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A part of Germany’s difficulty is due to the cost of unification with East Germany, which absorbs about 5% of GDP annually and contributes to one of the highest percentages of public expenditure in the world.
But given the difficulty Greece has had so far in making the necessary changes to reach that goal, it might be time to reconsider this approach to the crisis completely.
Another contributing factor to the culture of impunity is the difficulty in deciding how and where to try those whose crimes include the destruction of the judicial systems of their countries.
Here is a difficulty illustrated by the recent surrender in Cambodia of two Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, who claim that their crimes should be forgotten, that "bygones should be bygones."
History demonstrates the difficulty of avoiding the so-called “resource curse” – and that it does not plague only less-developed countries like Nigeria, as many assume.
For example, given the difficulty of staying up to speed with changing technology, firms are increasingly outsourcing information-technology management to third-party experts.
However, we would do well not to underestimate Merkel, and to heed another timeless Einstein quote: “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
He warned that, “if you let inflation expectations drift too far away from the target, you can end up in quite serious difficulty with a costly process to bring them back again.”
The “teenagers” (15-19 years old) should mostly still be in school; if not, they are likely to be very low skilled – and thus to have difficulty finding a full-time job even in good times.
The bottom line is that Social Security’s long-term funding difficulty, while real, is projected to be much smaller and much further in the future than any of the nearer, larger, and more significant fiscal problems currently facing the US government.
This dual approach is subject to an inherent difficulty: deterrence is real and visible to everyone; but détente must also be real and visible if it is to play its part.
This dilemma underscores the difficulty in crafting a democratization strategy for so vast a region as "the Greater Middle East," which stretches from Mauritania to Pakistan.
To its difficulty and unpopularity another drawback to nation-building must now be added: its expense.
The terminology is striking, and underscores the difficulty of Europe’s search for a way out of its current malaise.
Indeed, given the difficulty in estimating the total size of resources, many consider peak oil theories irrelevant.
The problem was that central banks, finance ministries, and multilateral organizations like the International Monetary Fund – the pillars of the global economy’s institutional framework – failed to grasp globalization’s emerging characteristics and effects, owing partly to the difficulty of discerning structural shifts in the huge mass of data now available.
The “symptoms” include fidgeting, losing things, talking excessively, and difficulty playing quietly or taking turns.
Of course, the difficulty of managing these two alliances pales in comparison to managing the relationship with China.
Given the difficulty of regaining lost sovereignty and credibility, central banks must keep helicopter drops as a last resort.
Most European leaders are not as practiced in the art of deception as the Bush administration; they have greater difficulty hiding the numbers from their citizens.
This cycle disproportionately affects infants and young children, who suffer devastating consequences from malnutrition, including mental impairment, difficulty learning in school, and poor health generally.
But the fact that reforms and actions were undertaken only lately, and under the pressure of acute crisis, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of reaching consensus.
The difficulty with such a suggestion is that it would imply a relative weakening of the national states, including the largest, Germany and France.
But as the numbers expand, the difficulty of reaching agreement increases.
On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.
The first difficulty is that, although Sharon evidently intends to go through with his military withdrawal from Gaza, he is vague about what he wants to achieve in future negotiations.
The second difficulty concerns the fact that Sharon has always appeared to believe that it is within the means of the Palestinian Authority to eradicate all terrorism arising from Palestinian territories and aimed at Israel.
The third difficulty concerns the fact that, on both sides, most religious authorities, rabbis and imams alike, have maintained a hard-line stance.
The fundamental difficulty in planning for enhanced longevity is that we do not know whether it will really happen.
Such a gesture would strengthen France both externally and in terms of the sentiments of its citizens of Algerian descent, whose difficulty in reconciling their dual identity has led some to turn to fundamentalist Islam.
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