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And the victims are often the innocent “collateral damage” of Western strikes that hit homes, weddings, funerals, and community meetings.
In fact, Hamas made similar attempts to attack the Dimona complex in 2012, as did Iraq in 1991, with the aim of releasing the site’s contents to inflict radiological damage on Israel’s population.
Yet the fundamental longer-term challenge of allowing markets to re-price assets to fundamentals in a relatively orderly fashion – and, critically, without causing economic damage that would then blow back into even more unsettled finance – remains.
And the permanent damage to thousands of species – and to the indigenous Amazonian Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes, which remain isolated from the world – would be too profound to quantify.
It is a pattern that has caused real damage, because overoptimistic forecasts delay measures that are needed to boost growth, and thus impede full economic recovery.
Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations have been held all over China, causing damage to Japanese people and properties.
For entirely domestic reasons, each country is manipulating the history of a devastating war, triggering passions that can only cause more damage.
Too late, the damage was done.
Many countries in the early 1930’s had terrible bank runs, which inflicted immense and immediate damage, decimating employment by bringing down businesses that were fundamentally creditworthy.
Nearly six months later, the total damage remains difficult to estimate.
Partly as a result of the damage at Renesas, Toyota’s capacity-utilization rate dropped to 50% at the beginning of May.
At the same time, rising sea levels will cause severe damage to coastal areas.
While the fiscal stimulus packages enacted in the past two years have been helpful in achieving the current rise in economic activity, the path of future deficits can do substantial damage to long-run growth.
Germany versus the EuroBERLIN – Usually, people or institutions are taken to court when things go wrong and a fight ensues about who is liable for the damage.
If this continues, the result will be animal suffering on an even greater scale than now exists in the West, as well as more environmental damage and a rise in heart disease and cancers of the digestive system.
In the end, the only thing that can truly damage European values is Europe’s response to its non-Muslim majority.
But while this safeguards against business abuse and "externalities" that cause environmental damage, it also yields a more politicized and regimented economy than America's atomistic, decentralized capitalist structures do.
In most of these cases, the damage runs downstream from large countries to smaller countries; however, if enough small countries are affected, the aggregate damage can flow back to the larger economies themselves, as we’ve seen in the European debt crisis.
Consider Paul Krugman, writing breathlessly in The New York Times about the “rising incidence of extreme events” and how “large-scale damage from climate change is … happening now.”
Global governance can do only limited good – and it occasionally does some damage.
This combined effect will damage societies for generations, while discouraging investment today.
And then they collapsed, causing enormous damage to the government’s own solvency.
According to the best economic and engineering estimates, if each key economic sector develops and adopts environmentally sound technologies in the coming decades, the world will be able to reduce carbon emissions dramatically for less than 1% of annual global income, thereby avoiding long-term damage that would cost far more.
So there is a structural failure in coping with complex private activities that risk leading to large societal damage.
In particular, the UN's involvement in the excessive, unscientific regulation of biotechnology, or genetic modification (GM), will slow agricultural research and development, promote environmental damage, and help to bring famine and water shortages to millions in developing countries.
Of course, some political innovations that work in one context may cause real damage in another.
Governments still have not repaired the damage from those events.
Much of the blame for the damage that has been done – to AIPAC, American Jewish communities, and even the US political process – falls on Netanyahu.
Despite the extensive physical damage and loss of life inflicted on the country by some of Ben-Ali’s die-hard supporters, the tense and dangerous few days that followed the dictator’s fall did not change the course of the revolution.
Millions of others may experience collateral damage, as financial contagion risks spreading to other European countries and to the global economy as a whole.
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