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The Xinhua reports, I believe, are best read as damage control.
Historians can make a credible case that periods of maximalist over-commitment have done more damage to America’s place in the world than periods of retrenchment.
The first section of the legislation, Title I, stipulates that all firms must be able to go bankrupt without causing large-scale damage to the broader financial system or the real economy.
In Title II of Dodd-Frank, Congress created a back-up authority through which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) can take over and manage a failing financial firm and impose appropriate losses on shareholders and some creditors without creating widespread systemic damage or a global panic.
Had they managed even a few more attacks similar to the ones on New York and Washington, they could have done serious damage.
Iodized salt provides the iodine needed to prevent brain damage in children and a range of other health problems.
As a result, the authorities failed to adequately carry out their formal functions, obligatory under any circumstances, functions that are not politically determined, such as maintaining order and individual safety, preventing economic damage caused by massive strikes or, say, the "rail wars" of the last year.
But, even if the problem cannot be “solved,” understanding it might help to limit the damage, not least by enabling leaders to avoid policies that are either not useful or would exacerbate tensions.
A Copenhagen Consensus study for Bangladesh found that building new coal-fired power plants there would, over the next 15 years, generate global climate damage eventually costing around $592 million.
Damage to the air traffic control infrastructure has severely limited flights to and from the island.
The important points for them are that they gained revenge by inflicting damage, showed that they were real men, did not buckle under, and survived.
That figure increases every year, because as bridges continue to weaken, it costs even more to fix them; and as sea levels and temperatures continue to rise, and as forest fires become more severe, it costs more to mitigate the damage.
We need to find ways to address the lack of a real freedom of expression for women in so many societies and, at the same, time to redress damage done to those victimized by female genital mutilation.
The capacity to use the Internet to inflict damage is now well established.
Major states would have an interest in limiting damage by agreeing to cooperate on forensics and controls.
I cannot think of one who did so much damage to America at home and to its reputation abroad.
Numerous as-yet-undisclosed emails with the potential to damage Clinton may well be released before the election.
Now that he was their nominee, he was more likely to damage his party’s chances of winning votes from one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups.
And while damage to natural ecosystems affects us all, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who suffer the most.
In the meantime, they do serious damage because Europeans are so worried about the possibility of reform that the mere possibility of such reforms actually being enacted plunges them into a funk.
Indeed, the damage from a cyber attack is by nature transnational, capable of rapidly cascading to a global level.
The total cost would be 50 times that of the avoided climate damage.
But, in a world where China links its currency to the dollar at an under-valued parity, the dollar’s depreciation risks major global economic damage that will further complicate recovery from the current worldwide recession.
That policy produced short-term consumption gains for America, which explains why it was popular with American politicians, but it has inflicted major long-term damage on the US economy and contributed to the current crisis.
For less than $1 billion a year, this would alleviate both direct and long-term economic damage, possibly securing some $35 billion in benefits.
Surveying the Damage of Low Interest RatesWASHINGTON, DC – For years after the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers congratulated themselves for having averted a second Great Depression.
Likewise, countries should take a broader look at how policies damage or mutually reinforce each other, especially in deciding which policies should be implemented and when – what technocrats call “policy coherence” and “policy sequencing” – to reduce poverty and support development.
What would the United States and Israel do if Iran carried its threat to the point of evacuating its cities, or placing missiles in its own cities to ensure that any attack on them would cause massive collateral damage?
The pro-stimulus camp often refers to the damage wrought by fiscal retrenchment in the US in 1937, four years after Franklin Roosevelt’s election as US president and the launch of the New Deal.
The US Senate’s eventual refusal to confirm the recess appointment limited the damage that Bolton might have done.
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