national frontiers.
But the right-wing populist tide may now be on its way out, having proven less contagious and less easily internationalized than many expected.
Mass hysteria is highly contagious.
A deep crisis in any member country is likely to become contagious.
In the absence of such leadership, the Syrian crisis is likely to have a contagious effect, as refugees, arms, and militant Islamists cross borders in greater numbers than they have since the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Yet even without prescriptive theories, feigning “frenzy” or madness can also be a plausible, powerful, and rather contagious negotiating strategy.
The only question is whether the country’s debt restructuring will be orderly and controlled or chaotic and contagious.
But even without an ISIS terror state, the situation remains extremely unstable, because the Syrian civil war is proving to be highly contagious.
The defaults of that time were not confined to one country, but swept across the globe in a contagious panic that destroyed financial systems in lending as well as borrowing countries.
These include not just terrorism, but also politically destabilizing immigration pressures caused by the wealth gap between North and South, the job-destroying expansion of low-wage labor in China, Putin’s unpredictable petro-politics, nuclear proliferation involving politically unstable countries, contagious disease, global warming, and so forth.
Reinventing the IMFFor Project SyndicateBy Rodrigo de RatoManaging DirectorThe International Monetary FundThe global economy has been enjoying a period of strong growth and the absence of contagious financial crises, and there is good reason to expect this performance can be sustained.
It is mistakenly assumed to be highly contagious, and therefore sufferers are to be avoided at all costs.
His commitment to those in the developing world has been contagious.
I hope that the result is contagious for the rest of our somehow zombie citizens.”
A hundred years on, contagious diseases continue to cross borders faster and more efficiently than people or goods.
In fact, in terms of the scale of human suffering and the costs for society, these diseases can be even more devastating than their contagious counterparts.
Indeed, because Ebola presents symptoms similar to malaria, dengue fever, and other endemic tropical diseases, medical workers may not take adequate precautions – or, worse, may send patients home in a highly contagious phase.
This was precisely the greatest fear during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, when China was widely expected to follow other so-called East Asian miracle economies that had run out of reserves in the midst of a contagious attack on their currencies.
That stance appears to have been contagious, because the United States, too, has done everything possible to change the subject whenever the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks is raised.
China’s government could, if it so chose, bail out banks in trouble, preventing contagious bankruptcies.
But an even simpler explanation is that children are not as contagious as adults.
So, even though children are one of the most vulnerable patient populations, their needs are ignored, because they are less contagious.
His organization works on the principle that deadly violence is a contagious disease, capable of being halted by appropriate intervention.
The rise in equity prices has not come with a contagious “new era” story, but rather a “sigh of relief” story.
Increasing worries about global warming, and its effects on food prices, or about the cold and snowy winter in the northern hemisphere and its effects on heating fuel prices, are contagious stories.
But, farmland, at least in certain places, seems to have the most contagious “new era” story right now.
And the highly contagious global-warming story paints a scenario of food shortages and shifts in land values in different parts of the world, which might boost investor interest further.
America’s Lethal Fear of ScienceNEW YORK – A rare, deadly, and highly contagious disease is spreading across the United States, having infected more than 100 people since the beginning of the year, with thousands more at risk.
To assess why, a recent symposium on the subject at Nuffield College, Oxford, focused on the lack of a sovereign authority able to protect the European economy as a whole from contagious crises starting elsewhere.
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