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After all, the claim that the risk of loss will arise only for debt issued after the new crisis-resolution mechanism starts in 2014 implies that all debt issued until then is safe, and that insolvency can occur only in some distant future, rather than now, as in Greece and Ireland.
On the Georgian side, It is well understood – at least by the political elite – that EU membership is a distant prospect at best.
Add to that the declining costs of alternative energy sources and relentless technological advancement, and the world’s carbon-reduction goals do not seem so distant – or costly.
The US has a similar problem, though it is more distant.
The child was cured within the home; a few years ago, that same child would have faced a high risk of death unless he was somehow brought to a distant clinic in time.
Compounding the challenge further is the fact that the benefits of actions taken today accrue in the distant future.
One potential solution, being pursued by the Novartis Foundation (which I head) and its partners, is to shift the patient’s point of access to care from hospitals – often distant and crowded – to the local community.
Living Under Occupationby Ralf DahrendorfWhen I hear Americans such as US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice compare the occupation of Iraq with that of Germany (and sometimes Japan) after WWII, distant memories flood in, for I am a child of that experience.
In the world’s most highly taxed major economy, citizens have apparently had enough of the political class tending to what they perceive as a distant global goal, rather than to voters’ immediate needs.
So why give precedence to satisfying the needs of distant foreign consumers?
Economists call these “non-tradable activities,” because they are not undertaken with distant customers in mind.
But a comprehensive agreement on climate change remains a distant hope.
Twelve months later, normality seems as distant as ever – and economic headwinds from China are a major cause.
Now, China is applying the imperial 99-year lease concept in distant lands.
These transfers leave thousands of fishing-dependent communities struggling to compete with subsidized rivals and threaten the food security of millions of people as industrial fleets from distant lands deplete their oceanic stocks.
Among economists, however, the consensus is that about 80% of the loss in US manufacturing jobs over the last three decades was a result of labor-saving and productivity-enhancing technological change, with trade coming a distant second.
Germany’s heroes were from the distant past.
Such a projection of Asian power – and of Asia’s power struggles – into the Middle East may seem a distant prospect today.
Internet connections in Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and many other parts of the continent are connecting universities, businesses, and even distant villages to global information and markets.
From South Korea’s perspective, there has been another ingredient (and also a very old concept in international relations): the distant power.
Too often, congressional trips to distant countries have been held up to ridicule upon media revelations that the trip included a tourist destination or, worse, a shopping excursion.
Moreover, her positions on many social issues seem quite distant from those of her constituency.
Given the obvious benefits of having access to more territory in which to gather and hunt, outsiders – particularly those who bear characteristics that mark them as genetically distant – were treated as foes.
Although a return to the old discourse about Asian values is unlikely, some Asians may nevertheless reassert their differences on human rights, democracy and governance as memories of the crisis grow distant.
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has repeatedly warned – and as the experience of countries like the Marshall Islands increasingly demonstrates – climate change is no longer a distant threat.
Their worthy aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their produce by excluding the inflated profits of the middlemen on whom they depend for getting their goods to distant markets.
Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
The buyer – who many believe to be the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, acting through a distant cousin – has paid a very high price for a painting of a man who is said to have told another rich person: “Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”
The more distant, and the more different from us, those others are, the higher the rate of discount that we apply in practice.
To be sure, a fiscal union such as that in the United States is a distant prospect that eurozone leaders should not expect to achieve any time soon – or even in their lifetimes.
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