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But the much-needed structural reforms to limit leverage and
contain
the risks that the financial system periodically imposes on the real economy – and the public purse – have only belatedly gotten off the to-do list, and the prospects of enacting them are difficult to estimate.
A second issue certain to dominate both parties’ nominating debates is Iran and the international negotiations to
contain
its nuclear program.
Nor was he able to
contain
let alone combat rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority.
This European Social Security Identification Number (ESSIN) would draw on existing country-specific identifiers and
contain
an identifier (perhaps, the first three digits) noting the first country in which a worker was employed.
Argentina’s central bank may try to compensate for these deficiencies by showing that it is willing to do “whatever it takes” to
contain
inflation – echoing the European Central Bank’s strategy to save the euro in 2012.
And they
contain
about 100 times the amount of water found on the earth’s surface, in streams, lakes, rivers, and wetlands.
That is why enabling legislation for spending programs should
contain
sunset clauses, with extensions subject to independent evaluation.
In Pakistan, which has long worked with China to
contain
India and is the largest recipient of BRI financing, the new military-backed government has sought to review or renegotiate projects in response to a worsening debt crisis.
Other such Chinese territories
contain
the headwaters of rivers like the Irtysh, Illy, and Amur, which flow to Russia and Central Asia.
A Press Without PrinciplesNEW YORK – Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is in the news again, this time after former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer turned over to him confidential records on roughly 2,000 wealthy individuals that Elmer claims
contain
evidence of money laundering and tax evasion.
His speech on Afghanistan also pointed to his efforts to
contain
China.
Haircuts would
contain
this risk by encouraging closer alignment of each country’s interest-rate spread with its creditworthiness – the essential tool by which markets impose discipline on debtors.
Europe, however, needs to decide if it is ready to sign on with the US, as Japan has now clearly done, to
contain
China’s strategic and military ambitions.
Indeed, the scandal set in motion a sequence of laws in countries around the world that today require food labeling to go beyond mere lists of ingredients to include information about the vitamins, minerals, and calories that products
contain.
Including such statements in the disclosure is analogous to the requirement that food labels
contain
a full list of nutritional factors per serving, rather than merely a featured list that the producer might try to add in order to promote the product.
It also seems to
contain
within it fears about the potential erosion of French national identity.
But NATO’s approach to Russia must change if it is to
contain
Russia’s destabilizing aggression in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia.
So a surprise conclusion in the manner of Madrid will only make matters worse, because careful preparations will be needed to
contain
the damage, and too much time will be lost if everything is put off until the meeting in Prague.
Efforts to
contain
the damage caused by postponement will likely be far more demanding than any effort needed to ease tension after enlargement is announced.
A typical Corporatist economy might
contain
thirty or so corporations – foods, heavy industry, textiles, chemicals, etc. – each encompassing raw materials, production, distribution, and retailing firms.
Instead, it must take an active role in efforts to
contain
and ameliorate it – and that means developing new strategic alliances.
The task for the West is to stabilize Ukraine by economic and political means and
contain
Russian expansionism.
And some of the very pressures that helped to
contain
inflation for the past two decades have been retreating.
Global deposits of methane clathrate
contain
more than twice the amount of energy of all known fossil fuels, and it can burn cleanly.
Does the birth of the G-20 strengthen the Atlantic security relationship, or does it
contain
the seeds of NATO’s eventual demise?
In theory, it is possible to
contain
a flu pandemic in its early stages by performing “ring prophylaxis” – using anti-flu drugs and quarantine aggressively to isolate relatively small outbreaks of a human-to-human transmissible strain of H5N1.
For example, the nine states that the government has labeled “high focus” account for 62% of India’s maternal deaths and 70% of infant deaths, but
contain
only 48% of the country’s population.
Another explosion in the Ferghana valley could be hard to
contain
if the pieces of declared and actual policy are not brought together, and if the most important regional leaders aren’t brought on board.
But many of the goods imported into the US actually
contain
intermediate inputs that were originally produced domestically (this is even more the case for China).
Speculation abounded that Kerry’s proposal would
contain
a specific US guarantee of Israel’s borders.
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