Decade
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Otherwise, as its population falls, it will struggle to pay pensions and health-care costs in the future (already in the
decade
to 2010, immigration accounted for 65% of the increase in the EU workforce).
After almost a
decade
in self-imposed exile, Bhutoo’s return to Pakistan in October gave her a fresh political start.
Nonetheless, within a decade, improvements in Turkey’s democracy have achieved enough to help end the government’s long and bloody conflict with Kurdish separatist groups.
Over a
decade
ago, doctors at the hospital performed a medically unnecessary surgery to alter Pidgeon’s clitoris, vagina, and gonads without Pidgeon’s consent.
Turkey’s Lonely Neighborhood WatchISTANBUL – For nearly a decade, Turkey benefited from a strategic environment that allowed it to raise its profile, widen its zone of autonomous action, and aspire to regional power in the Middle East.
The
decade
preceding the uprising was a period of deepening rapprochement, with Turkey investing heavily in Syria.
As China boomed in the 1980s, India could boom in the first
decade
of this new century.
India could enjoy a
decade
of "income doubling," in which per capita gross domestic product actually doubles by the year 2010.
India is feeling confident about itself, especially in view of its growing role in the world of high technology and a
decade
of successful reforms.
The Limits of China’s Charm OffensiveSTOCKHOLM – Over the last decade, China has taken an increasingly muscular approach to relations with East Asian countries.
Abe’s visit to China was the first for a Japanese leader in seven years, and Xi’s scheduled visit to Japan next year will be the first for a Chinese president in more than a
decade.
Non-oil commodity prices have risen precipitously in the last
decade.
Structural budget deficits were facilitated over the past
decade
by eurozone interest rates’ surprising lack of responsiveness to national differences in fiscal policy and debt levels.
A recent report from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations that parses the past
decade
of US defense spending in Central Asia found that, in 2007 alone, the US provided $145 million in military aid to the region.
For a
decade
now, the world economy has suffered from tremendous global imbalances: massive external surpluses in countries like China, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and the oil producers, matched by equally large external deficits in the US, the United Kingdom, Spain, and others.
As the Economic Commission for Africa concluded in its recent report: “Civil society and the media have increased their voice and power in the last
decade
of democratic reforms.”
Fear and propaganda may lead to more US-led international wars, as in the past
decade.
The Mexican scheme enrolled 1.7 million families by its second year, while the Colombian scheme signed up 13 million people within its first
decade.
In fact, when Germany embarked a
decade
ago on a reform program featuring major cuts to the welfare state and a more flexible labor market, it broke the rules of the eurozone’s Stability and Growth Pact.
True, German growth owes much to the country’s willingness a
decade
ago to engage in painful economic reforms, especially of labor-market rules.
But the scale of total capital erosion in the event of default is the same, regardless of whether the asset has been held for a single day on the trading book or an entire
decade
on the banking book.
Italy’s Return to Political ParalysisFor more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.
Last year, a record 61 drugs were introduced worldwide, compared with an annual average of 34 in the previous
decade.
In fact, one can find similar achievements in Chile and Brazil, which have not given up on democratic checks and balances, political pluralism, or freedom of the press, and have not enjoyed the luxury of $300 billion in oil revenue in the space of one
decade.
When the United States went to war, oil cost less than $25 a barrel, and futures markets expected it to remain there for a
decade.
For example, for a
decade
leading doctors advocated hormone replacement therapy to lower cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women.
Our decision more than a
decade
ago to surrender Ukraine’s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly intentions and political maturity.
That 1.4% decline came during a
decade
in which the US population grew by about 9.8%.
A
decade
of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged: the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.
Desktop-based chess programs have considerably surpassed the best human players over the past decade, and cheating has become a growing scourge.
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