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Both before the 2008 global financial crisis and today, just over a dozen big banks dominate the world’s financial landscape.
China’s new armaments, together with the North Korean crisis, will probably force half a dozen countries in the region to renew their armed forces.
Of the 1,500 different media outlets in Belarus today, only a dozen or so retain any form of independence.
It led to a massive 95% decline in the death rate of those attempting to make the journey to Europe from Africa, with only a few dozen asylum seekers having died in the last two months.
The research and development required to produce new medicines or vaccines is time-consuming, often taking more than a dozen years.
The post-1945 record includes two prior “lost decades” in which economies struggling to recover from severe financial crises – including about a dozen countries in Latin America from 1982 to 1992, and Japan from 1992 to 2007 – underperformed their own trend growth and that of their peers.
And, after the last reorganization, there are more than two dozen of them.
It took America a dozen years to work its way out of Reagan's fiscal mess.
This is a high-risk move, one that is probably not justified by the effort to bring price increases a few dozen basis points closer to the ECB’s target.
There are a dozen functions for each knob – functions that most users will ever need.
After all, the Fukushima accident has severely injured only a few people – probably less than a dozen workers are dangerously irradiated.
According to one estimate, middle-class consumers in a dozen emerging economies today wield annual purchasing power totaling approximately $6.9 trillion.
Since the end of August, when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argued for another round of QE, the dollar has plunged more than 7% against a basket of half a dozen major currencies.
Finally, investors might just believe that the eurozone leaders’ latest plan will work, even though the last dozen plans have failed.
Indeed, about a dozen Middle East and North African countries propose to build nuclear power plants.
The TPP negotiations involve a dozen Asian, Latin American, and North American countries, including Japan, Mexico, and the United States; the TTIP would encompass the world’s two largest economies, the European Union and the US; and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) includes 16 Asia-Pacific countries.
But for these shorter-term investment horizons, the spreads are much lower: close to zero for France and a few dozen basis points for Italy and Spain.
During the 1861-1865 Civil War, the slaveholding Confederacy, formed by 13 secessionist states, was defeated by 19 northern states and then occupied by the federal government for a dozen years.
Abe has taken enormous political risks at home in embracing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, aimed at building a rules-based order for trade and investment among a dozen countries on both sides of the Pacific.
Releasing a few dozen Palestinian prisoners is no substitute for genuine concessions on these contentious issues.
The country has already spent 22 of the past 30 years in a dozen different IMFbailout programs.
This has exacerbated political tensions, because it has highlighted the impact of China’s dam-building policy on the environment and on water flows to the dozen countries located downstream.
What we can say with near certainty is that a Chinese land and sea invasion, rather than an American one, would stand a better chance of avoiding Kim’s likely response: an artillery attack on the South Korean capital, Seoul, which lies just a few dozen miles south of the demilitarized zone.
Japan’s economic interests are more closely aligned with America’s – the country is poised to join the US-initiated Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will create a vast free-trade zone among a dozen Pacific Rim countries – and the two sides’ strategic visions for Asia are in near-harmony.
Indeed, even as the Pakistani Army launched operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) in October, a dozen devastating terrorist attacks in Pakistan’s major cities demonstrated the reach of the South Waziristan militants.
Their owners duly repented after a fresh campaign on May 4 by militants blew up a dozen music and video stores, barbershops and a girl’s school in the Northwest Frontier Province.
Colombia is the only country in Latin America where you can attend seminars at world-class universities, learn about mushrooming multinationals, and chat with supremely competent policymakers, all the while knowing that citizens are confronting one another with machetes and bazookas just a few dozen miles away.
In this case, a dozen officials who worked for Zhou in the energy sector in Sichuan and in the Ministry of Public Security (where Zhou was Minister from 2003 to 2008) have been arrested.
But after the completion of the first dozen microbial genomes, about half the genes remained unidentified--a level that has persisted through the first hundred genomes to be completed, including the human genome.
Similar user-oriented value shifts are occurring across Internet-related technologies, including those not among the disruptive dozen.
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