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Similarly, 53% of companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project reported that water risks are already taking a toll, owing to property damage, higher prices, poor water quality, business interruptions, and supply-chain disruptions.
But the lesson of 1973 is that a disruption of Gulf oil supplies would raise prices and damage both rich and poor economies, regardless of how secure their own sources of supply might be.
Researchers have found a strong antioxidant response produced between pregnancy cycles, which helps the females to avoid damage from oxidative stress.
Such remittances enabled thousands of Jamaicans, for example, to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, when storm damage was estimated at more than one-quarter of the country's annual GDP and nearly three households in four reported damage.
After Hurricane Gilbert, remittances increased by 25 cents for each dollar of hurricane damage that households incurred.
Or maybe the damage from the hurricane was simply too large for migrants to cover completely.
Damage due to hurricanes is relatively easy to observe and can't be blamed on human mistakes.
The contemporary alliance of Western interests – in the arts and higher education no less than in sports – with rich, undemocratic powers involves compromises that might easily damage established reputations.
History abounds with mentally impaired individuals who have gained vast power as would-be saviors, only to become despots who gravely damage their societies and others.
A leader with dangerous signs of paranoia, lack of empathy, and sadism should not remain in the presidency, lest he commit devastating damage.
Although the stronger real will help US exporters (other things being equal) and hurt those in Brazil, such “casualties of war” are not even collateral damage; rather, they are precisely the point.
Because immigrants participate in America’s economic and political arenas, Americans are used to different sorts of people and so distinguish those differences that might damage the country from those that will not.
But the damage hardly compares to that which would be wrought by Trump’s proposals.
Such vehicles would be programmed to avoid crashes, leading to fewer deaths and injuries and less property damage.
This is true in many countries, but it matters more in the US, where putting a bigoted demagogue in charge would do great damage not only to that country, but also to all countries trying to hold onto their freedoms in an increasingly perilous world.
Sure, we can find more fossil fuels, but at much higher cost and at much greater environmental risk from industrial spills, waste products, leaks, and other damage.
The late effects of cancer treatment include permanent organ and tissue damage, hormonal and reproductive dysfunction, and second cancers.
But no one really knows how much damage UKIP will do to the Conservatives’ chances.
But while the verdict may have done some damage to Japan’s reputation, it did little for the whales, because the Japanese government has now developed a new, supposedly more scientific Antarctic whaling program.
The existence of a US resolution authority does not help contain the damage or limit the panic arising from a big global bank in trouble.
We learned that the brain damage in these children did not reflect trauma to nerve fibers, but rather a failure of blood supply.
Similarly, the nature of US military tactics – which in recent years have frequently conflated civilian “collateral damage” with combat against armed enemies – has dehumanized the victims.
Each day from January 1 to June 30 that the damage continues will have a roughly linear impact on economic performance in 2013, reducing the likely full-year real GDP growth rate by 0.0084% – and only if a deal is ultimately reached that would have caused no economic harm in 2013 had it been reached on November 10, 2012.
And if no agreement is reached on that, undertaking the last three steps would at least reduce somewhat the subsequent damage.
As the sociologist Claus Offe recently pointed out, it is one thing to say who is to blame for the damage, and quite another to determine who can or should take responsibility for solving the problem.
The damage Bush’s self-confidence and self-delusion has inflicted was magnified by his gross overestimation of America’s power.
Success should not be measured by the fact that recovery eventually occurs, but by how quickly it takes hold and how extensive the damage caused by the slump.
Yet this plausibly will help prevent runs because it means sudden withdrawals by some won’t damage the accounts of others who did not withdraw.
So we may have to pray that a agreement crafted with the toxic mix of special interests, misguided economics, and right-wing ideologies that produced the crisis can somehow produce a rescue plan that works – or whose failure doesn’t do too much damage.
Coordinated measures have been taken, unique in size and scope, to restore confidence and limit the damage caused to the world economy.
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